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The Spectator’s 2025 Sophomore Caucus Coverage
Issue 17, Volume 115
The Spectator’s 2025 Junior Caucus Coverage
Spec+
The Editorial Board examines the impact of digital AP tests.
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Opinions
Closing Comments for editorial board members from the class of 2025.
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The Spectator's 2024 Freshman Caucus Endorsements
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The Spectator’s Endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for the 2024 Presidential Election
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Read The Spectator’s Physical Education department review!
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A review of Stuyvesant’s Japanese department.
The Spectator’s 2024 SU Election endorsements.
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The Spectator’s official response to criticism surrounding “Black and White: The Withheld History of Palestine and Israel.”
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Instead of looking at athletics as contradictory to Stuyvesant’s academic reputation, we should recognize them as an extension of it—another example of Stuyvesant students’ boundless talent and willpower to succeed.
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The Spectator's 2023 Freshman Caucus Endorsements
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The Editorial Board suggests teacher costumes for Halloween 2023 (no explanation necessary!).
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The administration recently switched marking period one grades from numerical grades to letter grades, potentially causing more harm than good to the student body.
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The Spectator Editorial Board strongly condemns the invasion of Israel by Hamas and the targeting of civilians.
Features
The freshman survey and its analytics for the class of 2027.
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The Editorial Board offers two opposing perspectives on Stuyvesant’s niche graduation requirements.
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.
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2023 SU Senior Caucus Coverage
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2023 SU Sophomore Caucus Endorsements and Coverage
2023 SU Junior Caucus Endorsements and Coverage
The Spectator delves into how homeroom’s mental health activities fail to address student stress.
In light of the recent tragedies plaguing New York City’s public transit system, Stuyvesant students and New Yorkers alike have been made increasingly aware of the dangers of our daily commutes.
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The Spectator Editorial Board shares the heartfelt words of those who knew alumna Arielle Aney (‘20), who recently passed away from colorectal cancer.
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Humor
Some (fake) confessions by the editorial board's favorite teachers.
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Arts and Entertainment
Here are the Editorial Board’s Top Fives for SING! 2023.
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The seniors of the Editorial Board say goodbye, as this is their last issue with The Spectator.
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The pressure to specialize in a certain field at Stuyvesant discourages students from the exploration high school is designed for.
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Addressing the lack of communication about changes recently made by the administration.
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In honor of Thanksgiving, the Editorial Board has compiled a list of all the things they’re thankful for at Stuyvesant.
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Addressing the importance of communication and transparency from the administration regarding safety protocols and threats to the Stuyvesant body’s safety.
This year saw another enormous volume of Freshman Caucus tickets, with 16 pairs running for the position. The Spectator has chosen to endorse two of these tickets.
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A review of Stuyvesants Biology department.
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Teaching to the test reduces students’ motivation to learn because it puts the class into the context of the test, and a class curriculum that is not centered around an exam allows for a more rewarding learning experience.
The Spectator Editorial Board brings up possible ways to increase financial literacy among the student body.
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While many of the criticisms mentioned in “The Letter” were targeted toward individuals, they brought to light the lack of transparency surrounding the role of the SU and its election process, an issue that must be addressed immediately.
Extracurricular activities are important, and requiring a faculty advisor to be present at every club meeting is unnecessary and and only harms the sense of community at Stuyvesant.
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What do the freshmen and seniors think about college?
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This year saw a whopping 14 Freshman Caucus tickets throw their hat into the election ring, a number that nearly approaches last year’s 16. The Spectator has chosen to endorse three of the prospective tickets.
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In honor of the festivities, here are a few things that The Spectator’s Editorial Board is thankful for:
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As a freshman or sophomore preparing to enter the classroom as a Stuyvesant student for the first time, you’ve certainly heard advice thrown at you from every direction. Our first piece of advice? Read on!
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After collecting and analyzing the data of 177 outgoing seniors, here is what The Spectator found
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As this year like no other comes to a close, one can’t help but reflect upon the past 15 months of our lives, spent trying to make the most out of a virtual high school experience.
Here are the Top Fives of the entire SING! 2021
As NYC faces fiscal, housing, transportation, population, education, crime, and policing crises, the next mayor is responsible for getting the city back on its feet. The Democratic primary on June 22 will decide the outcome of one of the most pivotal mayoral elections in recent history.
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Zooming!
Caution: This is not a bucket list. Completion of all items on this test will likely result in death.
As remote learning is wrapping up, test your knowledge of all the terms you've used this year!
Vaccines are cause for a lot of division among leagues; while there are proven health benefits and suggested consistency for leagues, athletes’ freedoms and beliefs must also be taken into consideration upon any mandate proposal.
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We must return to normal in September with full in-person learning.
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Do you have what it takes to name all of Stuyvesant's clubs and pubs?
