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Volume V, Issue 11 February 16, 2006 Free

Stuyvesant Blood Drive Senior Twins Day!

The Indicator/William Kim

BY JIMMY ZHANG else's life.”
STAFF WRITER Donor Inna Etinberg, also a
senior, remarked “Well, that was
Stuyvesant students gave
like my good deed for the year.
nearly a thousand pints of blood
Also, its good to donate blood
on February 10. Donors received
because then you get new blood
exemptions from class as well as
in your system and if it actually
a free lunch of cookies and juice.
can help someone,
Donated blood TSS/Henry Zhang
then why not. It’s
saves lives. The
not like I’m losing
New York Blood
anything, besides
Center estimates
blood.”
that about 2,000
Etinberg said, “I
donations are
was really nervous
needed a day to
beforehand, waiting
maintain an ade-
because it seemed
quate supply of
like they just stuck More on Pages 4-5
blood.
this big needle in
Senior In-
you and I heard
nokenty Pyetranker,
a blood donator,
said “I gave blood
stories of how they
miss your veins, but
when the lady did
Incentives for Perfect
because I was able
to. I think that it is Junior Ben Alter begins the
the responsibility of
blood transfer process.
it, it was totally
fine. It didn’t really
hurt, I just relaxed
Attendance
anyone who can
for 10 minutes and BY JONATHAN XIKIS seemingly expensive cars and
give to do so, because donating
it wasn’t bad at all.” STAFF EDITOR trips to shame. In the Chicago
blood could change someone
public school district, every 1%
Continued on Page 3 As schools across the nation
rise in attendance means an extra
struggle with low attendance
$18 million more for the district
rates, some have found a new
from the state government. In
way to convince students to come
Fort Worth, which had a budget
– substantial prizes.
deficit of $15 million last year, an
Some of these prizes are
average attendance raise of just
shockingly expensive. Last year
one student nets the district
in Hartford, Connecticut, Fer-
$4,700.
nando Vasquez, a student with
Experts have criticized the
perfect attendance, won a raffle
initiatives. Dr. Jeff Bostic, direc-
and received a choice of $10,000
tor of school psychiatry at Massa-
or a brand new Saturn Ion. As
chusetts General Hospital, said
Fernando was only 9 years old,
that "it's against our grain to sug-
he chose the money.
gest that you have to cajole, se-
A 19-year-old student at Old-
duce or trick students in order to
ham County High School, Krystal
get them to learn."
Brooks, won a Ford Mustang.
“We've got to work harder at
Most schools offer slightly
showing how school really does
less valuable incentives – ranging
have relevance to these kids'
from iPods, DVD players, com-
lives,” he added.
puters, shopping sprees and vaca-
Mike Culbertson, principal of
tions to a cash award of $25 for
Stone Creek Elementary School
each quarter that a student has
in Rossville, Georgia, a poor
perfect attendance.
community in a rural area, thinks
The driving force behind the
otherwise. "Some people could
incentives is the No Child Left
look at it like we're trying to
Behind Act, which ties funding to
bribe the kids to come to school,"
a school’s academic performance.
he said, "but if it takes that to
The money at stake puts the
Continued on Page 2

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

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News...........................1-5 Puzzles..............................10-11
Business......................6-7 Science……………….......12-13
Opinions.....................7-8 Arts & Entertainment........13-15
Literary.......................9-10 Sports................................15-16
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THE STUYVESANT STANDARD  Incentives for Perfect

Founded 2001
“Your School, Your World—Your News”  Attendance
Continued from Page 1 ized," said Bianca Viggiani, a 17-
instill a lifelong value in them, year-old senior at Chelsea High
then it's worth it." School. "Now, you can be absent
Tests by edu- up to 14 days straight [before the
cational experts school takes ac-
Executive Leadership Team find that incen- tion].” This sof-
tives for academic "A student with tening of poor
DR. JOHN NIKOL FACULTY ADVISER performance work attendance poli-
WINNIE LEE EDITOR IN CHIEF
best among
perfect attendance cies has actually
SHO UEMURA MANAGING EDITOR won a raffle and resulted in a drop
JESSICA THAM CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
younger students
who are more in attendance for
WINNIE DU LAYOUT EDITOR received a choice the school. This
JACOB ARLUCK COPY CHIEF willing to buy in
LAURA HAN IN SCHOOL NEWS EDITOR to the system and of $10,000 or a could be inter-
JENNIFER SCHLESINGER OUT OF SCHOOL NEWS EDITOR work harder to brand new preted as a sign
YANJIE HOU OPINIONS EDITOR receive a prize. that the incentives
EMMA RABINOVICH ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Student reac-
Saturn Ion" have gone too far.
OSMAN NEMLI SPORTS EDITOR tions are mixed, Bostic said, "And
DEEP PARIKH SCIENCE EDITOR ranging from in- where does it end?
MELISSA CHAN BUSINESS EDITOR Are we going to
LADA KUKUY LITERARY EDITOR
creased willing-
ness to go to school to a cynical need to give out a Porsche Box-
KAREN LIU WEBMASTER
KATIE BANKS DIRECTOR OF PHOTOJOURNALISM desire to take advantage of the ster?” ◙
DANIEL EGERS (‘03) FOUNDER new policy. "You don't get penal-
ERNEST BASKIN (‘04) EDITOR EMERITUS

