Features
DREAM Big: Inside the Program that Prepares Students for the Specialized High School Admission Test
By Vanessa Chen
A glimpse into the preparations, aspirations, and reactions that make up the DREAM program.
Arts and Entertainment
Teachers Teaching Teachers How to Teach
Violin teachers in the Starling-DeLay Symposium prove that teaching can be just as creative as the music they play.
Opinions
June 7, 2023: Judgment Day
On Wednesday, June 7, the skies turned dark orange and the world began to end for the second time in three years—it was finals week, and Zeus was furious.
Arts and Entertainment
Female Artist Spotlight: Extraterrestrial Beings, Exotification, and Meaningful Absurdity
Three incredible women who are taking the 21st century art scene by storm.
Features
Summer Lovin’: Stuy Students’ Plans for the Upcoming Months
Summer Lovin’: Stuy Students’ Plans for the Upcoming Months
Arts and Entertainment
Beyond the Veil of Illusion: Colleen Hoover’s Problematic Play on Trauma and Abuse in Literature
Hoover’s take on abuse and trauma is problematic in that it misleads young women to normalize toxic and abusive relationships.
Features
Ctrl + Alt + Delete: Tech Layoffs in the Wake of the Pandemic
By Sabrina Li, Sophie Zhou, Ankita Saha
There has been a surge in tech layoffs over the past few years. How has this trend affected Stuyvesant students' ambitions in pursuing careers in computer science?
Sports
Athlete Recruitments: An Untraditional College Process
By Lenny Metlitsky, Sarah Diaz
Stuyvesant recruited athletes and recruit-hopefuls reflect on their recruitment processes.
Science
Our Neurodiversity
By Karina Gupta
With eight billion people on the planet, there are countless different ways in which the mind can work. This includes learning disabilities or large disparities in strengths and weaknesses—neurodivergence. Learn about how neurodivergence works, Stuyvesant’s support toward neurodivergent students, and why neurodivergent minds are incredibly important to society.
Science
Run to Live, Live to Run!
It is vital to make the distinction between distance running and sprinting due to the very different impacts the two activities have on the body.
Arts and Entertainment
Intersections of Youth, Mortality, and Art History: Unraveling Cecily Brown’s Death and the Maid Exhibition
By Grace Rhee
Exploring the intertwined worlds of life and death: a review of Cecily Brown’s exhibition, Death and the Maid.
Arts and Entertainment
Leith Ross: To Live and To Learn
An analysis of Leith Ross’s artistic style, and a review of their debut album, To Learn, released May 19, 2023.
Arts and Entertainment
Ebony G. Patterson’s ...Things come to thrive…in the shedding…in the molting…
A discussion of the style and techniques employed by contemporary artist Ebony G. Patterson in her current exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden.
Arts and Entertainment
Do You Actually Hate Country?
A deep dive into the country music that everyone seems to hate.
Arts and Entertainment
Waiting for the Luddite Club
Even though the Luddite Club has a flaky side, some of the wisdom implied by Luddism is worth considering in our daily lives.
Arts and Entertainment
Disney Breaks the Live Action Curse With The Little Mermaid
By Sofia Sen
Despite Disney’s many failures to adapt their movies into live-action, The Little Mermaid hits the mark, delivering the classic tale to a new generation.
Opinions
Stuy School Spirit: Is It Enough?
By Alexa Leahy
Stuy lacks overall school spirit, which is harmful to our high school experiences, as it prevents students from forming a sense of belonging within the school.
Opinions
Orange Skies Ahead: A Call To Action
The cloud of smoke that surrounded New York City on June 7 disrupted daily life and provided us with a strong warning.
Opinions
Why Our Fear of GMOs Is Actively Harmful to Society
By Seth Fenton
Why our fear of genetically modified organisms is actively harmful to our society.
Opinions
An Introspective Look at Christianity
With the number of people identifying with Christianity on the decline, it is important to recognize some of the issues that are rooted within Christian communities instead of casting all the blame on religious extremism or the people leaving the religion.
Opinions
Embrace Fashion With Intention
Fashion is constantly changing and people are meant to reflect these rapid changes, but this can be damaging to body image as well as promote fast fashion. But fashion should be used as an entryway to your own personal beliefs and expression.
