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Share the Dignity the Chilling Threat of Gene Editing The Elwood College Newspaper ISSUE 2 / MARCH 2019 Elwood College Newspaper The Letter from the Editor Share the Dignity Seeya March! This month, disregarding the fact that International Women’s Day was meant to be just a day, the Culture Captains put together a week-long celebration of women past and present. The exhibition showcased student artwork and included a smattering of performances and a chance for a discussion concerning feminism. Apart from many indignant questions of ‘but when is International Men’s Day?’ (which can be argued is everyday, thankyou very much), the celebrations Read more on the success of the Dignity Drive on proved to be a success. page six March also saw the Senior School Formal, Year 7 camp and, towards The Chilling Threat of Gene Editing the end of the month, a barrage ‘This is not about whether it is safe or not safe. of grumbling due to construction This is about a forthcoming catastrophic dystopian fiction works blocking easy access to the recreated in real life’ ST building. Although having to walk around the entire school to get to certain classes, students are now provided with a handy excuse for being late. Everything has its silver lining. Additionally, Harmony Day, organised by the SRC, saw the student body dress up in orange and donate gold coins to State Schools Relief. For some, a very half- hearted effort regarding wearing orange. Yellow shorts just don’t cut it. Hope you all have a lovely April! Peggy Read more on page two PAGE ONE Designed Babies Are Not Designed For Us By Jason Wang, Year 10 Moreover, designer babies must not be legalised because The world’s newest it could cause heinous biotechnology, gene editing, predicaments. Gene editing is becoming the elephant in could produce or exacerbate the room and we should not social division, marginalisation legalise gene-edited babies. or heighten the disadvantage The CRISPR technique has of groups within society. enabled scientists to alter Gene editing would also a newborn’s genes (such have a similar effect as the Some people think that Artificial Intelligence dilemma, a baby is called a designer genetically altered babies can where the robot one day may baby), which changes the easily make amendments to hunt down its creators - the genetic material inside a cell our world because it could humans. You should feel fretful of a designated organism. It cure genetic diseases to as we, as unedited humans, functions like an autocorrect improve people’s health. would be the ones who get in a word document where However, we, as humans, discriminated against . any misspelled words and should not disassemble mistaken sentences - in this embryos at great hazards. Above all else, what’s assuring case, diseases or disorders Operating using CRISPR is is that some countries are taking action in forbidding - are fixed by a correction not easy. One wrong cut, the infant could come out faceless. gene engineering on system - CRISPR. One wrong replacement, the embryos. It is proclaimed Furthermore, Scientists are baby will sink amid a forlorn that 29 countries have allowed to target a specific abyss. One faulty gene, the straightforwardly banned area of a gene and modify future of the child will cease genetic editing. Splendid. it with correct combinations to exist. CRISPR could ”cause Therefore, it is our of other genetic materials. serious problems” stated by responsibility to make sure Not only could gene editing Robert Truog, the director that genetically designer cure untreatable natural of Harvard H.T. (Perspectives babies do not endanger our born diseases, it could also on gene editing, 2019.) If we safety by refusing them. apply superhuman talents can’t secure a single newborn’s to the babies. These extra health, how could we Without a doubt, genetically modifications are sending guarantee that gene editing engineered babies ought chills down my spine. won’t cause us more hostile to be banned because they troubles toward all of us? are inhumane, immoral and A poll was published recently unethical. The majority has by STAT and Harvard H.T voted that gene altering on gene engineering. It was should be viewed with discovered that 83% of US hesitation and reluctance. Plus, adults are feared by the idea of they would cause serious social legalising scientists to modify division like two opposing the genes of unborn babies tribes. After all, gene-edited to improve their abilities. The babies are truly ominous and general public is afraid of the will only lead to disaster. concept of genome editing and we should be agitated Make a change on our planet as well. If we are building an by raising awareness of the infant with more remarkable