By Gio DiFazio Across Casco Bay, in Maine’s largest city, lies a voting system in which elected officials are not chosen using an antiquated and overly simplistic method of election. Portland has […]

Dear Managing Editor of The Beacon, As a fond reader of newspapers, I wish to write to you in appreciation of your hard work delivering the news to our great campus. In […]

By Alicia Brosseau In “Consider Ethics” (2011), Bruce Waller writes, “We are not entirely self-made and self-chosen — our desires, affections, and inclinations are the product of our genetic and conditioning histories […]

By LaRene Wentworth Strange as it may seem, plagiarism hasn’t always been viewed as a no-no. There was a time in history when it was encouraged to copy the masters. The great […]

By Gio DiFazio New Hampshire, where the state motto is “Live Free or Die,” held a presidential rally this weekend at Manchester Community College. Combating the drug epidemic, mainly opiate-based substances, was […]

By Nathanial Barter You lie in bed at night and dream. Perhaps you dream about fast cars, money, and freedom. Or, maybe, nightmares, with goblins, ghoulies and psychotic ex-lovers. You lie drifting […]

By Mohammed Omane College textbooks, like college tuition, have increased drastically in price over the years. While some of it is due to inflation, college textbooks are 812 percent higher today than […]

By Lloyd Metcalf In times when school shootings happen, our leaders are posturing for war and there’s sometimes violence in the streets, we ask ourselves why, but what if we asked “what […]