Editorial Board

What does joining the carbon neutral bandwagon really mean? Last February, Pomona College joined an array of undergraduate institutions in pledging to become carbon neutral by the year 2030. Still, if the Pomona administration is going to hold up sustainability as an ideal, it has a responsibility to educate its

The Scripps College Registrar sent an email to the student body Feb. 12 announcing a new feature on the Student Portal that allows students to select the gender pronoun with which they most closely identify. As reported on page 1 in a piece by Kate Dolgenos, the new feature promotes

In a 1948 letter to the editor, one Elizabeth Cawthorne of Pomona College wrote, “one reads such fearful and wonderful things in the SL!” We came across this line in an attempt to give our office a halfhearted spring cleaning, during which we encountered a slew of TSL (formerly the

Last week, a Missouri grand jury voted not to indict police officer Darren Wilson for the killing of Michael Brown. This week, a grand jury in New York voted not to indict police officer Daniel Pantaleo for the killing of Eric Garner. None of these incidents was an isolated event.

The gates at Scripps are opening. On Nov. 13, Scripps President Lori Bettison-Varga announced a proposed change to the college’s admission policy (see News, page 1). Bettison-Varga’s email announcement stated that the amended admissions policy would include “applicants assigned female at birth and/or those who identify as female at the

It’s entirely too easy these days to avoid news coverage or journalistic opinions pieces that might make us uncomfortable. Selective news consumption itself may not be a novel practice, but the tools at our disposal enable the process more smoothly than ever before: See something on your Facebook feed that

On Sept. 19, TSL published a graphic entitled “Trans Vocabulary” that attempted to define and pictorially represent some of the major terms and descriptions of gender identities now accepted by the trans community. As readers noted, the graphic was flawed in several respects. It contained inaccurate definitions that were not

Last month, the Associated Students of Claremont McKenna College unrolled its Resolution on Social Responsibility, which is currently being discussed by the ASCMC Senate. We believe the resolution is an important step toward making the CMC community safer and more welcoming and that students across the 5Cs should take note

It’s no secret that California is experiencing one of its worst droughts in recorded history. And while its effects may not be readily apparent to students of the 5Cs, in our habitat of the grassy expanses and blooming fauna, signs of stress are beginning to show, including the death of

To our returning readers, welcome back. To new readers: we’re not sure what brings you to our pages, but we hope that you find something inside to hold your attention. To all: thank you for picking up a copy of TSL’s first issue. While there is already a great deal