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Stuyvesant Blood Drive
Continued from Page 1
After donating blood, most
people feel fine, but must avoid
heavy lifting or any other de-
manding activities for at least
four or five hours after donating
blood. Drinking plenty of fluids
for the next
TSS/Henry Zhang
48 hours is
suggested.
Etin -
berg, when
asked how
she felt af-
terwards,
sa i d , “I
thought I nearly 200 New
was going to
feel sick The donation area is staged in one corner of Jersey hospitals.
because like the 6th floor gymnasium.
the girl next
to me almost passed out, but I
was fine. My left arm felt numb
during the procedure and for
about an hour afterwards, but
other than that I was fine. I didn’t
feel nauseous or anything.”
Pyetranker said, “Honored.
It's a nice feeling to know that
you might have helped someone
Coretta Scott King–Mother,
Sister, Social Activist
BY ALICE WU
STAFF WRITER
Coretta Scott King, widow of
the slain civil rights leader Martin
Luther King Jr. and a prominent
activist in her own right, died on
January 30. She was 78.
King was born and raised in a
poor, rural town. Her father held
three jobs, while her mother
drove a school bus. Her siblings
and she had to pick cotton to
make ends meet.
King went on to study at the
New England Conservatory of
Music, where she met her hus-
band, Martin Luther King Jr, who
was studying for his doctorate at
Boston University. They married
on June 18, 1953.
Dr. King first received na-
tional attention as a leader of the
boycott of the Montgomery, Ala-
bama bus system, which culmi-
nated in the desegregation of the
system. Before long, both were
dually active in the “seismic cul-
tural struggle.” Mrs. King began
lecturing, reading poetry, and
singing at Freedom Concerts,
which not only raised awareness
of the civil rights movement, but
also raised money.
After her husband’s assassi-
nation in 1968, King devoted her-
self to continuing Dr. King’s
work. At the Poor People’s Cam-
paign in 1968, she spoke not only
of Dr. King’s vision but her own
February 16, 2006 News Page 3
West Virginia Holds
who really needed your help.”
Following the donation, the
blood is tested for diseases, such
Mine Safety Checks
as HIV and syphilis. Most do-
BY SANGHEE CHUNG and inspections and to receive
nated pints of blood are separated
STAFF WRITER emergency training. Furthermore,
into the key components of
the time will be used, “to go over
blood: red cells, platelets, and A month after a tragic explo- the hazards involved with mining
plasma. sion, thousands of West Virginia
and the vital safeguards that need
Following the miners attended safety talks as to be taken,” said David Dye,
testing, blood officials began inspections across head of the administration.
may be stored the state. Manchin filed emergency
or frozen in the Governor Joe Manchin asked rules to carry out the mine safety
NYBC for a all operators to halt production law he signed in response to the
period of time for a “mine safety standstill.” January accidents. It calls for coal
before transpor- West Virginia, second only to companies to provide miners with
tation to one of Wyoming in coal production, has communicators, emergency track-
seen 16 miners die so far this ing devices, and extra air sup-
York or New year. plies. Mine accidents must also
Twelve miners were killed be reported within 15 minutes. “If
The NYBC also after an explosion at the Sago these tragedies continue, mines
delivers blood Mine, the deadliest U.S. mining could be closed and coal and en-
on a daily and emergency basis. accident since 2001. Two were ergy production could falter …
After the procedure, the do- killed in a conveyer belt fire at the consequences could ripple
nors were presented with a nice the Alma Mine and two more throughout the nation’s econ-
variety of snacks and juices. This were killed in separate accidents. omy,” said Senator Robert C.
is to prevent the donors from A Consol energy spokesman Byrd, “We cannot delay.” ◙
feeling nauseous or weak. Etin- said that safety lec-
berg humorously says, “The trail tures were held at the
Associated Press
mix was good.” ◙ beginning of each
shift around the
country. “This is a
small industry, a
kind of band-of-
brothers industry, so
when an accident
happens, everybody
knows about it.”
Agence France-Presse
Massey Energy
Inc., the state’s big-
gest producer, said
the safety lecture
centered on escape
routes, firefighting,
and emergency air
Coretta Scott King and her husband in packs. Workers were
Norway in 1964. asked to conduct
safety checks and
inform managers of
vision of gender and race equality
any concerns, said
as well. She asked that the
spokesman Jeff
American women “unite and form
Gillenwater.
a solid block of women power to
During this
fight the three great evils of ra-
time-out, the U.S.
cism, poverty, and war.”
Mine Safety and
She went on to be identified
Health Administra-
with a wide range of international
tion sent inspectors
human rights issues. She focused
to oversee reviews West Virginia mine safety director Doug Conaway.
on two tasks: establishing a na-
tional holiday in Dr. King’s honor
and building a center in Atlanta
to honor his memory and con-
tinue his work. AP EXAM REGISTRATION
King is survived by her four
children, her sister, and her broth- AP Exam Registration is done on-line at grades.stuy.edu
ers. Often compared to Jacqueline
starting Wednesday, February 1st through Thursday, March
Kennedy Onassis, she is known
as a woman who overcame trag- 23rd. The website will be shut down on Thursday, March 23rd
edy, held her family together, and
at 12 Noon. Registration print out and checks (no cash) are
became an international inspira-
tional symbol. She worked with due on or before Thursday, March 23rd to Room 209. Your reg-
Dr. King and expressed his views
istration is not complete until all paperwork and checks are
as well as her own after his death.
Even now that she has passed, turned into Room 209. AP Exam Bulletins are also available in
Coretta Scott King’s spirit re-
Room 209.
mains in the hearts of many, as a
mother, a sister, and a great social
activist.◙
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Senior Twins Day!

All photos except for lower far right taken by William Kim
of The Indicator and the top left taken by Winnie Du of TSS
THE STUYVESANT STANDARD February 16, 2006 News Page 5

Melissa Chan/TSS
Page 6 February 16, 2006 Business THE STUYVESANT STANDARD

The Best-Paid Young Burger King Soon to

Celebrities Launch a Whopping IPO
BY STEPHANIE TAM While some bring in millions BY HANFORD CHIU when Burger King is in debt and
STAFF WRITER by playing sports, others sing and STAFF WRITER recent restaurant IPO's have been
act. Take Lindsay Lohan. She is generally bringing in great stock
Who says young people can’t Burger King Holdings Inc. is price increases; Red Robin Gour-
only 19 years old, but has already likely to go public within the next
achieve big things? Nowadays, in met Burgers (RRGB) has been
released two record albums. This 6 months, with the initial public
fact, it’s quite the opposite. Sure, the biggest gainer with a rise of
celebrity has also starred in mov- offering (IPO) expected to raise
it’s true that some celebrities 242% over its IPO price as of
ies since the age of 11, with her at least $300 million.
might have been involved in a Feb. 2. Also, with Burger King
first movie being the remake of An IPO is a company's first
scandal or two- Paris Hilton’s purchasing its first Super Bowl ad
Disney’s The Parent Trap. sale of stock to the public. IPO's
hacked sidekick and Lindsay Lo- in ten years and announcing a
Both Frankie Muniz and are often done by young compa-
han’s battle with bulimia and turnaround, it has a good poten-
Amanda Bynes are stars on the nies who seek capital equity or a
drugs. However, contrary to tial for success when it goes pub-
rise. They did a movie together - public market for their stock.
popular belief, not all young teen lic. Burger King also provides a
Big Fat Liar in 2002. But they Restaurant IPO's and IPO's in
stars are troubled. good alternative to McDonald
Associated Press mainly concen- general are often insecure mar-
But they all do Corp. (MCD), as its image is not
trate on their kets, with an opportunity for a
share one thing in as tarnished by political incor-
shows. Muniz large profit at a high risk. IPO's
common- they all rectness as that of McDonald's.
stars in Malcolm are usually underwritten by in-
have a large sum However, at this time, Burger
in the Middle, vestment groups, in which the
of money. King has not released the public
while Bynes stars investment groups buy large
Of the top offering price, the volume of
in What I Like amounts of stock at the public
twelve celebrities, shares, or who will underwrite the
About You. offering price and resell them to
three are athletes. IPO, although likely candidates
And who knew other investors at a higher cost
LeBron James, include J.P. Morgan Securities
looks were worth for profit.
who quit college and Citigroup, who refinanced
that much? Adri- This move comes at a time
to play in the $1.15 billion worth of debt for
ana Lima earns an
NBA as part of Burger King last July. ◙
average of $4.5
the Cleveland
million just by