Opinions
“Shh! Don’t You Dare Say It!”: The Stigma Around Death
By Annie Li
Death is intertwined throughout all our lives, so why do we continue to pretend it doesn’t exist?
Sports
Your Early Prem 23-24 Predictions
By William Tse, Vedant Kothari
Though the season just wrapped up, fans are already impatient for the upcoming season. With that, here are your official early predictions for the 2023-2024 Premier League season.
Sports
The Tottenham Cycle
By Eli Choi
Tottenham has been plagued by a seemingly endless cycle of mediocrity as it struggles to find lasting solutions to decades-long problems.
Science
Are There Too Many Humans on Earth?
By Vinson Chen
Overpopulation is an extremely complex issue that society is currently grappling with. It can be viewed through many conflicting perspectives, each with its own supporting evidence.
Features
The Irony of Elite College Culture
By Millie Bell
While the competitiveness of the college admissions process pushes some to their academic and extracurricular limits, others are discouraged by the prospect of wasting so much time and effort on a goal that can often seem far from feasible.
Arts and Entertainment
Time, Junk, and Sarah Sze’s Beautiful Mess
Sarah Sze: Timelapse will captivate anyone who stumbles across the top of the Guggenheim Museum’s rotunda.
Features
Why Books Banned in Other School Boards Are Part of the Stuyvesant Curriculum
By Seth Fenton
A wide variety of novels in the Stuyvesant English curriculum are banned in schools across the nation; this article compiles opinions surrounding some key works of literature in the ongoing national debate.
Sports
Who NBA Teams Should Target this Draft
By Samay Kothari, Jared Virasami
With the NBA Draft right around the corner, basketball fans all around the world are buzzing with excitement about the next wave of young talent entering the league.
Features
Caffeine or Failure?
By Grace Jung
Stuyvesant students are notorious for their caffeine addiction, but where does this problem stem from?
Humor
How NOT to Get a College Rec
By Eshaal Ubaid
College is in, desperation is out: here’s what you should NOT say to any teacher you hope to garner respect, or more importantly—you selfish student—a rec from.
Features
Stories in Soles: Sneakers at Stuy
By Andrew Oh
Where has sneaker culture planted its feet in Stuyvesant’s student body?
Sports
A Look at This Year’s MLB MVP Race
By Jared Virasami, Adrian Veto
The best of the best in baseball.
Humor
Best Study Habits
Many students are taking their first regents exams this week, or perhaps their first end-of-year final exams. I’ve been generous enough to share my wisdom through this article enumerating my top tips and tricks to get hundreds (or above!) on all your finals. Art request: a pile or scatter of completed exams with really high grades at the top (97-105)
Arts and Entertainment
Not So Comedic
By Khush Wadhwa, Gulam Monawarah, Duncan Park
The Spectator reviews the Stuyvesant Theater Community’s final show of the school year.
Arts and Entertainment
The Storytelling of Taylor Swift's Costumes
By Dorothy Ha
Taylor Swift: Storyteller takes a career-spanning look at the outfits that have brought pop star Taylor Swift's imaginative worlds to life.
Opinions
Sacred Threads, Silent Theft: Unmasking South Asian Cultural Appropriation
By Ankita Saha
Cultural appropriation within South Asian culture and how we can aim to buy and not steal from other cultures.
Opinions
Rejection or Redirection
Through academics and romance, rejection is rampant throughout our lives; it’s up to us to determine whether we allow it to define our success and future.
Opinions
Alternative Classes for Art Appreciation
The Art Appreciation class requirement is not a good use of time and effort and should be replaced with alternative tracks.
Opinions
It’s Okay To Be Selfish
By Joanne Hwang
Being selfish in the right way allows people to be healthier, more successful, and better contribute to society.
Sports
French Open: Old Meets New
Despite the hopes of numerous young players to secure a breakout win at the 2023 French Open, it became evident that their time has not yet arrived, as 36-year-old veteran Novak Djokovic once again emerged victorious.
Sports
Welcome to the Woods, Axel Riess
The Spectator celebrates Axel Riess’s commitment to Dartmouth College.
