Illaria Dana, Education Major About six weeks ago, I got really sick. I was housesitting for a friend near campus. She is a potter and was headed to the Common Ground Fair. I […]
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Research Finds Marijuana Promotes Hydration By Garrick Hoffman, Liberal Arts Major NEW HAVEN, CT – A new study conducted by Yale scientists has revealed that marijuana promotes hydration. The study was conducted on a […]
Letter to the Editor 2
Greetings! As part of CNMS 105 I am to write a letter to the Editor of the Beacon. And so here it is; I chose to focus this letter upon the article […]
Letter to the Editor 1
Dear Beacon editor, I would like to applaud you for being able to get a gang of college students to be in a room together and write stories for a newspaper that […]
Upholding the Right to Be Stupid: Houston’s Vote Against HERO
By Paul L. Young Like many Americans in presidential election season, a majority of Houstonians last week asserted their constitutional right to be knuckle-dragging troglodytes by rejecting the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance […]
Ethical Dilemmas: A Path to Truth
By Alice Barakagwira Back in Fall 2014, in the Introduction to Human Services course, we were having a conversation about whether there are links between one’s belief in God, or a lack […]
The “Death with Dignity” Movement
By Marilyn Smith California. Oregon. Vermont. Montana. Washington. There has been a dramatic increase in the number of states considering death with dignity laws. Sometimes called “assisted suicide” or “right to die,” these laws […]
Tech Talk
By Laurence F Adams III Spying, collecting, tracking, and processing everyone’s data are par for the course nowadays in America. Before June 2013, with Edward Snowden’s confirmation, it was denied. Even with […]
Wolverine vs. Vegeta
X-Men’s Wolverine (Aiden Bothwell) and Dragonball Z’s Vegeta (Kenneth Reddinger) square off before the SMCC Halloween Dance Party on Thursday, October 29. No blood was shed…this time.
Scholarships
So, you are a little bit of an unconventional student and your thought process goes something like this: “There’s no financial aid available for me “because of who I am.” Well, maybe […]
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