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A Note from the Editors
By Serena Payne '26 and Tillie Solomon '27 in Spring 2025
Happy Spring! As we reflect on the year that we’re leaving behind, we see the ways that we’ve grown over the past ten months. We feel privileged to be able to say that this is our third print edition that we’ve released, after it felt like just a pipe dream last July as we planned the year. At the time, we wanted to create a space where MA students could feel involved in our school, whether as contributors or as readers. Now, as we publish our third paper, we like to think of The 1600 as more than just a way to get involved at Marin Academy; it serves as a platform to uplift student voices. Over the school year, we have published articles about a variety of different topics. In this edition alone, we cover everything from natural disasters to Caitlin Clark. But one common thread within every article published in every edition of The 1600 is the passion that every writer brings to their piece. Whatever it is that needs or wants to be said, we are grateful to offer a space to share student voices and opinions, to turn thoughts into words, and words into action. You, as a reader, can be a part of that process. So, without further ado, please enjoy the 2025 Spring edition of The 1600!
Serena Payne and Tillie Solomon Editors-in-Chief
Sources for this edition of The 1600:
Janfaza, Rachel. “An Ideological Shift? Gen Z Teens Identify as More Conservative than Their Parents at Higher Rates than Millennials Did.” The Up and Up, March 28, 2024. “Youth, Protests and the Polycrisis,” March 2024. UNICEF. “Common Crawl - Open Repository of Web Crawl Data.” Common Crawl. Accessed May 13, 2025. Davis, Wes. “OpenAI Transcribed over a Million Hours of YouTube Videos to Train GPT-4.” The Verge, April 6, 2024. “Deep Blue.” IBM. Accessed May 13, 2025. “Eliza—a Computer Program for the Study of Natural Language Communication between Man and Machine | Communications of the ACM.” ACM Digital Library. Accessed May 14, 2025. Grynbaum, Michael M, and Ryan Mac. “The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work.” The New York Times, December 27, 2023. “Introducing ChatGPT | OpenAI.” ChatGPT. Accessed May 14, 2025. https://openai.com/index/chatgpt/. Vaswani, Ashish, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, and Jakob Uszkoreit. “NIPS.” Attention Is All You Need. Accessed May 14, 2025. Diaz, Jaclyn. “The Charges Facing Trump in the Jan. 6 Investigation, Explained.” NPR, August 2, 2023. Menon, Pratiksha. “Racist Humor: Exploratory Readings.” JSTOR Daily, February 24, 2025. “CRI | California Reentry Institute,” CRI, 2025. Mihalovich, Cayla. “California Shorted Prisoners on Money for Their Release. It’s Ending the Practice.” CalMatters, December 4, 2024. “Specialized Treatment for Optimized Programming.” n.d. Division of Rehabilitative Programs. Taylor, Mac. 2017. “Improving In-Prison Rehabilitation Programs.” Ca.gov. December 6, 2017. “The 2025-26 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.” 2025. Ca.gov. February 25, 2025. Williams, B., Bond, D., Broomfield, R., Steinberg, D. (2024). “Reimagining San Quentin: Recommendations to Transform San Quentin State Prison into a Rehabilitation Center.” San Quentin Transformation Advisory Council. Hellmann, Melissa. 2024. “US Universities Are Reinstating SAT Scores. Experts Say It Will Exacerbate Racial Inequality,” The Guardian. June 20, 2024.Page updated
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