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Journal perfessor multigeek's Journal: Here In NYC, Some Things Never Change 6

So, I'm getting ready this morning with the radio on in the background and what do I hear? That the winners of the Intel Science Talent Search (what we knew as the Westinghouse) have been announced and the search as well as the projects of two winners will be discussed.
So what do we get? One kid from sweet little Midwood High School, which gets a winner or two on a regular basis, and one kid from a school out on Staten Island.
This makes me curious so I go online. Sure enough, a third winner was also from New York but was entirely unmentioned. This is, of course, because the third winner was from my alma mater which also won NINETEEN OF THE SEMIFINALIST PLACEMENTS. But as usual, this isn't even considered worth mentioning in half an hour of airtime.

Every single year Stuy gets one or more winners. Every single year the press either downplays these winners or flat out doesn't even mention them. Typical is to see long profiles of anybody else, right down to the names of their dogs and how their (usually immigrant) families inspired them and somewhere way down in paragraph seven is a throwaway sentence say "In addition, Foo Bar from Stuyvesant High School won for a project in zorch." after which the article returns to anybody else or anything alse at all from the teachers to the schools to the change in contest regulations.

I dunno about you, but I'm under the impression that when the Yankees win a pennant or the Series, it does indeed still get mentioned once or twice, that when trade figures are released that show positive numbers for Japan, they don't leave that part of the article in a back page sidebar, that when a new round of applications is released the Microsoft version is actually included in the reviews.
Somehow, in the rest of the world, an article going over the results of some compilation, contest, rating, or whatever, you don't ignore the leader simply on the grounds that "but they did that *last year* too".

Biased sad-assed, weasly little fuckers. Probably none of their kids passed the test. Probably ended up at Brooklyn Tech.

Or Murray Bergtraum.

Every fuckin' year.

Every single goddamn fuckin' year.

Damnit.

-Rustin
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Here In NYC, Some Things Never Change

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