Associated Press
Cavaliers, tops the
modeling. The 24
list. He earns
year old also stars
about $23 million
in advertisements
a year. And things LeBron James. for Maybelline,
might even get
just like her idol,
better for him next
Gisele Bundchen.
year when his contract gets re-
As a whole, some of the best-
newed. Serena Williams is an-
paid celebrities are under 25
other pro in sports. The profes-
years of age. Together, they
sional tennis player earns about
earned about $127 million just
$13 million a year. She has also
last year. Here is a Forbes list
starred in numerous advertise-
showing the earnings of young
ments.
Hollywood:
Forbes Top-Earning Young Celebrities The CEO of Burger King Corp., Greg Brenneman, announces plans to start
selling shares of the company to the public.
Name Age Occupation Earnings
1- LeBron James 21 Athlete $22.9 million
2- Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen 19 Actresses $21 million
3- Maria Sharapova 18 Athlete $18.2 million Stuyvesant Senior
4- Hilary Duff 18 Actress/singer $15 million
5-
6-
Serena Williams
Lindsay Lohan
24
19
Athlete
Actress/singer
$12.7 million
$11 million
Wins National
7-
8-
Frankie Muniz
Paris Hilton
20
24
Actor
Personality
$8 million
$6.5 million
InvestWrite
9- Ashlee Simpson
10- Adriana Lima
21
24
Singer/actress
Model
$5.3 million
$4.5 million
Competition
11- Amanda Bynes 19 Actress $1.5 million BY DEREK WENG “InvestWrite”, administered
Source: Forbes.com JUNIOR STAFF WRITER by the nonprofit Foundation for
Investor Education, is a student
Melissa Chan, a senior and
essay competition in which par-
the business section editor of The
Questions? Comments? Stuyvesant Standard was an-
ticipants are asked to combine
techniques from mathematics,
nounced as one of the top three
It is the policy of The Standard winners of the third bi-annual
economics and other fields to
come up with a strategy for in-
national “InvestWrite” student
to remain accessible to its readers. i n ve s t me n t e s s a y c o nt e s t .
vesting money.
Donna C. Peterman, a senior
Melissa’s essay, which took home
Please contact us at the first prize at the High School
vice president at the Foundation,
said that “The rapid growth and
Division of the competition, was
readers@stuystandard.org chosen over 340 others coming
success of the InvestWrite com-
from around the nation.
Continued on Page 7
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Stuyvesant Senior Wins National
InvestWrite Competition
Continued from Page 6
Merrill Lynch
Principal Stanley Teitel and Eddy
Bayardelle, head of Global Philan-
thropy at Merrill Lynch, awards In-
vestWrite winner Melissa Chan.
petition, launched just two years
ago, is proof of its relevance and
Stuyvesant is
Watching You
BY HANFORD CHIU
STAFF WRITER
Stuyvesant is getting new ID
scanners by the bridge entrance-
way to keep track of the students
who are entering and exiting the
building. These gadgets, man-
dated and provided by the Depart-
ment of Education,
are supposedly
meant to provide a
safe and comfort- This mass
able environment
for the school. Per-
haps this would be
Shepherding
program
true in a crime-
ridden school, in
which the student
dehumanizes us in
a way similar to
ID might also our four-digit
serve as a rap
sheet, but in a
school such as
numbers.
ours, the ID scan-
ners will confine
and dehumanize us rather than
help or protecting us.
While the ID scanners will be
useful for warding off random
strangers, the trade-off between
security and liberty comes at a
high cost. The situation is rather
reminiscent of a bad science fic-
tion movie in which the admini-
stration merely has to turn on a
computer to be able to know who
is in or out of the school at any
given moment. Are we such hor-
rible students that the administra-
tion believes that we will cut
school at will without their con-
February 16, 2006 Business/Opinions Page 7
done well throughout all aspects
of the class. It is also very re-
warding to see the efforts of
someone that seeks to do well
through research and writing ac-
complish something noteworthy,”
value as a teaching and learning choose the riskier stock, Google,
said Melissa’s teacher George
tool. It is an excellent cross- but ultimately selected the tor-
Kennedy, who hand-selected and
curriculum activ- toise because
submitted her essay entry.
ity, which helps her current
“My feelings are consider-
develop and She provided the risk tolerance
able pride that this opportunity
strengthen stu- was more of
famous fable was made available to the na-
dent’s analytical the latter. She
tion’s schools and pride in the
and writing “The Tortoise and wrote that “as
achievements of a Stuyvesant
skills.” a young in-
Melissa’s essay,
the Hare” as an vestor with
student. I think this speaks well
analogy to of the New York public schools
“The Investment very little
as well,” Mr. Kennedy added.
Race”, adapted speculate on the capital I am
Melissa and her teacher will
the fable “The willing to
risks and potentials risk, my pref- both receive laptop computers as
Tortoise and the
one of many rewarding prizes in
Hare” as an anal- of two publicly erence is for
recognition for her first place
ogy to speculate steadier, al-
traded stocks, achievement. Melissa will receive
on the risks and beit more
Google Inc. and a $1000 savings bond and a trip
reward potentials modest grow-
to Disney World with her family.
of two publicly Johnson and ing stock.”
Mr. Kennedy will also receive a
traded stocks, “This year,
Johnson Company. one year subscription to The Wall
Google Inc. and we were ex-
Street Journal and a 5-day trip to
Johnson and cited that
NYSE Teacher’s Workshop. And
Johnson Com- Melissa Chan
to top it off, the whole Wall
pany. In her essay, Melissa ad- won the national contest. Melissa
Street class was treated to a pizza
mitted that she was tempted to is an excellent student who has
party. ◙
fittest is a keystone of our values. since they no longer have to
How fitting it would be for our
ID scanners to weed out the weak
check our IDs.
While these scanners might
also. be more effective in a school
But then, there is always the
horrible scenario in which it
where there are not enough secu-
rity guards to check for atten-
might actually encourage cutting. dance because they are needed to
stant vigilance? They might as After all, how hard is it to just prevent mass chaos, the scanners
well stick a huge poster next to take your absent friends’ IDs and will be utterly useless, not to
the board in each classroom that scan them with your own when mention degrading for Stuyvesant
reads, “We are watching you.”
you pass by the bridge as you students. Nonetheless, the De-
Besides, our current security sys- enter and exit? Then, the teachers partment of Education has no
tem is fine. There has always
will be wrong because the all- intention of backing off or of lis-
been a security guard on duty by knowing machine has evidence of tening to mere children. Perhaps
the bridge, ready to glance at IDs
your friends’ presence. This will the DOE will someday consider
and interrogate visitors. also be a nice break for the secu- treating us more like responsible
This mass
rity guards, who can now dangle individuals instead of sneaky de-
shepherding behind the desks or take a nap linquents who need mechanical
program only
de h u ma n i z e s
us in a way
similar to our
four-digit ID
Senior Comedy Club
numbers.
Since the ID Night!
Laugh Factory 8th Ave. and
scanner is al-
ID rea d y p ro -
grammed to
note when we
enter or leave,
42nd St.
perhaps after a
certain time, it could be pro-
Tomorrow, February 17th
grammed to send a computerized
phone message home to absen-
6 P.M.-8 P.M.
tees, such as “Your son and or
daughter, 3133, has failed to ap- Tickets will be $20 at the door.
pear at school today.” Such brutal
efficiency has the potential to Senior President and Vice
eliminate more personal privi-
leges such as homeroom or bub- President, Mike Kimlat and
ble-sheet attendance. But what
about those eternally forgetful or
technologically challenged stu-
Elisa Lee will be announcing
dents who forget to scan their IDs
or do it improperly. They obvi-
this year's Graduation
ously deserve to be marked as
cutters. After all, survival of the
Speaker!
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The Grand Adventure of a Blood Donator

BY YANJIE HOU
OPINIONS EDITOR
There are only a few times
each year in which the sixth floor some people who are really hun- merous other kinds of interesting blood as eagerly and excitedly as
gym is covered with large, ugly gry and even more stingy who go and esoteric diseases? But my some might watch a high-speed
plastic wraps and filled with there because the blood drive favorite part of the questionnaires car chase. I try to savor each mo-
desks, booths, and people with provides free food. has always been the part where ment since my blood always
writing utensils. Usually, it oc- But then, there are those bi- they ask whether I had sexual flows unusually fast despite my
curs for two weeks in May when zarre, perverse, and semi- relations with anyone who had amazingly low blood pressure.
sophomores start freaking out masochist people who go because these diseases or is a prostitute. The whole journey ends with
about their These questionnaires are only a free lunch in a buffet of Cheez-
first APs, jun- the beginning of a carnival of it, Oreos, granola bars, and apple
iors are even exhilarating fun as I continued or orange juice. Of course, you
more stressed my journey. Although I did not also get a free X-Large T-shirt
out about their care for the tense period before along with an extremely cool pin
too many APs, the medical personnel stick in the in the shape of a blood droplet.
and seniors are needle, what comes afterward The blood drive is like Disney
just wiped out TSS/Henry Zhang world. It has
fr o m their something for
three years of everyone.
accumulated Friends hud-
APs. However, dle together
since last year, Initial needle insertion and flow of blood. Donators squeeze an and bond
the 6th floor object to encourage blood flow. over the
gym has also amazing ex-
been the loca- perience. It is
tion of two a vacation
successful fro m t he
blood drives. classrooms.
Our third and Some walk
most recent away with an
one took place inner glow,
After 5-10 minutes, bags like this one are completely filled with which only
on Frida y, blood
February 10. comes after
Unlike AP doing a good
we e k, t hi s makes all the anxious waiting deed. Others come out smiling in
event in the 6th worthwhile. After the initial pain glee after feeding on the fear and
floor gym was which results the intrusion of an anxiety of their peers. And if
actually some- Patient suppresses blood flow after filling the bag shown extremely sharp object into one none of these reasons are very
thing that I of your veins, you start to experi- appealing, you should know that
greatly looked forward to. Some they somehow truly enjoy blood ence this most exhilarating, in- the school in the New York city
people donate blood out of the drives. Yours truly is one of toxicating, and fascinating feel- that donates the most blood will
kindness of their hearts. Some do them. ing. Some people find it boring get some kind of prize at the end
it because all their friends are After all, how can anyone not and painful as they wait for their of the year. So be a Stuyvesant
doing and it is a great excuse to enjoy answering questions that pint of blood to fill up but I watch student and help Stuyvesant be #1
miss class (if you go during your inquire whether he or she has each swell of the container and at something else besides math
lunch period). And then there are malaria, hepatitis, HIV, and nu- the continuous movement of the and science. ◙
THE STUYVESANT STANDARD February 16, 2006 Literary Page 9

