TSL has recently had serious charges leveled against them. In a scathing letter to the editor, they were called jealous, biased and irrelevant, and on the surface, these accusations seemed fair. In TSL’s coverage of the Claremont Independent (CI), critics noted that they appeared to hold a view that the CI’s conservative viewpoints were enabled by outside politics. Journalism is no stranger to ideological coverage, but did TSL go too far?
Opinions
OPINION: Don’t fill up your calendar, do nothing instead
Welcome to college, where students often map out their every waking moment on their Google Calendars for the sake of “maximum efficiency.” Have you ever wondered what benefit might come from taking the time to do nothing every once in a while?
OPINION: Goyard doesn’t make you hot
After being told that her backpack was perhaps too boyish, Ansley Kang SC ‘29 realized that the Claremont Colleges overemphasize the importance of looking good.
OPINION: Why are we so obsessed with memorializing horrible people?
As the media works through the death of Dick Cheney, we must not let mourning get in the way of the collective condemnation of immoral acts committed by the deceased, though grief is a necessary process in the midst of the death of prominent public figures.
OPINION: Life is a fedora: why I wear fedoras, and why you should too
The 5Cs, despite being radically epistemologically free, contain a hard core of constrained expression. Nicholas Steinman CM ’28 is more aware of this than anyone. He wears fedoras. Constraint may get us some things. But at what cost to our identity are we willing to pay to furnish our professional success, and do our sacrifices pay off how we expect them to?
OPINION: It’s time to start enjoying your coffee without a side of homework
5C students think that the quintessential café accouterments include a laptop, a triple shot dirty chai, noise canceling headphones, enough papers to comfortably cover the four-top table that they plan to monopolize and the locked in attitude of a future management consultant. Ansley Kang SC ‘29 disagrees. The café used to be a nexus of social vibrancy and discourse, so its post-COVID mutation into a bookless library hurts to watch. However, café culture is not beyond saving.
OPINION: Do you love sneaking into Malott? I have a better alternative
When it comes to meal plans, Scripps students pay more for less, but Malott is no Fort Knox: Many choose to resist this perceived injustice by simply not paying for dinner, walking past cashiers with someone else’s plates. As tensions rise between students and staff, Nicole Teh SC ’27 believes that a mutually beneficial solution exists, but only if we learn to empathize with Malott staff.
OPINION: We need a serious, caring approach to sexual health
Condoms are not the pinnacle of safe sex practices — sexual wellbeing can be enhanced through a number of different medical tools. “When we achieve our goals of sexual health and wellbeing, we won’t know it because of a statistic telling us how many people are wearing condoms. We’ll know it from the dropping rates of HIV infections, STIs and unwanted pregnancies. We’ll know it because our sex and our relationships will be safer, happier and more pleasurable.”
OPINION: The anonymity epidemic rages on
In Trump’s America, the declining power of the media goes beyond pulled punches and undeserved praise intended to curry favor. Deportations, office raids and First Amendment suppression of journalists and activists is becoming the new norm. The brave response to intimidation, however, is not submission. Madeleine Farr PZ ’27 believes that for those with privilege, which includes most 5C students, our responsibility is to use our First Amendment rights to support the journalistic institutions that can speak truth to power. Therefore, we need to consent to interviews.
OPINION: Before Rebuilding Gaza, the World Must Confront Who Destroyed It
In an AI video posted by President Donald Trump to Truth Social, “Trump Gaza” imagines beaches and skyscrapers rising from ruins.: Trump’s proposed “GREAT” plan recasts Gaza’s destruction as an opportunity for profit, inviting the same powers complicit in its devastation to rebuild it while further displacing Palestinian populations and causing even greater environmental harm beyond that already caused by the war. Leili Kamali PO ‘29 argues that current plans for reconstruction are dangerously colonialist and anti-environmentalist, and must be reimagined in order to make proper reparations for those living in Gaza.