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Features
Considering the weight of the 2024 election, having an open forum and inclusive political environment for students becomes necessary. Teachers need a nuanced approach in directing political discourse in the classroom.
Issue 0, Volume 115
A profile of Allan Lichtman: Stuyvesant alumnus, American historian, and creator of the Keys to the White House.
Investigating antisemitism at Stuyvesant.
Issue 17, Volume 114
News
The Spectator’s review of SophFrosh SING!
Issue 12, Volume 114
Opinions
Letter to the Editor in response to “Black and White: The Withheld History of Palestine and Israel” by Anonymous.
Issue 11, Volume 114
The Spectator debuted its demographics survey website to collect more accurate information about the racial, ethnic, and ancestral makeup of the Stuyvesant student body. The survey can be found at https://survey.stuyspec.com.
Issue 10, Volume 114
On November 15, English teacher Annie Thoms’s Writing to Make Change classes visited Stuyvesant alumnus and artist Siyan Wong’s 𝘍𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢 𝘊𝘢𝘯: 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 exhibit at Gallery 456 to learn about the exhibit’s goal of humanizing impoverished people.
Issue 9, Volume 114
Stuy alumni Adeeba Shahid Talukder (‘05) and Tiffany Troy (‘14) visit Stuyvesant to present poetry readings and share their experiences as writers.
Issue 8, Volume 114
Stuyvesant alum Ethan Sacks uses his storytelling and artistic skills to fuel his fight for change, cultivating comics that ignite both emotion and action.
Issue 6, Volume 114
A summary of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and how it informs the Israel-Hamas war.
Issue 4, Volume 114
The Stuyvesant Jewish community has dealt with an overwhelming wave of antisemitism following the October 7 attacks on Israel, so collective action must be taken to ensure Stuyvesant returns to the safe space it once was.
On September 17th, approximately 20 Stuyvesant students alongside 75,000 other protestors marched in Midtown Manhattan demanding that the United States end fossil fuel production and reduce fossil fuel reliance.
Issue 3, Volume 114
Science
Most lifters aren’t lifting with enough intensity to maximize hypertrophy, which is slowing down their muscle gain.
Congestion pricing aims to require drivers to pay for the negative externalities and costs of their driving instead of having residents pay for them.
Issue 1, Volume 114
After a study was published claiming to have discovered a room-temperature normal pressure superconductor, scientists raced to test the “discovery” but found the material didn’t live up to these Nobel-prize-winning expectations.
Spec+
From building plane models for training purposes to winning Nobel Prizes, Stuyvesant students of the 1940s found a haven in the old school building on East 15th Street during a time of global turmoil and national anxiety.
Issue 0, Volume 114
Gerald Malamud (‘45) is a 96-year-old Stuyvesant alumnus whose experience at Stuyvesant, an all-boys school at the time, was defined by World War II.
Starting on June 6, thick smoke from the wildfires burning in Canada began to envelop New York City and the North East, resulting in the closing of New York City schools on June 9.
Issue 17, Volume 113
For more than five decades, computing power has doubled every two years, but as of recently, companies are prioritizing short term profits over innovation.
Sports
Stuyvesant recruited athletes and recruit-hopefuls reflect on their recruitment processes.
The United States has a terribly mismanaged and mostly privatized rail network, but a solution would be to nationalize it.
Issue 14, Volume 113
Humor
A senior director at ExxonMobil discusses how his new purchase, a Tesla, will be the saving grace for all global issues.
Issue 13, Volume 113
It’s time for America to fix the loud and dirty mistakes of its past and invest in cities, with national infrastructure as its priority, not cars.
Issue 12, Volume 113
Members of The Spectator’s Editorial Board went to Albany to advocate for the Student Journalist Free Speech Act.
Stuyvesant students marched to Foley Square with Fridays for Future New York City (FFFNYC) on March 3 to address the climate crisis.
Stuyvesant hosted the annual Black History Month dinner on February 9.
Issue 11, Volume 113
