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May 16, 2022
Read the whole article, or jump to a section. What happened? Background Justice Alito's Reasoning Effect on individual states Reactions Urban and privilege Biden & non-SCOTUS methods of protecting the right to abortion Knock-on effects What happened? “We hold that...
May 4, 2022
Trigger Warning: The following content contains mentions of sexual assault and rape. Denim Day, established in 1999, takes place on the last...
April 26, 2022
The worldwide wholesale petroleum and oil industry is — to no surprise — immensely lucrative. Many countries like Saudi Arabia or Russia have denationalized...
April 26, 2022
On March 10, the Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) announced that Director Lateefah Simon—the only Black board member—had been removed from her...
Viva Wertz, Staff Writer
April 26, 2022 • Comments closed
According to the Urban website, in 2021, the school offered a collective $4.65 million in financial aid so students whose families were not able to afford the full Urban tuition could attend. Though there is a great deal of money being funneled into the financial aid budget, the rising costs of running a private school are forcing Urban’s tuition to constantly increase. What...
April 26, 2022
Classical utilitarian ethics—an ethical theory—dictates that the well-being of everyone is weighed equally in the pursuit of a morally-good life. Rapid...
April 26, 2022
Evie Hidysmith, Urban’s Pandemic Coordinator and graduate of Urban in the Class of 2017, wrote a senior thesis for Brown University titled “ .”...
April 26, 2022
Over recent months, countless bills across the United States have been enacted that discriminate against the LGBTQ+ community. From Florida’s Parental...
Luke McKane, Staff Writer, Designer
April 26, 2022 • Comments closed
Senior pranks are an iconic tradition at many high schools, including Urban, and after returning to a non-hybrid spring schedule many students have been wondering if the pranks will make a comeback. Urban has had a long history of senior pranks filled with plenty of memorable events. “We turned the...
April 26, 2022
CHARISSE - 12th grade Give five phrases/words to describe your grade. Ambitious, capable, curious, good-hearted, honest. What color would your grade be? Purple, because it's a royal color. What animal would your grade be? A griffin because griffins have wings, they’re part eagle, part lion, and they are pretty...
April 26, 2022
The Urban Legend has long been a staple of the school and is a valuable student-driven vehicle of expression and information sharing. However, on distribution day, a pattern has surfaced time and time again — Urban recycling bins brim with discarded papers mere minutes after their delivery. So, do people actually read the...
April 26, 2022
Audrey Douglas ‘22 Why did you sign up to write One Acts? I am interested in maybe writing and directing when I’m older. I love writing and I’ve always liked storytelling, so it just sort of made sense for me in a lot of ways. I also love theater and it is something that has been consistent for me throughout my time...
Ezra Bergson-Michelson, Staff Writer
February 3, 2022 • Comments closed
Right now, the Oakland Athletics, often known as the A’s, are the leaders of two contrasting visions of the city of Oakland: one to revitalize West Oakland into an economic and social asset to the city, and another of a sportless Oakland and a profitable and popular team in an untapped Las Vegas...
October 21, 2021
Historically, Urban’s golf team has been composed of a small, co-ed - though predominantly male - group of students living on the fringe of Urban culture. However, times are changing. This fall, for the first time, Urban has had enough female students...
Sylvia Hoyt, Guest Writer
May 31, 2022 • Comments closed
This fall, a group of Urban students taking Making Media Matter photographed their peers holding signs reading “I’m tired of _____,” where each student filled in the blank with the source of their current exhaustion. Through my frequent passing...
April 26, 2022
During the fall trimester, I heard students complaining about their workloads more than I ever had in my three years at Urban. Understandably, the transition back to fully in-person school was...
April 26, 2022
As the days get longer and the San Francisco weather refuses to get warmer, senior spring has arrived. While ninth, 10th, and 11th graders have completed their course selections for the upcoming...
January 21, 2022
The Bay Area is in trouble. Rents which, according to apartment listing website Zumper, are the second-highest in the country, continue to rise. Rising rents are pricing the artists, craftsmen,...
Maya Campbell, Editor in Chief, Online
April 26, 2022
Although summer is within our grasp, the final six weeks of the school year can feel long and at times...
April 26, 2022
The seniors are all glown up! Here are a few seniors and their transformations since freshman year. I asked seniors to describe how they’ve changed since freshman year: not just in looks but also in character. Fiona...
March 3, 2022
We’ve all embarrassed ourselves at school. Whether it was two years, two trimesters, or two days ago, embarrassing moments stick in our memory and haunt us. Some Blues shared their most horrible and hilarious...
February 3, 2022
CLUES: ACROSS 3. Spiderman 7. Worse than Newspaper 8. Ice Cream 9. Nicki Minaj Stans 10. Mascot 13. Hates society 16. Above…At…Below 19. Danny Cardoza, for example 20. Invasive in Australia 21....
April 26, 2022
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