Confronting the Ethical and Policy Implications of CRISPR Gene Editing

By Jessie Levin (PO’ 18) Introduction: Imagine a world where illnesses do not exist and where parents can dictate the specific traits that they want for their future children. Although this world seems like it is thousands of years away, the technology to bring this to fruition is here. If a parent wanted to design…

Are We There Yet?: The Story of Carpool Lanes in Southern California

By Jessie Levin (PO ’18), Staff Writer If you are like the average American, you probably spent forty-two hours of your year sitting in traffic.[1] Via a simple, back of the envelope calculation, this results in eighty days stuck in traffic during an average person’s working years. Of course, these numbers are averages and do not…