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Internet users and club presidents should be forgiven for doubting the Student Union’s (SU) existence in the first six weeks of school. We couldn’t find it either.
The Stuyvesant SU Web site was finally functioning on Tuesday, October 14. The Web site had been down for the first six weeks of school due to technical difficulties.
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They used to be a familiar sight at Stuyvesant: vendors with boxes of candy bars cradled in their arms and buyers reaching across opposite escalators to purchase that crucial pop-tart to get them through Advanced Placement (AP) Biology. Candy-selling had become a tradition here. But this year, vendors are a lot harder to find.
This is [...]

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Wikipedia, “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit,” as its slogan goes, generally gets the evil eye from teachers since technically anyone can come along and incorrectly edit an article, and users will accept those edits as fact. There are, however, over 150,000 active registered editors who monitor articles regularly, as well as over [...]

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Warning: if you’re looking for help finding programs outside of Stuyvesant that will enhance your learning experience, you‘re pretty much on your own. When I came to Stuyvesant, I expected teachers not only to teach well but also to inform us of educational programs that would expand our knowledge beyond the curriculum. Unfortunately, most teachers [...]

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For the record, I do not hate Wikipedia. In fact, late at night, with a research project due the next morning, and a mouse-hand itchy to copy and paste, Wikipedia has been a kind and understanding friend. As a showcase of communal knowledge, it is astonishingly interesting and useful. But as a showcase of communal [...]

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I stood in the back corner of room 639, looking on at the freshmen and some late sophomores as they were listening intently about what debate was and which of the several forensic teams would suit them best. I looked at them and wondered what they could be thinking at that moment. Which team would [...]

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Last week, I came home to find a daunting white envelope in my mailbox addressed to a certain Abigail of building number 698. I was expecting this package with dread. Any possibility of confusion was shattered when my eyes fell upon the return address of Thornton Studio Photographers. “DO NOT BEND PHOTOGRAPHS,” the package commanded, [...]

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Here’s a riddle: what’s black and white and read all over? No, the answer is not The Spectator. It is the seemingly endless amount of flyers and advertisements that litter the hallways of Stuyvesant.
Every day pages and pages of plain black text on plain white paper are printed out and taped to the walls of [...]

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The stage was dark. As I walked out to face the crowd, my hands shook in anticipation. A lone beam of light illuminated my Stratocaster guitar, the sunburst design gleaming as I raised my hand ready to strum. The pick went down and when I struck the first chord, I became a rock star.
Okay, the [...]

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My sister is in eighth grade, the year of high school applications. She can’t wait to go out to lunch and take the subway to school, and have a week off at the end of every term for Regents. But what most excites her is choosing her own classes, and only learning about things she [...]

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