BY ALICE WU
STAFF WRITER

Snowflakes float gently from the sky,

BY EILEEN L. CHANG
STAFF WRITER
I wake to white noise of water
Slightly tapping on my window
For joy to replace discontent
Rain must convert to snow.
I'm sure everyone else agrees too,
The children gather by their windows
Everyone has the same wish
I hope it snows.
Slowly as they're passing by.
Twirling and whirling where they
might,
Millions of snowflakes taking flight.
Down, down, down, they go,
Blanketing the ground with so much
snow.
Iced diamonds, all covered in beauty that's rare,
See how they sparkle and dance everywhere.
These silver treasures, all as unique as can be,
Filling children's hearts with glee.
They glide by in the tender breeze,
And land gracefully in the nearest
tree.

With Love In My Heart

Not A Trace
BY LADA KUKUY
LITERARY EDITOR
Writer's Block
BY CAROLINE HUGH passersby's dumb motions,
To be emotionally lonely STAFF WRITER a reprieve by the sighing river,
And ever so confused, unreal a joining and dying of hands,
Shall be the cross of my life only Trapped in the sense years of locked emotions-
If I now answer your appeal. that words repeat, all leave the same way
and the essence remains immortal. like a colossal droplet
Please do not blame me for existing The clock chimes joining a monotonous basin:
With love in my heart not a trace, My heart quickens one resounding burp and then,
For when, in moonlit nights I’m dreaming, yet no longer can my thoughts Silence.
I see near mine another face. take shape.
The barrier holds
We are so different, so unchanging and my tongue shall not loosen
In our diverse and polar ways My funnel collapses,
That it will be a crime worth hanging lacking breath.
To let this painful game take place… What endless swirling!
a beating of dust and leaves
brings silt to my eyes
that I cannot see.
My journeys-
tiresome restless travels,
BY ROBERT STEVENSON
STAFF WRITER

The cold, biting wind
whipped around Peter as he ped-
aled his old bicycle through the
large drifts of snow. His newspa-
per bag rested on his shoulder,
empty. His red face stung from
the freezing billows of snow,
which pounded his face so much
that he could hardly open his
eyes. All he could make out past
his squinting eyes was the dim
silhouette of parked cars covered
with snow.
He could hardly feel his icy
feet, which were instinctively
going up and down on the pedals.
His hands gripped the handle bars
under his fat ski gloves. His bicy-
cle slowly pushed through
mounds of snow, and made it into
town.
Peter was the only person on
the street. The roads were un-
plowed and the side walk was not
shoveled. The street lights were
not on, even though it was 6:00 in
the morning. He wondered why
LOVE
he did not see plows or trucks,
and why the stores had no lights
on. He pushed his way up Main
Street and into the town square
where he saw no one. His quick
breath made clouds in the air and
his bicycle came to a stop. He
dismounted and trudged up to
Wilson’s General Store where he
was surprised to see no light. On
the door was a sign, scribbled as
if the person had been in a hurry.
“Closed, due to evacuation.” BY ANNA GINZBURG
Peter read this in confusion. JUNIOR STAFF WRITER
What evacuation? As he won- Love is but a simple four-letter word
dered, his mind pieced the events Yet muttering it to you would feel absurd
together. No one had been on the Your lips are perfect as are you
street, and this said there had But I still will never get a clue
been an evacuation. Everyone Loving you hurts so much
was gone! What could he do? And yet I fear we will never touch
This storm was forecast to last for Oh how I wish I can talk with you
at least three days with a total To hear your voice wouldn’t make me blue
accumulation of about five feet of But rather joyous and oh so full of shock
snow, and the tides were going to But until then all I hear is my friend mock
rise enough to flood the town. He Yet I know for v-day I’ll flirt like crazy
was stranded! ◙ And as corny as it is, I’ll make you my little daisy
Page 10 February 16, 2006 Literary/Puzzles THE STUYVESANT STANDARD

Castles in the Sky Welcome to the 2006 Stuyvesant

BY LADA KUKUY
LITERARY EDITOR Standard Puzzle Hunt!
i sit aloof, afraid to move We are now accepting registration for teams to enter the 2nd Stuyve-
afraid to face this world sant Standard Puzzle Hunt, which will begin in the next issue with the
with everything i dreamed of- gone release of several puzzles. If you're familiar with the style of the Hunt
and what i had- disowned. already, you can probably just skip on down to the Registration section,
to learn how to register your team (a few things have changed from last
is this reality of life year).
whose sadness never leaves the door, For those unfamiliar with this event, the Puzzle Hunt is a puzzle
and i, each day, gnaw at myself competition in which teams compete to find something specific on the
thining there should be something more? school grounds (last year, it was a coin). The winning team will win $50,
to be split evenly among the team members. However, there are no clear
where are my castles in the sky, instructions as to how to locate or identify this thing. Instead, teams will
which i have never frared to build have to solve puzzles to attempt to clue together what they need to do.
by promises of happy life Puzzles will usually have as their solutions a word or short phrase, and
that have my soul with such joy filled? together the answers to the puzzles will form the metapuzzle, which will
lead teams to their final goal. Puzzles in the Puzzle Hunt can be of any
type: crosswords, number puzzles, cryptograms, technological puzzles, or
anything else you can think of. Puzzles may not even have instructions on
what to do, in which case you'll just have to figure it out for yourself.

