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Volume V, Issue 19
BY JIMMY ZHANG
NEWS EDITOR
The 19th annual Fleet Week
in New York City took place from
May 25 to May 31. Four thousand
sailors from the United States
Navy, Coast Guard and even in-
ternational navy ships were ex-
pected to spend time taking in the
urban life of New York. Fleet
Week also includes many military
demonstrations and displays. Af-
ter the ships dock, they are open
to the general public for tours.
Fleet Week has been hosted
nearly every year since 1984. It is
New York City’s celebration of
the sea services. This event also
provides an opportunity for citi-
zens to meet sailors and witness
the abilities of today’s Navy, Ma-
rine Corps, and Coast Guard. This
year’s event had less of an arousal
than usual. There were fewer
ships and only one foreign en-
trant, a British navy ocean survey
vessel. Past gatherings have in-
UNA USA Spells
Victory for Stuyvesant
Model UN
BY TIM CHANG
COLUMNIST
On May 20, at East 44th
Street and First Avenue, the Stuy-
vesant Model UN team walked
triumphantly out of the United
Nations building with awards
given to five out of the seven
delegations being represented by
The delegates gather at the United Nations in to begin their conference.
ens
,
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lL OF STUYVESANT HIGH SCHOOL, TRIBECA, AND BATTERY PARK CITY
i
June 2, 2006
New York Fleet Week
cluded ships from Britain, Can-
ada, France and other nations.
Besides the daily ship tours,
there are also special events, such
as the Parade of Ships and Bless-
ing of the Fleet. The Parade of
Sailors aboard the USS Kearsarge as it docks at Pier 88 in Manhattan.
Stuyvesant at The United Nations
Association of the United States
of America’s (UNA USA) sev-
enth annual Model UN confer-
ence.
The UNA USA conference is
undoubtedly the most significant
Model United Nations conference
Continued on Page 3
unausa.org
“Your School, Your World—Your News”
Ships signals the start of Fleet
Week. On May 24, everyone was
invited to watch the arrival of the
ships as they made their way to
the piers. The Blessing of the
Fleet took place the next day. At
The New SAT Versus
the ACT
BY JENNIFER SCHLESINGER
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
On Tuesday, May 23, The
Stuyvesant Parent’s Association
(PA) held a meeting. After elec-
tions were held for PA offices and
some preliminaries were dis-
cussed, the main presentation for
the night took place: a talk on the
new SAT by The Princeton Re-
view and on the ACT, by a repre-
sentative of the test.
The representative from The
Princeton Review began the pres-
entation by giving some back-
ground information. She said that
in the past there have been
changes made to the SAT without
disastrous results. The most re-
cent change was a result of The
University of California’s (UCA)
decision to not use the SAT as a
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
News...........................2-8
Business......................4&9
Opinions.....................9-11
Literary.....................11-13
 
Free
Staten Island, Monsignor James
Dorney, the vicar of Staten Island
and pastor of the St. Peters
Church, St. George, Staten Island,
conducted the blessing of these
ships. There are also 14 scheduled
parades in various parts of New
York.
AP
The Marine Corps also sched-
uled a series of demonstrations. In
their helicopter demonstration,
the Marines demonstrated heli-
copter insertion and extraction as
well as a display of helicopters
and other equipment. There was
also a face-painting session for
children. The Marine Corps also
had another event, the Day at
Central Park. Displays and dem-
onstrations covered the Naum-
burg Bandshell. There were Ma-
rine Martial Arts displays, vehicle
and weapon displays, and local
band performances.
Fleet Week is one of the most
patriotic times of the year. “I
Continued on Page 2
criterion for admission anymore.
The Educational Testing Service
(ETS), which runs the SAT, did
not want to lose their business, so
they met with UCA to discuss
possible changes. It was that the
SAT I Reasoning Test would be
combined with the SAT II Subject
Test Writing, since the writing
test was already required for ad-
mission by the majority of col-
leges.
The new SAT is 45 minutes
longer and is now graded out of
2400 instead of 1600. The anal-
ogy questions were removed
while harder math questions were
added along with a 25-minute
essay and questions on grammar.
The representative said this may
cause a problem because “Kids
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Puzzles..............................12-13
Science……………….......13-14
Arts & Entertainment......14-15
Sports................................15-16
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THE STUYVESANT STANDARD  CLUB SPOTLIGHT

 
Founded 2001
Chinese Chess Club
  club has been getting very rowdy
BY JIMMY ZHANG
  NEWS EDITOR lately. There have been an in-
“Your School, Your World—Your News”  crease in the number of members

