Dear Editor,

I’ll admit, until my teacher told the class to spend a few minutes reading The Beacon, I had never picked one up before. First impressions were good, however there are a few things I think could be improved on.

One of the big things for me was that some of the articles didn’t have much of a point to them. For instance, “How To: Grandma Chic,” or “The Mystery Machine” or the one “LEGO Batman: Better Together.” All three of these articles are featured in the Arts and Features part of The Beacon, and while I do understand why they are put there it doesn’t seem as though they have much weight to them. They seem like short little articles that were written to fill a page. “Grandma Chic” and “The Mystery Machine” don’t have much to them; there doesn’t seem like there is a reason for them to be there. They feel out of place. Maybe there could have been some pictures of students who do rock the grandma-chic look. I can understand the Batman article a little better; it is talking about how for people who grew up on the Batman comics, the movie Batmans don’t feel like Batman, and how the new “LEGO Batman” fixes that. But it still feels out of place; there wasn’t anything about that article that made an impact on me or left any real impression.

In this same section there is a movie review of “Get Out” — it was below an article about a director, so it works with this part of the paper. These two articles go together because they are both about movies; the other articles that I mentioned before don’t relate to anything else in this section except for the fact that they are kind of related to the arts. The “Tech Talk” section is well put together. It only had three articles, but they had a reason to be on that page. People would like, and need, to know “How to (Properly) Backup Your iPhone in iTunes”; and the majority of people always seem to be looking for more storage on their phones and computers, so the article “Is OneDrive the Best Cloud Based Storage?” works. There is a rhyme and reason for these articles to be there; they have a point to them.

Respectfully submitted by,

Katherine Ferland