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SFUSD Policy Changes: Students Must Choose Between Activism and Academics

Elianna DeSotaSeptember 28, 2019

Just a day before the Global Climate Strike on Friday, September 20th, it surfaced on social media that the San Francisco United School District (SFUSD) rescinded their support for students participating in the strike. This angered many parents and student protesters who were marked absent or whose field trips to the strike were canceled.... Read More

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Cross Class Vlogs – M19 “So Long, Class of 2019”

Kah Yee ChiangJuly 7, 2019

Follow along with Kah Yee's final vlog as a Minerva student as she shows us Minerva's first manifest, consequent, and graduation. Get a glimpse of the whirlwin... Read More

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Faces of the Streets III — Hope & Homelessness

Aspen PflughoeftMay 14, 2019

Every San Francisco resident is “familiar” with homelessness, but there’s a danger in familiarity, a crisis of apathy. How do you combat indifference? How do you reverse the process of familiarity without becoming ignorant?... Read More

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Faces of the Streets II – Context & Homelessness

Aspen PflughoeftFebruary 14, 2019

Previously, and quite arrogantly, I assumed that my preconception of homelessness was accurate. But I had oversimplified people – the fact that I simplified people at all shows the error of my ideas. But how do I correct such an error?... Read More

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Faces of the Streets – Drugs and Homelessness

Aspen PflughoeftNovember 22, 2018

Since arriving in SF, one topic permeates discussions – homelessness. From swapping stories of close calls to commiserating about feeling useless, Minervans con... Read More

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What would you do with one more day in San Francisco?

Abigail CoxJanuary 30, 2018

What would Minervans in the Classes of 2019 and 2020 do with just one more day in the city? We’ve gathered their answers for you here. Take this as motivation, curiosity, cross-Minerva-class-hand-me-down-nostalgia. ... Read More

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Minervans Speak and Act Their Minds After Historic Election

Adrian SteinJanuary 10, 2017

The realisation of this upset hit hardest with American students, who were largely in a state of disbelief and grief. In the first hours, they shed tears and shared hugs, supporting each other after what seemed for many as though the world had fallen apart. Trump's victory, especially the implied rejection of the openness and diversity many students at Minerva stand for, proved hard to grapple with. ... Read More

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