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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Colorless
By Dan-Herley Mathieu Let me reveal a secret that will change how we perceive the world forever and ever. It’s really hard not to be a writer when one is a thinker […]
Metal, Melody & Me
By Garrick Hoffman Liberal Arts Major Art is an inherently subjective form. What you hate, I may love. What I love, you may despise. I absolutely love metal music. With three brothers […]
Metal up your Ass, Part 3
A Five-Part Review of Metallica’s Earliest Albums By Garrick Hoffman Liberal Arts Major Master of Puppets If Ride the Lightning was an evolution of Kill Em All, Master of Puppets proved to be twice […]
Marin on Movies
Marin on Movies Liberal Studies/English Major “Gone Girl” (Give ‘er FOUR AND A HALF STARS) If Valentine’s Day had you feeling down in the dumps for being a lonely, unlovable S.O.B, I […]
Why we needed “Last week tonight”
By Garrick Hoffman Liberal Arts Major For decades, mainstream news media has continuously proven to be a red herring. Often a dubious, deceptive distraction, the news typically serves as more of fodder […]
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