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

A common breakfast for Urban students: oatmeal with toppings.

Urban School students start the day right with healthy breakfasts

Aleah Jennings-Newhouse, Staff Writer March 3, 2014

It is 8:10 in the morning, and Urban students are turning as much attention as they can muster to their A-period teachers. Take Brooke Roberts’ A-period history class. Like all high schoolers, the...

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Obama sets aside $100 million for brain research

Hannah Berk, Staff Writer May 30, 2013

There are many mysteries in life, but one of the greatest is between your ears — your brain. On April 2, President Obama announced that his administration would set aside $100 million in the 2014...

Ready to eat bags of MSG at New May Cheung Co., a grocery store on Irving Street, are a best-selling product at $1.69 each.

Presence of MSG in San Francisco restaurant food a surprise to Urban school students

Aideen Murphy, Staff Writer October 3, 2012

Although it is terribly clichéd, the saying “you are what you eat” holds great truth. But do you even know what you eat away from home? In two weeks, Californians will vote on Proposition 37, which...

Organic food may not be worth it, new Stanford Medical study finds

Organic food may not be worth it, new Stanford Medical study finds

Tessa Petrich, Staff Writer October 3, 2012

How often do you pay the extra dollar per pound for those crisp organic apples? As it turns out, according to a Stanford Medical study released Sept. 4, organic produce isn’t healthier than the conventional...

Savage speech shocks, inspires high school journalists at the NSPA convention

Savage speech shocks, inspires high school journalists at the NSPA convention

Jonathan Baer, Cody Siler and Sabrina Werby, Staff Writers April 14, 2012

Founder of the “It Gets Better” campaign and sex columnist Dan Savage sparked controversy on Friday while presenting the keynote address at National Scholastic Press Association High School Journalism...

Pick up the book “Eating Animals” by Jonathan Safran Foer. One copy is now available in The Urban School library.

Opinion: ‘Tis the season to eat meat, but consider the morality of mammal munching

Marney Kline, Staff Writer December 14, 2011

“My relationship to meat? I eat it,” said Jordan Clark (’12). As Jordan shares her simple and straightforward attitude towards meat-eating, both she and I are put at ease. This statement presents nothing...

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