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and many new players can be
seen at the club now. Sophomore
Executive Leadership Team Simon Hu, secretary, thinks that
the Chinese Chess Club has been
DR. JOHN NIKOL FACULTY ADVISER getting more members lately; its
JENNIFER SCHLESINGER EDITOR IN CHIEF average attendance has doubled.
DEREK WENG MANAGING EDITOR “I'm excited by the increase in the
KHOI NGUYEN CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER attendance. I hope that this club is
FANNY TANG LAYOUT EDITOR
impacting the Stuyvesant commu-
DANNY ZHU COPY CHIEF
JIMMY ZHANG NEWS EDITOR nity,” says Hu.
PRISCILLA MELO OPINIONS EDITOR Chinese Chess, or xiang qi, is perhaps Instead of having a hierarchy
EMMA RABINOVICH ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR the most popular board game in the of the kingdom, Chinese chess
ERIC MAYO SPORTS EDITOR world. has the hierarchy of an army,
JOSEPH KRUTOV SCIENCE EDITOR simulating a war zone. The prin-
HANFORD CHIU BUSINESS EDITOR For most people, there is one ciples of Chinese chess are simi-
LADA KUKUY LITERARY EDITOR kind of chess: international chess. lar to that of international chess.
DANNY ZHU WEBMASTER In this chess, the pieces look like There is still a piece to defend.
BENNETT HONG DIRECTOR OF PHOTOJOURNALISM what they represent. A knight, for
DANIEL EGERS (‘03)
There are still pawns. However,
FOUNDER example, would have the shape of there is no careful buildup of
ERNEST BASKIN (‘04) EDITOR EMERITUS a horse. This type of chess shows pawn structures, the major pieces
the hierarchy in a kingdom. How- come into play immediately, and
Publication ever, people of the Chinese Chess drawn-out endgames are rare.
Club are bringing light to another Sophomore Kenneth Lam said, “I
THE STUYVESANT STANDARD is a nonprofit and nonpartisan publication pro-
kind of chess: Chinese chess. In liked Chinese chess because, to
duced by the students of Stuyvesant High School.
recent years it has started to be- me, it was simpler than Western
THE STUYVESANT STANDARD distributes 2,000 free copies on a bi-weekly come better known among non-
basis to the students and faculty of Stuyvesant High School and through- chess.” Most members agree that
Chinese. the simplicity of the game is a
out the adjoining neighborhoods of TriBeCa and Battery Park City.
Founded by sophomore and
THE STUYVESANT STANDARD welcomes letters from its readers. current president Emily Ho, the
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THE STUYVESANT STANDARD
Meet Dr. Utting!
BY DAVID YIN
STAFF WRITER
Before the school day even
begins, Dr. Utting can always be
found in room 736, where he pre-
pares for his upcoming classes.
Born in Croydon, England, he
traveled around Britain a lot be-
cause of the war, mostly along the
east coast, near the North Sea. He
went to college at Leeds Univer-
sity, an imperial college in Lon-
don.
When asked when he decided
to become a teacher,Dr. Utting
responded, “I’m not sure I did.”
He started teaching after he re-
ceived his graduate’s degree,
when he was around 25 years old.
However, he felt unsatisfied and
went back to the university after-
ward. He entered the New York
public school system in 1984,
when he began teaching night
classes at CUNY. He also began
teaching at Stuyvesant that year,
and has continued teaching there
until today.
Dr. Utting enjoys teaching at
Stuyvesant. He said, “I’m very
fortunate to be teaching at Stuy-
vesant.” He encourages the stu-
dents to be active during the class
by participating and giving him
UNA USA Spells Victory for
Stuyvesant Model UN
Continued from Page 1
of the season. Most importantly,
it takes place in the actual United
Nations building, making it an
honor to attend, and there are
more delegations present at this
conference than at other confer-
ences. The UNA USA confer-
ence has delegations from schools
all over the world. From Mexico
to Africa to Bahrain, the people
present at the conference make it
a truly international experience.
As one student put it, “This con-
ference embodies the ideal of
Model UN.”
The conference began with
The delegates at the UNA USA conference.
June 2, 2006 NEWS
QUICK PROFILE
Name: John Michael Utting
Place of Birth:
Croydon, UK
Subjects Taught:
Molecular Biology, AP Biology
feedback on his lessons.
“Teaching here at Stuyvesant is
fairly near university teaching,”
said Dr. Utting. He also enjoys
the variety of teachers here at
Stuyvesant and admits that they
gossip about students just like
students gossip about teachers.
What does Utting do in his
free time? He is a man of many
interests. For physical exercise,
he enjoys swimming and cycling.
As for music, he listens to con-
certs, ballets and operas. He reads
many books as well. His favorite
books are by Russian and French
authors. A book that changed his
outlook on life was
“Remembrance of Things Past,”
by Marcel Proust.
Many students are very en-
thusiastic about his classes.
Sophomore Kenneth Lam who is
taking molecular biology with Dr.
Utting, said, “Dr. Utting is a
original opening ceremonies on
May 18, hosted in the Great Hall
of the United Nations. Among
the guest speakers who came to
talk were star Russell Simmons
and Chancellor Joel Klein (whose
arrival elicited a call from the
audience for him to “return our
cell phones”).
The next day, students filed
into their committee rooms to
begin debating. “This conference
was a little more serious, I
thought. Everyone seemed to
know what they were doing as
opposed to college ones
[conferences] where half the kids
unausa.org
Favorite Food: Tarragon
Chicken
Favorite Color: Blue
Ms. Daves
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
really cool teacher. He’s not
above communicating with his
students and will help us out
when we need help. He's also
really funny and can get a class
laughing.” Utting is funny, help-
ful, and his classes are looked
highly upon by many of his stu-
dents. “He's really funny and
really nice. The class is enjoyable
and I look forward to it during
math class,” said sophomore Sara
Yoon. Most of his students agree
that Dr. Utting is a great teacher
and they all look forward to his
enjoyable classes. “His sense of
sarcasm is beyond even that of a
teenager. I especially enjoy his
funny remarks in class. Appar-
ently, he enjoys making us
laugh,” said sophomore Jimmy
Zhang. ◙
Column by Tim Chang
Meethisteacher@stuystandard.org
didn't do any research,” says
freshman Julia Cabot, who repre-
sented Monaco in the sixth Gen-
eral Assembly Committee along
with sophomore Tim Chang.
During committee, people from
different schools and even differ-
ent countries came together to
solve the various issues at hand.
Stuyvesant received the ma-
jority of its positions in the Gen-
eral Assembly, where every na-
tion was represented. The sheer
size of this general assembly,
which was slightly larger than
those of other college confer-
ences, made it harder to create
single effective resolutions. A
larger assembly is harder to work
with as well, and getting a chance
to address the assembly is diffi-
cult.
A closer shot of the delegates.
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JUNE
Events
& Dates
June 1: German Honor Society
June 2-3: ARML Competition
June 2: French Honor Society
June 3: SAT Exam
June 4: Speech and Debate Dinner
June 7: Awards Night
June 8: Staff Development -
No Student Attendance
June 8-9: Spring Comedy
June 9: Gay Day
June 10: Prom at Waldorf
June 12-23: Textbook Collection -
Main Floor Lobby
June 14-22: Finals /Regents Exam
June 16: Mentor/Leadership
Dinner
June 19: Graduation Rehearsal/Cap
and Gown Distribution, Stuyvesant 9
AM
June 20: PA Meeting 7 PM
June 26: Graduation at 9:30 AM
June 28: Last Day for Students
www.stuy.edu
Model UN at Stuyvesant is
not a very big team; in fact, it is
more of a club. Model UN is
similar in focus to the speech and
debate team, but with a more in-
ternational perspective. Students
of all grades travel to various con-
ferences, mostly hosted by col-
leges along the East Coast, to
solve different issues in the world
and possibly win awards for their
diplomacy.
The Stuyvesant Standard
would like to congratulate Kevin
Anderson, Snigdha Sur, Rajiv
Singla, Jakub Stosik, Michael
Gsovsky, Julia Cabot and Tim
Chang for receiving honorable
mentions, and Anant Agarwalla
and Zharna Shah for winning gav-
els for best delegations. ◙
unausa.org
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The New SAT Versus the ACT
Continued from Page 1
don’t have such a grasp of gram-
mar anymore.”
Overall, the new SAT has
raised some concerns among stu-
dents, administrators and col-
leges. Moreover, scores nation-
wide have dropped five points
compared to the old SAT. The
Princeton Review believes this
may be because of the longer test-
ing time, which results in a loss of
concentration. Also, there are
now fewer critical reading and
math questions, which means that
students must answer more ques-
tions correctly. Because of this,
students must answer a larger
number of hard questions in order
to get a comparable score. The
Princeton Review’s representative
warned the audience not to worry
by saying that, “Colleges are
aware of this. They’re the first to
sound the alarm [about the possi-
bility of problems].”
After, the representative from
the ACT took the stage. She ex-
plained what the ACT is and
talked about its history. ACT
originally stood for American
College Testing Program. How-
ever, the company has grown to
encompass more, so the letters
have become just an acronym.
The ACT was first administered
in 1959 in the Midwest. The ACT
has four core sections: math,
reading, English and science.
There is also an optional writing
section. The ACT is scored on a
scale of 36 and a student’s main
score is a composite of his or her
scores on the core sections. The
core sections have subsections on
which a student can receive a
score from 1 to 18. The writing
section is scored on a scale of 2 to
CLUB SPOTLIGHT
Chinese Chess Club
Continued from Page 2
Grenier-du-mac.net
Set up of a Chinese Chess game.
definite beauty. “There are too
many of them [pieces in interna-
tional chess], and they do not
have as much power as those in
Chinese chess,” says Lam.
Instead of having sculptures,
June 2, 2006 NEWS/ BUSINESS THE STUYVESANT STANDARD
www.princetonreview.com
12 and is graded by two raters. If
they disagree by more than two
points, a third rater will look over
the test. The ACT without writing
lasts fours hours. The writing sec-
tion is an additional 30 minutes.
Some East Coast students
may feel nervous about takin the
ACT since the traditional testing
base is in the Midwest. However,
the ACT representative reassured
the audience, saying that the na-
tionwide average score is 20.9,
but the average score in New
York is 22.4. Moreover, students
in Stuyvesant High School scored
the highest overall compared to
all other New York high schools.
After her basic, overview, the
representative talked about the
differences between the SAT and
the ACT. She began by saying
that “[The] ACT is a viable op-
tion.” She then stressed that “The
ACT is a curriculum-based
achievement test against the SAT
which is historically an aptitude
test.” The reason for this differ-
ence is that the ACT is composed
of material that colleges tell it
that they want students to know.
They test how well students know
a topic. On the other hand, the
SAT tests how bright students
are. The ACT is a good option for
students wanting to do all their
testing at once, as many colleges, A chart comparing the ACT and the SAT.
including Yale University, accept
the ACT with writing in lieu of
the SAT and three SAT Subject
Tests. The SAT is a good option
Google:
for students who would like to
break up their testing and take
subject tests in areas they decide
The Search for Success
on.
BY KENNETH YU likely to be relevant to the user’s
After the presentation, the queries. In addition to Google’s
STAFF WRITER
floor was opened to questions. ◙ search engine, there are several
Google was founded by Larry
other products that Google offers
Page and Sergey Brin in 1996 as a
such as those listed in Google
research project at Stanford Uni-
versity. The famous Google
Labs and complements to their
search services such as Google
search engine is known for its
Desktop.
simplistic design and consistently
better results than its competitors.
One of Google’s main char-
acteristics is its constant innova-
Using a system of back links to
Chinese chess merely has tiles tion. The company follows a for-
rank pages, websites that are
with Chinese words chiseled into mula said to be derived from cal-
linked to frequently are listed at
them. Even for those who do not culations by co-founder Sergey
the top, since they are more
normally read Chinese, however, Continued on Page 9
this does not pose much of a
google.com
problem. “I don’t read it; I just
remember how it looks,” says
sophomore Tamir Yewdaev one
of the few non-Asian members of
the club. Yewdaev joined the club
because several of his friends are
in it. After several months, he has
decided that it is “as fun as regu-
lar chess.” His progress in the
game has also significantly
grown. When asked if he likes the
game, he replied, “Not like I
would play it during lunch or any-
thing, but a game every once in a
while works.” ◙
The co-founders of Google.
 THE STUYVESANT STANDARD June 2, 2006 NEWS Page 5