Surreal (I) They will also tend to be harder than puzzles you may have seen already,
some with multiple steps to reach a solution. But don't get discouraged,
because the point of the Hunt is to have fun, and we're going to do our
best to make sure that can happen.
BY JENNIFER LEE General Guidelines:
STAFF WRITER 1. Our job is to make this a fun activity for everyone. If you are not
having fun working on the hunt, please tell us — we want to have fun
running the Hunt, and we hope you can too. But if you're not, tell us.
We have evolved from time and space. We'd like to know, and we'll try to help.
We now live on islands-because the continents have split 2. Please don't do anything that might prevent other people from
And drifted apart. enjoying the Hunt. For instance, don't mislead other teams, and don't
The waters surround us and we dare not swim across the other side; modify anything that's part of a puzzle. Also, don't steal answers from us
Fear for distance too far. or from other teams. That's just not a good thing to do. Don't snoop
We have lost the ability to fly around other teams. Don't violate any laws or school rules. And don't
Because for unknown reasons, we trade answers with other teams. If you're confused as to whether some-
Lost the ability to dream… thing is allowed, or if you think a puzzle intends you to do something that
might be dangerous, unfair, or illegal, please contact us to check, first.
3. If your team would like to combine with another team in the mid-
We spread out on our backs and gazed up. The sky was so big.
dle of the Hunt, please contact us to explain the circumstances. Similarly,
Every star was glowing white. There was no moon out tonight. I closed my
if your team wants to drop out, please tell us, so we can keep records of
eyes-looking at the sky always made me feel too small. The sky would for-
what is going on.
ever feel too vast. It goes evermore like these waters surrounding this is-
land…
Registration:
I swept a pile of white sand into my hands and unclenched them.
To register your team, send an e-mail titled "Registration" to
The grains trickled down my palms, and I was instantly reminded of the
stuypuzzlehunt@gmail.com with the following four things:
hourglass. Time never runs out. It is cruel, merciless, never caring, never
Your team name
loving, never crying. Time, I’ve learned, cannot be stopped. And that’s the
A list of team members and their homerooms
worst part of it. I felt tears forming and bit my upper lip. God…this cursed
An e-mail address to send important e-mails to
island.
Your favorite fruit
“I feel so unreal…”
I felt my companion’s eyes tear away from the blackness of the
We do not have a set limit on the number of people allowed in a
sky. I didn’t wait for a response.
team, but we'd prefer not having really, really huge teams competing.
I rolled to my left, farther away from him. “Do you ever think…”
I paused, pondering on the possibility, “that we’ll be stuck here forever?”
When, in the course of puzzling, you figure out the answer (or what
I turned sideways and met grey eyes. Those eyes always made me
you think is the answer) to a puzzle, you'll want to confirm it with us.
feel calmer. But looking at them was seeing the truth revealed. That made
Please do. To check answers, e-mail them to us at
me angry; I was starting to hate the truth. He looked at me for a long time.
stuypuzzlehunt@gmail.com, and we'll reply as soon as possible. We
It was a clear, steady gaze. Then he opened his mouth and closed it, eyes
check the account often, but we're only human, and you may have to wait
fluttered shut. He looked like a fish. That thought made me want to
a while for a response. We will, however, check the e-mail account at
laugh…but I didn’t. It was just too quiet here. The salty sea breeze twined
least once a day, and probably more than that, so e-mails should be dealt
with old memories…I wanted to dissolve my eyes in the waters and cry.
with in a timely manner.
“There was a time…when I thought we could leave. That there
was a way, you know?” His voice had raised in a pitch of desperation and
You can also check progress with us - if you have come up with a
frustration. “But after waiting, hoping, wondering, every single day, always
method that you are sure is correct (we cannot, however, confirm individ-
wondering-I can’t. I don’t know.”
ual methods for you) and you would like to check your progress, you can
I let out a long, shivery sigh and realized I had held my breath
email us with your ideas and progress, and we will reply and possibly
while he was talking. “No body ever knows. If only we could leave right
confirm the validity of individual parts of your work (for instance, we
now…” Nobody knows…It would always mean no.
might tell you that you had a mistake somewhere in the upper-right 3x3
He laughed bitterly. “If only. There’s times when I wonder if we’ll
of a sudoku grid, or something like that)
ever get what we want.”
I stared at the sky, eyes never leaving that one lone star in the sky.
And that's it, so good luck, and enjoy the Hunt.
It had no shimmer at all. If wishes were stars… there’d be no night.
Sho Uemura, Managing Editor
Kevin Hwang, Puzzle Hunt Coordinator
THE STUYVESANT STANDARD February 16, 2006 Puzzles Page 11

Last Issue’s Solutions Space: The Final Frontier

Crossword Puzzle Sudoku BY JONATHAN XIKIS
STAFF WRITER
F I S T O A R C O W 9 4 7 2 6 8 1 5 3
O V E R S P A S I D O
8 1 5 4 3 7 6 2 9
S T R R I U W F T Y M O K E A
R E C O L L E C T T O O
L E O C I D E R S 2 6 3 9 5 1 4 8 7 S R Z Q Q V Y F Z W P M M N M
Y E L L S H O L Y
O L E S R I O T E R S
1 3 2 7 8 4 5 9 6 N P A E K R O C K E T W Y T S
U S O F E R N S A H A 6 5 4 3 9 2 8 7 1
E N T R I E S G R I T
M E A M U N E I L A Z V H E A
7 8 9 1 5 6 2 3 4
W I N S E L E N A
3 9 1 5 2 6 7 4 8
S P A C E S H I P O N E B R L
U N L O A D E R E
T A I R E S T R A I N T
5 7 8 1 4 3 9 6 2 D F R R E V E K E S F L D P P
A M A S E A T M O N A
H E R R Y E S U E T 4 2 6 8 7 9 3 1 5 X E G M T S W L S C A I S R E
Cryptograms M H O L W H H R O C L A V I N
Amidst great winds of green and many hardly smile. Our souls are E S R E V I N U K H T I R S U
red we search for a midnight clear. chafed, our wallets bled our faces
J U P I T E R H T U M A P E T
And stand in awe of burning lights show the strain. Yet problems
heralds of price-tagged cheer. Re- though we think we have should V R N P O F O J R T T R N S P
joice! Regale! Express your mirth! make us think again.
say those who would beguile so - J.D. “Illiad” Frazer E A O N N L B N T S L A O L E
many told to smile hard yet so N N O P E Y X A L A G E U W N
U U M N V P O T C K V T S U N
Crossword Puzzle S S C S T I L J X X O T O H F
ALIEN JUPITER PLUTO SUN
BY JENNIFER SCHLESINGER ROCKET UNIVERSE
OUT-OF-SCHOOL NEWS EDITOR BLACKHOLE MARS
EARTH MERCURY SATURN URANUS
ECLIPSE MOON SPACESHIPONE VENUS
ENTERPRISE NEPTUNE SPACESHUTTLE WORMHOLE
GALAXY PLASMA STAR

Sudoku
BY JEFFREY LIAW
STAFF WRITER
Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3
box contains the digits 1 through 9.

