By the Beacon Staff Last Thursday evening members of the Art Club: Amwag Kahleel, Eman Enan, Jen Jang, and Brain Radel took to the campus placing luminaries in strategic places around […]
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SMCC Hosts Journalism Conference
By Ben Riggleman On Saturday, Oct. 7, SMCC’s picturesque McKernan Hospitality Center hosted a journalism conference. The conference was organized by Beacon faculty advisors Rachel Guthrie (Communications & New Media) and Chuck […]
What Is Alpha Omega?
By Koma Ogak The Alpha Omega (Real Talk) club’s purpose is to create an environment where students can discuss real-world problems and personal struggles, if they feel comfortable doing so, and […]
Backpacking South Asia: The Monkey Temple
By Jen Jang Since my friends back home in Taiwan were huge worriers, I told them I was still travelling in Japan. In actuality, I had already booked my flight to Nepal, […]
Tech Talk: Configuring SSID and Password for Your Home Wireless Network
By Joseph Zhang So your grandma came to visit — “What’s the Wi-Fi password?” “I don’t know, that Time Warner guy wrote it down somewhere, let me see if I can […]
Heroes Around Us
By Sudeep Stauble A mother struggles to balance her writing career and take care of her family. A student with an eating disorder strives every day to pursue her goal of […]
Who Is That Man With the Tracts?
Ben Riggleman If you’ve gone to a home baseball game at the South Portland Campus, or even just walked by during one, you’ve probably interacted with Ed Heron. It’s hard not […]
Why We Need Indigenous Peoples’ Day
By Kate Bennett Across the country, Americans spend the second Monday of October celebrating Columbus Day. Why? Because it is a federal holiday and typically a day off from work and […]
What If…
By Lloyd Metcalf What if SMCC were off the grid? If we throw out all budgetary concerns, what would the ripple effect look like for SMCC to go to a completely […]
From the Desk of the Managing Editor: What Service Can Look Like
By Ben Riggleman On Page 2, you read about Coach Brian Dougher’s no-nonsense approach to helping Hurricane Irma victims: “It doesn’t matter what type of environment we’re in; we’re down there […]
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