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OpEd: Frat Culture, a Toxic Brotherhood

On April 30th, numerous national newspapers ran articles on the closure of two Swarthmore fraternities after documents were leaked that show bragging about sexual conquests […]

Students at Swarthmore participate in a sit-in at the Phi Psi fraternity. photo courtesy of Organizing for Survivors
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After Pivotal Term as SF Mayor, Gavin Newsom Elected Governor

  • Post Author By Lucy Barnum
  • Post Date February 25, 2019

On January 7, Gavin Newsom gave his inaugural address from the steps of the California State Capitol. Newsom — who had been sworn in as […]

Govenor Gavin Newsom speaking at Stanford University in November 2008 when he was Mayor of San Francisco. He was campaigning against Prop 8, a statewide initiative which was passed just days later that opposed Newsom's decision to issue thousands of same-sex marriage licenses in 2004. photo courtesy of Josh Thompson
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Corporate Fraud Endangers Residents Near Hunters Point

  • Post Author By Julia Moser
  • Post Date February 25, 2019

In 2009, the U.S. Navy awarded Tetra Tech, a Pasadena-based consulting and engineering firm, a $300 million contract to research and clean the area that […]

Drydock 4 Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, Southeast of the junction of Spear Ave. & Morrell St., San Francisco, CA
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LWHS Pushes Against US Gender Disparities in Math; More Work To Do

Walking into any Lick-Wilmerding math class, the culture of collaboration is unmistakable. Signs that read “Math Is About Connections And Communicating” and “Mistakes are Valuable” […]

Students in Yetta Allen’s Calculus PPP class go over problems with their teacher. While honors classrooms have a disproportionate amount of boys in the 2018-2019 school year, 13 of the 16 students in Calculus PPP are girls. photo by Eleanor Sanaman
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Chinese Gaokao Makes American SAT Look Easy

High school can be stressful academically, and in China in particular, the pressure for academic high schoolers to get accepted into university is overwhelming. While […]

Students in China take the Gaokao. photo courtesy of Baidu