By  Nathalie Mitchell On Thursday, April 20, the SMCC Business Club traveled to the business capital of the world, New York City, for three days of education, sightseeing and bonding. The next […]

  By The Beacon Staff   Students, resident-life staff, faculty and SMCC President Ronald Cantor were in attendance on Monday, May 1, for the annual CeSIL awards ceremony. CeSIL, the Center for […]

By Ben Riggleman Have you ever wondered who reads this paper besides you? It’s a riddle that has kept us Beacon staff up at night, too: Who reads us? Are students our […]

Behind the scenes on “Leap of Faith,” directed by Chris Motley and production still from “The Windigo,” directed by Vanessa Hutchins By The Beacon Staff Communications and New Media students who are […]

By Jessica Spoto  This past Sunday The Beacon stopped by SMCC’s community garden (behind the Culinary Arts building on the South Portland campus) to catch up with Sodexo employees and SMCC students […]

  By Ivan Del Mar, Jack Gentempo and Ben Riggleman Saturday, April 22, wasn’t a typical Earth Day; it was a day of impassioned activism for the sake of science. Rallies held […]

The Beacon Staff Did you know that the Captain’s House is available for student use between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m.? It is a meeting place for many student clubs (including The […]

Photos and Artist Talk in the Learning Commons The Beacon Staff Christian Farnsworth has established a diverse and solid knowledge base that has informed his photography work adding wonderful insight into the […]

Ben Riggleman Attention, news aficionados! As of two weeks ago, the SMCC community has free online access to The New York Times. Simply go to http://tiny.cc/SMCCLibraryNYTimes, log into SMCC if prompted and […]

Let me start with a story: Dave was a practical young man. He’d known he was going to be a machinist ever since, at the age of eight, he saw “The Machinist,” […]