The Urban Legend

Boys soccer kicks off first winter season

Ian Ryan, Staff Writer • October 25, 2018

In December, the boys soccer teams will kick off their seasons in the winter rather than the fall for the first time. Many schools, including Lick-Wilmerding High School, University High School, and Marin...

How social class affects social life

Zella Lezak, Guest Writer • June 6, 2018

Ever since I got to The Urban School of San Francisco, I have always been impressed with the way we deconstruct parts of our identities, such as gender, sexual orientation and race, in and out of the classroom....

Love is in the Urban air

Lola McAllister and Tikloh Bruno-Basaing • June 6, 2018

When the current seniors were freshman, Young Men’s Group (YMG) and Students for Women’s Equality and Rights (SWEAR) hosted a forum to discuss Urban’s notorious hookup culture. It’s not hard to...

Winter Art Show graces Urban walls with a night of wonder

Kian Nassre, Editor In Chief, Visuals • April 3, 2018

Ten weeks of artistic processes, countless hours of dedicated work and eternities of thought produce the annual tradition of the Winter Art Show. The yearly display is the culmination of the Advanced...

Do emotions have a place in the classroom?

Vivien Manning, Features Editor • March 29, 2018

We all sat in the classroom, stunned by the brutality and shock of last night’s reading. This is my Women’s United States History class, and we had just read “It Was like All of Us Had Been Raped”...

Trump is out, but The Urban School joins the Paris Agreement

Kian Nassre, Editor in Chief of Visuals • November 16, 2017

The Urban School will become the first high school in the United States to join the “We Are Still In” declaration. When Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement on June 1, 2017,...