The Urban Legend

To exempt or not to exempt: vaccines and student health

Tulin Chang-Maltepe, Managing Editor • April 26, 2022

Classical utilitarian ethics—an ethical theory—dictates that the well-being of everyone is weighed equally in the pursuit of a morally-good life. Rapid developments in modern medicine and the raging...

Nationalism and globalism will define the political landscape

Cole Palmer, Staff Writer • May 18, 2017

"These fissures opening up in the political establishment are endemic of a system organized around an outmoded principle: the left/right dichotomy."

Opinion: Call for dress code observance raises questions

Marney Kline, Staff Writer • December 14, 2011

It was the kind of memo that high school administrators send every day: On Monday, Nov. 7, authorities at the Urban School reminded students to heed the dress code after a series of armpit-revealing tank...

A Guide to the Urban School’s Distraction Free Software

David Immerman, Staff Writer • January 20, 2011

Music blaring, Facebook glaring, and in the background behind all the other multimedia Web pages on your laptop is the history essay comparing the rise of fascism in Germany to the rise of fascism in Italy, due tomorrow, and all you have is an introduction. Uh-oh – you’re in freak-out mode.