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Hitmen Make Playoffs With Complete Team Effort

Sports · Web Exclusives- June 8th, 2008 · By DAVID DEGUZMAN

The Hitmen, the boys’ varsity baseball team, never thought of winning the city championship. All they wanted was a chance to do so. Although Stuyvesant lost to Herbert H. Lehman High School in the first round of the postseason, they were happy to merely make the playoffs.
The Hitmen had made the playoffs in each of [...]

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Video Footage of Rebels vs. Seahawks 4th Quarter

Sports · Web Exclusives- March 5th, 2008 · By DAVID DEGUZMAN

The score was tied at 40-40 at the end of regulation. However, before overtime began and after examining the stat books that were taken by the team managers at the game, the officials declared that the actual game score is 40-38. After looking at video evidence taken by both the team and The Spectator, both [...]

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The Effect of Change

Web Exclusives- January 16th, 2008 · By JACOB SUNSHINE

As our lives at school approach routine, and the adjustment to a new school is diminished, it’s easy to forget how outside forces deeply affect our daily lives. Each day still seems to follow a similar pattern. You’ll still see the same familiar faces in the halls; as teachers and friends come and go, you [...]

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Proposing Progress

Frontpage · Web Exclusives- January 16th, 2008 · By ALEX NEWMAN

Our education system is being treated like a business.
Its CEO’s are Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein, neither of whom has any educational experience or background. Mayor Bloomberg is the founder of a financial services and news empire, and Chancellor Klein is a lawyer. Neither is qualified to run, let alone revamp the New York City [...]

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For Some Reason, Mom Doesn’t Share Sentiments

Overheard At Stuy- January 1st, 2008 ·

History teacher: Want to let people have a good time? Just give them a date with a credit card with no limit, baby.
Overheard by: Maggie

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An Issue of Principal

Web Exclusives- December 2nd, 2007 · By JACOB SUNSHINE

We all have strong emotions about elements of school that we have to deal with on a day to day basis. Erratically working escalators, wonderful teachers and security guards stationed around the school are examples of occurrences that all Stuyvesant students have to deal with. Many such issues, and other daily happenings, either positive or [...]

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A Day Late and a Dollar Poorly Allocated

Web Exclusives- November 18th, 2007 · By ANDREW MANDELBAUM

What motivates you to do the right thing? What motivates you to learn? No, this isn’t a surprise college application or a pop quiz, but rather a question that needs to be asked in light of various financial incentive programs being implemented by the city in an attempt to aid impoverished and minority groups.
The first [...]

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I Mean, It Was Fine Until You Punched The Teacher

Overheard At Stuy- November 8th, 2007 ·

Guy to girl: You’ve got to stop with this punching people thing.

—Fourth floor hallway

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No Wonder Math Class is Looking So Empty…

Overheard At Stuy- November 8th, 2007 ·

Stuy girl #1: If you could change one thing about Stuy, what would it be?
Stuy girl #2: I’d make it like Survivor, so you could vote people off.
—Subway
Overheard by: VBop

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What Money Can Buy

Web Exclusives- November 7th, 2007 · By ALEX NEWMAN

The practice of rewarding teachers based on student achievement dates back to early 18th century England, where the system was ultimately discarded mainly due to the large degree of record falsification and rote education. In the late 1960’s, President Nixon introduced a similar system which produced the same results. In fact, there have not been [...]

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