Editorial: Where is Urban’s middle class?
Unsigned editorial
November 6, 2011
Not many of us like to show off extreme wealth. Similarly, not many want others to know that they fall below the poverty line. However, over the past few years at Urban, we’ve observed an interesting phenomenon involving many of our peers who genuinely think that they are part of the largest socioeconomic... Read more »
Opinion: It’s time to move on from 9/11 memorials
Marney Kline, Staff Writer
November 4, 2011
Bruce Bochy was a bore. It was 9/11 and I was standing in the Giants’ dugout, watching the Giants manager speak listlessly to reporters who swarmed around him like vultures as he perched in the dugout for a pre-game interrogation. Looking into his watery, wise old eyes, which looked like they have... Read more »
Combat the conveyor — life is now, so high school students should enjoy it
Megan Madden
June 10, 2011
Life in high school is a waiting game. Seniors wait for college acceptance letters. Our parents wait for our course reports to show up. We wait to find out whether the math quiz really was a disaster, or whether we’ll be filling a leadership role in the coming year. We wait for the digital clock in... Read more »
New Urban School student body presidents Magidson and Walter-Clay bring new leadership style
Megan Madden, Staff writer
May 3, 2011
Duncan Magidson (’12) and Gabi Walter-Clay (’12) have just been elected your new students leaders. But who are they, really? The Legend sent me to investigate. I met Magidson in the music closet to understand the real Duncan. He was wearing an astonishingly attractive pair of footie pajamas that... Read more »
Editorial: Urban, hate speech is its own breed of violence
April 7, 2011
Recently, a 12-year-old girl asked one of us a question: “Do you think the world is coming to an end?” For many of us, in view of recent events, the answer is unclear. In recent months, members of a Kansas church have protested a military funeral, with signs reading “thank God for killing gays.”... Read more »
Roar of the Tiger Mom: a student identifies the disadvantages of Amy Chua’s parenting
Jamie Friedman, Staff writer
February 6, 2011
Imagine a childhood with no play dates or sleepovers; three hours a day of practicing violin or piano; and an expectation of straight A’s in every class. Welcome to the parenting of Amy Chua, a Yale Law professor whose new book about her parenting style, titled Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom, was published... Read more »
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