Stuyvesant High School is one of the city's top public high schools. Which is apparently why Principal Stanley Teitel wants female students to start dressing like nuns. A new dress code for the school states, "Students should wear the appropriate attire to school" and guidelines include "Shoulders, undergarments, midriffs and lower backs should not be exposed" and "The length of shorts, dresses and skirts should extend below the fingertips with the arms straight at your side." But even students wearing skirts below the fingertips are being harassed by school security and administration! more ›

Last week, a Brooklyn teen standing on a street divider in Gravesend was struck and killed by an alleged drunk driver. Driver Vitali Korzavin, 46, was arrested and charged with a DWI, speeding, and vehicular manslaughter in the death of 17-year-old Stuyvesant High School student Terence Tsao. Yesterday, Korzavin's charges were upgraded to aggravated vehicular homicide from manslaughter, after it was revealed his blood alcohol level was .32, four times over the legal limit. more ›

On Friday night, a Brooklyn teen standing on a street divider in Gravesend was struck and killed by an alleged drunk driver. Driver Vitali Korzavin, 46, was arrested and charged with a DWI, speeding, and vehicular manslaughter in the death of 17-year-old Stuyvesant High School student Terence Tsao. Terence's devastated father, Ting Man Taso, told the News his son was returning home from his school’s Board Game Society, of which he was the president: “He stayed late on Fridays to be with his friends. That was his fun night.” more ›

Last week, Stuyvesant High School graduates revealed that both Stuyvesant High School and Battery Park City Authority officials had reneged on earlier promises to offer space to remember 9/11. Now, after press coverage (and pressure?) and the involvement of Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, things have changed. more ›

"Touching students and whispering in their ear are acceptable practices to maintain order in the library," Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Manuel Mendez ruled yesterday. And with that former Stuyvesant High School librarian Christopher Asch was vindicated after years of being stigmatized as a pervert. In 2009 the openly gay Asch had been sent to the rubber room after a student claimed he had inappropriately touched him. more ›

New York magazine's cover story is a feature about "What happens to all the Asian-American overachievers when the test-taking ends?", a follow-up of sorts to the attention that Amy Chua's parenting memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, received for many of its strict (some might say insane) ideas and anecdotes about raising successful children. And it turns out that the magnet high school Stuyvesant, which has a 72% Asian population, isn't the greatest launching ground for its Asian students to bridge cultural gaps. more ›

Here's a video showing a group of white teenage boys singing a vulgar, misogynistic rap song that includes plenty of n-words. So what else is new? Well, these kids reportedly attend the prestigious Stuyvesant High School, and it seems the song is not only their own creation, but it allegedly targets a black classmate with such lines as: more ›

According to the results of the city’s admissions process for the seven specialized, elite high schools, the vast majority of those admitted were either white or asian. Only four percent of students admitted were black and six percent were hispanic, while 30 percent were asian and 35 percent were white; having said that, the ethnicity of nearly one-quarter of admitted students was not known, because they were multiracial, coming from private school or were not identified, so it may not be quite as dire as it seems. more ›

Former Stuyvesant High School music teacher Theophilus Burroughs, who was arrested for selling guns undercover cops he thought were connected to terrorists, was arraigned yesterday on an 84-count indictment. Burroughs, 49, was busted with 14 others in the gun sting, and pleaded not guilty to charges. The father of two, who faces up to 25 years in prison, reportedly wet his pants during the arrest. But the Post wants to make sure you know that none of this could have happened without the help of a few extraordinary citizens: The Post's reporters. more ›

After a year long investigation, former Stuyvesant High School music teacher Theophilus Burroughs has been arrested for selling weapons to people he thought were connected to Hamas and Hezbollah. He was busted by Bronx DA investigators at the Westchester Square warehouse, where he expected to get $100,000 for night-vision goggles, two bulletproof vests and 200,000 counterfeit cigarette stamps. He reportedly wet his pants during his arrest, so much so that the police van seats needed to be lined with plastic. Ha ha. more ›

A teenager charged with setting fires in two bathrooms at Stuyvesant High School last year pleaded guilty yesterday to disorderly conduct. But instead of facing seven years in prison, 17-year-old Mohammed Hassan's only punishment is that he must give up his Senior year spot at the prestigious high school. more ›

