New status for Facebook and Twitter
April 26, 2011
Most students use social networking and microblogging as a distraction — a break from reality, and a way to tell your best bud what you’re having for dinner tonight. However, recent events in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia have sparked a change. What used to be the social network is now becoming a political... Read more »
Urban Legend wins honors at National Scholastic Press Association journalism convention
the Legend staff
April 16, 2011
The Urban Legend won awards for both newspaper and Web site at the National Scholastic Press Association spring high school journalism convention in Anaheim, Calif., on Saturday. The Legend won third place among small schools for its Web site. It also won sixth place for newspapers of 9 to 12 pages. Also... Read more »
Japanese earthquake and tsunami connects to students
Adrienne von Schulthess, Writer
April 16, 2011
The massive earthquake that hit Japan in March led to many efforts to provide aid for quake and tsunami victims On March 11, a 8.9 earthquake and tsunami struck Japan. Seven days later, Leah Schummer (’14) and Marina Chen (’14) were selling cupcakes, cookies and other treats to raise money for the... Read more »
High schools new breeding ground for stem cell studies
Zoe Pleasure
April 15, 2011
With the recent opening of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in February, Urban students are going behind the headlines to study stem cells. The Urban science department incorporated a unit about stem cells into the sophomore Science 2A class two years ago. According to science teacher... Read more »
Urban’s Aim High program changes middle school lives
Hannah Sears, Staff writer
April 15, 2011
It’s Thursday morning in an 8th grade history class at St. Cecilia Middle School. As the teacher discusses a Holocaust survivor who visited the class the day before, four kids giggle quietly. They aren’t laughing at the subject matter, but they are clearly not paying attention either. Four years... Read more »
From Gilgamesh to Gatsby: the Legend’s guide to further reading
Adrienne von Schulthess, Staff Writer
April 15, 2011
It is a classic Urban School experience: freshman and sophomore year, each student must read certain books for English class. Ultimately not everyone will enjoy every one of these books. Yet some of the books open up worlds that students would never have found on their own. Urban’s Library Leaders... Read more »
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