• Facebook’s Thin Line: Is This the New Normal?

    By Troy Hudson When Facebook announced last month that personal data from approximately 50 million users had been scraped by data firm Cambridge Analytica, that number was so staggeringly large that it would have been easy to assume it almost didn’t matter. Like the amount of consumer plastic that ends up in the ocean each… Read more

  • Ranked-Choice Voting

    By Gio DiFazio Across Casco Bay, in Maine’s largest city, lies a voting system in which elected officials are not chosen using an antiquated and overly simplistic method of election. Portland has been electing their mayor with a ranked-choice system since 2011 and uses the ranked-choice voting system to elect members of its City Council.… Read more

  • Letter to the Editor

    Dear Managing Editor of The Beacon, As a fond reader of newspapers, I wish to write to you in appreciation of your hard work delivering the news to our great campus. In this new era of “fake news,” journalists are under severe scrutiny, and unbiased pieces are hard to come by. After reading your most… Read more

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  • A Brief History of Anime

    By Rebecca Dow Nowadays, anime permeates deep into Western and Japanese pop culture, showing its face in merchandise, entertainment, literature, et cetera. Within the sea of people who enjoy Japanese animation, there are many niche fanbases, cult followings and fan-artists. One does not need to know the history surrounding anime’s development to appreciate its unique… Read more

  • Printmaking At SMCC

    By Rebecca Dow As an assignment for Mary Hart’s Printmaking 1 class, students were asked to create drypoint intaglio artwork for two exhibits titled “The Exquisite Corpse: A Surrealist Drawing Game,” and “Memory and Forgetting”. Images from the latter exhibit are shown below. Left to right, Mother’s Wedding by Mitch Bradshaw; Family by Namio Ukash;… Read more