A Look at the Spring Concert and Art Show!

TSS/Bennett Hong
Page 6 June 2, 2006 NEWS
Meet the Candidates!
Student Union President and Vice President
MICHAEL ZAYTSEV AND MARTA BRALIC
If elected we plan to do everything possible/feasible to
regain the various rights that the students have been robbed
of the past few years. Furthermore, we will do all we can to
preserve the few remaining rights students enjoy. Another
major goal will be to increase the popularity of the Student
Union, in the sense that people will take interest in the SU
and support it. Theoretically, one day competition for SU
appointed positions should be similar to the competition for
SING slate or Big Sibs. Besides encouraging student in-
volvement and protecting student rights we want to make
some improvements. One major thing we want to change is
the student store. It needs a much better food selection at
more reasonable prices. Also we want SU actions to me
more widely known by having a CONSISTENT newsletter
that may or may not be given out with each spectator, so
people actually read it. Also we want to efficiently lead the
SU to increase productivity. We are two very dedicated
candidates who have the school’s best interest in mind and
if elected will do everything we can to make Stuy a better
place for students.
HANNAH FREIMAN AND
LAUREN GONZALEZ
As SU President and Vice President, we plan on con-
tributing to the school. We want to hold more dances and
events such as the Knicks game. We’ll pick effective
SING! coordinators and make SING! at a convenient time
We would like to hold a Fashion show or a DANCE-A-
THON to fundraise and look into creating a student lounge,
where Stuy students can relax during their frees. We would
also participate in Locks of Love, Blood Drives, and start a
Scholarship in memory of April and Kevin. We‘ll organize
an awareness program in which speakers on different cur-
rent event topics, come and speak throughout the year.
Teachers will be encouraged to bring their classes to these
guest lectures that will be informative. We would work
with SLT and Big Sibs to make information available
monthly on important dates (SAT and AP registration),
guidance resources and reviews of APs and electives.
Are you running for SU office?
Do you want your message to be heard?
The Stuyvesant Standard would like to interview you!
Please contact readers@stuystandard.org
This is an opportunity not to be missed.
THE STUYVESANT STANDARD
The Student Union, Junior
Caucus, and Senior Caucus
elections are approaching. Do
you know who is running?
Let’s have a closer look at
the candidates.
GEORGE ZISIADIS AND
VANESSA CHARUBHUMI
We have the most comprehensive and tangible reform pro-
gram in addition to our unmatched 5 years of SU experi-
ence in managing crises, organizing events, and dealing
with administrative policies. We are eager to bring a new
level of competency to the SU, to redefine its function in
Stuy, and to finally make it work for you.
Some ways in which we are seeking to revamp the cur-
rent SU:
1) Reform SU Budget
Surpass $100,000 mark for first time ever
2) Reorganize Budget Request System
Announce meetings well in advance and make
online system streamlined and user friendly
3) Restructure Club Pub System
Guarantee that you obtain your requested room,
and that it is available for your use and also fully
implement the Grand Candy Plan funding system
for clubs.
Some of our new initiatives include:
• Elective Day, give students and parents more info
about Stuy’s electives
• Excursion Day, take the whole school on a trip out of
NYC
• Ice Skating, continue the successful stuy tradition
started by us
• Student-Faculty Games, make these much more en-
gaging for the whole school
ALEX LEONARD AND ZAKIA BABB
We intend to fight for the reduction of unnecesary re-
strictions placed on the student body such as people not
being allowed out to lunch with temporary IDs and such a
rigid cell phone ban. Also we intend to balance the Stu-
dent union budget so that it provides funding more ade-
quately to sports teams that would require greater funding
compared to smaller clubs or pubs. And just generally
seek to represent everybody within the student body fairly,
instead of just looking out for the interests of a select few.
THE STUYVESANT STANDARD June 2, 2006 NEWS
Senior Caucus
BRIAN GROBER AND RYAN GELLIS
Senior year is the culmination of the high school experi-
ence and a time of great stress and hopefully great fun. It is a
year full of college worries and life changing occasions such
as prom and graduation. Senior year is a time when the stu-
dent body does not want to suffer from a poorly constructed
and executed planning of events. Because we understand how
important it is to justly represent the class of 2007 in their
senior year Brian Grober and Ryan Gellis are running for sen-
ior caucus to embody the desires of our peers.
If elected to the senior presidency Grober & Gellis would
work rigorously to make sure that the college acceptance
process runs as smoothly as possible to accommodate every
student in his/her last year of school. Furthermore we would
start planning immediately for events such as senior prom and
graduation to make sure both of those important events are as
exciting and memorable as possible for the class of 2007.
CHARLOTTE AUSTIN AND BEN ALTER
We, Charlotte Austin and Ben Alter, have shown over
the past three years our dedication to the Class of 2007 and to
the school community at large. Through our work in SING!,
the Student Union, and various other school organizations, we
have proven our ability to competently organize and make
things happen. We have been vocal supporters of Student
Rights, and would continue to do so in the future. We promise
a successful and affordable Prom, a mind-blowing SING!, an
exciting graduation, and whatever else people want. The
opinions of our fellow classmates will always be valued, and
we promise to set up an infrastructure through which we can
communicate, such as a mailing list, subcommittees, as well
as maintaining a website. For the best senior year possible,
vote Charlotte and Ben for Senior Caucus.
MICHAEL TSIDULKO AND LENNY FRENKEL
If elected President and Vice-President of the Senior
Class of 2007, we will aim to provide all 710 students of the
grade with a fun, climactic, and most importantly memorable
year. This will be done though unifying Senior events such as
a College Trip to Canada, an exceptional Graduation Speaker,
an unofficial “Senior Spring Break”, and an unparalleled
Prom. Similarly, the year will be accented with several Senior
Comedy Nights and Senior Theme Days. Notably we plan to
continue the use and expansion of www.stuy07.org, the offi-
cial website of the Class of ’07, as a means of informed com-
munication among the Senior Grade and the Senior Caucus.
The website will continue its tradition in the spirit of Democ-
racy, and will provide a vector in which the Senior Class will
be directly consulted and involved in decision making during
the school year on policies including Graduation Speakers,
Theme Days, and all issues of equal importance. We strongly
believe that the greater the amount of people participating in
the decision making processes at Stuy, the more enjoyable
and accommodating the year will be. With Mike previously
elected as Junior president and Lenny enthusiastically in-
volved in current ordeals at Stuyvesant, our ticket provides
experienced, knowledgeable, and genuine candidates - what
our grade needs most.
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ARNOLDYS STENGEL & TAANZILA MOIN
We've noticed that during these three years in high
school, everyone has been separated into little
"cliques". Since this is the last year that most of us will be
together, we will arrange more activities and events to further
unite Class of ‘07. By having more theme days, like "Crazy
Hair Day", we could have many more lasting, memorable
moments. Our ideas will come from you guys as we plan on
asking you what you want or would like to see happen. We
also plan to try to organize more dances that would allow us
to just let "OUR WILD SIDES OUT" to relieve the stress
that we build up. If you choose us to be your Senior President
and Vice President, we promise to base our decisions on the
mainstream needs and wants of our class and try to make this
the best year you’ve had in high school.
GEORGE TSIVIN AND
ALEKSANDR KITAYGORODSKIY
Our aim is to restructure and reform the way in which stu-
dents like you can contribute to the decision making process
of our grade. ALL MAJOR DECISIONS WILL BE DONE
BY REFERENDUM. Voting will be done electronically
through our website. That means that YOU will be able to
directly decide on graduation speakers, theme days, prom nu-
ances, and other important issues throughout the year. Our
goal is to make your senior year the most memorable year at
Stuyvesant. Among our numerous plans is a College Trip to
Canada, expansion and improvement of Comedy Nights,
planned and scheduled outdoor sporting events, several sea-
sonal dances, and finally an unforgettable, truly exceptional
prom. To try to limit college application anxiety, we will set
up a college forum where seniors can ask any college-related
questions. In addition we will host college workshops where
you can receive individualized help from professional college
advisors. We hope that by taking everyone’s opinion into con-
sideration, we can tailor the most enjoyable senior year possi-
ble. George and Alex are a team with experience, knowledge,
and a strong work ethic ready to serve YOU and your needs.
JULIAN DUFAULT AND AARON LANDMAN
We are running to be president and vice president for the
class of ’07 in order to accomplish several important things.
We intend to establish very good relations with the SU in or-
der to better senior activities, and events. We intend to create
a strong relationship, and have good communication with the
entire senior class in order to reflect the wants of our entire
class, thus making our last year at Stuyvesant our best year.
We intend to return Senior Prom once again to the Waldorf
Astoria. We intend to acquire a moving, motivate, and inspir-
ing graduation speaker, to conclude our years at Stuyvesant,
and send us into our futures. And we intend to react to any
necessary problem or concern, any member of the senior
class might have as necessary.
Page 8 June 2, 2006 NEWS
Junior Caucus
MATT BUCH AND CHARISSA NG
We are running for junior caucus because we believe we are the
most capable, and will be the most driven and effective candidates in
raising the bar from previous junior years. We plan to make the col-
lege process easier for juniors by improving college nights, college
trips and the relationship between the college office and our junior
class. Hopefully we can make a difference in the college process!
Junior year is notorious for being the toughest year of high
school. AP’s, SAT’s, and college admissions, on top of classes and
extra-curricular’s, can be a complete nightmare for everyone. We
want to make this coming year a little more relaxing by encouraging
teachers not to give homework and tests during SAT’s and college
trips. We also want to improve junior events by arranging better
comedy nights and a sick junior prom. Let’s make junior year the
best year of our lives!
PHILIP CHANG AND ANASTASIA BUYALSKAYA
As junior president and vice president, we will make sure next
year is as productive and enjoyable as possible. We will definitely
try to make the best junior prom ever by incorporating people’s
thoughts and ideas. Another idea we have is to create a website just
for juniors. Students can stay in the know using the discussion
board and weekly posts. Since the student store is a great way to
raise money we want to put it on the web! This should increase our
profits. We want the students to learn as much as they can about
different schools so there will be college trips to multiple
schools. Also, a college night would be created only for jun-
iors. Finally, there will be a comedy night, carnival, and theme days
dedicated to juniors. We are doing all of this because they deserve