serious biotech situation we capabilities than our own, are having now. As a society, should we even call it a human we must reject designer babies baby? for our own sake. (STAT-Harvard poll: Americans say no to ‘designer babies, 2019) PAGE TWO ISSUE 2 / MARCH 2019 The Need for Casual Dress Days Casual dress days may seem charity in question was made the difference between just like a day for you to have fun for homeless people. Then, donating two dollars or having and express yourself, but there imagine there were one thou- a casual dress day is it is easier is deeper meaning behind sand people participating in a to organise and easier to get them. Have you ever won- casual dress day. If everybody people involved. brought two dollars, there dered why you should have to It is truly a win-win situation. donate a gold coin? would be two thousand dollars to be donated. We get to wear whatever we This gold coin will, the majority want and the homeless receive of the time, go to a charity. A This would go towards food, benefits. I may sound as if I charity is an organisation set clothing, etc. You may take just want to get casual dress, up to provide help and care those things for granted but but I want to help Elwood for those in need. Say the the homeless would not. Now, College make changes in the community. Fletcher Clarke, Year 7 Book Review: Killer T Christien Blandshard-McIntosh, Year 8 It’s the future and everybody’s dead, killed by the synthetic black plague: Killer-T. Let’s analyse this. So, Robert Muchamore has gone and made what could be said is the worst book, which makes it really gold. We start in what I think is 2018, after an explosion leaves an NFL footballer badly injured. After the events, Harry Smirnov, a young photojournalist, meets Charlie Croker, a girl who has no friends and cares for her brother, whose skull got crushed by the delivery forceps To me, half the time the book Many said they were ‘tempted when he was born, giving him made me wanna tear it apart to DNF’ and how Charlie, a brain damage. (but it was a birthday present). 13 year old girl, was over- Like, how the characters act. sexualised. They are really annoying in Over the span of 12 years (told many parts and the themes are by jumping forward in time), really unbalanced. Charlie and Harry go on crazy Rating: 1 and a half stars adventures and take risks to In all honesty, if you don’t Please note the book has answer the true questions like my opinions, go to the language and parts more behind what Killer-T really is. Goodreads Killer-T page, and it will be person after person directed at mature audiences. saying how bad it was. PAGE THREE Hypatia, The Tragic Story of the Greatest Woman of the 4th Century Hypatia, born in Egypt, 370 CE, was an incredible woman; who, despite the male-dominating society, refused to conform to traditional customs and stood for what she believed in, no matter the cost. She was a highly intelligent, beautiful woman; widely respected for her dignity and virtue and highly regarded for her intellect. Hypatia was the first recorded woman to have attainments in literature, science, mathematics and philosophy respectively and she had the privilege to teach it and be loved for it too. However, certain Christian societies were not ready for it. Emerging as one of the great talents of the 4th century, this Hypatia, Ancient Alexandria’s Great Female Scholar, Smithsonian is the tragic story of Hypatia of She wrote commentaries on Alexandria. Apollonius of Perga’s Conics meaning she may have even taught her own beliefs. She Hypatia was fortunate to be (geometry) and on Diophantus of Alexandria’s Arithmetic and was an excellent teacher brought up by her father, a too, and that is attested by mathematician and professor also wrote several treatises (formally written works). the amount of respect she by the name of Theon. Upon received from her pupils, with not having a son, he resolved But that was not all. With a many marvelling at her and her to bring his daughter up like head full of knowledge and lectures. Synesius of Cyrene any son he may have had, a kindly nature, she soon for one example, called her teaching her astronomy, rose to become the head of a “the most holy and revered philosophy, science and Platonist school in 400 CE; for philosopher,” with a vast range mathematics. a woman in the 4th Century, of other compliments paid to Ever so wonderfully, Hypatia that’s amazing! Damascius her. went on to construct (a philosopher), described astrolabes functioning to make how Hypatia, as the head of astronomical measurements the school, “used to put on such as the altitudes of her philosopher’s cloak and celestial bodies and latitude walk through the middle of for navigation.
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