The SMCC Beacon

By Erik Squire There are multiple ethical issues that arise with the United States’ use of drone warfare in the Middle East; two such issues which readily come to mind are extrajudicial killings and a lack of accountability. A study was conducted by Stanford University and New York University on America’s use of drone warfare,… Read more

By Zachary Guiod The two regions with the most people living in extreme poverty are Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia. In Southern Asia, 30 million children have no access to education to try to escape the poverty in which they are trapped. Sub-Saharan Africa is not faring much better, with 23 million school age children… Read more

By Kamal Karimi I believe that there is no accurate way to determine what is moral and what is not. Beliefs are different from person to person; one person may be less moral because one person’s beliefs differ from others. While morality — such as what is not moral — is still debated among many… Read more

By Gio DiFazio Say what you want about the political climate in this country over the lasts 20 years, Barbara Bush had an impact on millions of young lives. Unfortunately, for millenials, it took her death to fully appreciate what she actually had done. Associated in my mind only with the Children’s Hospital, her recent… Read more

By Troy Hudson On Saturday, April 21, close to twenty people attended SMCC’s Community Garden Cleanup Day, which you can read about on the front page. I was among them, despite having no proclivity for gardening and no intention to utilize one of the plots myself. I simply wanted to take part in an effort… Read more