it, and hopefully, we can follow threw on our wishes if elected.
MICHELLE LEE AND ANDREW KIM
As president and vice president of the junior grade, Michelle
Lee and I, Andrew Kim, will work to keep the junior year exciting,
eventful, and most importantly, successful. One of our original ideas
is to include another dance besides the prom. Of course, this would
require more money in order to fund the program. Thus, we also
propose more fundraising, including an international dessert festival
event. Furthermore, we plan on keeping the prom and the college
tour as successful as it was in the past, and only improve on it ac-
cording to the students’ overall preferences. A student website will
also be maintained in order to keep the juniors updated on upcoming
events. Our main goal is to balance the stressful academic junior
year with fun-filled events and activities; therefore, Michelle and I
promise to be responsible officers, and use our best judgment to
keep the Class of 2008 satisfied.
SHAYAN SABER AND ELIZABETH SO
As junior class president and vice president we’ll provide an area
besides the library where students can relax/study. We want to use
the atrium on the third floor near the nurse’s office and buy mats to
cover the floor so students may sit and relax. There’ll be booths for
teams/clubs to sell candy and raise money. Sign up sheets will be at
each table and teams/clubs must pick a time slot and day. Teams/
clubs won’t be permitted to reserve a spot more than two periods a
day. We also plan to have a great junior prom. We’ll take surveys as
to where our prom should be held as well as decoration suggestions
so the students have more say. We’d like to organize more social
events. We will have a question and suggestion box open at all times.
Students may leave complaints, suggestions etc in this box that we
will check daily.
THE STUYVESANT STANDARD
AMOS DAI AND SARA YOON
If elected President and Vice President of the Junior Class,
we plan on improving various aspects of the Junior Caucus.
Since the opinions of our class are vital in our decisions, we will
extend the duties of the Junior Advisory Council (JAC).
In addition, we are determined to organize the best Junior
Prom that Stuyvesant High School has ever seen. Many candi-
dates will tell you how they plan on having elephants and 50
cent at prom. We are concerned in making sure we are able to
finance our plans. We will do this through various fundraising
events.
The junior class is infamous for its sleep-deprived and gray-
haired children. If elected, we plan to organize stress relieving
social events occurring every month or two. This will lead to less
suicidal students and will also relieve the tensions of the Stuyve-
sant cut-throat environment.
CHRIS LEE AND SCOTT RITTER
As Junior Caucus representatives Chris Lee and Scott Ritter are
committed to the advancement of the Junior class's unity as well as
transforming the most stressful year of high school into the most en-
joyable. These advancements will be made through budget-profiting
activities such as dances, bake sales, and professional shows/sporting
events (i.e. comedy night and Knick's games). These will culminate
in a successful and reduced priced Junior Prom.
Secondly, in a time when many students feel their rights are be-
ing attacked by both the Stuyvesant administration and the Board of
Education, Chris and Scott are dedicated to the preservation of unal-
ienable student rights as well as the advancement of the student-
administration relationship.
This is the only junior year you will get to experience and we
should enjoy it and live it to the fullest. Chris Lee and Scott Ritter
are ready to deliver just that.
TIM MULLEN AND DAN LEE
If elected into the presidency, we pledge to devote every fiber of
our character to the creation and impeccable follow-through of pro-
grams that would benefit Stuy, concentrating our efforts on the Jun-
ior class. We will ensure a stellar Junior Prom (with more desirable
DJ's.) We will work to showcase the talents of our schoolmates, par-
ticularly by establishing a Battle of the Bands at Stuy. We will try to
ease the pain of long commutes by developing a school bus system.
We will be open to the suggestions of our peers and schoolmates for
productions that will benefit the school. We look to make momentous
action for all of us. We're decisive, defensive, and dedicated to mak-
ing Junior year downright incredible for the class of 2008.
ALLISON WEINER AND NINA YANG
In order to have quality events junior year such as Junior
SING!, and Junior Prom, we plan on having many fundraising
events that are open to the junior class such as:
-games of extreme elimination
-athletic tournaments (ultimate frisbee)
-Junior Field Day
There are generally two college trips and one comedy night for
the junior class. We plan on increasing these numbers.
All platforms courtesy of Board of Elections.
THE STUYVESANT STANDARD
Google: The Search for Success
Continued from Page 4
Brin. Product focus is split “70-
20-10,” according to CEO Eric
Schmidt. Seventy percent of
Google’s investment goes to its
core products such as advertising
and search, while 20 percent goes
to related products such as Desk-
top Search and on Google’s prod-
uct search, “Froogle.” The re-
maining 10 perent is used for ex-
google.com
perimental products that might
not make money, but are critical
for long term growth. Google
engineers are also encouraged to
spend 20 percent of their time on
“pet projects” that interest them.
Services such as Gmail and
Google News are said to have
come from these independent ef-
forts.
Google’s motto “do no evil,”
coined by Sergey Brin, represents
of Google’s commitment to its
users and customers, but it has
also been a point of debate, as
Google has been accused of ques-
tionable business practices.
Google recently settled a $90-
million-dollar click fraud lawsuit
Critical Lens: A Column Dedicated to Your Opinions
Today's Model Students
BY ALVIS YUEN
COLUMNIST
Stuyvesant is dominated by
Asians, or at least it seems that
way. There are so many stereo-
types and jokes about how much
Asian students obsess over
grades. One of my favorite jokes,
from sophomore Luke Xu, is:
“You get a 100; you go home and
show your parents. Your parents
say, ‘Why didn’t you get a 102?’”
Now on a more serious note,
Asians do seem to do particularly
well in school. In 2005, Asian-
Americans averaged a combined
math-verbal SAT score of 1091,
compared with 1068 for whites,
982 for Native Americans, 922
for Hispanics and 864 for African
Americans. An interesting tidbit
is that among Asian-Americans, 8
percent earned 750 or higher on
the math portion of the SAT.
People try to explain why
Asian-Americans do so well aca-
demically. The reasons range
from parental pressure to “Asians
are just smarter.” Some geneti-
cists theorize that since ancient
Asian societies were intellectually
Stuyvesant provides a wonderful learning
environment. If I do not take full advan-
tage of it, I am not being fair to myself.
June 2, 2006 BUSINESS/ OPINIONS
for improperly charging Google
advertisers. Because advertisers
pay a fee for each time their ads
are clicked, spammers can artifi-
cially inflate the cost of advertis-
ing and make it harder for compa-
nies to keep their ads. “Some ad-
vertisers have been allegedly
overpaying by tens of thousands
The familiar logo of Google.
of dollars, but will only get a few
hundred dollars back as a result of
the settlement,” said attorney
Brian Kabateck. Google has also
censored itself in China, which
led to criticism by civil rights
groups. Information about sub-
jects that the Chinese government
deems unsuitable, such as the
Tiananmen Square protests and
advanced, natural selection may
have raised I.Q.’s slightly. As
self-empowering as it makes me
feel, that theory is as hole-ridden
as … the Mexican border! In the
US, Koreans do very well in
school, but Koreans in Japan tend
to languish academically.
Personally, I only see two
plausible explanations for the
academic success of Asian-
Americans. First, our parents left
their homeland, risked their lives,
and toil day and night so that we
have a chance for a better life.
Doing well in school is the least
we can do to show our apprecia-
tion. Second, academic success is
deeply rooted in Asian culture
and society due to Confucianism.
Confucianism promotes and re-
veres academic success as the
road to fame and fortune.
I am Chinese. I get good
grades. Aside from the reasons I
already mentioned, there is an-
other personal reason I succeed in
school. While my academic suc-
cess pleases my parents, it seems
hollow and senseless to work my
tail off just to please them. I love
Continued on Page 11
the Falun Gong religious sect has
been removed from the search
results of www.google.cn.
Google has also been facing
controversy about how it handles
users’ private information.
Google Desktop 3.0 raises secu-
rity issues with its “share across
computers” feature that intro-
duces the ability to search content
from desktop to desktop. Gmail is
also facing complaints by privacy
activists for the way it distributes
relevant ads by filtering incoming
email messages.
As Google is coming out with
new products every month, rivals
Yahoo and Microsoft are provid-
China: Source of Deceit
BY LAWRENCE HUANG
STAFF WRITER
"This is not the right moment
to talk."
Perhaps if Chen Jin spent
more time on his research than
lying about his achievements, he
wouldn’t have uttered these words
to the press.
On Friday, May 12, the Chi-
nese government determined that
Chen Jin, a renowned computer
scientist, was a fraud. In February
2003, he became a national hero
Chen Jin, a computer scientist at Shanghai’s prestigious Jiaotong University, was
discovered faking his research in developing computer digital-processing chips.
by claiming that he had created
digital signal processing computer
chips, a technological break-
through in China. There is a huge
gap between China and the West
in science. If Jin’s “breakthrough”
had been true, China would have
saved billions of dollars each year
by using its own chips in elec-
tronics.
Highly known as a very con-
troversial nation, China is a very
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ing increasing competition. Mi-
crosoft released MSN Virtual
Earth, a map software, to com-
pete with Google Earth. Micro-
soft also released a new version
of Windows Live Local against
Google Maps. Yahoo and Micro-
soft have produced new beta ver-
sions of their e-mail systems in
response to Gmail’s innovative
features.
Unlike other companies,
Google is more willing to release
more experimental products, such
as Google Sketchup, a 3D model-
ing software, or Picasa, a photo
organizer. The company is noted
for its beta services.
When asked about Google’s
beta policy, Larry Page explained
that services in beta allow engi-
neers to keep making significant
changes until they are stable and
fit the users’ needs. Google’s
betas are also central to its iden-
tity, since the Google search en-
gine was once labeled beta itself.
“Part of our brand is that we
underpromise and we overde-
liver, and being in beta is part of
that. It's part of our branding
strategy.” ◙
shady place, even to some schol-
ars. China is known for stealing
foreign technology, among other
things. However, Chen Jin was
caught breaking rules on a na-
tional scale. It’s as if by punish-
ing Chen Jin, China is proving to
other foreign countries, “Look,
we are punishing lawbreakers
here!” In addition, punishing Jin
would be the government’s re-
venge for his giving everyone
false hope.
It is highly unlikely that Chen
Jin is the only scientist in China
newtech.aurum3.com
who has fabricated his research.
Pressure was what made Chen Jin
become deceitful. His honor was
on the stakes, and if he lost, he
would have been shamed. Receiv-
ing a Western education and ac-
complishing nothing says much
about your intelligence and char-
acter in China. The only reason he
received so much publicity was
that he actually met China’s in-
sane standards and priorities. If
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Critical Lens: A Column Dedicated to Your Opinions