Science
The Self-Imposed Limits of Computing
For more than five decades, computing power has doubled every two years, but as of recently, companies are prioritizing short term profits over innovation.
Science
From Neuroactivity to Speech: A Breakthrough in Neurotechnology
By Elma Khan
A tech clairvoyant has created a milestone invention by translating the brainwaves of a man suffering from anarthria into speech.
News
Stuy Open Gallery Hosts Annual Exhibition
By Sharon Zhou
Artists in Stuy Open Gallery holds their first annual art exhibition since the creation of the club.
Humor
Sorry, I’m an Elaborate Romantic
Are you still torturing yourself trying to come up with a plan to give that special someone the night of their life (and yours)? Here are some tried-and-true ways to ask your future significant other to PROM!
Humor
New AP Courses Being Offered at Stuyvesant Next Year
An introduction to the new AP classes offered for the upcoming school year, and students’ reactions to them.
Humor
If Your Dreams Are Like This… Don’t Follow Them
By Maisha Thakur, Fiona 'Eve' Lin
A collection of the most ridiculous dreams that Stuy students have ever had
Humor
Teacher Talk: The Indecipherable (Non-)Romance Language
By Lina Zheng, Erica Chen, Ryan Peng
A dictionary for the most frequent teacher sayings, and what they really mean!
Humor
THAT DOLL CRAZE
By Benson Chen
We’ve interviewed a few major doll companies to see what their selling points are for their toys.
News
Stuyvesant Speech and Debate Team Competes in Kentucky for the National Catholic Forensics Tournament
Stuyvesant Speech and Debate Team (S&D) heads to Kentucky for one of their final tournaments of the year.
Humor
Homo Stuyvesantians: The Next Stuy Generation
One stuffy biology class, a student has a dream about a new species evolving from Stuyvesant students…and it’s filled with sleep deprivation and ramen.
Humor
Bees a-Buzzin’, Kissable Dandelion Fuzz
By Sara Heller, Adeline Sauberli
Ass. And how to get off of it.
News
Stuyvesant’s Ukrainian Aid Committee Hosts Bake Sale for Victims of the War in Ukraine
Stuyvesant’s Ukrainian Aid Committee held a bake sale on March 24th and 25th to raise money for Ukrainian war victims.
Sports
Champions of Europe!
By Jack Cao
Manchester City have finally managed to taste European glory after trumping Inter Milan in the UEFA Champions League.
Science
Linus Pauling: Jack of All Trades, Master of All
As “science keeps marching on,” Pauling has done us a favor by delving into the complex branches that every scientific field has to offer and leaving behind revolutionary findings that the next generation of scientists can now challenge and interpret. Art Request: A drawing of this iconic photo of Pauling teaching back at CalTech
Sports
Nothin’ Soft About It
By Frederik Schutz, Yashna Patel
Meet the last Athlete of the Issue of the 2022-2023 school year, but certainly not the least, Caitlin Wong!
Science
Understanding How Fingerprint Patterns Are Formed
By Tashfia Diha
An explanation of the research done to understand how fingerprint patterns are formed through the Turing system.
Science
Go Out and See the Sun
By Jayden Zhang
Maintaining a balanced diet full of vitamins and necessary minerals and acknowledging the double-edged sword of supplements is vital for the upkeep of one’s health and well-being.
Sports
The Hitmen Fall Short
By Khush Wadhwa
With the PSAL season over, what comes next for the Hitmen, Stuyvesant’s boys’ tennis team?
Sports
Women’s World Cup: What To Know?
The 2023 Women’s World Cup is quickly approaching. What do we need to know about the participating teams?
Humor
The Happiest Place on Earth
A slightly unhinged Mickey Mouse shares Disney’s plans for the next decade.
News
Stuyvesant Closes Its Doors Following Unprecedented Wildfire Season
By Lenny Metlitsky, Seth Fenton, Sarah Diaz
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.
Features
DREAM Big: Inside the Program that Prepares Students for the Specialized High School Admission Test
By Vanessa Chen
A glimpse into the preparations, aspirations, and reactions that make up the DREAM program.
