Organic, sustainable, GMO?

Charlotte Ehrlich, Web Editor

October 7, 2019

Strolling down the colorful aisles of Whole Foods on the corner of Franklin and California streets, displays stocked with strawberries, tomatoes and blueberries that are labeled “organic,” “sustainable” and “genetically modified” can confuse many shoppers.  Almost three-quarters of American consumers ...

Individual impact matters

Gabriella Vulakh, Editor-in-Chief

October 7, 2019

The Global Climate Strikes two weeks ago helped many individuals realize that they can participate in promoting environmental issues at the local level and individually take action to reduce their carbon footprint. "Everything that we do has an impact on the ecosystem in ways we can't even imagine,”...

Faculty, staff promote safety

Olivia Rounsaville, Senior Reporter

October 3, 2019

As students and faculty cross the street to the Broadway Campus, traffic commissioners direct cars, manage crosswalks, prevent cars from going in neighborhood driveways and creating traffic safety hazards.   Traffic commissioners are faculty, staff and administrators in green vests who direct traffi...

New exhibit focuses on skin

Grace O'Reilly, Reporter

October 3, 2019

California Academy of Sciences latest exhibit, “Skin: Living Armor, Evolving Identity,” delves into the science of human and animal skin and highlights similarities between humans and animals such as birds and snakes.  The Journey to Inner Face station at the exhibit explores the abundant liv...

Scholars wear collars

Gabriella Vulakh and Gray Timberlake

August 21, 2019

Students are now required to wear collared shirts as part of the new dress code, and they have the option to wear white or blue jeans in addition to the previously allowed neutral pant and knee-length shorts colors that include black, grey, khaki, navy and olive.  “The dress code changes every year based o...

Dancing through junior year

Gabriella Vulakh, Web Editor

May 28, 2019

With her hand on the barre, standing in first position, junior Ari Levine begins most ballet classes at San Francisco City Ballet with foot exercises, side and back Port de bras, slow tendus, and grand battema combinations to warm up her body. Sequences, which increase with difficulty as the class progresse...

Sweeping it under the rug

April 3, 2019

Autonomous vehicle awareness increases

Laura Mogannam, Managing Editor

March 28, 2019

Cars with sensors whirling on top and jutting out of the sides — prototypes of self-driving cars being tested for public use — have become fairly common sites on San Francisco streets. With the rapid advancement of automated vehicle technology, industry leaders are educating future consumers, wh...

Dance on

Cassie Eskicioglu, City Life Editor

March 27, 2019

From late night dance classes to play and musical practices nearly all year round, “Love’s Labour’s Lost” marks the last high school play for one student choreographer and actor. Delaney Tobin began acting in theater in middle school and since then has been in 13 shows ranging from “The ...

Money of the future?

Mason Cooney, Copy Editor

February 15, 2019

Although Bitcoin is known as a potential moneymaker since it gained value by thousands of dollars in 2017, the currency was originally meant to be another form of money — the kind to pay for your Starbucks. Bitcoin, created by an entity under the name Satoshi Nakamoto, was introduced in 2009 as ...

Ask and receive

Josephine Rozzelle, Editor-in-Chief

February 14, 2019

While the workplace wage gap between men and women is often attributed to gender-based employer discrimination, a lack of negotiation by women may also play a role in the disparity, possibly costing women hundreds of thousands of dollars by the end of their career. Sixty-eight percent of women accept...

It’s who you know

Mason Cooney and Cece Giarman

February 14, 2019

While a successful career relies upon knowledge and competence, having the right network of people to pull from may be an even bigger factor in determining one’s professional life. “Fostering connections is huge,” Lara June Jordan (’06), Founder of LJJ&CO, a company aimed to help grow businesses throu...