China: Source of Deceit
Continued from Page 9
you came back from the West,
you were expected to come up
with something spectacular. Al-
though he is a bright man, this
pressure may have forced Chen
Jin to lie about his success. The
shocking news of a breakthrough
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If competition wasn’t the
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It is sad to see how the figurehead
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what Chinese scientists would do
to achieve the overambitious
goals set by the government. ◙
Today's Model Students
Continued from Page 9
my family, but not that much. I
actually enjoy learning, but not
necessarily in school. Grades are
just an assessment of your knowl-
edge. If you enjoy your courses, it
is much easier to retain the mate-
rial. Even when I don’t like my
classes, I can still push myself to
work. Why? How? Stuyvesant
provides a wonderful learning
environment. If I do not take full
advantage of it, I am not being
fair to myself. If I don’t take cal-
over with as soon as possible.
Right now, my goal in school
is to learn as much as I can.
Whether it’s volleyball or Span-
ish, I try to absorb everything.
Instead of partying, I am spending
my Friday nights doing organic
chemistry, so that 10 years from
now, I’ll be the one partying
while others are still struggling
with calculus in college. There
will always be time for fun. After
all, I’m Chinese. ◙

To My Mother culus now, when will I take it? I

am depriving myself of an oppor-
tunity, an opportunity to get it
Alvis Yuen wants your opinions.
Please send your opinions on this
issue’s article to him via e-mail at
ayuen@stuystandard.org”

