The U Post

10/27/2021

A new opinion piece by Andrea Perez Johnson examines The Beatles and how your favorite member may reflect your personality.

10/08/2021

Andrea Perez Johnson writes about fashion, music, and how they are both influenced by past trends. Link in bio.

10/06/2021

How can individuals create social change? Senior Allie Skalnik wrote about getting to meet young climate activists over the summer and what she learned from them. Link in bio.

05/21/2020

With the school year coming to a close, seniors and Co-Editors-in-Chief Ryan Ricks and Karen Wang share one last goodbye to the U-Post. Check it out:

Oh man, where do I begin? I’ll miss the U-Post so, so much. The U-Post was the first club that I got heavily involved in after transferring to UHS at the beginning of sophomore year. At that point, the only writing experience I had was a handful of stories I wrote as a kid, so I was a bit nervous ...

05/18/2020

In September 2019, fourteen-year-old Jalaiah Harmon created a dance called the “Renegade” that was then appropriated by Tik Tok users. In March 2020, Keara Wilson created the “Savage” challenge. Learn more about how these two very different Tik Tok trends represent how the narrative of cultural appropriation is changing in a new article by Geri Mishra here: https://bit.ly/2TigyWv

05/15/2020

"Now, more than ever" our writers have had time to write a few extra articles. Read a COVID-19 commercial parody from the Kale here:

We are in quarantine. We are isolated. We cannot see each other in close contact anymore. We cannot do the things we used to. Our lives have been disrupted.

05/13/2020

From AP exams to shopping addictions, Hank, our favorite advice-giving pug, has guidance for everyone in a brand-new edition of Dear Hank! Read it now to see all of your newest questions answered!

Congratulations on your retirement! While you’ll miss your students, I have no doubt your students will miss you too. Some solutions could be organizing “visits” or “meet-ups” (physical or virtual) with old students to catch up, exchanging emails with students, or even following a few stud...

05/11/2020

Now that we’re all at home, there’s never been a better time to get to gardening. After getting back into gardening during this quarantine, Allie Skalnik has a few tips for budding gardeners. Read more about how you can begin gardening today in her new article!

There has never been a better time to get into gardening. With us all stuck at home, food is becoming an increasingly valuable commodity, and with the weather getting warmer by the day, it’s not too late to break out the ol’ trowel and put some seeds in the ground. You never know! Perhaps you’...

04/30/2020

During quarantine, co-editor-in-chief Karen Wang embarked on a journey to find the truth behind the disappearance of her dear friend Amusement. Read more in her latest article: https://bit.ly/2YlIyMn

04/29/2020

Lately, more black people than ever are wearing their hair natural. And as the natural hair movement has grown in popularity, an alarming trend has followed it—the trend of whitewashing the movement. Read about the history of the natural hair movement and ways the whitewashing of it are playing out today in a new article by Ryan Ricks.

Before we begin, I would like to say this article is based almost entirely on my experience, specifically as a mixed woman with 3C/4A hair, who only just started wearing their hair as such about four years ago. I am not trying to say that my experience is the same as the experience as a black person...

04/27/2020

Now that we’ve spent months in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, some have drawn parallels between the psychology of this pandemic and of climate change. What makes these issues so challenging, and what does it have to do with our psychology? Quite a lot, actually. Read more in a new article by Allie Skalnik.

I am not the first to note the peculiar psychology of climate change, and I will certainly not be the last. But as the whole world experiences the consuming event that is COVID-19 together, now seems a better time than ever to revisit exactly what makes climate change, and pandemics, such challengin...

04/24/2020

Tomorrow is the six year anniversary of the beginning of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Six years later, the investigation into the local government’s negligence and alleged coverup is still ongoing, and the long-term health and economic effects will continue to be felt for years. Learn more about the origins of the crisis and the ongoing investigation in a new article by Ryan Ricks: https://bit.ly/3eHL1q9