Arts and Entertainment
Teachers Teaching Teachers How to Teach
Violin teachers in the Starling-DeLay Symposium prove that teaching can be just as creative as the music they play.
Features
The Irony of Elite College Culture
By Millie Bell
While the competitiveness of the college admissions process pushes some to their academic and extracurricular limits, others are discouraged by the prospect of wasting so much time and effort on a goal that can often seem far from feasible.
Arts and Entertainment
Time, Junk, and Sarah Sze’s Beautiful Mess
Sarah Sze: Timelapse will captivate anyone who stumbles across the top of the Guggenheim Museum’s rotunda.
Opinions
June 7, 2023: Judgment Day
On Wednesday, June 7, the skies turned dark orange and the world began to end for the second time in three years—it was finals week, and Zeus was furious.
Features
Why Books Banned in Other School Boards Are Part of the Stuyvesant Curriculum
By Seth Fenton
A wide variety of novels in the Stuyvesant English curriculum are banned in schools across the nation; this article compiles opinions surrounding some key works of literature in the ongoing national debate.
Arts and Entertainment
Female Artist Spotlight: Extraterrestrial Beings, Exotification, and Meaningful Absurdity
Three incredible women who are taking the 21st century art scene by storm.
Features
Summer Lovin’: Stuy Students’ Plans for the Upcoming Months
Summer Lovin’: Stuy Students’ Plans for the Upcoming Months
Arts and Entertainment
Beyond the Veil of Illusion: Colleen Hoover’s Problematic Play on Trauma and Abuse in Literature
Hoover’s take on abuse and trauma is problematic in that it misleads young women to normalize toxic and abusive relationships.
Features
Ctrl + Alt + Delete: Tech Layoffs in the Wake of the Pandemic
By Sabrina Li, Sophie Zhou, Ankita Saha
There has been a surge in tech layoffs over the past few years. How has this trend affected Stuyvesant students' ambitions in pursuing careers in computer science?
Sports
Who NBA Teams Should Target this Draft
By Samay Kothari, Jared Virasami
With the NBA Draft right around the corner, basketball fans all around the world are buzzing with excitement about the next wave of young talent entering the league.
Features
Caffeine or Failure?
By Grace Jung
Stuyvesant students are notorious for their caffeine addiction, but where does this problem stem from?
Sports
Athlete Recruitments: An Untraditional College Process
By Lenny Metlitsky, Sarah Diaz
Stuyvesant recruited athletes and recruit-hopefuls reflect on their recruitment processes.
Humor
How NOT to Get a College Rec
By Eshaal Ubaid
College is in, desperation is out: here’s what you should NOT say to any teacher you hope to garner respect, or more importantly—you selfish student—a rec from.
Features
Stories in Soles: Sneakers at Stuy
By Andrew Oh
Where has sneaker culture planted its feet in Stuyvesant’s student body?
Sports
A Look at This Year’s MLB MVP Race
By Jared Virasami, Adrian Veto
The best of the best in baseball.
Science
Our Neurodiversity
By Karina Gupta
With eight billion people on the planet, there are countless different ways in which the mind can work. This includes learning disabilities or large disparities in strengths and weaknesses—neurodivergence. Learn about how neurodivergence works, Stuyvesant’s support toward neurodivergent students, and why neurodivergent minds are incredibly important to society.
Humor
Best Study Habits
Many students are taking their first regents exams this week, or perhaps their first end-of-year final exams. I’ve been generous enough to share my wisdom through this article enumerating my top tips and tricks to get hundreds (or above!) on all your finals. Art request: a pile or scatter of completed exams with really high grades at the top (97-105)
Science
Run to Live, Live to Run!
It is vital to make the distinction between distance running and sprinting due to the very different impacts the two activities have on the body.
Arts and Entertainment
Not So Comedic
By Khush Wadhwa, Gulam Monawarah, Duncan Park
The Spectator reviews the Stuyvesant Theater Community’s final show of the school year.
Arts and Entertainment
Intersections of Youth, Mortality, and Art History: Unraveling Cecily Brown’s Death and the Maid Exhibition
By Grace Rhee
Exploring the intertwined worlds of life and death: a review of Cecily Brown’s exhibition, Death and the Maid.
