Science
Tis the Seasoning
By Olivia Zheng
Should you really grab that second plate? (or third…or fourth?)
Arts and Entertainment
Taylor Swift’s End of Eras Leads to Bad Blood
By Grace Rhee, Tessa Kolovarsky
14 million eager “Swifties” were left heartbroken after Ticketmaster, the world’s largest ticket marketplace, crumbled upon them at the fans’ most dire time.
News
Stuyvesant’s Thoughts on New York City and School Safety
Stuyvesant students express their thoughts on recent city safety incidents as well as Stuyvesant threats.
News
Stuyvesant Hosts 2022 Midterm Mock Election
By Aditya Anand, Andy Lau, Juni Park, Rebecca Bao, Saerom Kim, Talia Arcasoy
Social studies teacher Linda Weissman organized the Stuyvesant 2022 Midterm Mock Election that took place on November 3, 2022.
Features
Busy But Balanced: Stuyvesant’s Student Workforce
Whether they’re working for the fun, the experience, or the money, students with jobs don’t have it easy—is it all worth it?
Opinions
An Era of Impatience
By Joanne Hwang
The life-altering mistakes and unhappiness caused by impatience outweigh its value as a method to achieve tasks faster.
Science
The Pomodoro Technique
By Ryan Lin
The Pomodoro Technique is a time management technique that is beneficial to those who wish to reduce their procrastination and increase productivity.
Science
The Mythical Macdonald Triad
By Ramisa Haque
The lack of empirical support for the phenomenon has proved futile in lessening its omnipresence in the media and even in academic settings.
Opinions
Will Walk-Out Activism Ever Work at Stuyvesant?
Stuyvesant has had repeatedly low involvement in various walkout activism movements across the city, calling into question how students and the administration participate in civil society.
Arts and Entertainment
Give Me the Streets of Manhattan: Meet Me in the Bathroom
By Roxy Perazzo
A review of Meet Me in the Bathroom, a documentary capturing New York City’s early-2000s underground music scene.
Features
Teaching and Learning From Teacher to Student
By Ada Gordon, Ankita Saha, Rhea Malhotra
Students’ and teachers’ perspectives on different methods of learning and teaching from various classes.
Opinions
Disaggregate the Asian Data
The constant use of aggregated data in the Asian community has allowed American society to continuously perpetuate monoliths that negatively affect Southeast Asians in all parts of their lives, especially education.
Opinions
E) None of the Above
By Ushoshi Das
Multiple choice questions may be a student favorite, but they are impractical.
Science
Uranus is Finally Being Revisited
That’s right—NASA is launching a mission to the backside of the solar system, which was visited only once in 1986.
Features
Eating Our Way Through the Holidays
By Calista Lee
Stuyvesant students share food traditions and recipes they make around the holidays each year.
News
Stuyvesant Model United Nations Returns To Collegiate Tournaments
By Craig Chen, Daniel Chang, Ian Kim, Seth Fenton
Stuyvesant Model UN (MUN) is returning to the pre-pandemic practice of attending big collegiates.
Opinions
Invest in Martial Arts, A Sport Actually Worth Your Time
Martial arts can improve daily life by increasing calmness and self-defense skill, and they are not as violent and competitive as people believe.
Features
Stuyvesant’s Gender Neutral Bathrooms
By Cricket Fu, Juni Park, Suyeon Ryu
Stuyvesant students discuss the availability and efficiency of Stuyvesant gender-neutral bathrooms.
Sports
The Greyducks Take Flight Again
This season, the girls’ cross country team won the PSAL City Championship, but not without overcoming hardships and training restlessly for their competitions.
Sports
2022 Qatar World Cup Controversies, Explained
Having an underprepared country like Qatar host the World Cup was a human rights disgrace that should have been foreseen by FIFA.
Humor
The Truth Behind the Gas App
The Gas app is the newest craze, but is it really all it seems to be?
Arts and Entertainment
The Rise and Fall of The Walking Dead
By Munem Tajwar
What led to the fall of The Walking Dead?
Humor
The Stuyvesant Spectator Gets an Angry E-mail
By Alexander Chu, Michelle Huang, Oliver Hollmann
Freshmen Caucus candidates aren’t too happy with the press The Stuyvesant Spectator gives them, and take it up with the editors.
Arts and Entertainment
40 Years of Red Leather Jackets and Dancing Zombies
Green face paint has never looked better!
Features
So You Want to Be an Artist? Mr. Wrigley on Applying to Art School
By Nora Loftus
Stuyvesant art teacher William Wrigley’s experience over the years teaching students, as well as working in art schools, including sitting on the admissions board, has yielded a palette of insight into the art school admissions process and what makes the killer portfolio. But just as important, he recognizes the importance of nurturing artistic creativity, even if that path does not include art school.
Humor
The Art of COVID Announcement (Teacher E-mails Edition)
A comprehensive guide on how to draft e-mails to your teachers, in the unfortunate event that you catch COVID.
