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SeaWolves Return to SMCC
By The Beacon Sports Staff The SeaWolves basketball squads returned to the Hutchinson Gymnasium on January 12th, opening up their 2019 winter-spring home season against Paul Smiths in a Yankee Small College Conference game. The Seawolve squads ended the fall semester with a road split against conference rival Central Maine Community College as the lady… Read more
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SMCC Marine Science Drifter
By Stephen T. Lyons Dr. James Manning, a physical oceanographer with the National Marine Fisheries Service, started a program called eMOLT to team up with fishermen and academic institutions to place an array of temperature loggers and current drifters in the Gulf of Maine and Northwest Atlantic. Dr. Manning archives the data and has used… Read more
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Cries to the White Crowd
By Liam Woodworth-Cook Just before the United States celebrated the colonist holiday of Thanksgiving, canisters of tear gas were launched across the United States border into Mexico. The targets of the gas were numerous migrants running toward the border of the United States after being diverted by a Mexican police blockade during a march. The… Read more
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From the Desk of the Managing Editors
By Zaq G. & Celina S. This is the last edition of The Beacon that is going to be published in 2018. It has been a fantastic semester while tiring at the same time, and like many of you, we are ready for the winter vacation. After the stress of finals, it’s going to be… Read more
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May Mayhem Guide Your Way
By Luke Chaffee Have you ever wanted to make a movie? I don’t mean something you made in high school with your friends and posted on Youtube only to get 30 views (22 of those being the same friend that helped you make it.) I mean an honest to god film, playing up on the… Read more
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Student Senate: Your Ticket to Greatness
By J.D. Parks What do Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey and Brad Pitt all have in common? The answer? They were all involved in Student Government. As Public Relations Director for our Student Senate, there is perhaps no greater role I play than a conduit between the Student body and the Student Senate Executive… Read more
