Demystifying woke
Ana Gorski, Editor of Arts and Culture
June 6, 2018
Filed under Opinions
“That’s not woke.” My heart sinks a little when I hear that sentence. In today’s political climate, the word “woke” causes anxiety for a variety of reasons. While the purpose of the word is to empower communities and raise awareness to systems of oppression, it can cause anxiety in an intelle...
End the rule against athlete participation in One Acts
Jack Cogen, EIC of Opinions
May 10, 2018
Filed under Editorial, Opinions
For the past eight years, Urban’s rules have prohibited students who play spring sports from participating in the annual One Acts Festival. Not only are students with an existing athletic commitment forbidden from auditioning for One Acts, those who leave their sport in order to participate are bar...
Historic building classifications further SF housing crisis
Diego Lopez, EIC of Online
May 10, 2018
Filed under Opinions
San Francisco is in the midst of a housing crisis, and community organizations are making it worse. Rents are skyrocketing from already high highs to astronomic levels. Last month, the median price for a home in San Francisco hit an all-time high of $1.6 million, according to the Paragon Real Estate Grou...
The Panhandle is still safe
Phoebe Grandi, Head of Photography
May 10, 2018
Filed under Opinions
In eighth grade, I invited a friend to my house, a change of scenery from our typical afternoons spent eating and shopping on Chestnut street. However, she told me that she did not feel comfortable being in my neighborhood. This puzzled me; at the time I did not consider my neighborhood unsafe. Sur...
EDITORIAL: Urban, We Need to Talk About #MeToo
Jack Cogen, Opinions Editor
April 3, 2018
Filed under Editorial, Opinions
The second half of 2017 and these early months of 2018 have been characterized by the anti-sexual abuse movement #MeToo as well as Time’s Up, a legal fund with similar goals set up after Oprah Winfrey’s speech at the Golden Globes. TIME Magazine chose the women who broke the silence on sexual abu...
Don’t Vote For A Celebrity in 2020
Jack Cogen, Opinions Editor
March 29, 2018
Filed under Opinions
The candidacy and subsequent presidency of Donald Trump were shocking for a number of reasons, not least of which being his unprecedented status as a president with no government or military experience. Elected with experience only as a businessman and celebrity, Trump could be a one-off mistake that...
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