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Two sophomores on the junior varsity (JV) football team, wide receiver Nick Heim and running back Michael Bucaoto, drank Gatorade that contained copper sulfate crystals at a practice on Tuesday, October 7, at Pier 40. Neither was aware that the chemical was in their drinks. Both players got sick as a result of the incident, and Bucaoto was hospitalized. One sophomore, also on the JV team, who obtained the crystals that were later put in the water, was arrested and removed from the football team. As of now, the school’s administration is unsure whether he will be suspended or expelled from school, and whether the remainder of the JV football season will be cancelled.

This sophomore stole the crystals from an in-class chemistry demonstration. He then gave the crystals to a sophomore trainer for the JV team, and told her to put it in cups of Gatorade that were available to members of the team. Both Heim and Bucaoto got sick immediately after drinking the Gatorade. Both vomited, and Bucaoto, who drank more, began coughing up blood and had to go to the hospital, where he remained for much of the night.

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Stuyvesant’s pool has been closed since Thursday, September 25. One of the sound-dampening panels that hang from the ceiling has come loose. The panels, called baffles, are attached to the ceiling by two metal chains, one of which is now detached from the ceiling.
Principal Stanley Teitel closed the pool immediately when he was informed of [...]

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The Student Union (SU) Web site was launched on Tuesday, October 14. It had been under construction since the beginning of the school year, which hindered communication between the SU and the student body.

Senior and SU Information Technology Director Daniel Goldstern said he created a new SU Web site this summer, but had not been able to launch it earlier because of several technical problems.

He said he couldn’t transfer the domain, www.stuysu.org, before obtaining the account information from George Tsivin (‘07), who created the previous SU Website in 2006. Goldstern said he was unable to get in touch with Tsivin during the summer, so he had to wait until September.

Once he obtained that information, Goldstern said the Web site server expired, which further delayed the launch.

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Senior and The Spectator’s News editor, Paulina Karpis, was awarded the prestigious 1010 WINS Tomorrow Newsmaker’s Award in its fourth consecutive year of competition. She was awarded the 10,000 dollar Mitesh Anand scholarship. Anand was a former 1010WINS employee who recently passed away.
“I was really surprised,” Karpis said. “It was unexpected. But at the [...]

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In an effort to stop students selling candy for personal and to meet the New York City Department of Education (DOE) standards for nutrition, Student Union (SU) will now purchase candy that meet DOE standards sell tclubs, publications and teams in specially marked boxes. Clubs, publications and teams must purchase all fundraising candy [...]

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“Frontrunners,” a documentary about the 2006 Student Union (SU) elections, will be released nationwide on Friday, October 24 and in New York City on Wednesday, October 15 at the New York Film Forum.
Director Caroline Suh started filming “Frontrunners” in May 2006 and completed the project early this year. The film covers the elections of [...]

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As one of his main goals for the school year, Principal Stanley Teitel introduced a new school-wide initiative called Writing Across the Curriculum. This program will work to improve students’ writing by having students learning and using writing skills in every major subject class.
“We hear faculty complain that students don’t have the writing skills they [...]

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The Student Union (SU) distributed copies of ‘The SU Handbook for Dummies’ to freshmen during the second homeroom of the new school year.

“The handbooks were created to inform students about the [SU]. A lot of people don’t realize all the different resources we offer,” junior and SU Vice President Casey Griffin said. “We hope to spread awareness and to give people basic knowledge about what we do.”

‘The SU Handbook for Dummies’ includes a map of the businesses in Tribeca that accept the Stuy Advantage Card, and descriptions of the different SU positions.

This is the second year in a row the SU distributed the handbooks. Last year, students in every grade– not just freshmen– received the handbooks.

According to SU President James Kim, another mass production would have been too expensive.

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Principal Stanley Teitel implemented a new policy this semester that requires all students failing a major class to attend Academic Intervention Services (AIS) tutoring sessions. In the past, attendance was optional.
The policy is intended to reduce the number of classes failed at Stuyvesant. Members of the guidance department suggested the policy to Teitel after he [...]

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History teacher Joel Sklaroff will replace Assistant Principal Social Studies Jennifer Suri, who has taken a six month from to study at Baruch College. She is taking three history classes.
“The department seems to be doing very well and I am in almost daily contact with Mr. Sklaroff who is running the department in my absence,” [...]

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