Editorial Board

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

Last week, we published the Wabash report, an external report on campus climate at Harvey Mudd College in its entirety. This was no light decision — we discussed the merits of releasing only certain quotes or certain sections, or providing an accurate summary. In the end, the fact that the administration shared

Since our first issue 128 years ago, we at TSL have committed ourselves to providing a platform for student expression. This platform has always extended past the feet of our own staffers — guest columns and letters from our readers find important places on our pages. For most of our

This week, the Claremont Independent published a piece headlined “Pitzer College RA: White People Can't Wear Hoop Earrings” in response to a mural painted by three Latinx students on Pitzer College's Free Wall. The piece included the full names of these students, who have since received death threats, leading Pitzer President

The United States is “not experiencing the best of times,” as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said. In the past few days alone, militarized police raided the main protest camp at Standing Rock and anti-immigration sentiments erupted. In one of many cases, an off-duty police officer fired a handgun at

For the last two semesters, TSL has struggled to accrue sufficient funding to print on a weekly basis—without funding from outside sources.  Since TSL shifted from a Pomona-only staff covering Pomona-only news to a 5C news source in the mid-2000s, we have made a concerted effort to expand our coverage across the