8 9

6 5 3 4

3 4 5

1 8
ACROSS 38 Shakespeare play
1 The big________ 41 American_________ 6 8 7
4 Birth__________ 46 Type of math
7 Senior NY senator 47 Symbol for neon
9 Chemistry unit 48 _________ activism
3 8 2 7
11 State of matter 50 Egyptian ruler
13 Each his fair due 52 Vegetarian delight 5 4
15 Affirmative 53 Flower
16 Picture disk 54 Congress of________ 7
17 Frozen water 55 Diagram
20 South American country 56 __________trail
22 By way of DOWN 14 Male pronoun 33 Subway line
23 Facial feature 1 New Supreme Court judge 16 Happiest place on earth 36 Many-sided
24 Greek city-state 2 French for thank you 18 Certificate of deposit 39 Fourth planet
27 Author of Emma 3 The Raven 19 Mighty river 40 Online encyclopedia
28 Age and magazine 4 Year of_________ 21 Pronoun for self 42 Type of cat
29 Two hundred 5 Greek letter 25 ______57 43 Type of bread
31 Doctor 6 Highest US mountain 26 Team in superbowl 44 Olympic sport
34 Yankee shortstop 8 Fourth president 27 Island continent 45 Cup and______
35 Something senior fill out 10 Social contract 30 Windy city 49 Eminent_______
37 Touchdown 12 Figure skating jump 31 Spirit of Laws 51 World wide______
32 _________Olympics 52 2 thousand pounds
Page 12
Sleep Tight at Night… Or Not
BY KENNETH LAM
STAFF WRITER
The common cliché, “Sleep
tight, and don’t let the bedbugs
bite,” is heard throughout the
world at night, when parents tuck
their children into bed. But can
we really not let the bedbugs bite
us? Recently, bedbugs have been
on the march in New York.
A bedbug is a member of the
genus Cimex, the most common
of the bedbugs being Cimex lec-
tularius. It commonly lives in
any recessed spaces with cracks
running through them. Generally,
a dark space that is enclosed and
sheltered will harbor the bugs.
Has Science
Gone Too Far?
BY RICHARD SHYONG
STAFF WRITER
Seahorses. Those strange
little creatures that live under the
sea. Out of all the animals on the
face of the earth, they are the
only known creatures to have the
males go through the pregnancy
stage. And thankfully, it looks
like it is going to remain that way
for a while.
MalePregnancy.com
Fake images such as this on
MalePregnancy.com was used to lure
people into believing that men can
have children too.
February 16, 2006 Science
Bedbugs move by jumping
and running around. Typically,
they enter one’s house by jump-
ing from person to person in tight
spaces. Although annoying, they
do not make people sick. Rather,
they just leave an itchy bump
where the victim was bitten.
The upsurge in bedbug infes-
tation over the last few years
stems from several factors. In-
creasing international travel and
trade allows the bugs to spread
more easily. The most potent pes-
ticides, such as DDT, have been
banned almost everywhere in the
world.
New York City is taking
E v e r v i s i t
www.malepregnancy.com? It is a
very formal looking site that, as
the name suggests, is dedicated to
male pregnancy. It gives the
reader a nice, round image of a
pregnant Taiwanese American,
and even has some quotes from
people around the U.S. The pic-
tures, the links, the videos, all
make this website seem so, well,
real. Its just too bad that this web-
site is one of the many hoaxes
found on the web.
There were many problems
with male pregnancy that the
website did not discuss. A major
issue is that no organ except the
female uterus is capable of hav-
ing an egg implanted in its side.
Technically, an egg could implant
itself onto the walls of a kidney,
lets say. However, major infec-
tions and problems could ensue
s o o n a f t e r .
www.malepregnancy.com men-
tioned nothing of how they over-
came this problem, which is the
main reason that men today can-
not have babies.
Nevertheless, this site is still
amusing for some people. Ivan
Tse, a sophomore, said of this
site: “I think it’s hilarious.” Oth-
ers, however, found it less so.
“THEY PLAYED ME ITS ALL
A HOAX” said Shayan Saber, a
sophomore. “I googled it to check
it out (and) it said it was some
joke made up by this asian artist.”
Some people even quoted directly
from the website itself. Sopho-
more Lee Tsai said, “His quote
explains everything "This is
against God… Repent now before
it's too late. You sick, sick peo-
ple..."” I guess there is a time for
everything, just not male preg-
nancy. ◙
THE STUYVESANT STANDARD
Kansas State University
measures to attempt to end the
sudden surge in bedbugs. Legisla-
tion is being considered to pre-
vent old mattresses from being
shipped in the same truck as new
mattresses. This reduces the
chance that the bedbugs may
travel between mattresses. The
same legislation seeks to ban the
refurbishment of mattresses. This
would mean that old mattresses
The common bed bug.
would be thrown out, rather than
being cleaned up and resold.
help. Cleaning more often also
Homeowners facing infesta-
helps combat the insects. In the
tion have several options open to
worst case scenario, an extermi-
them. Scouting for likely bedbug
nator will have to be hired to
nests, often found behind head-
clean up the house. ◙
boards or under bed frames, can
First Partial Face
Transplant
BY SALLY CHEUNG Every since this day, my life has
JUNIOR STAFF WRITER changed.”
Whenever she went out, she
One of the common trans-
would always wear a surgical
plants we often hear about is the
mask to avoid frightening people
kidney transplant. Another one
with her lipless gums,exposed
would be the heart transplant. But
teeth and missing nose.
never have we heard of the face
When Ms. Dinoire’s sur-
transplant.
geons suggested a transplant, she
Isabelle Dinoire, a 38-year-
immediately agreed, even though
old French mother of two, re-
the procedure would be unable to
ceived the world’s first partial
restore the way that she looked
face transplant on November 27,
before the attack.
2005. The 15-hour surgery took
“Since the day of my opera-
place in Amiens where Ms.
tion, I have a face like everyone
Dinoire’s face, which had a gap-
else,” Ms. Dinoire said.
ing hole casued by a dog bite,
Ms. Dinoire thanked the fam-
was replaced with new lips, chin
ily of the brain-dead female do-
and nose.
nor, saying that, “Despite their
Ms. Dinoire, though still hos-
pain and mourning, they accepted
pitalized for physical therapy, can
to give a second life to people in
now open her mouth and eat. Al-
need. Thanks to them, a door to
though her scar, a fate, circular
the future is opening for me and
line of buckled skin around her
others.” ◙
nose, lips, and chin, is still evi-
dent, the scar continues to grow
fainter each week.
Reuters
It all started one
day in May, when her
pet Labrador attacked
her. She admitted that
she happened to be ex-
periencing some per-
sonal problems at that
time and “took some
drugs to forget,” which
knocked her out. She
woke up and tried to
light a cigarette, but to
her confusion, couldn’t
hold it between her lips.
“That’s when I saw the
pool of blood and the
dog next to me. I looked
at myself in the mirror,
and there, horrified, I
couldn’t believe what I Isabelle Dinoire, recipient of the
saw — especially be- world’s first partial face transplant.
cause it didn’t hurt.
THE STUYVESANT STANDARD
Chimeras: The Blurring of the
Human-Animal Line
BY BENNETT HONG
JUNIOR STAFF WRITER
Chimera. Ask a Stuy student
and you get this definition: a
monster in Greek mythology that
is part lion, part goat, and part
serpent. Ask a specialized re-
searcher and you may get some-
thing else: it's not a myth any-
more.
Nature’s designs have always
fascinated humans. From the first
tests involving pea plants to re-
cent advances in cloning and stem
cell research, we have always