Opinions
Do Better, Stuyvesant
Addressing the lack of communication about changes recently made by the administration.
Sports
World Cup Updates
A review of the latest performances and drama in soccer’s most prestigious tournament.
Humor
Long Live the Revolution!
By Alex Zheng
Join in the Revolution against our egregious school system! Vive la révolution!
Sports
The Best of Boys Badminton
The Stuyvesant boys’ badminton team concluded a perfect season, going undefeated in the regular season yet again and winning it all in the playoffs.
Sports
Bustin’ Ours to Kick Yours.
By Frederik Schutz, Yashna Patel
Meet the Mimbas’ dynamic duo, co-captains of the Stuyvesant girls’ varsity soccer team, Susie and Sophia!
Sports
The Real Cost of Stuyvesant Sports
While sports can add some pressure and stress, these ultimately do not outweigh all the upsides to competing on a team.
Arts and Entertainment
Wednesday: Halloween Came Late This Year
A review of Netflix’s supernatural coming of age series Wednesday, an adaption of the popular Addams family franchise
Arts and Entertainment
Karen Lamassonne Creates Noise at the Swiss Institute
Karen Lamassonne presents a dynamic survey of her artistic career, blurring the boundaries between her reality and imagination.
Humor
The Plumpest Turkeys in the Land
A description of some of the wonderful items (edible and inedible) used to stuff turkeys this Thanksgiving.
Humor
Five Ways to Pass the Time Till ‘Tis the Season
By Selina Lin
A list of festive ways to pass time until the start of winter break.
Sports
NFL Midseason Shockers
By Efe Kilic
There have been lots of shockers this season, but postseason hopes are still mostly up for grabs heading into the second half of the season.
Humor
Short Kings of Stuyvesant (Not Me Though, Y’all Stay Safe)
A satirical piece talking about what it is to be short at Stuyvesant.
Sports
A Soccer Season to Reminisce On
By
Though the Peglegs failed to make a deep playoff run this season, the players have a lot to look back on in a memorable and exciting campaign.
Sports
NFL Midseason Shockers
By Efe Kilic
There have been lots of shockers this season, but postseason hopes are still mostly up for grabs heading into the second half of the season.
Science
Toothpaste Ingredients
By James Li
Toothpaste is composed of a variety of ingredients that give it its cleaning abilities to maintain our pearly whites.
Science
Tis the Seasoning
By Olivia Zheng
Should you really grab that second plate? (or third…or fourth?)
Arts and Entertainment
Taylor Swift’s End of Eras Leads to Bad Blood
By Grace Rhee, Tessa Kolovarsky
14 million eager “Swifties” were left heartbroken after Ticketmaster, the world’s largest ticket marketplace, crumbled upon them at the fans’ most dire time.
News
Stuyvesant’s Thoughts on New York City and School Safety
Stuyvesant students express their thoughts on recent city safety incidents as well as Stuyvesant threats.
News
Stuyvesant Hosts 2022 Midterm Mock Election
By Aditya Anand, Andy Lau, Juni Park, Rebecca Bao, Saerom Kim, Talia Arcasoy
Social studies teacher Linda Weissman organized the Stuyvesant 2022 Midterm Mock Election that took place on November 3, 2022.
Features
Busy But Balanced: Stuyvesant’s Student Workforce
Whether they’re working for the fun, the experience, or the money, students with jobs don’t have it easy—is it all worth it?
Features
Eating Our Way Through the Holidays
By Calista Lee
Stuyvesant students share food traditions and recipes they make around the holidays each year.
Opinions
An Era of Impatience
By Joanne Hwang
The life-altering mistakes and unhappiness caused by impatience outweigh its value as a method to achieve tasks faster.
Science
The Pomodoro Technique
By Ryan Lin
The Pomodoro Technique is a time management technique that is beneficial to those who wish to reduce their procrastination and increase productivity.
Science
The Mythical Macdonald Triad
By Ramisa Haque
The lack of empirical support for the phenomenon has proved futile in lessening its omnipresence in the media and even in academic settings.
Opinions
Will Walk-Out Activism Ever Work at Stuyvesant?
Stuyvesant has had repeatedly low involvement in various walkout activism movements across the city, calling into question how students and the administration participate in civil society.
Arts and Entertainment
Give Me the Streets of Manhattan: Meet Me in the Bathroom
By Roxy Perazzo
A review of Meet Me in the Bathroom, a documentary capturing New York City’s early-2000s underground music scene.
Features
Teaching and Learning From Teacher to Student
By Ada Gordon, Ankita Saha, Rhea Malhotra
Students’ and teachers’ perspectives on different methods of learning and teaching from various classes.
Opinions
Disaggregate the Asian Data
The constant use of aggregated data in the Asian community has allowed American society to continuously perpetuate monoliths that negatively affect Southeast Asians in all parts of their lives, especially education.
Opinions
E) None of the Above
By Ushoshi Das
Multiple choice questions may be a student favorite, but they are impractical.
