The Urban Legend

The race for District 17’s next Assembly Member

Reese Bassuk, Staff Writer • March 3, 2022

On February 15, citizens of District 17 voted in a primary election to send two of the four Assembly seat candidates, current Board of Supervisors member Matt Haney and former Board of Supervisors...

Making the cut: how Urban sports teams stay afloat

Ben Katznelson, News Editor • March 3, 2022

As a small school—roughly 430 students—Urban sometimes struggles to accumulate and maintain the numbers necessary to field sports teams. Urban Athletic Director Joe Skiffer admits to having faced this...

Eliot’s Urban Crossword

Eliot Solomon, Staff Writer • February 3, 2022

CLUES: ACROSS 3. Spiderman 7. Worse than Newspaper 8. Ice Cream 9. Nicki Minaj Stans 10. Mascot 13. Hates society 16. Above…At…Below 19. Danny Cardoza, for example 20. Invasive in Australia 21....

The Yeti x Urban’s counselors collab on community concerns

The Yeti • November 30, 2021

With help from the Urban school counselors, Amina Samake and Joey Mintz, the Yeti has responded to questions from the Urban community that were submitted through an anonymous form. What is the meaning...

Sexual assault discussions at Urban: Are they survivor-centric?

Viva Wertz, Staff Writer & Designer • November 18, 2021

“Each year 434,000 Americans ages 12 and older are sexually assaulted,” according to a Planned Parenthood survey. At Urban, 10th graders participate in a six-week health class, and 11th graders take...

Opinion: choosing to ignore intellectual discomfort is a privilege

Lochlain Steere, Editor in Chief, Creative • November 18, 2021

As a current 12th grade Service Learning student, I am reminded of the fluency that Urban offers students in discussions of identities like race, gender and sexuality. This fluency makes the inability...