In light of the shooting in Atlanta, Georgia and the increase in Anti-Asian hate crimes since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we interviewed students and sent out a form to the student body on their thoughts and responses.
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Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-Asian sentiment in America has been on the rise.
The future is looking bright for the 2020 - 2021 Spectator Editorial Board! Here are the editors 20 years into the future.
Once schools closed, we reminisced about the beloved objects that we tragically left in our lockers. Through a collection of love letters, we hope to rekindle the strong and blazing passion that was once there.
Welcome to The Spectator’s First Annual Hunger Games.
It's been a year since the DOE has officially put the schools on lockdown. What has happened since?
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Seniors reflect on their years at Stuyvesant and The Spectator.
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We sent out an anonymous form for students to share their thoughts about mental health, workload, or anything else regarding this past semester.
With the recent Facebook post regarding students’ declining mental health gaining significant traction, it is clear that our community must address the lack of enforcement of many of Stuyvesant’s academic policies to ensure a smoother, more successful second semester.
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Updates on virtual conferences, such as School Leadership Team meetings, that have occurred prior to the upcoming school year.
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Stuyvesant teachers give their opinions on what third marking period grades should look like.
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The editorial board reflects on the life during the Coronavirus pandemic
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The Spectator announces its first writing competition for middle school students.
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The Spectator reviews the platforms of the Freshman Caucus candidates, electing to endorse the Agnihotri-Bhattacharyya ticket.
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Meet the first 13 women to enter Stuyvesant in 1969!
Follow female Stuyvesant alumna on their journeys through and beyond Stuyvesant.
The SHSAA and CSA alumni groups make their case for how to best serve Stuyvesant High School.
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The Spectator Editorial Board reviews the Zeyhana campaign and elects to endorse it.
The ZIA Campaign, comprised of juniors Julia Brestovitskiy and Zoraiz Irshad, has ambitious goals for next year’s Senior Caucus; the Spectator Editorial board reviews their campaign.
The Spectator Editorial Board reviews the Corr-Sela ticket for Junior Caucus and elects to endorse it.
Cynthia Tan and Elio Torres promise to “blow you away” with their three-pronged emphasis on transparency, innovation, and team; the Spectator Editorial Board reviews their...
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And stop defending people who do.
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The Spectator editorial board analyzes the Visian's platform, campaign, and candidates.
The Tam+Kuke campaign is audacious but ultimately lacks the prerequisites needed to succeed.
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This is the final issue for the seniors on the Editorial Board. Here are their departing pieces of wisdom.
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The following is a list of a few student groups that would benefit from increased funding.
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The recent vote at the last SLT meeting to close discussion regarding PSAL frees opens up many conversations about how Stuyvesant students are expected to juggle their academic and extracurricular lives.
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It’s the small things that count.
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While acts of cyberbullying and threats made to students and staff are clearly beyond the means of a self-policing student body, a level of student-to-student trust and responsibility should exist.
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As an independent student publication, The Spectator does not seek to be an antagonist to the administration or any student organization—our intention is to encourage accountability in these institutions and celebrate their successes.
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Members of the Editorial Board set off to find out just how far the gap between our immigrant parents’ expectations for our lives and our own expectations are. Here’s what we found.
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Lax gun laws and loopholes have led to a string of deadly mass shootings within schools throughout the country at the cost of the lives of our teachers and fellow students. Our generation is frequently criticized for being politically apathetic in the face of these issues. However, the cold-blooded slaughter of 17 students and teachers from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida has galvanized student movements and protests all over the country, including at Stuyvesant.
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In an interview with The Spectator last spring, Student Union (SU) President Tahseen Chowdhury said, “Every SU in the past and every platform that you’ve...
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The Editorial Board analyzes the extent to which Stuyvesant students conform and subvert to its stereotypes.
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Stuyvesant has long been known to have an exceptionally large immigrant student population. A recent survey done by the Spectator revealed that approximately 74 percent of the current freshman class is either an immigrant or a child of immigrants. This makes our current political climate particularly sensitive for Stuyvesant students, especially in light of all of the rhetoric against immigration by the Trump administration. Unfortunately, this negative attention has silenced many students. The truth is that an issue that affects one student in our school affects us all.
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“Any concerns I have are somehow invalidated because I am both Black and Latino,” senior Eugene Thomas said. “Every single time I’ve ever discussed college, I’ve been told, ‘You're gonna get in wherever you want. Let's face it: you're black!’ like it's some proverbial golden ticket into the top universities.”
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Five upperclassmen are entrusted with the responsibility to mentor 30 freshmen through Stuyvesant, and it does not require a large impression to be made in order to remember so few names. What it does require is initiative on the part of Big Sibs to introduce themselves and make legitimate connections.
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