English department pulls two Junot Díaz stories from sophomore curriculum six months after sexual misconduct allegations
Phoebe Grandi, Visuals Editor
March 28, 2019
Filed under Features, Top Stories, Urban
Nearly seven months after multiple sexual misconduct allegations came out against him, two of author Junot Díaz’s short stories, “Drown” and “How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie),” have been taken out of the winter English 2A curriculum, but why? In May of 2018, aut...
No more cashiers: Amazon Go is changing the way we shop
Lena Bianchi, Design Editor
February 28, 2019
Filed under Features
Most of the time, grabbing an item off the shelf of a grocery store and walking right out the door without checking out, is stealing. However, at Amazon Go, this is the only way to purchase items. Amazon Go is a different type of corner store-supermarket that allows their customers to enter by using an ...
Congressional communications director discusses room for bipartisanship in the House of Representatives
Eli Gordon, Managing Editor
February 27, 2019
Filed under Features, Politics
After eight years in the minority, Democrats took control of the U.S. House of Representatives on November 6, 2018, flipping 39 seats. They now control 235 out of the 435 total voting seats. Calling the victory “a new day in America,” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi declared that a Democratic-cont...
Urban adopts new active shooter protocol
Wes Peters, Staff Writer
February 26, 2019
In 2015, after a shooting at Los Angeles International Airport in 2013 where one Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer died, the TSA released a video detailing the most effective ways to survive a shooting in a business or school. In the video, the TSA coined the catchphrase: Run, hide, fig...
Planes, Boats and Concealed Vehicles: The reality of drug trafficking at the border
Lily Daniel, Editor-in-Chief
February 26, 2019
Filed under Features
Amidst the recent government shutdown and the trials of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán for smuggling drugs into the U.S., President Trump’s petition for building a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border has grown intensely. Despite his campaign promise to build the multibillion-dollar wall in 2016, the wall ...
Controversy continues to surround the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
Zoe Lusk, Caboose Editor
February 24, 2019
Filed under Features, Top Stories
In 2015, after being known as the San Francisco General Hospital for more than 100 years, the institution was renamed after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, who donated $75 million to the hospital. Now known as the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG), the name change ...
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