Now that everybody in the school already knows which biddies want to tap which hotties, the Department of Education has condemned Stuyvesant High School's "crush list." Though the tradition of posting a "crush list" goes back years for the school, this year students were able to write names under headings like "I'd Tap That." DOE spokesman David Cantor told the Post, "From what I've seen, the students' lists are essentially harmless, but don't belong in a school display case." But is the title really that bad? more ›

To be filed under "Kids These Days": Instead of "Most Likely to Succeed" or even "Most Popular," Stuyvesant High School seniors created a display of classmates under headings such as "Biddies," "Hotties" and "I'd Tap That." The Post reports that the seniors were "encouraged to create displays listing classmates they considered the sexiest" by the administration, which has let students post an annual "crush list" for over ten years. But did they finally go too far? more ›

Thanks to some tweaking from city officials, this year nearly all of the city's public schools will be eligible for Title 1 federal funding. To receive funding, 60% of students needed to be eligible for free or reduced lunches at the school. Now, just 40% would need to meet that criteria, including perennially highly rated Stuyvesant High School. more ›

Okay, it's not quite Doogie Howser or The Kid With The 200 I.Q., but it is real: Zachary Young, a 15-year-old sophomore at Stuyvesant High School, was accepted to Harvard, MIT and Caltech. He tells the Post that when he got the nod from MIT, "That was much more exciting [than Caltech's acceptance]. I had my mom, my sisters and my girlfriend, and they all screamed." (Yes, he has a girlfriend!) Zach, a huge math whiz who has already taken all of Stuy's math and science classes, doesn't watch TV or listen to music, "If I have a choice between math and almost anything else, I choose math." Maybe he won't have that girlfriend for long. more ›

Just days after a student was suspended from Stuyvesant High School for allegedly setting fires, investigators say a copycat arsonist has been lighting blazes in the esteemed Lower Manhattan school — and taunting police in hieroglyphics. more ›

A 16-year-old Stuyvesant High School student was caught on camera setting two fires in school bathrooms this week, according to police. Cops arrested junior Mohammed Hassan after obtaining surveillance tapes that apparently show the teen entering a seventh-floor bathroom at 1:13 pm and leaving two minutes later as a trash can went up in flames. At 1:16 pm, a different camera purportedly captures Hassan entering and quickly exiting another bathroom, leaving "bright orange and yellow flames rising out of a large garbage can," according to investigators quoted by the Daily News. more ›

As Stuyvesant High School prepares for prom this weekend and the end of the school year to follow, word is that their school librarian has been arrested and charged with sexual abuse. The News reports that 56-year-old Christoper Asch is accused of inappropriate behavior with male students where he "massaged students' shoulders and backs, touched bellies and ran his hand through kids' hair." The Department of Education intends to fire Asch after having him reassigned to the rubber room last fall. According to a report obtained by the Post, "He'd creep the boys out even more by smirking or whispering in their ears to be quiet while he groped them in the library." His lawyer told reporters, "Mr. Christopher Asch categorically denies engaging in any inappropriate conduct with students, and ... intends to vigorously defend the charges." more ›

Administrators at Stuyvesant High School have been using handheld metal detectors on students—not to detect weapons but to disarm cheaters who might use their mobile devices during a test. Teens at the elite public school in lower Manhattan were outraged when the wands were introduced recently during two weeks of AP testing. One student tells the Post, "To wand students is absurd. If they can't tell kids are using a cellphone to cheat, it's their own fault. Next thing, we're going to have to take our shoes off like we're going through the airport." And then they'll be forced to take tests naked like they're cutting coke for some paranoid drug lord! Another student also argues that "wanding is pointless. You can cheat in so many other ways." Principal Stanley Teitel declined to comment, but Dr. Teddi Fishman, director of the Center for Academic Integrity, says the tactic is counterproductive, because it creates "an adversarial relationship where students try to get away with [cheating] and we try to stop them... Anything that can be cheated on easily is usually too simplistic a test." more ›

The Department of Health is investigating whether there is another case of meningitis at Stuyvesant High School. Last week, a student died from the infection that causes meningitis. The Daily News reports, "Officials have not said [Ava Hecht] died from the contagious disease but have said her symptoms were consistent with bacterial meningitis" and the Health Department had been working to alert people in close contact with Hecht. The other student is currently being treated for the possible meningitis. Additionally, symptoms include "fever, headache, vomiting, stiff neck and a rash." more ›

