Author: Editorial Board

Student governments may not always think kindly of TSL. That’s totally understandable; we annoy them all the time. We harass them for quotes and press access to events. We email and Facebook message them incessantly for clarifications. But at the end of the day, when we correct any misattributed quotes

“We are still in shock. Over the last 48 hours, in a multitude of different capacities, this country experienced a paradigm shift unlike any that we, as students, have lived through yet.” Looking back at our issue from the week of Trump’s election, it’s clear we were in panic. You

The confrontation at this week's Tuesday Noon Academy asks us to think again about modes of protest on campus. Though the protesters came from outside the campus community, their actions nevertheless inform the way we evaluate the narrative behind student demonstrations. The Heather Mac Donald protest at CMC immediately comes to mind. The

Less than a week after it happened, the best journalists of our time have found the real story of the tragedy in Vegas – the “goofy little doodad” that Stephen Paddock used to more efficiently murder concert-goers on Sunday night. Bump stocks. This is the point in the story where

We wholeheartedly disavow the sanctions Claremont McKenna College imposed this week on students involved in the blockade of Heather Mac Donald’s talk in April. They are the actions of a school anxious to make a good example of itself by making an example of its own students. They are the

This semester has been a tough but affirming year for our staff. In over 120 pages of newsprint and an untold number of late-night hours, we produced original reporting covering events across every campus. We hosted lively debate on topics from free speech to Israel-Palestine. Our columnists highlighted campus style and kept

If you’re reading this in in a gray box on post-consumer recycled newsprint, you’re not stuck in the past. If these words are appearing as backlit pixels, you’re not living in the future. We could spend pages explaining how the internet and social media have allowed us to reach and

We support the resident advisors at Scripps College. We support the work they do as well as their right, and need, to not do that work — we support the strike. However, without working RAs, there are many important responsibilities not being fulfilled at Scripps, as detailed in the list