Imagine a world where even the air is toxic. A jaunt in the park is no better than standing amidst factory chimneys, each breath as filthy as second-hand smoke. Welcome to the reality of pollution. We might normally define it as the introduction of contaminants into an environment, which causes instability, disorder, harm or discomfort. Read More »
The halls echo with well-earned sighs of relief, now that first semester finals have finished. Whether students did superbly well, are beleaguered by that one mistake, or utterly bombed, the start of a second semester means many feel entitled to forget about finals for a while. After all, finals are stressful. Finals mean late nights Read More »
In the bitter November pre-dawn chill, Glenn Kugelman arrived in Manhattan at 5 a.m., beginning what would be a fifteen-hour wait on line. He was there to score three pairs of Nike sneakers, to be released that day only. They were “hyper strikes”, meaning fewer than 300 exist. Fifteen hours is nothing; he’s seen people Read More »
You may or may not have read Volume 3, Issue 4 of the Insider, but if you at least flipped the pages, chances are you noticed the headline “Let’s Talk About Sex.” We may not flinch from mentioning the unmentionables, but our school’s still short on sexual education. Twenty two US states, plus DC, mandate Read More »
Staff experience the history and contributions of Journalism at the Newseum, meeting the renown Bob Woodward, George Will and George Stephanopoulos while in Washington D.C. Regarding what may be the Watergate of our time – and how to scoop it – Stephanopoulos challenged student reporters to “Follow the money. Find out what happened to all Read More »
Assemblyman Sheldon Silver introducing Bill Thompson This year, the New York City Department of Education has severely cut funding and enacted strict new limits on bake sales in all New York State public schools. Events such as Breast Cancer Awareness days and the Walk for Devon, not to mention our Insider, have relied on bagel Read More »
This weekend, pride parades in Hong Kong, China and Taipei, Taiwan kick off what many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) Asians hope will be a new era of tolerance. Events like Taipei’s “Love Out Loud” parade October 31, the largest in Asia with a turnout last year of 18,000, are milestones in a continent Read More »
You may have noticed the always empty student store on the school‘s first floor. If not, you’ve surely detected the lack of Pop-Tart wrappers on the staircases because of the bare vending machines in the cafeteria. The reason for these magical disappearances is a change in the Chancellor’s regulations regarding food in school. The revised Read More »