The Department of Health believes that the sudden death of a 17-year-old Stuyvesant High School senior on Thursday may have been from a bacterial infection known to cause meningitis. Ava Hecht of Bayside, Queens died Thursday afternoon after friends say she appeared fine in class earlier in the week and even had been working on homework the night before. Health officials began alerting students at Stuyvesant Friday, where a moment of silence was held for Ava and seniors were broken the news in an assembly. Ava sang in the chorus, was a cartoonist for the school paper, The Spectator, and drew a comic, "Soprano Man", that was based on a singing friend whom she transformed into a super hero. The school has set up a Facebook page as a memorial and in less than 48 hours it already has 1,300 members and 75 wall postings. A doctor for the DOH said that while there are a few dozen meningitis cases annually, “We see something like this once or twice a year.” more ›

Officials at Stuyvesant High School told parents that they want to install metal detectors, but not because of concern that students are bringing weapons to school. The prestigious public high school simply wants to catch students who are breaking the Department of Education's ban on cellphones and are using them to text each other test answers. Principal Stanley Teitel said that the scanners would hopefully be installed during finals week in January. In the past, students at high schools that have metal detectors installed to combat them from bringing weapons in have griped about having their cell phones taken away, while students magnet schools like Stuyvesant can sneak them in unchallenged. more ›

The Times has released a study focusing on the racial breakdown of students admitted into the city's high profile specialized high schools. They found white and Asian students to be offered admission at nearly five times the rate of black and Hispanics who took the test. That has led to demographics such as Stuyvesant being comprised of 67% Asians and Bronx Science of only 4% blacks. The disparities do not improve greatly even when just looking at students who came out of special test prep programs. The paper points out that diversifying the schools is hampered by a recent Supreme Court decision only allowing income to be a factor in admission's decisions as well as simply "a dearth of blacks and Hispanics taking the test." As far as why they're not taking it, the paper talks to students who suggest factors such as lack of motivation to not knowing where the admission testing sites even are. more ›

George Zisiadis is currently attending Harvard, but the new film Frontrunners documents his time as Stuyvesant High School, and more specifically, his time campaigning to be president of the student council. The film is akin to Election, but true-to-life and filled with competitive New York teens, all attending one of the most competitive high schools in America. Currently at the Film Forum through the 28th, we highly recommend checking it out. George recently told us his thoughts about the current election, and how he would fix New York. more ›

The Daily News reports that the Stuyvesant High School junior who was paralyzed from a van accident in January is suing Ford (the van's manufacturer) and NYC for $300 million. more ›

One of the Stuyvesant High School students seriously injured in last Saturday's Vermont van crash has returned home to New York. Junior Lucia Hsiao, a member of the girls' junior varsity track team, had suffered serious neck injuries but was able to "gingerly walk" to her room on her own. The Staten Island resident is wearing a halo around her head and will require a lot of rehab, but her dad said, "It could have been worse. She's done with the first step of recovery." more ›

A van carrying members of Stuyvesant High School's junior varsity girls' track team overturned on the way to a track meet in New Hampshire. The crash occurred last Saturday on I-91 in Vermont, when the van "veered into a median and rolled over," according to Vermont State Police. more ›

Stuyvesant High School is known for many things - high SAT scores, award winning students, and admission to elite universities. Football is certainly not of of those things. A new documentary, The Peglegs of Stuyvesant High, airing tonight at 6:30 pm on CSTV, focuses on the 2006 Stuyvesant Peglegs (named after Peter Stuyvesant, who had a wooden leg). Coming off a winless 2005 season, new coach Brian Sacks tries to lead his team to its first winning season in years, but is up against parents that would prefer that their students join the chess team and some players that have never played football before. more ›

The 22-year-old St. John's University student who brought a loaded .50 caliber rifle to the Queens campus on Wednesday was arraigned in his hospital room at Bellevue yesterday. Communicating via a video link to the Queens Criminal Court, Omesh Hiraman appeared "frail in his blue pajamas" (NY Times), while he "hands shook and he "rocked back and forth" (Daily News), but seemed lucid during the proceedings. Judge Deborah Stevens Modica ordered that he be given a psychiatric evaluation to determine his mental fitness. more ›