The Urban Legend

The School Newspaper of Urban School of San Francisco

The Urban Legend

The School Newspaper of Urban School of San Francisco

The Urban Legend

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No Gain, No Brain: How Physical Activity can Cause Increased Brain Function

Sophia Gibson, Staff Writer October 28, 2019

When Jennifer Epstein, Health Education Teacher and Director of Outdoor Trips at Urban tells her freshmen health class to get up and go to the gym, to run around to “get high,” the classroom erupts...

Team captain, baseball

Urban School team captains offer outlook on spring sports

Jenna Waldman April 24, 2012

With the end of winter just four weeks away, captains for Urban's spring sports teams offer their outlooks on the spring season. Baseball – Albie Brown (’12) For baseball preseason, we met in...

The Urban School should have a physical education class

The Urban School should have a physical education class

Annakai Geshlider, Staff writer February 6, 2011

As I scaled a 30-foot wall, searching desperately for tiny colored handholds to grip with my sore fingers and trying not to get caught in the ropes, I looked at my belayer way down below and laughed. I...

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