Author: Emily Wasserman

Two weeks ago, in the Opinions section of TSL, William Tachau PO ’14 expressed his discomfort with the large plastic guns wielded by many human players in that week’s game of Humans vs. Zombies (HvZ). Although I can’t claim to speak for all HvZ players, for the benefit of Tachau

If you logged into Facebook at any point last week, you might have noticed that a couple of new colors were starting to seep into the site’s standard blue-and-white scheme. Well, maybe “noticed” is a bit of an understatement. The red and pink of those equals signs were so intense

When I was a fourth-grader, I went on a field trip to Trenton, N.J. with my Mock Trial group. I don’t remember the courtroom we ended up in, or what we learned there about the workings of the American justice system, but I do remember what I saw when I

Rarely does TSL publish truly shocking material, but there was one sentence I found in last week’s paper so flabbergasting that it temporarily shut down my brain. “The students at Pomona do not follow through on passions and commitments,” said Mark Neustadt of Neustadt Creative Marketing, quoted in the article

Sometimes one needs to be known without being recognized. Once there was the confession booth, where you could unburden yourself to God, or, more precisely, to one of His representatives. Whoever first designed the confessional must have known that it was made up of only one component: the dividing cloth.

Only a few minutes into Zero Dark Thirty, a man is tortured. His beaten body hangs from ropes, the green of his eyes the only reminder that this mess of bruises and dirt is a human face. As CIA agent Maya watches with pity and horror, another agent and a