Paranoia
BY EILEEN CHANG
STAFF WRITER

BY CAROLINE HUGH
STAFF WRITER

The first thing she saw was the slanted window shade. Na-
talia had always kept the window shade horizontally, parallel to
the floor and ceiling. She did not open the windows before she
left home. The air was chilly and the heat cost too much to
waste. She tried the door. It clicked but did not open. She stood
The sun rises on the other side, on the front porch, her shoulders in their usual habit of sagging,
to light the golden fields. her black Macy’s bag yanking down at her right arm like a bur-
Nurturing the infant buds, densome child. The biting wind whipped her hair around her
and all the fruit it yields face. She narrowed her eyes but did not see.
And when early fall comes great success,
The sun has carried through. Someone was watching her. Natalia looked all around. Was
And when I become great someday, it simply paranoia? The usual old man across the street did a
I’d owe it all to you. Charlie Brown on his rocking chair. Whenever she walked by
him, he checked out her rear. She just pretended not to know. It
couldn't be him, though. He had a housekeeper, a wheelchair, an

Nature’s Wonders
occasionally visiting daughter who looked butch in her mascu-
line clothes and military-style hair. She always came in her beat-
up sedan. Middle-aged, and alone. He had all the tools but no
means to move.
BY STEPHANIE TAM I can't leave my bag here either. She carefully walked down
STAFF WRITER
her brick staircase. No wandering glass or broken window from
what she could see in the driveway. She didn't dare walk to her
backyard.

Natalia stayed still. The only measurement of time she could

Nature has many wonders and surprises too
There is no end to what nature can do
It might rain or it might snow
Nature will always be unpredictable
Flowers bloom then wither away
As if they were expressing dismay
Animals can be wild or tame
Making us play a guessing game
The sun stays out longer in the spring
The birds chirp and come closer to take wing
depend on was the number of times her hair got into her eyes.
Black lines crossed her vision sometimes while questioning nee-
dles poked at her eyeballs. The cycle of dryness and eye-
watering. The effort to minimize blinking. She thought she saw
her tulips move against the wind. She thought she heard her gate
bang. The longer she stayed, the harder it was to move. If I
stayed here forever...
Forever got her going. Forever was what she could not bear.
Forever was the length and depth of suspense she had to deal
with. She waited until she heard no wheels passing by, then
sprinted across the street.
The pervert blinked. His shriveled hands propped against his
belly, on top of his crotch. His eyes rolled down to her.
”Uh. Hello... sir. Did you see anyone enter my house?”
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Inspirational Quotes! BY JEFFREY LIAW

Crossword
PUZZLE COLUMNIST
COMPILED BY JENNIFER SCHLESINGER
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

As the end of the school year quickly approaches, many students

need some inspiration. The following quotes were selected to help
you find motivation to accomplish your goals and succeed in your
future endeavors.

Success and Goals

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”-
Les Brown

“Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success
that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.” - Fran-
ces E. W. Harper

Honesty and Rightfulness

“The time is always right to do what is right.” - Martin Luther King
Jr.

“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I

consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest
man.” - George Washington

