By the Beacon Sports Staff As Major League Baseball winds down and heads full-steam into their pennant and wildcard races, here in southern Maine the SMCC softball and baseball teams are just […]
The Action on the Pitch; SMCC Squads Start Season
By The Beacon Sports Staff While on the world stage soccer may have scaled back to club play and friendlies, here in Southern Maine and greater New England soccer in the Yankee […]
Student Leaders Honored at CeSIL Awards
By Celina Simmons On Monday, April 30, the Center for Student Involvement and Leadership held their fifth annual CeSIL Awards. This program helps students become more involved in and out of the […]
SMCC Mourns Loss of Beloved Physics Professor Jesse Mase
By The Beacon Editorial Staff On April 20, news circulated across the Southern Maine Community College’s all-employees email informing the community that Jesse Mase, a beloved Mathematics & Physics faculty member had […]
Chasing the Dead in Ireland
By Randall Delaware My grandmother, who lived in Derry, New Hampshire, asked me, I think, in late summer of 1984, after I returned from a summer in Europe, “Did you visit Ireland?” […]
Understanding DRM
By Adam Barber As we very rapidly transition into a digital world, the content that we consume — our entertainment — has gone from a physical copy you can hold to something […]
Password Security and Why It Is Important
By Joshua Duplessis As a college student pursuing a degree in Information Technology, passwords have been a big interest to me. Passwords are what keep us secure when a majority our of […]