By Ian Ziller Political Science Major Through the 19th century and early 20th there was a period in U.S. political history known as the “Gilded Age,” which was a time marked by […]
Skin Cancer Facts, as presented on the Skin Cancer Foundation website.
Each year there are more new cases of skin cancer than the combined incidence of cancers of the breast, prostate, lung and colon.2 Treatment of nonmelanoma skin cancers increased by nearly 77 […]
Tanning: Suicide on the Surface
By Garrick Hoffman Liberal Arts Major If you’re reading this, summer is either right around the corner or is already here. The advent of the summer invariably denotes that we’ll be stepping […]
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor of The Beacon, I am writing in regards to the article [i]Surfsite Exposed: Inside SMCC’s Dirtiest Dorm[i] in volume twelve, issue eleven of The Beacon. In my opinion this […]
Fat Plus-Sized Fallacies: The Flaws of the Fat-Friendly Media and Movements
By Garrick Hoffman Liberal Arts Major Many of us are becoming disillusioned to how the media both continually and criminally portrays women: they’re almost invariably thin – too thin – and alarmingly […]
Roman Senate vs. the U.S. Congress
By Ian Ziller Political Science Major When we think of democracy we often look back to the Romans, and by the same extension, we think of the Roman senate as being […]
Let’s Talk About Race
By Ashley Berry The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is about 50 years behind us, and we have an African-American President for the first time ever, so does that mean the […]
Detached Together
By Lauren Michelle Communications and New Media Major An oxymoron; if you think about it for a moment maybe life is just that. It seems while everything we do, think and […]
Why 2014 Was The Year We Should Have Turned “LePage”
By Ashley Berry Governor Paul LePage has drafted a Tax Reform Plan that would eliminate revenue sharing for municipalities, increase sales tax, decrease income tax and cut corporate taxes. The elimination of […]
A Stand for Fast Food Farmers
By Ashley Berry On March 22nd, in St. Petersburg Florida, the Coalition for Immokalee Workers announced to the crowd at the Concert for Fair Food that the Coalition, alongside students from across […]
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