Volume 112 Issue 16

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The Spectator

“The Pulse of the Student Body”

The Stuyvesant High School Newspaper

Volume 112  No. 16

June 3, 2022 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

stuyspec.com FEATURES

Sail On, Beach Boys

“Asian American”: The Holes in the Asian Umbrella

An ode to the legendary Beach Boys, the reigning champions of Californian summers, and one of the most important rock acts today.

Southeast and South Asian students reflect on what the word “Asian” really means to them, as well as on the inclusivity of the term in the broader Stuyvesant curriculum.

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2022 Endorsements (See Pages 2-3)

Junior Caucus, Sophia Dasser and Gigi Bryce

Ibtida Khurshed / The Spectator

Courtesy of LOV-LI Senior Caucus Ticket

Courtesy of Dasser-Bryce Junior Caucus Ticket

Courtesy of Mikhalevsky-Patel Junior Caucus Ticket

Junior Caucus, Margaret Mikhalevsky and Yashna Patel

Senior Caucus, Andrey Sokolov and Erica Li

Sophomore Caucus, Zoey Marcus and Josephine Yoo

Sophomore Caucus, Olivia Dogan and Salioudian Barry

Courtesy of Marcus-Yoo Junior Caucus Ticket

Stuyvesant Hosts In-Person Open House By TALIA ARCASOY, MADELINE GOODWIN, ELAINE HUANG, and MADISON KIM

person. These include virtual building tours and in-person Camp Stuy on June 9. Furthermore, the administration will also be hosting a Parent-to-Parent Panel Discussion on June 21 over Zoom. “Families can submit questions in advance, hear experiences of upperclassmen families, hear from Ms.

Andy Lin / The Spectator

Stuyvesant recently opened its doors to the incoming class of 2026 as a part of its first in-person open house in two years. This open house was organized by student groups, such as ARISTA and the Big Sibs, in coordination with the administration. As incoming students first entered the building on Thursday, May 12, they were welcomed by waves of enthusiastic cheers from upperclassmen volunteers. For many of these upperclassmen, participating in this tradition of greeting the incoming class was the most exciting part of their open-house experience. “Overall, I thought [the event] was really lively, especially when we started clapping and cheering for the new students when they were walking into the building, even though my hands hurt a lot,” junior Courtney Huang said. Incoming freshmen were taken on a tour around the school and were shown different activities that Stuyvesant had to offer. While some families went on student-led tours around the school building, others enjoyed a self-guided tour using directions from pamphlets listed with demonstrations from clubs and departments. “We gave them the freedom to explore,” junior and

Big Sib chair Sabiha Amin said. “As Big Sibs, it’s not only where we were in charge of hosting everything with the tour, but [also] making sure they were aware that they had other options as well.” This year was also the first time that families from the Discovery program were able to

attend the open house. “The Office of Enrollment extended their offers for the summer Discovery program early this year. We were happy that those families could join us and learn about Stuy[vesant] in person before having to commit to the program. It was great to have them join us,” Director of Family Engagement Dina Ingram said. While about 95 percent of offered invitations attended the open house, there are many available resources for families who were unable to attend in

[Assistant Principal Casey] Pedrick, the Big Sib Chairs, [and] Principal [Seung] Yu and I,” Ingram said. Organizing the open house event involved significant cooperation between different student groups, including ARISTA and the Big Sibs, and the administration, all of whom had different goals for the event. “[We also had to make] sure Big Sibs, ARISTA, Student Union (SU), and school administration were all working together to know what’s happening. I feel like we all have our own agenda; like,

SU and the Parents’ Association (PA) want to promote the PA’s cause and the merch. The Big Sibs [and ARISTA] were making sure everyone gets the tours, but the administration also needed to make sure that they cover everything in the theater. Finding a balance between everything was really difficult,,” Amin said. The student groups and administration also had to coordinate the length and content of sessions and tours. ARISTA and Big Sib members were responsible for leading incoming students and their families around the building and answering their questions. While some families were on school tours, others attended information sessions with Principal Yu, Pedrick, and Ingram. “We do three information sessions each Open House in the theater, each rotating with families who are either then completing a tour or have been on tour and then enter the theater. It’s a rotation that continues through after 8pm,” Ingram said in an e-mail interview. “Open House is our three-ring circus, in a bit of a literal sense.” Incoming freshmen were especially interested in the number of clubs that Stuyvesant has to offer. “Because of the pandemic and everything, most of the clubs I wanted to join had to shut down [at my middle school]. Now, I am in high continued on page 4

NEWSBEAT The Jewish Student Union hosted a speaker event with Holocaust survivor Paul Galan. Stuyvesant recently celebrated the return of its annual Big Sib-Little Sib dance. Stuyvesant hosted a master session with Grammy winner Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins and student songwriters from Stuyvesant’s All-City Modern Music Project. Stuyvesant held a documentary screening of “The Invisible Extinction” with film directors Sarah Schenck and Steven Lawrence and microbiologists Martin Blaser and Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello. Social studies teacher Robert Sandler’s NYC History class participated in a walking tour of Greenwich Village. Students toured historical landmarks such as Mark Twain’s home, Emma Lazarus’s brownstone, the sites of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Weather Underground Bombing, Stonewall Inn, the Church of the Ascension, and the Salmagundi Club.


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