The Urban Legend

Are California’s top-ranked gun control laws truly effective?

Ella Chen, Editor in Chief, Design • March 2, 2023

Not even two months into 2023, California has already seen nine mass shootings that have resulted in the deaths of 32 people, according to the Gun Violence Archive. From the Monterey Park shooting that...

To exempt or not to exempt: vaccines and student health

Tulin Chang-Maltepe, Managing Editor • 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 developments in modern medicine and the raging...

The Middle East takes center stage with Golden Thread Productions

Tulin Chang-Maltepe, Managing Editor • February 9, 2022

“Nobody else was telling our stories and on the rare occasion that they were telling our stories, they weren't doing a good job of it.” In 1996, Torange Yeghiazarian founded Golden Thread Productions...

Free Muni program plagued by problems

Cooper Makhijani, Staff Writer, Opinions Editor • October 16, 2021

Story update: Since this article's writing, SFMTA has fixed some of the problems mentioned in this article, mainly fare area access. Youth may now use the larger wheelchair accessible fare gates closest...

A guide to California incarceration bills

Lochlain Steere, Staff Writer • June 4, 2021

California's 35 state prisons currently house more than 93,000 incarcerated people. In 2006, the state’s prison population peaked at 173,000 people, and although this number has since dropped, California...

A guide to California incarceration bills, continued

Lochlain Steere, Staff Writer • June 4, 2021

Read the four incarceration-related bills in their entirety: VISION Act - https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB937 Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act - https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1225 Incarceration...