Category: FEATURES

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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
FEATURES POLITICS

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
FEATURES

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
FEATURES TIGERWAYS

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