Arts and Entertainment
Leith Ross: To Live and To Learn
An analysis of Leith Ross’s artistic style, and a review of their debut album, To Learn, released May 19, 2023.
Arts and Entertainment
Ebony G. Patterson’s ...Things come to thrive…in the shedding…in the molting…
A discussion of the style and techniques employed by contemporary artist Ebony G. Patterson in her current exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden.
Arts and Entertainment
The Storytelling of Taylor Swift's Costumes
By Dorothy Ha
Taylor Swift: Storyteller takes a career-spanning look at the outfits that have brought pop star Taylor Swift's imaginative worlds to life.
Arts and Entertainment
Do You Actually Hate Country?
A deep dive into the country music that everyone seems to hate.
Arts and Entertainment
Waiting for the Luddite Club
Even though the Luddite Club has a flaky side, some of the wisdom implied by Luddism is worth considering in our daily lives.
Arts and Entertainment
Disney Breaks the Live Action Curse With The Little Mermaid
By Sofia Sen
Despite Disney’s many failures to adapt their movies into live-action, The Little Mermaid hits the mark, delivering the classic tale to a new generation.
Opinions
Sacred Threads, Silent Theft: Unmasking South Asian Cultural Appropriation
By Ankita Saha
Cultural appropriation within South Asian culture and how we can aim to buy and not steal from other cultures.
Opinions
Rejection or Redirection
Through academics and romance, rejection is rampant throughout our lives; it’s up to us to determine whether we allow it to define our success and future.
Opinions
Stuy School Spirit: Is It Enough?
By Alexa Leahy
Stuy lacks overall school spirit, which is harmful to our high school experiences, as it prevents students from forming a sense of belonging within the school.
Opinions
Alternative Classes for Art Appreciation
The Art Appreciation class requirement is not a good use of time and effort and should be replaced with alternative tracks.
Opinions
Orange Skies Ahead: A Call To Action
The cloud of smoke that surrounded New York City on June 7 disrupted daily life and provided us with a strong warning.
Opinions
It’s Okay To Be Selfish
By Joanne Hwang
Being selfish in the right way allows people to be healthier, more successful, and better contribute to society.
Opinions
Why Our Fear of GMOs Is Actively Harmful to Society
By Seth Fenton
Why our fear of genetically modified organisms is actively harmful to our society.
Opinions
An Introspective Look at Christianity
With the number of people identifying with Christianity on the decline, it is important to recognize some of the issues that are rooted within Christian communities instead of casting all the blame on religious extremism or the people leaving the religion.
Opinions
Embrace Fashion With Intention
Fashion is constantly changing and people are meant to reflect these rapid changes, but this can be damaging to body image as well as promote fast fashion. But fashion should be used as an entryway to your own personal beliefs and expression.
Opinions
“Shh! Don’t You Dare Say It!”: The Stigma Around Death
By Annie Li
Death is intertwined throughout all our lives, so why do we continue to pretend it doesn’t exist?
Sports
Your Early Prem 23-24 Predictions
By William Tse, Vedant Kothari
Though the season just wrapped up, fans are already impatient for the upcoming season. With that, here are your official early predictions for the 2023-2024 Premier League season.
Sports
Heats vs. Nuggets: The Final Chapter
By Braminder Kumar, Saradindu Ahmed
Nikola Jokić’s Denver Nuggets face Jimmy Butler’s Miami Heat in the 2022-2023 NBA Finals.
Sports
The (Next) Great One
By Duncan Park
It’s time to take a deeper dive into NHL prospect Connor Bedard’s future glory.
Science
Linus Pauling: Jack of All Trades, Master of All
As “science keeps marching on,” Pauling has done us a favor by delving into the complex branches that every scientific field has to offer and leaving behind revolutionary findings that the next generation of scientists can now challenge and interpret. Art Request: A drawing of this iconic photo of Pauling teaching back at CalTech
Sports
The Tottenham Cycle
By Eli Choi
Tottenham has been plagued by a seemingly endless cycle of mediocrity as it struggles to find lasting solutions to decades-long problems.
