By Erik Squire Hello students and guests of Southern Maine Community College! Some of you got away over the summer break, some of you were here studying or working, and for some, […]
Cheers SMCC, Here’s to a Great Semester!
The SMCC Beacon
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Feed My Starving Children
By A.S. Kinsman On April 13th, 2014, over 500 volunteers from churches and non-profit organizations in Southern Maine filled the Maine Mall’s central atrium to pack meals for starving families around the […]
Bouncing off of the Presidents Blog
By Xavior Hansen In President Cantor’s most recent blog he talks about making spring resolutions. Spring; there seems no better time to resolve to make better choices. Along with spring time comes […]
Pro-Active Advice: Coffee, Tea, or Summer? Definitely Summer
By Kora O’Han What a rollercoaster ride this semester has been for me! As much as I’m glad that it is over, I am also pretty blue because so many wonderful people […]
Boston Marathon Bombings: One Year Later
By A.S. Kinsman It’s been a year since the Boston Marathon bombings. It was a day that was meant to be spent rallying racers and cheering on the goodness of humanity and […]
The Last Goodbye
By A.S. Kinsman It’s been an amazing year in the world of journalism for me. Encouraged by Chuck Ott, the Faculty Adviser for The Beacon, I decided to take up the proverbial […]
On Accountability and Resolution…
By D.M. Smith In a recent blog post, President Cantor talked about taking accountability asking, to whom and to what must we be accountable? He listed several entities, including us. I’ve also been […]
From Behind the Curtain
By Jason Glynn Well boys and girls, ladies and gents, professors and adjuncts, the moment we’ve all been waiting for has arrived. In your hands you are holding something special. You are […]
Literacy & Liberation
By Garrick Hoffman John Locke, an English philosopher and physician of the 17th century, once was quoted, Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what […]
Letter to the Editor
In the last issue of The Beacon there was a tactless and very disparaging “Letter to the Editor,” that was written by a self-proclaimed ‘smart student.’ It was a clearly petulant person […]
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