eagerly tried to unlock nature’s
amazing and frightening secrets.
Now, the time has come for us to
unlock yet another door — the
merging of humans with other
creatures.
Actually, the door has been
already opened two years ago. In
2003, Chinese scientists at the
Shanghai Second Medical Uni-
versity successfully fused human
cells with rabbit eggs, which de-
veloped into the first human-
animal chimeras successfully
created. Last year, in Minnesota,
researchers at Mayo Clinic cre-
ated pigs with human blood flow-
ing through their bodies. Later
this year, at Stanford University
in California, an experiment may
be done to create mice with hu-
man brains.
Irv Weissman, director of
Stanford University’s Institute of
Cancer/Stem Cell Biology and
Medicine in California, who has
already created mice with brains
that are one percent human, is
planning to create mice with fully
human brains in the near future.
In the coming experiment, he
plans to inject human neurons
into the brains of embryonic
mice, which would be killed and
dissected before being born. Then
he intends to look for traces of
human brain formation. If suc-
cessful, he would look for traces
of human cognitive behavior.
Currently, he is awaiting approval
from the National Academy of
Sciences.
However, as with all ad-
vancements, with each step for-
ward, there is a reaction in the
opposite direction. Merging hu-
Reuters
mans with animals raises many
ethical issues. Some scientists,
such as biotechnology activist
Jeremy Rifkin, believe that ani-
mals have the “right to exist with-
out being tampered with or
crossed with another species.” He
views making chimeras as lu-
nacy: “One doesn’t have to be
religious or into animal rights to
think this doesn’t make sense. It’s
February 16, 2006 A&E/Science
the scientists who want to do this. D.C., who view that creating chi-
They’ve now gone over the edge meras by mixing human and ani-
into pathological domain.” Oth- mal sperm or eggs or transferring
ers, such as David Magnus, direc- reproductive cells would diminish
tor of the Stanford Center of Bio- human dignity and “deny that
medical Ethics at Stanford Uni- there is something distinctive and
Associated Press
An ancient Etruscan statue of chimera, a human-
animal hybrid. The creation of an actual chimera
by Chinese scientists has sparked controversy.
versity, believe the real worry is valuable about human beings that
whether or not chimeras will be ought to be honored and pro-
put to problematic, risky, or dan- tected.” Dr. Cohen supports a
gerous uses. Still, there are oth- chimera ban in the United States,
ers, such as Cynthia Cohen, a imitating Canada’s recently ap-
member of Canada’s Stem Cell proved Assisted Human Repro-
Oversight Committee and also a duction Act, which outlaws the
senior research fellow at George- transfer of a nonhuman cell into a
town University’s Kennedy Insti- human embryo and vice versa.
tute of Ethics in Washington, However, she also believes that
Oprah Shows Her Disgust at an
Author’s Fraudulent Writing
BY JENNIFER SCHLESINGER the writer. However, she has re-
OUT-OF-SCHOOL NEWS EDITOR cently changed her stance and
In September, Oprah Winfrey says she now feels betrayed by
added the book “A Million Little Mr. Frey: “I feel duped. But more
Pieces” by James Frey to her importantly, I feel you betrayed
book club and sales of the book millions of readers.”
instantly skyrocketed. The book However, Mr. Frey stands by
is about the author’s journey to his writing. He feels that although
overcome drugs and alcohol, and parts of the story were embel-
to find his freedom. Recently, it lished to enhance his tough-guy
has been discovered that although image, the main body of the
the author claimed the story was memoir is accurate. He said, “I
factual, much of it has been exag- made a mistake, and when I writ-
gerated. At first, Oprah supported ing the book, instead of being
introspective as I
should have been, I
clung to that image.”
Moreover, although
much of Oprah’s anger
is aimed at the author
himself, she is also
deeply upset with the
publisher, Random
House. She says that
James Frey’s “A Million Little Pieces.” before she added the
book to her club, she
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wording on such a ban needs to
be developed carefully as to not
outlaw ethical and legitimate ex-
periments, such as transferring a
limited number of adult human
stem cells into animal embryos to
learn about their proliferation and
growth during the prenatal pe-
riod.
Supporters of chimerism ar-
gue for the potential of medical
breakthroughs. “Anybody who
puts their own moral guidance in
the way of this biomedical sci-
ence, where they want to impose
their will — not just be part of an
argument — if that leads to a ban
or moratorium . . . they are stop-
ping research that would save
human lives,” said Weissman. In
this heated debate, supporters
also bring up of past acceptances
of chimerism. For example, faulty
heart valves are routinely re-
placed with ones taken from cows
and pigs, making the recipient a
human-animal chimera, but this is
widely accepted. Also, for years
scientists have added human
genes to bacteria and farm ani-
mals.
Dr. Rifkin argued that “there
are other ways to advance medi-
cine and human health besides
going out into the strange, brave
new world of chimerical ani-
mals,” and added that sophisti-
cated computer models can sub-
stitute for experimentation on live
animals.
Another important thing to
keep in mind is: at what point
would the creature be considered
human? And what rights, if any,
should it have? ◙
had received a report that parts of
it were untrue. Thus, she con-
sulted the publisher, who said
that their legal department had
checked out the book and found it
to be a true narrative. However,
Random House now admits that
they only checked to make sure
the book was not plagiarized. Nan
Talese of Random House said, “I
thought, as a publisher, this is
James’s memory of the hell he
went through and I believed it.”
Overall, sales of “A Million
Little Pieces” have remained high
as critics debate over whether or
not the book’s message remains
true. Many are taking Oprah’s
lead and using this example of
deceit in literature to push for
better checks by the publishers of
the accuracy of future works. As
a former publisher said, “There is
no question what she said will
have a far reaching impact on our
business.” ◙
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UPN and WB Merge to Create CW:
What Shows Will Survive?
BY EMMA RABINOVICH
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
Executives from Warner
Bros. and CBS Corps. announced
that the UPN and WB television
networks will merge next Sep-
tember to create CW, a network
that will broadcast the biggest
February 16, 2006 Arts & Entertainment
While official schedule for
CW won’t be announced until
May, top rated-shows such as
“Smallville,” “Beauty and the
Geek,” “Gilmore Girls,”
“Veronica Mars,”
“Everybody Hates
C h r i s ” a n d
“America’s Next
Diaries,” will be aired according
to plan.
The networks are hoping that
a reshuffle will help the youth-
oriented programs to be able to
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compete with shows from the big
four: Fox, NBC, CBS, and ABC.
"It [CW] will clearly be greater
than the sum of its parts," said
Leslie Moonves in a statement.
However, opposing networks
predict a less bright future for the
new network. “It’s not like you
add The WB’s and UPN’s ratings
and that’s what this network is
going to get. It doesn’t work like
that,” said an executive at Fox. ◙