Friendship WORD BANK

“Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose
inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own ac- Across
cord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to 2 Compund with -COOH
attach to you.” - Samuel Johnson 6 Computer Program that prowls the
internet looking for publicly accessible
“Winter, spring, summer or fall, all you have to do is call and I'll be resources
there. You've got a friend.” - Carole King 7 Wiesel's Masterpiece
10 A stiff cap with ridges across the
crown; worn by the Catholic Clergy
“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.” -Aristotle
12 Rubbing Alchohol
13 Moved by Air
The Future 15 A solid suspended in gas
“After all, tomorrow is another day.” From “Gone With the Wind” - 18 Aimed at the head
Margaret Mitchell 20 Command imputting device
22 A material made of cellulose pulp
“Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.” - Edgar Cayce 23 Music playing device
24 Sponsor
25 Expulsion
29 Law Enforcement agency of heinous
Sudoku crimes
31 Sport of fist-fighting
BY JEFFREY LIAW 32 To make up for
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36 Homer's Artist and CreatoR
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42 Edged tool
6 5 1 7 43 Hand tool for fastening devices
44 Container for dry foods
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into electrical energy
3 In between a suspension and a solution
4 Tool for mixing tool
5 Ancestor of all Indo-European lan-
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8 Brain Condition
9 To make smaller
11 Organized search for a fugitive
14 Played Sirius Black
16 Hormone secreted by the pituitary
gland
17 Flavored sugary food
18 Containing H and C
19 Magnetic Disk used to store data or
programs for a microcomputer
21 A republic in north central Europe
established by the Soviet Union
22 Distorted sensory perceptions
27 Center for written works
28 Luggage
30 Agent that was working during Viet-
nam
31 Field Glasses
32 Product made from grain
33 Language made of two symbols
34 Toxins or Bacterium used in biologi-
cal warfare
37 Innocuous Prescription
38 Protection against hazardous air
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second Puzzle Columnist. actually happen if you could be taken out of time for, say, five seconds and
then returned to exactly the same spot?
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Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of
itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in
which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial
example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to
obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a
man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences,
or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure? - Cicero
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TOMORROW’S TECHNOLOGY TODAY
LIGO, the Underground
Observatory
BY MOTTAQUI AL-KARI
COLUMNIST
In September 1915, Albert
Einstein published a three page
paper which added the elements
of gravity and acceleration into
his first paper on special relativ-
ity, which dealt with time and
motion. He established the idea
of space-time, a four dimensional
manifold which is curved by the
presence of mass, energy, or both.
Einstein asserted that gravity is
the disturbance created in space-
time by the system of mass and
energy. If there is more mass and
energy in the system, the distur-
bance in space-time will be
greater, and thus force of gravity
of that system will be greater.
Imagine now, that a large
system of mass and energy sud-
denly moved, or more realistically
speaking began orbiting a more
June 2, 2006 PUZZLES/ SCIENCE/ LITERARY
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4 2 1 5 9 can only be found inside a lab. In
1 5 8 7 3 left handed substances do not
9 1 4 2 7 consist of typical atoms, but
7 6 3 9 5 tors.
2 3 6 1 8 A split-ring resonator is a
3 8 5 6 2 of two rings, one around the
6 4 7 8 1
5 7 9 3 4 come in invisibility-cloak technology
massive system. When this hap-
pens, it is said that space-time
ripples outward the way a water
surface will ripple if something is
dropped on its surface. These
hypothetical ripples are called
gravitational waves.
Proof of these hypothetical
gravity waves came in 1974,
when Joseph Taylor and Russell
Hulse discovered a pair of orbit-
ing neutron stars emitting gravita-
tional waves. This discovery,
however, was simply a mathe-
matical discovery which was de-
termined by studying pulses of
radio waves that one of the neu-
tron stars emitted. The sole pur-
pose of the Laser Interferometer
Gravitational-Wave Observatory,
or LIGO for short, is to directly
detect gravitational waves that are
the result of collisions of gargan-
tuan systems of matter in a 300
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Invisibility:
A Possible Reality
BY KENNETH LAM
STAFF WRITER
Nextfest
This camocloak is a sign of what is yet to
Invi sibi lit y ha s a l wa ys
seemed something straight out of
science fiction novels or the latest
Harry Potter installment. How-
ever, as with so many prior seem-
ing impossibilities, it may soon be
possible.
When light hits an object that
is the same color as it, it is re-
flected. The human eye then
processes the light reflected into
the cornea and turns it into the
images that humans see. This
entire process hinges on the fact
that light is bounced off an object.
If light is absorbed, then the ob-
ject seems darker in color. So
what happens when light is nei-
ther reflected nor absorbed? The
answer lies in metamaterials.
Metamaterials are synthetic
materials that have the ability to
bend light in any desired direc-
Invisibility has always seemed something
straight out of science-fiction novels or the
latest Harry Potter installment. However, as
with so many prior seemingly impossibilities,
this may soon be possible.
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tion. A typical object can refract
light to a certain degree. How-
ever, with metamaterials, this
refraction degree is expanded to
theoretically the maximum that it
can reach. Metamaterials are also
known as left-handed materials,
and were first created by Profes-
sor J.B. Pendry in 1999. Metama-
terials do not exist naturally, and
addition, the base units of these
rather wires or split-ring resona-
special synthetic unit consisting
other. They are used in metama-
terials to create a current when
exposed to a magnetic field.
These currents are contained
within the ring. As a result, the
ring will vibrate rapidly in place,
creating a resonance effect. A
variation of the split-ring resona-
tor is one in which the inner ring
is perpendicular to the outer ring,
and is called a crossed split-ring
resonator. In metamaterials, the
split-ring resonators are placed in
a cubical lattice.
The refraction property of
left-handed materials is the cor-
nerstone of a theorized invisibility
device. Although an invisibility
device has only been seen in sci-
ence fiction and fantasy, a team of
scientists from the United States
and England theorized that such a
device could be built using meta-
materials. This device would use
the refracting abilities of left-
handed materials in order to bend
light so that it would go around
the subject of the invisibility de-
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Tomorrow’s Technology Today
LIGO, the Underground Observatory
Continued from Page 13
million light-year radius.
In the 1990’s, the National
Science Foundation began work
for the two LIGO observatories.
The LIGO Livingston Observa-
tory is located in Livingston, Lou-
isiana, and the LIGO Hanford
Observatory is located in Han-
ford, Washington. When viewed
from the top, LIGO looks like a
giant “L” with each arm being
about 2.5 miles long. The two
arms create a 90 degree angle
when they intersect.
A laser is beamed at the point
where the two arms of the “L”
intersect, where the beam is split
into two beams, each going to-
wards one of the arms. A mirror
which is semi-reflective allows
the beams to enter the arms. The
beam then travels through the arm
This diagram demonstrates how LIGO works.
to a second mirror and continues
to bounce back and forth about
fifty times before returning to the
beam splitter through the partially
reflective mirror. Since both
beams are of equal energy and
travel the same distance between
the mirrors, they merge are return
to the laser when they travel back
towards the beam splitter.
A gravitational wave will
Invisibility: A Possible Reality
Continued from Page 13
vice. The result is that none of
the light gets reflected or ab-
sorbed; rather, it is refracted
around the subject, and then con-
tinues to travel in the direction it
was traveling in before refraction.
Thus, the eye does not sense any
absence of light or any reflection
of light, and the subject becomes
invisible to the human eye. The
subject is simply in its own
pocket in space into which light
does not enter.
Unfortunately, such a device
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alter the space-time in the local
area and cause a change of length
in one or both of the arms. This
will break the perfect synchroni-
zation of the laser beams and the
beams will not merge back to the
original beam. This break of har-
mony will cause one of the beams
to travel through the beam splitter
to a special area of LIGO which
contains photodiodes that can be
used to analyze the strength and
characteristics of the wave or
waves.
Theoretically speaking, a
is still at best theoretical, as
more research needs to be done
before such an idea can be made
a reality. Projects such as this
one are already in the works, and
prototype devices are potentially
down the road. In addition, the
invisibility device is not going to
be a light one. Instead, a large
thick device that can be worn
like a cloak is expected. The
future for invisibility devices is
easily visible. Just wait and see.
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gravitational wave that originates
a few million light years away
will probably cause the laser
beams to distort a distance of ap-
proximately one thousandth of the
ligo.caltech.edu
size of a proton. Hence, LIGO
will be able to detect waves
which were spawned by collisions
of two black holes; any other
massive collision could not pro-
duce waves strong enough to be
detected at LIGO.
On a scientific basis, it is
believed that LIGO will eventu-
ally prove or reaffirm many scien-
Summer Concert
Guide
BY JENNY HUANG
STAFF WRITER
The air is heavy and humid;
your skin is sticking to the
leather. Exhaustion is creeping
into your veins and your brain is
on “rot mode.” That’s right, sum-
mer is finally here! So you’re
staying home this vacation and
to do because you’re broke. Well,
that’s where you’re wrong! Sum-
mer is the season of amazing free
The crowd at the Siren Music Festival.
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tific theories. In the area of phys-
ics, LIGO will assert the exis-
tence of gravitational waves, test
the prediction of general relativity
that these waves travel at the
speed of light, and establish the
existence of the graviton, a hypo-
thetical fundamental particle of
gravity which is believed to have
a mass of zero. It will also prove
general relativity’s theory that the
graviton has twice the spin of the
photon, the forces the waves exert
on matter are perpendicular to the
wave’s direction of travel, and
that black holes really do exist.
In the realm of astronomy, scien-
tists hope that LIGO will provide
data on the merging of two neu-
tron stars, the collapse of newly
merged neutron stars into black
holes, the birth of neutron stars
from supernovas, the pulsation
and spin of newly born neutron
stars, and “star quakes”, which
are basically earthquakes in neu-
tron stars.
LIGO can be thought of as
the next generation of observato-
ries. It uses innovation to deliver
precise data over a wide scope of
topics which will ultimately lead
us to a greater knowledge of the
world around us, and ultimately,
to a greater understanding of our-
selves. ◙
outdoor concerts, and if you’re in
the city at this time of the year,
you have no excuse to miss out on
delicious ear candy! Here are
some of the highlights of this
summer’s music fests.
Siren Music Festival
Various Artists
July 15, noon
Get ready for the Village
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Summer Concert Guide
Continued from Page 14
Voice’s sixth annual Siren Music
Festival, taking place on two
stages at Brooklyn’s Coney Island
Beach. Lineups mainly comprise
indie bands on the rise. Popular
bands that have previously played
at Siren include The Shins, Yeah
Yeah Yeahs, Modest Mouse, Hot
Hot Heat and Death Cab for
Cutie. This year’s lineup includes
She Wants Revenge, Stars, Art
Brut, Tapes ‘N Tapes, The Stills,
The Cribs and many more bands
that have yet to be announced.
See them at Siren and be able to
say that you heard them before
they went mainstream. Be ad-
vised: nine hours of baking in the
sun will require a great deal of
sun block.
summerstage.org
Summer Stage fans await performers.
Central Park Summer Stage
Feist, Buck 65 and Jason Collett
June 25, 3 p.m.
Stuy Magic:
Hitmen Beat Madison
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the ball to first to appeal, the run-
ner should be safe. The umpires
then reversed their call and al-
lowed the runner to take second
base. Stuyvesant played the rest
of the game under protest, mean-
ing that if they were to lose this
play would be subject to review.
The Hitmen gave up four runs in
the seventh inning to lose 4-3.
However, their protest was
granted, and the game was reset
to the point immediately after the
incident took place. The Hitmen
refused to blow the lead for a sec-
ond time Senior Tyler Newhouse
only allowed one run, and Stuyve-
sant went on to win the game 4-1.
That makes them the lowest seed
entering the second round of play.
Their next game was not an
easy one. Stuyvesant traveled to
Bayside to take on the Commo-
dores. Though the Commodores
are seeded 23rd, they feature one
of the best pitchers in the city
with Anthony Velazquez. Ve-
lazquez, a junior, became the first
person in high school history to
throw two consecutive perfect
June 2, 2006 A&E/ SPORTS
So you think Canada is just
hockey and maple leaves, eh?
Well, this year’s Summer Stage is
shining light on three of Canada’s
most talented musicians. Female
singer and songwriter Feist, a
member of the prolific Toronto
band Broken Social Scene, deliv-
ers jazzy vocals set to folk music.
Buck 65 is an up-and-coming hip-
hop artist and turntablist. His mu-
sic is considered to be an avant-
garde movement in underground
hip hop, combining elements of
blues and electronica with hip-
hop sound. In addition to Feist,
fellow BSS member Jason Collett
is also performing as a solo artist
at Canada Day. His sound con-
sists of inventive, poppy country
set to an appropriately slow pace,
perfect for the long dog days of
summer.
Seaport Music Festival
Sugar Hill Gang
July 20, 6 p.m.
Rap pioneers Sugar Hill Gang
gave birth to hip-hop in 1979,
with the hit single “Rapper’s De-
light.” Their old school sound
constitutes party-starting beats
with ridiculously fun lyrics. There
is little doubt that hip-hop’s great-
est entertainers will get the crowd
moving on Pier 17.
games, accomplishing the feat
versus John Bowne and Flushing
earlier this season. The Hitmen
caught a break, however, as Ve-
lazquez started the first round
game for Bayside and was not
available to pitch. Even though he
was not available, the Hitmen had
a tough matchup, where their
pitching and strong defense would
have been the key to success.
The Hitmen did not get off to
a strong start. They quickly went
down 5-0 after only two innings
of play. The offense got going
with a run in the third inning and
one in the fifth, but Bayside
scored two in the bottom of the
fifth to seemingly put the game
out of reach at 7-2.
However, the Hitmen didn’t
quit. They scored another run in
the sixth inning to cut the lead to
7-3, and then scored another four
runs in the seventh to tie the game
at 7-7. However, Stuyvesant
could not send the game into ex-
tra innings, as Bayside scored a
run in the bottom of the inning to
win the game 8-7. ◙
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seaportmusicfestival.com
The Sugar Hill Gang (left) and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists with DC Snipers
(right) are among artists who will perform at the Seaport Music Festival.
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists getic, so put your dancing shoes
with DC Snipers on and don’t mind the sweat-
August 25, 6 p.m. drenched hipsters around you.
Hailing from Washington,
D.C., Ted Leo and the Pharma- Don’t miss out on these free
cists is mainly a punk band, mix- and incredible concerts! Start
ing in genres of folk and soul. marking those calendars and pre-
The music is upbeat and dance- pare for a musically memorable
worthy, with passionate but in- summer! ◙
conspicuous social and political
messages. Their live perform-
ances are always fun and ener-
The Virgin Wilderness
BY TINA LIU this little-known region and to
STAFF WRITER question how involved the gov-
ernment is in saving the endan-
Accompanied by soulful and
gered species.
divine folk music, the movie
The director, Lu Chuan, is a
“Kekexili: Mountain Pa-
master at combining good and
trol” (2004), takes you directly
evil, creating a brutal yet beauti-
into the magical land of Tibet.
ful realism and blurring the strict
With the warm welcome from the
distinction between morality and
playful Tibetan children and the
corruption. The not-so-subtle so-
mesmerizing smile of the Tibetan
cial context behind this film pre-
girl, one might think one has set
sents a crucial problem that faces
foot in paradise. But beneath the
beauty, there lie the hidden
this society: what must humanity
do to save Mother Nature?
poachers bloodthirsty for the
wool of the antelope. Because of
Obadoba.de
the harsh local economic condi-
tions, the impoverished poachers
betray their motherland and sell
their consciences to the insatiable
desires of the Western market for
the exotic pashmina wool.
While watching this film, one
can’t help but be moved by the
inexhaustible spirit of the brave
local men in their fervent battle
against evil. They are willing to
sacrifice their flesh and blood for
the price of innocence. Underfi-
nanced and lacking governmental
support, a local volunteer group,
led by the leader RiTai (Duo Bu-
jie), struggles daily to defend the
pristine and fragile region of
Kekexili, a remote part of Tibet.
Aside from the ceaseless noctur- A movie poster of the Tibetan film
nal hunting for the poachers,
Although many of the mem-
death is a constant companion in
bers of the cast are amateur Ti-
the adverse environment. The
betan actors, their amateurism
pitiful volunteers can die from
brings candidness to their per-
just about anything: dehydration,
formances. Set up like a semi-
quicksand, high-altitude sickness,
documentary, this movie is shot
car accidents, and freezing. Every
on location in Kekexili. The scen-
goodbye they have with their
ery of the film is so heavenly that
families might just be the last.
one remains hypnotized through-
With help from the Beijing re-
out. ◙
porter Ga Yu (Qi Liang), the pub-
lic begins to pay more attention to
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THE SPORTS BEAT

