Community Corner: CU Tenant Union
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Michael Tessene
Students call for school board rep
After the tumultuous events of the 2018-2019 school year, there has been an increasing call among UHS students for increased...
Rethinking Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Since almost the very beginning of the environmental movement, the phrase “reduce-reuse-recycle” has been commonplace. And the idea behind it...
The good news from this year
It’s been a hard year for many people. Things seem more chaotic than they’ve been in a long time: political...
SRO increase approved in spite of community dissent
During the 2018-2019 school year, then-Urbana Superintendent Donald Owen was removed from his position as Urbana School District Superintendent in...
A feminist reading of Halloween (2018)
Slashers have a bit of a bad name. The idea that horror movies exist only to promote sex and violence...
An extremely serious Truth or Dare (2018) analysis
Truth or Dare is a 2018 horror movie with no pretense of depth. It wants to show you boring, flat...
A Q&A With Student Climate Activist Isaac Gewirth
The Climate Strike on September 20th, now two weeks ago, brought the issue of climate change to the forefront of...
Do police in schools really keep us safe?
After a highly-publicized rash of fights spread across Urbana Middle School and Urbana High School during the 2018-2019 school year,...
Minimum Smoking Age To Be Raised to 21
On April 7, Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a bill raising the minimum age for tobacco use to 21. The change...
