• Leading Cause of Premature Death Among Good Teachers

    Noah Williams   Imagine for a moment that you’ve spent at least four to six years of your life becoming an expert in something. Your skill and knowledge has afforded you a Read more

  • Preferred Names Are a Necessity

    Juniper White, President of the Rainbow League   Many transgender and gender-variant people choose to adopt a name that better reflects their identity. Renaming themselves can be a joyous occasion, the feeling of Read more

  • Voting Retrospective

    Alex Serrano At the present time, we at The Beacon do not know who will win the presidential election because our paper is coming out the day of this most important election. Read more

  • Perspective

    Brandi Abrams   We all have our own personal tragedies; life is perpetually challenging and full of the unknown. It’s hard to live under so much stress, or live impoverished, or deal Read more

  • A Response to Alex Serrano’s “What’s Up With Midcoast?”

    Simone Lee-Lynch Serrano writes that the Midcoast Campus in Brunswick is not very well represented by The Beacon due to apathy on the part of the Midcoast Campus students. He states that Read more

  • Midcoast Responds: An Open Letter

    Arielle Bailey and Taylor M.   Dear SMCC students and faculty, We are writing this article to help bring the two school communities together. “Why?” you may ask. Maybe it’s because we Read more