Gothamist: Students Battle Hunter College H.S. Over Yearbook

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Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:57:04 -0500

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HunterPetition

Thu, 18 May 2006 01:08:02 -0500

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lizk

Wed, 17 May 2006 00:29:29 -0500

yes! fight the man.

sangyulbae

Fri, 12 May 2006 17:25:00 -0500

I called Dr. John Mucciolo Director, Hunter College Campus Schools Principal, Hunter College High School Phone Number: 212-860-1406 Room: 245 and told him I'd be withdrawing my donation to the school this year.

Olivia

Fri, 12 May 2006 02:56:37 -0500

so stupid. the administration at my high school did the same thing this year with our senior polls...apparently they found categories like "biggest feet" and "best excuses for everything" offensive?

kjbogart

Thu, 11 May 2006 22:05:13 -0500

Well, HCHS and Stuy kids are really self-aggrandizing, but in my opinion the elite boarding schools take the cake. I'd rather deal with arrogance and intellectual elitism than arrogance and class-based elitism. But that's just me, HCHS 1993.

Liz

Thu, 11 May 2006 20:19:10 -0500

1. HCHS goes from 7th to 12th so Dahlia was there. 2. Bathrooms ALWAYS had the scribbling. A lot of it was like the yearbook jokes. 3. That picture is of the 94th street side, going from Park to Madison (schoolyard is in back.) 4. Please with the Stuyvestant. They used to ask us not to take the test so we wouldn't screw up your curve. 5. Samantha has a point.

Samantha T

Thu, 11 May 2006 19:02:33 -0500

Is there a more self-congratulatory group of people in the world than graduates of Stuyvesant, Hunter College HS, etc.?

joyful elitist

Thu, 11 May 2006 18:21:45 -0500

dahlia, you were in 8th grade when that happened.

Dahlia

Thu, 11 May 2006 17:52:32 -0500

when i was at hunter (class of '97, the back page was cut off of all the yearbooks during my sophomore (?) year - there was a cartoon that makes these jokes look like the most innocent things around. involving a teacher and some young female students if i remember correctly...this seems way over the top. and say what you want about our bathrooms, but 1/3 of my class went to an ivy...must be up there with the prep schools for sure.

kate

Thu, 11 May 2006 17:31:34 -0500

right, because quality of education and bathroom cleanliness have gone hand in hand since the dawn of time. I mean, of course hunter is inferior to stuyvesant (03!) but saying it's not a good school because you've got a problem with writing on walls is pretty wack.

pei12

Thu, 11 May 2006 17:11:23 -0500

The "elite" label's reinforced by the media--the Wall Street Journal's ranking of Hunter as the top public feeder school in the country for Ivy League colleges, for instance.

JT

Thu, 11 May 2006 17:03:41 -0500

ABC, i was hchs83, hchs rox so I think your mistaken. Y You beefing on us?

ABC Girl

Thu, 11 May 2006 16:49:02 -0500

I don't know why the media keeps hyping Hunter College HS as an "elite" school. I attended night courses in there while a student at Hunter College because they had run out of classrooms at Hunter College's main campus on 68th street and I have to say: The high school's bathroom walls --on every floor --are full of graffiti. Worse, most phrases were grammatically incorrect and simple words were often misspelled...

Guy

Thu, 11 May 2006 16:02:10 -0500

Ah the annual struggle of yearbook censorship. It warms my heart and makes me yearn for the days of yore...

John

Thu, 11 May 2006 15:56:49 -0500

They updated the picture.

Evan

Thu, 11 May 2006 15:54:39 -0500

Actually, that is a picture of Hunter High School. Its a picture of the front entrance on 94th Street, closer to Park Avenue.

Tim N.

Thu, 11 May 2006 14:17:59 -0500

"He worked it out with a pencil" Oh, ha ha, that was so funny I forgot to laugh (snort). Hey, Beavis, can you believe the stuff people get upset about?

areacode212

Thu, 11 May 2006 14:06:40 -0500

HCHS administration pulled something like this in 1993. IIRC, it was because of the words "cock diesel" appearing on the back cover (a parody of the Charles Atlas sand-kicking ad starring Flex Mentallo). So, they ended up distributing the yearbooks with the back portion of the cover peeled off. How lame. But, an enterprising student obtained those discarded back covers and sold them, so most students were able to attach them back to their yearbooks with some kind of sticky plastic thingie. I have the limited edition F&G yearbook, too. I keep it on the same shelf as my other yearbooks.

John

Thu, 11 May 2006 13:56:26 -0500

That's not a picture of Hunter College High School. The current school sits between 94th & 95th on Park Ave. It's modeled after the armory at the other end of the block (on Madison). This unique design has earned it the nickname "The Brick Prison." Is the picture you have of the original building or of one down near 68th street? This isn't the first time the yearbook has been in trouble - in 92-93 the back cover ran an unapproved cartoon which was physically cut from each book before distribution.

dstein

Thu, 11 May 2006 13:55:47 -0500

That's not a picture of HCHS, its a picture of Hunter College. I graduated HCHS in 2000, and although I can't say off the top of my head, I bet it was a little offensive - but, who cares? Why are we shocked that it is filled with high school humor? Hey, second to last paragraph: "There's no copyright infringement, no libel, no privacy invasion - it's high school humor. It is what it is. And that is not a sufficient justification for censorship," the executive director of the Student Press Law Center, Adam Goldstein, said. The Virginia-based organization consults with student publications across the country, including the "Annals." Yep.

Kojak

Thu, 11 May 2006 13:44:52 -0500

"Did you hear about the constipated mathematician? He worked it out with a pencil." hehe Offensive? Those jokes are pretty harmless. They aren’t even making fun of any individual students, let alone teachers. Keep the jokes. Dont be a bunch of pussies