The Urban Legend

Is MOU missing men? Urban reflects on MOU gender dynamics

Sid Goldfader-Dufty, Staff Writer • March 14, 2023

Urban’s Month of Understanding (MOU) events are hosted by MultiCulti during the months of January and February. These events aim to uplift voices of marginalized communities at Urban and educate the...

Reflecting on Month of Understanding

Maya Campbell, Editor in Chief, Online • March 3, 2022

An array of forums, panels and interactive events prompted the Urban community to question both their immediate community and the world around them. From January 11 to February 3, a total of 13 events...

A year in review: 2020-2021

Maya Campbell, Editor in Chief, Online • June 7, 2021

First Day of School August 31, 2020 The absence of the Senior Raid into the Salkind Center gym on August 31, 2020, marked an untraditional start to the 2020-2021 school year, yet other ASM traditions...

Urban community reflects on its response to AAPI-hate: “it was long overdue”

Tulin Chang-Maltepe, Staff Writer • May 10, 2021

Since the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States of America has seen a consistent rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The March 16 shooting in Atlanta...

Gender in the classroom

Zoe Sokatch, Staff Writer • March 28, 2021

I’m sitting (virtually) with Nora Onek ‘23 on a Wednesday afternoon exactly two weeks after the Month of Understanding forum, Gender in the Classroom, hosted by Students for Women’s Equality and...

MOU Posters Spotlight

Caroline Wu and Anna Masto, Guest Writers • March 28, 2021

[slideshow_deploy id='12475'] Caroline Wu '22: “This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear...That...