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Our mission is to work as a team to provide relevant and contemporary content that connects the Towson community, one story at a time.

Our mission is to work as a team to provide relevant and contemporary content that connects the Towson community, one story at a time.

The Talisman

Our mission is to work as a team to provide relevant and contemporary content that connects the Towson community, one story at a time.

The Talisman

2018 NFL Mid-Season Predictions

2018 NFL Mid-Season Predictions

Milo Fisher, Staff Writer November 20, 2018

The NFL season is an extensive, heartbreaking process for the millions of Americans who believe every single year that their team has what it takes to conquer the football world. For all but some, this...

Deadlines, Deadlines, Deadlines

Deadlines, Deadlines, Deadlines

Kiya Kirkland, Staff Writer November 20, 2018

Senior year started out all smiles and sunshine, but around early October, it grew cloudy. Smiles turned into frowns as seniors became plagued with an intense amount of college-application stress. Our...

How Devices Help Towson

How Devices Help Towson

Braden Hamelin, Editor November 8, 2018

The much-anticipated devices have finally arrived at Towson. Despite my own personal reservations to using them in an everyday classroom scenario, they’ve really grown on me. As a senior trying to complete...

How Students Feel About the Kavanaugh Hearings

Kayla Tingley, Promotional Editor November 5, 2018

What’s been happening with our government lately has been triggering emotions of anger and injustice among American citizens.  Men being brought forth to lead our men the that do not have the right...

Locking Down The Details

Locking Down The Details

Mya Stengel, Staff Writer November 5, 2018

Alert, lockdown, inform, counter, evacuate. A.L.I.C.E   This is the new program that the students in our schools are trusting our lives to, but will this make us safer?"  The old procedures were...

How Brett Kavanaugh Has Already Poisoned America

Alec Faraday, Staff writer October 14, 2018

The other day, my teacher asked the class how we perceived this Kavanaugh debacle.  “Innocent!” three boys cried. Clearly some people don’t believe survivors. I didn’t think much of it, though....

New Nike Deal, Same Divisons on Pledge and Anthem

Alec Faraday, Staff Writer October 1, 2018

Nike unveiled a new deal with NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick on September 3, leading to, predictably, a flurry of volatile responses. Athletes are burning their Nike gear. A school in Missouri has decided...

The Audacity of Blaming Victims at Santa Fe High

Alec Faraday, Staff Writer September 25, 2018

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in the opinion section of The Baltimore Sun. Some politicians offer merely thoughts and prayers after tragedy (See “More thoughts and prayers,”...

What’d You Get?

Ellie Matson, Staff Writer May 24, 2018

The week that SAT scores are revealed tends to become the most stressful week of a high school junior's career. Most juniors believe the score they receive determines who they are and the level of...

Warning Signs: Tell Somebody

Ryan Miller, Staff Writer May 2, 2018

As a high school senior prepared to leave, seeing the warning signs reported about the Parkland school shooter on February 14th saddens and frustrates me, because they show how preventable the shooting...

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#ArmMeWith

Catarina Cardarella, Staff Writer May 2, 2018

As gun violence becomes more prevalent in the United States, the same question keeps getting asked after every major mass shooting:  How do we fix this problem? And it looks like there might be a...

Teachers Must Be Armed, And Not with Guns

Kiya Kirkland, Staff Writer May 2, 2018

On February 14, 2018, seventeen innocent people lost their lives in an environment that was meant to be safe. Survivors of the tragedy refused to sit silently and lose the interest of the media, like...

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