Beacon Editorial Staff Feeling frustrated by John Fitszsimmons, the President of the Maine Community College System (MCCS), Governor Paul LePage demanded that the system’s trustees ensure Fitszsimmons’s resignation. If the trustees did […]
By Ashley Berry SMCC Student Our prison system is one of the largest in the world, incarcerating roughly 25% of the world’s prisoners. This number is especially monstrous when one considers that […]
By Ian Ziller Political Science Major Today we are facing a problem with money in politics, but what are the dangers really? If we look back 2,000 years to the end of […]
By Garrick Hoffman Liberal Arts Major In 2010, the creators of Comedy Central satirical show South Park, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, had death threats levied their way after an April 2010 […]
So to all the skeptics, Poetic License has not died nor will it ever! This is my last semester at SMCC, hence my last contributions to The Beacon will be conducted during […]
By Garrick Hoffman In 2010, the creators of Comedy Central satirical show South Park, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, had death threats levied their way after an April 2010 episode depicting the […]
By Dining Dierdree Over the break we all had plenty of time to think over what our New Year’s resolutions were going to be. Some of us will take the vow to […]
By Ian Ziller Today we are facing a problem with money in politics, but what are the dangers really? If we look back 2,000 years to the end of the Roman Republic […]
By Carlin Whitehouse There was once a time in America when the rearing head of racism was unmistakably ugly. One could point a finger and say, “There. That is ignorance. That is […]
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