Science
Are There Too Many Humans on Earth?
By Vinson Chen
Overpopulation is an extremely complex issue that society is currently grappling with. It can be viewed through many conflicting perspectives, each with its own supporting evidence.
Sports
Nothin’ Soft About It
By Frederik Schutz, Yashna Patel
Meet the last Athlete of the Issue of the 2022-2023 school year, but certainly not the least, Caitlin Wong!
Science
Understanding How Fingerprint Patterns Are Formed
By Tashfia Diha
An explanation of the research done to understand how fingerprint patterns are formed through the Turing system.
Sports
The Fighting Irish Fight On
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish take down the Duke Blue Devils to claim the 2023 NCAA men’s lacrosse national championship.
Sports
French Open: Old Meets New
Despite the hopes of numerous young players to secure a breakout win at the 2023 French Open, it became evident that their time has not yet arrived, as 36-year-old veteran Novak Djokovic once again emerged victorious.
Sports
Welcome to the Woods, Axel Riess
The Spectator celebrates Axel Riess’s commitment to Dartmouth College.
Science
The Self-Imposed Limits of Computing
For more than five decades, computing power has doubled every two years, but as of recently, companies are prioritizing short term profits over innovation.
Science
Go Out and See the Sun
By Jayden Zhang
Maintaining a balanced diet full of vitamins and necessary minerals and acknowledging the double-edged sword of supplements is vital for the upkeep of one’s health and well-being.
Science
From Neuroactivity to Speech: A Breakthrough in Neurotechnology
By Elma Khan
A tech clairvoyant has created a milestone invention by translating the brainwaves of a man suffering from anarthria into speech.
Sports
The Hitmen Fall Short
By Khush Wadhwa
With the PSAL season over, what comes next for the Hitmen, Stuyvesant’s boys’ tennis team?
Sports
Women’s World Cup: What To Know?
The 2023 Women’s World Cup is quickly approaching. What do we need to know about the participating teams?
Humor
The Happiest Place on Earth
A slightly unhinged Mickey Mouse shares Disney’s plans for the next decade.
News
Stuy Open Gallery Hosts Annual Exhibition
By Sharon Zhou
Artists in Stuy Open Gallery holds their first annual art exhibition since the creation of the club.
News
Stuyvesant Hosts Its First Stuyvesant Sports Banquet
By Duncan Park
Stuyvesant hosts the first post-COVID Stuyvesant Sports Banquet.
Humor
Sorry, I’m an Elaborate Romantic
Are you still torturing yourself trying to come up with a plan to give that special someone the night of their life (and yours)? Here are some tried-and-true ways to ask your future significant other to PROM!
Humor
New AP Courses Being Offered at Stuyvesant Next Year
An introduction to the new AP classes offered for the upcoming school year, and students’ reactions to them.
Humor
If Your Dreams Are Like This… Don’t Follow Them
By Maisha Thakur, Fiona 'Eve' Lin
A collection of the most ridiculous dreams that Stuy students have ever had
Humor
Teacher Talk: The Indecipherable (Non-)Romance Language
By Lina Zheng, Erica Chen, Ryan Peng
A dictionary for the most frequent teacher sayings, and what they really mean!
Humor
THAT DOLL CRAZE
By Benson Chen
We’ve interviewed a few major doll companies to see what their selling points are for their toys.
News
Stuyvesant Speech and Debate Team Competes in Kentucky for the National Catholic Forensics Tournament
Stuyvesant Speech and Debate Team (S&D) heads to Kentucky for one of their final tournaments of the year.
Humor
Homo Stuyvesantians: The Next Stuy Generation
One stuffy biology class, a student has a dream about a new species evolving from Stuyvesant students…and it’s filled with sleep deprivation and ramen.
News
Logistical Issues Occurring During the AP Spanish Exam Held At Stuyvesant
By Kara Yip, Digit Kim, Eugene Park
The AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam had many technical difficulties which caused many issues during the test and scheduling conflicts with other exams.
Humor
Bees a-Buzzin’, Kissable Dandelion Fuzz
By Sara Heller, Adeline Sauberli
Ass. And how to get off of it.