Reuters
hits from both networks. The
Top Model” are
merger is the result of the poor
practically shoe-ins
ratings of both networks, both of
for renewal. The
which primarily target the 18-34
future of others,
demographic.
however, remains
Though the networks have
less certain. For
had somewhat different focuses,
example, the future
with UPN being best known for
of “Everwood,”
minority-centered programming
whose ratings fall
and WB for teen-angst shows,
right on the cutoff,
network executives hope that the
remains unclear.
shows from the two networks will
WB also re-
mesh well together. Les Moon-
ported that shows
ves, president of CBS, which
scheduled to pre-
owns UPN, explained: “The pro-
mier midseason like
gramming is very complemen-
Rebecca Romijn’s
tary. The idea of putting Leslie Moonves, president of CBS Corporation, an-
“Pepper Dennis”
“Gilmore Girls” and “Veronica nouncing the merging of UPN and the WB into CW.
and “The Bedford
Mars” together is really exciting.”

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Great Expectations
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tem and accumulated many draft
picks for the NHL entry draft.
All that trading has paid huge
dividends this year. The Rangers
got off to a fast start and have
kept it up all season long. One of
the keys to their success has been
the resurgence of Jaromir Jagr as
the best hockey player in the
NHL. Jagr is leading all players
with 80 points and is tied for sec-
ond in goals with 35.
However, Jagr has not done it
alone. Two rookies are also
played a huge role in getting the
Rangers to
first place.
G o a l i e
H e n r i k
Lund q vi s t
was a sev-
enth round
selection in
the 2000
draft. This
is his first
year play-
ing in
N o r t h
A m e r i c a , Eddy Curry, Stephon Marbury, and Qyntel Woods of the Knicks
and he has during a recent game, in which they lost to the Lakers.
been noth-
ing short of brilliant. He is third
in the league in goals against av-
erage with 2.12 and is second in
save percentage at .926. His stel-
lar play has been one of the keys
to the Rangers' success.
Two years and one round
later, the Rangers selected for-
ward Petr Prucha from the Czech
Republic, and he has paid huge
dividends as well. He is third in
goals scored by rookies, behind
wonder kid Sidney Crosby and
Congratulations to
JENNIFER SCHLESINGER
& was far from good.
DEREK WENG
on becoming the
NEW EDITOR IN CHIEF
& lar Book Club, and sales have
MANAGING EDITOR
of The Stuyvesant Standard
February 16, 2006 A&E/Sports
Washington’s Alexander
Ovechkin. His energy and play-
making ability have been helpful.
However, the Rangers will have
to live without him, as in their
game versus the Philadelphia Fly-
ers, Prucha sprained his knee and
will miss three to four weeks.
There is one large difference
between how the Rangers got
under cap and how the Knicks
can get under cap. In the NBA,
trades must be conducted so that
if you are over the cap, as with
the Knicks, you cannot receive
25% plus $100,000 more salary
than you give. Therefore, the only
Reuters
way to “dump” cap is by trading
for expiring contracts. Once a
contract expires, that money is
off the books, thus creating more
cap room. If the Knicks were able
to trade for more expiring con-
tracts, which is not easy, they
could be out of their predicament
much more quickly and have a
shot at prized free agents such as
Lebron James, whose contract
with Cleveland expires in 2007.
◙ wife. The book was
Teacher, Did We Get
Artest Back?
Continued from Page 16
years. Now, the second question:
what did the Kings win? Prior to
his punching a fan, Ron Artest
was looked upon as being one of
the most dominant power-
forwards in the league and, along
with Jermaine O’Neal and Reggie
Miller, the Pacers were thought to
be a possible Championship team,
since they were made up of a
Championship-worth y team
which did rather well in the
league for the past decade. After
being banned from playing,
Artest fell from the fans' and
coaches' eyes and was regarded
as a has-been who messed up his
career and acted very unprofes-
sionally. Everyone thought so
except Adelman. This year he
gave Artest a chance in his team
The Holocaust
Revisited:
Night by Elie Wiesel
BY JENNIFER SCHLESINGER
OUT-OF-SCHOOL NEWS EDITOR
Nobel Peace Prize-winning
author’s Elie Wiesel’s autobio-
graphical novella,
Night, has been is- Echo Press
sued in a new transla-
tion by the author’s
first published in Yid-
dish in 1958; the first
English translation
appeared two years
later. Wiesel explains
in a new introduction,
“Back then, I was an
unknown writer who
was just getting
started. My English
When my British
publisher told me that Night, by Elie Wiesel.
he had found a trans-
lator, I was pleased…it seemed
alright. I never re-read it.”
Oprah Winfrey chose the
novella for her immensely popu-
skyrocketed. During the week of
February 5, it was fifth on USA
Today’s best-selling paperback
list, as well as the number one
best selling non-fiction paper-
back. It oversold A Million Little
Pieces, another book featured in
Oprah’s Book Club.
Night is the story of the au-
thor’s survival of Nazi concentra-
tion camps during World War II.
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by giving up his star three-point
shooter. The motivation behind
this trade was Adelman’s attempt
at reshaping what used to be a
star team, but in recent years had
left fans rather surprised by their
lackluster performances. By ac-
quiring Artest he had the opportu-
nity of filling the gap left by Di-
vac, the veteran center, as well as
Chris Webber, who, after his knee
injury, never got back to full con-
dition.
But in the end, what does it
mean for both teams? Will the
Kings reach a higher ground and
will the Pacers be able to win, or
will the trades result in a loss for
both teams? We’ll have to wait to
see, but we’re sure to see exciting
games painting the road along the
way! ◙
It begins at the time when Ger-
man aggression towards the Jews
had just started to surface and
continues on to tell of the restric-
tions that were put on the Jew as
well as life in the
ghettos. The story
then tells about Wie-
sel’s journey to
Auschwitz and the
horror that Wiesel
overcame, with grue-
some depictions that
are not for the faint of
heart.
Those who have read
other accounts and
stories of life in Nazi
concentration camps,
such as Devil’s Arith-
metic by Jane Yolen,
will find that Night is
similar. However, it
also offers the added
insight because it is written from
the voice of an actual Holocaust
survivor.
All things considering, Night
is a valuable read. It brings the
suffering of the period to life and
has many life lessons to offer. It’s
also a book that urges the reader
to continue and eventually be-
comes impossible to put down.
As you read on, you can’t wait to
see what happens and you’re
routing for Wiesel, who quickly
earns your sympathy and respect.
◙
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Teacher, Did We Get

Artest Back?

Associated Press
BY OSMAN NEMLI
SPORTS EDITOR
It was simple enough. A
year ago Ron Artest went
into the stands to punch a
fan and received a yearlong
ban. It sounds almost too
violently poetic to count as a
basketball scuffle, and yet
here it was. A while back I
mentioned how Artest had
become a cancer for the
Indiana Pacers team and
how Indiana was looking to
sell him. Sell him they did,
but more importantly a trade
was made. Longtime Sacra-
mento King three-point
shooting veteran Peja Sto-
jakovic was traded for Indi-
ana Pacers Ron Artest in The Sacramento Kings’ Ron Artest.
what appeared to be a huge
trade for Indiana and a gamble for
all, what did the Pacers gain? The
Kings coach Rick Adelman as he
Pacers were lucky enough to get
gave away a veteran from his
rid of a thorn in their organiza-
roster for a player whose stamina
tion's side for the past two years
and fitness were not known.
in exchange for the best three-
Well since then the hype has
point shooter in the league. This
been brought down, and both
is a sign that the team is attempt-
teams got both players and de-
ing to find a replacement for vet-
cided to try them out. Two major
eran All-Star Reggie Miller, who
questions came out from this
retired at the end of last year after
trade; what did the Pacers get and
what did the Kings get? First of
playing for the Pacers for 18
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Great Expectations
BY ERIC MAYO off the Knicks' ever-increasing
STAFF EDITOR payroll. There will come a point

COLUMIBA Expectations are a funny

thing. Six months ago, Sports
when owner James Dolan simply
won’t have enough money to
spend on the team. Perhaps the

UNIVERSITY Illustrated predicted a last place

finish for the New York Rangers.
With new head coach Larry
SCIENCE HONORS Brown, the Knicks' immediate
future looked bright. How times
have changed.
PROGRAM As of February 7, the Knicks
were in another slump in a season
filled with slumps. They had lost
The Columbia Science Honors Program (SHP) is a highly 11 of their last 12 games. In
seven of those games they lost by
selective program for students who have exceptional talent double digits, and there were
in math and science. The SHP holds classes at Columbia three losses of 20 or more points.
from 10:00 A.M. to 12:30 P.M. on Saturdays throughout The Knicks have also been with-
the academic year starting in the Fall. Courses are primar- out Stephon Marbury for a sig-
ily in the physical, chemical, biological, behavioral, and nificant stretch of time due to a
sore shoulder. With no veteran
computing sciences. There is no tuition for this program. point guard to set up the offense,
However, there is a qualifying exam which costs $20. You the Knicks have taken their game
must be in 9th-11th grade to apply. If you are interested in to a whole new level of sloppy.
applying, pick up an application from Ms. Daves in Room No one plays defense, few re-
802 or from the College Office. Be sure to request your bound, and few can consistently
put the ball in the hoop.
transcript from the college office no later than March 15, The future is even starting to
2006. All applications (including transcript and teacher look dull. When the Knicks
recommendation) must be postmarked no later than March traded forward Antonio Davis for
22, 2006. You will be notified of the entrance exam date Jalen Rose and a first-round draft
and time in mid April. The entrance exam is on April 29, pick, many assumed the pick
would help the Knicks' future.
2006. You will be notified of the results of the qualifying Not quite. Jalen Rose will be paid
exam in late June/early July. 14.5 million dollars next year,
money that could have been taken
Knicks need to look to the other
tenant of Madison Square Gar-
den, the New York Rangers.
In March of 2004, Rangers
GM Glen Sather had finally come
to his wits' end. For as long as
anyone could remember, Sather
had been bringing high priced
stars like Alexei Kovalev, Anson
Carter, and Pavel Bure just so the
Rangers could make the playoffs.
Every year, they failed. He finally
decided to start rebuilding. Be-
fore the 2004 trading deadline,
Sather managed to make eight
trades in eight days.
He traded left winger Garth
Murray and right winger Alexei
Kovalev to the Canadians for
Marcel Hossa, younger brother of
Thrashers star Martin Hossa, a
prospect, and some draft picks.
Peter Nedved was traded to Ed-
monton for more prospects and
picks. Forward Chris Simon was
traded for two prospects, and
Blair Betts, who was a valuable
center for the Rangers before in-
juring his knee. All in all, the
Rangers restocked their farm sys-
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