Focus

• The LA effect

  Sarah Rose '11 | Features Editor & Emmett Shoemaker '10 | A&E Editor

  Posted November 3, 2009

  It’s a Friday night, probably around six, and to say traffic on the 405 is bad would be a gracious understatement. Cars are at a standstill for as far as you can see, but then again what else is new in this city?

  You’ve been in the car for about an hour, so you pump up the stereo and try to occupy yourself. That doesn’t really help distract you from your boredom, so you decide to partake in some mild people watching. The woman in the car to your right is taking her time to apply and then re-apply her lipstick while the man to your left passionately belts out the lyrics to “Don’t Stop Believin’.” John Donne once famously said, “No man is an island,” but from where you’re sitting, in a vast static ocean of automobiles, maybe he spoke too soon. Welcome to Los Angeles.

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• Teens drive into adulthood

  Emmett Shoemaker '10 | Focus Editor

  Posted February 10, 2009

  The jingle-jangle of keys fresh from the dealership: whether they unlock the doors to a sleek Porsche Cayan or a beat up used Camero, teens world-round wait, fingers crossed for this ever-elusive key to independence.

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• Teens account for 15 percent of road deaths, half from drunk driving

  Justin Daneshgar '09 | Copy Editor

  Posted February 10, 2009

  Teen drivers are responsible for about fifteen percent of all road deaths, yet they consist of less than ten percent of the US driving population as a whole, according to the Insurance Institute for Health and Safety.

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