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?
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The Mainstream Fringe: Framing my confusing journey through pop
BRAT is everywhere. Charli xcx’s new album has detonated across the internet, dragging older tracks like “party 4 u” back into the spotlight. But before the tidal wave, before the raves, before Charli’s lime-green takeover, there was just a kid in the backseat of his mom’s Honda — Parker DeVore PZ ’27 — completely obsessed with the pop she blasted through those worn-out speakers.
OPINION: Your phone isn’t the problem with your phone
Nowadays, we can do literally everything on our phones. But just because you can, doesn’t mean you should, especially when mobile formats and the prevalence of digital exclusive content water down so many good forms of media, writes Parker DeVore PZ ‘27.
OPINION: Stop the protein maxxing, start eating what you want
Is your Instagram overflowing with saucy beef cakes? Troves of people filling their stomachs with protein and minds with propaganda? Parker DeVore PZ ’27 asks you to step outside the videodrome and ask if our relationship with protein is dogma, health or just the most current manifestation of America’s collective food anxiety.
OPINION: Tolerate thy neighbor
It’s so easy to have a campus enemy. Be it the guy who talks too much in my sociology class, the girl I always see wearing the same dress as me or that one person who said that one terrible thing to my old roommate second semester freshman year, we all have these little enemies, clouding our minds with hate and clogging our hearts with rage by their simple existence. But what if we let bygones be bygones? Parker DeVore PZ ’27 argues that we must learn how to bury the hatchet now, or suffer out of the comfortable confines of the Claremont Colleges.
OPINION: The Case for Vaping
We all smell the fruity vapors emanating from the bathrooms, tasted a strangers vape juice circulating through the tight confines of public transportation and looked with disgust. Parker DeVore PZ ’27, admits that vaping is culturally lame, a pariah and cigarettes under-developed little brother, but argues this doesn’t have to be the case. Vaping, it can be regulated and gain back some of it’s cultural cachet could serve as a safer alternative to the mass harm that cigarettes inflicts
OPINION: What my messy breakup with social media taught me
Years of climbing and challenging to be a king of the cultural milieu has taught Parker DeVore PZ ’27 one thing, the view from the top isn’t as sweet as it seems. Our rapid culture of consumption is stranding us without cultural landmarks, and we can afford to sit and process the media we find, and not get caught up in the everlasting trek for superlatives