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SU in Review: Vivacity Dwindles Alongside Budget
When senior and then-Student Union (SU) President Paul Lee won the general election last June, he promised a breath of fresh air in the SU. He promised that students who were initially outside observers would be given top positions to inject the student government with innovative ideas. One year later, at the end of his [...]
Students Compete in Business Plan Competition
Stuyvesant’s Young Entrepreneurs Association (YEA) sent one team, (ebinders)^2, to the final round of the Junior Achievement New York Business (JANY) Plan Competition, held on Friday, May 28 at the NASDAQ OMX stock market building. Roughly 700 students from across New York State competed this year in the competition’s preliminary stages, seven teams of which [...]
Amid Budget Shortfalls, a Glimmer of Hope
Stuyvesant’s budget for the 2010-2011 school year is still unknown, thanks to the continuing legislative squabble in Albany. Cuts are almost certain, if not expected. With the school’s budget slated to face the chopping block next year, news that the school qualified for Title I funding next year was welcomed. However, without a final budget [...]
Random House Inc. Creative Writing Competition Recognizes Seven Stuyvesant Seniors
The Random House Inc. Creative Writing Competition for New York City Public High School Seniors awarded seniors Singha Hon one of four first-place 10,000 dollar scholarships, Vivian Tseng one of 20 Best of Borough 1,000 dollar scholarships and Emma Dries one of 15 Artist Recognition 500 dollar awards. The competition also recognized seniors Julia Chen, [...]
Mayor to Eliminate Teacher Pay Raise to Avoid Layoffs
To cope with the loss of state funding for education, Mayor Michael Bloomberg had originally proposed the citywide layoffs of 4,419 public school teachers. However, he announced his plan to repeal this proposal on Wednesday, June 2, and instead do away with across-the-board two percent pay raises scheduled for the next two years for teachers [...]
News-in-Brief: LED Sign Installed in Bridge Entrance
“Congratulations to Principal Stanley Teitel, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics,” displayed the new LED display electronic sign, installed on the second floor bridge entrance. Puzzled students walked by as Technology Coordinator Edward Wong, who had installed the sign the night before, on Monday, May 21, enjoyed the response to his joke message. The [...]
Speech and Debate Team Performs Well in Omaha
The Stuyvesant Speech and Debate team had numerous finalists at the Catholic Forensic League (CFL) Grand National Tournament, which took place in Omaha, Nebraska during the weekend of Saturday, May 29. According to Speech and Debate team President Claire Littlefield, the team was one of the strongest at the competition. “We have strong entries across [...]
News-in-Brief: Mazzurco Accepted into Summer Creative Writing Seminar
English teacher Rosa Mazzurco was accepted into the Summer Seminars for Middle and High School Teachers at the Cullman Center Institute for Teachers at The New York Public Library. She will participate in a seminar titled “Imaginary Worlds: A Creative Writing Workshop,” one of three seminars offered in the program. According to the Web site [...]
News-in-Brief: Three Students Receive First Place in National Japanese Exam
The scores of freshman Margaret Como and sophomores Joseph Frankel and Bobby Zhou on the National Japanese Examination, administered on Monday, March 15, ranked first place in the country, with each getting 55 out of 56 questions correct on the exam. Thirty Stuyvesant students took the exam. Eighteen of the 30 students scored in the [...]
News-in-Brief: Five Students attend ISEF Fair in San Jose
Five Stuyvesant students participated in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) held from Sunday, May 9, to Friday, May 14, at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California. The individual projects of seniors Katrina Koon, Jack Greisman, Andrei Nagornyi and Yevgeniy Rudoy, and the group project of junior Stephanie Chen, who worked [...]
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