Are Athletes Above the Law?
BY ERIC MAYO sheriff.
SPORTS EDITOR No one can argue the fact that
athletes usually get off easy in
You’ve probably heard of the
criminal proceedings. Any charge
cliché “Celebrities are above the
is usually given a plea deal, and
law.” In this great American jus-
even then, the judge lets the ath-
tice system, you would hope that
lete off with his community ser-
this is not true. Each citizen is
vice. No athlete is above the law,
granted rights and everyone is
and the same punishments that
held to an equal standard under
would be given if a regular person
those rights. Think again.
broke the law should be given to
A recent “USA Today” study
athletes.
studied 40 professional athletes
The problem doesn’t even lie
who were sentenced to commu-
with the fact athletes get off easy
nity service in the last six years.
with community service. It’s that
In 24 out of the 28 cases in which
community service should serve
the community service could be
the common people, and not serve
determined, the community ser-
sport’s best interest. I’m all for
vice didn’t serve any community.
Busch throwing out a first pitch at
Only four of the 40 participated in
a ballgame, but how can that
the back-breaking work that most
equate to real community service?
non-celebrities get as their com-
usatoday.com

It doesn’t.
munity service, such as picking
The criminal justice system
up trash along the highway or
might not always be fair, and
working at a shelter.
Kurt Busch doing his "community service." preferential treatment as well as
Take Kurt Busch, NASCAR
high-powered lawyers for traffic
driver, for example. In November
contest. His sentence was 50 zona Diamondbacks game. An- tickets will always be a given.
2005, Busch was pulled over by
hours of community service and a other was donating $10,000 to a The part that judges can control,
the cops. He was rude to them and
$580 fine, chump change for a Little League group in Arizona however, is the sentencing. Sen-
failed to take a breathalyzer test at
multimillion dollar athlete. for new equipment. Yet more tence athletes to real community
the scene. Though the drunk driv-
One of his 50 hours of time of his community service service. The community will
ing charges were later dropped,
“community” service was throw- was spent recording public ser- benefit, and most importantly, the
Busch was still charged with
ing out the first pitch at an Ari- vice announcements with the athlete will benefit as well. ◙
speeding, to which he pleaded no

Stuy Magic:
Hitmen Beat Madison
BY ERIC MAYO finished second in the Manhattan
SPORTS EDITOR West division, earning the 26th
seed out of 32 in the PSAL A
division playoffs. Their opponent
was James Madison. Madison
finished 14-2 in the regular sea-
son, and was led by pitchers Jo-
seph Watroba and Brian Fried-
man. Both were in the top 25 in
PSAL A in earned run average
and wins, the two biggest pitching
categories.
psal.org

The game started off well for

The Stuyvesant Hitmen. Stuyvesant as they jumped off to
an early 3-0 lead. Junior Wes Gil-
The Hitmen had a rockier bert took command of the game,
road than usual to make their 10th shutting down the Madison hit-
straight playoff appearance. ters. The game got interesting in
Though they started off by win- the bottom of the sixth inning.
ning their first two league games, With one out in the sixth, Gilbert
they dropped the next two before surrendered a double to Madison.
pulling off a six-game winning According to sophomore catcher
streak in late April. As of late, the Scott Ritter, the runner missed
team had been faltering, losing first base on his way to second.
three out of their last four games. The Hitmen appealed to first, and
However, most of the losses the batter was called out. How-
were close. In their six losses, ever, Coach Vincent Caiazza of
four were decided within three Madison argued that since the
runs or less. Poor hitting contrib- Hitmen did not physically throw
uted to these close games, but
they didn’t faze the Hitmen. They
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