By, Ellie P. '21 Picture this: It’s 6:00 p.m. on a cool August evening, summer is drawing to a close, the only people left at Winsor are the maintenance crew, seniors have just left after a tiring day of painting the homeroom. Take a peek down the dark Upper School hallway and you’ll see a …
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By, Crystal Y. '20 “Two months in and already 2018 is [rough],” tweeted one user in response to the Parkland shooting. “I want a refund,” another user responded. “[LOL], remember how we thought 2016 was bad?” tweeted yet another. These three users echo a sentiment felt by many—2018 has certainly been a tumultuous year for …
By, Elly P. '21 It’s Annie Desmond’s 16th birthday. She gets a tattoo with her two best friends, Talisha and Margie, and dreams about fancy cell phones. She also pledges to become pregnant. Margie is already pregnant. Milk Like Sugar by Kirsten Greenidge, Winsor’s winter play directed by Ifeanyi U. ’20, follows the three best …
By, Katherine L. '20 USA Gymnastics has been the governing body of gymnastics in the United States since 1963, so why is their status now in jeopardy? The short answer is Larry Nassar. Nassar served as USA Gymnastics’ chief medical coordinator from 1996 until 2015, when he unexpectedly stepped down from the position. Less than …
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By, Katie B. '21 In late November, Chinese scientist He Jiankui announced via YouTube video an attempted implantation of CRISPR genetically edited twins, claiming to have made the first to genetically engineered humans. CRISPR: Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat, is a molecular tool patented by MIT and Harvard’s Broad Institute, and first invented in …
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