The Urban Legend

Urban students struggle to prioritize sleep

Niki King Fredel, Staff Writer • June 4, 2015

At 12 a.m., an Urban student gets into bed, sleeping just seven hours before the alarm rings, waking her for another long day of school and homework. Seven hours is not enough but it’s the most she can...

OPINION: Too much homework plagues Urban

Jacob Winick, Staff Writer • April 10, 2014

Homework sucks. It’s not a revolutionary opinion, but no one at Urban is addressing it. Maybe it’s because we have completely accepted the idea that homework is supposed to dominate our lives. Or...

Don’t flip out: Urban tries a new approach to classes and homework

Eli Dinkelspiel, Staff Writer • February 17, 2012

It was a warm Monday evening. Birds were swooping and chirping outside my windowsill. The net of the basketball hoop was swaying in the breeze. I was thinking of all the videogames I could be playing....

Is YouTube for You?

Jenna Waldman, staff writer • December 10, 2009

Urban students are impacted by the website YouTube everyday as they log on in hopes of another laugh. But while it is easy to laugh uncontrollably at the sight of a helpless girl across the country dancing awkwardly, viewers seldom think about who that girl making the video is.