By Oguzhan Ozkan Everything we do is to gain more of something: money, respect, sex, serenity, fame or ice-cream. In our tiny little self-universe, most of us limit ourselves to humble achievements, […]

By Alex Serrano The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit legal-advocacy group focused on civil rights, has many chapters across America. So after hosting a screening and discussion of “13th,” a deep-dive […]

By Ben Riggleman If you’re like me, you haven’t been feeling too politicized lately. It’s been over three months since President Trump took office. At first, you felt a sense of urgency. […]

Jessica Spoto Have you ever heard that dreaded apple being eaten so loudly in class that you’re internally screaming? Or that hated bag of chips that with every crunch makes you want […]

Troy Hudson Photo manipulation is common practice, and tacitly accepted, in some publications, e.g. fashion magazines, and strictly forbidden in others, e.g. newspapers. Some photographs, then, are held to a higher standard […]

Nicole Jacobsen Bruce N. Waller writes, “Rather than rugged individualists we are a profoundly social species.” Not only does Waller posit this as a successful evolutionary strategy, he also suggests that to […]

Oguzhan Ozkan As my good friend Emre Ceren thinks, Karl Marx was a man of high ideals, and I agree. Not only did he help transform Europe, his endeavours and determination also […]

Breanna Penney “You strike a woman, you strike a rock” — Zulu proverb National Women’s Day in South Africa is a trademark of equality. Annually in the summertime, the DRC (Democratic Republic […]

If you are reading this column, it means you are holding the 95th consecutive Beacon printed since the paper returned to after a brief hiatus a little more than seven and a […]