News
Stuyvesant Model United Nations Returns To Collegiate Tournaments
By Craig Chen, Daniel Chang, Ian Kim, Seth Fenton
Stuyvesant Model UN (MUN) is returning to the pre-pandemic practice of attending big collegiates.
Science
Uranus is Finally Being Revisited
That’s right—NASA is launching a mission to the backside of the solar system, which was visited only once in 1986.
Opinions
Invest in Martial Arts, A Sport Actually Worth Your Time
Martial arts can improve daily life by increasing calmness and self-defense skill, and they are not as violent and competitive as people believe.
Opinions
Un-glamorize Greek Life
Fraternities and sororities are a staple of American college education, but to continue the practices of these Greek life institutions, several safety concerns need to be addressed.
Features
Stuyvesant’s Gender Neutral Bathrooms
By Cricket Fu, Juni Park, Suyeon Ryu
Stuyvesant students discuss the availability and efficiency of Stuyvesant gender-neutral bathrooms.
Features
So You Want to Be an Artist? Mr. Wrigley on Applying to Art School
By Nora Loftus
Stuyvesant art teacher William Wrigley’s experience over the years teaching students, as well as working in art schools, including sitting on the admissions board, has yielded a palette of insight into the art school admissions process and what makes the killer portfolio. But just as important, he recognizes the importance of nurturing artistic creativity, even if that path does not include art school.
Humor
The Art of COVID Announcement (Teacher E-mails Edition)
A comprehensive guide on how to draft e-mails to your teachers, in the unfortunate event that you catch COVID.
Sports
The Greyducks Take Flight Again
This season, the girls’ cross country team won the PSAL City Championship, but not without overcoming hardships and training restlessly for their competitions.
Sports
2022 Qatar World Cup Controversies, Explained
Having an underprepared country like Qatar host the World Cup was a human rights disgrace that should have been foreseen by FIFA.
Opinions
Do Better, Stuyvesant
Addressing the lack of communication about changes recently made by the administration.
Sports
World Cup Updates
A review of the latest performances and drama in soccer’s most prestigious tournament.
Humor
The Truth Behind the Gas App
The Gas app is the newest craze, but is it really all it seems to be?
Humor
Long Live the Revolution!
By Alex Zheng
Join in the Revolution against our egregious school system! Vive la révolution!
Arts and Entertainment
The Rise and Fall of The Walking Dead
By Munem Tajwar
What led to the fall of The Walking Dead?
Sports
The Best of Boys Badminton
The Stuyvesant boys’ badminton team concluded a perfect season, going undefeated in the regular season yet again and winning it all in the playoffs.
Humor
The Stuyvesant Spectator Gets an Angry E-mail
By Alexander Chu, Michelle Huang, Oliver Hollmann
Freshmen Caucus candidates aren’t too happy with the press The Stuyvesant Spectator gives them, and take it up with the editors.
Arts and Entertainment
40 Years of Red Leather Jackets and Dancing Zombies
Green face paint has never looked better!
Sports
Bustin’ Ours to Kick Yours.
By Frederik Schutz, Yashna Patel
Meet the Mimbas’ dynamic duo, co-captains of the Stuyvesant girls’ varsity soccer team, Susie and Sophia!
Sports
The Real Cost of Stuyvesant Sports
While sports can add some pressure and stress, these ultimately do not outweigh all the upsides to competing on a team.
Sports
A Year of Dethroned Champions
By Anas Ahmed
UFC fans around the world were shocked with title changes not once, not twice, but eight times this year.
Arts and Entertainment
Wednesday: Halloween Came Late This Year
A review of Netflix’s supernatural coming of age series Wednesday, an adaption of the popular Addams family franchise
Arts and Entertainment
Karen Lamassonne Creates Noise at the Swiss Institute
Karen Lamassonne presents a dynamic survey of her artistic career, blurring the boundaries between her reality and imagination.
Humor
The Plumpest Turkeys in the Land
A description of some of the wonderful items (edible and inedible) used to stuff turkeys this Thanksgiving.
Humor
Five Ways to Pass the Time Till ‘Tis the Season
By Selina Lin
A list of festive ways to pass time until the start of winter break.
Sports
NFL Midseason Shockers
By Efe Kilic
There have been lots of shockers this season, but postseason hopes are still mostly up for grabs heading into the second half of the season.
Humor
Short Kings of Stuyvesant (Not Me Though, Y’all Stay Safe)
A satirical piece talking about what it is to be short at Stuyvesant.
Sports
A Soccer Season to Reminisce On
By
Though the Peglegs failed to make a deep playoff run this season, the players have a lot to look back on in a memorable and exciting campaign.
Sports
NFL Midseason Shockers
By Efe Kilic
There have been lots of shockers this season, but postseason hopes are still mostly up for grabs heading into the second half of the season.
Humor
Seung Yu 2024
By Eshaal Ubaid
The perfect candidate for presidency has been right beneath our noses all along.