The SMCC Beacon

Damon Phean   You’re starting your first year in college and you want to get the best bang of your bucks on a laptop which you can use for school. It is very common for students to be easily convinced by their peers, which is best, but students should take the time and research of… Read more

Logan Stout   Feeling uncreative or having trouble understanding that problem your professor assigned? Well it sounds like to you need to build your mental might! Sure you can repeatedly bang your head against the same problem until you get it, but what you really need is better critical thinking skills. Why not try a… Read more

Logan Stout   Disabled males  in Maine are twice as likely to be arrested at school than non disabled males and disabled females are five times more likely to be arrested at school than non disabled females.   The Black male population comprises approximately six percent of the United States population, of the 2,300,000 people… Read more

Beatrice Talmage   Think about the hardest day of your life, and how it felt.  …Maybe you sobbed, uncontrollably. Maybe you stayed in bed for six weeks straight in pants with an elastic waistband – to accommodate the mass amount of Ben and Jerry’s you’ve consumed. Maybe you found a new love for reading motivational… Read more

Steve Peschier   The choice to remain a carnivore is one that I have recently begun to mull and waver over. I am a strong animal rights supporter, and believe, deep down, that production animals do not deserve the lot they are given. Vegetarianism makes the most sense morally to me; I can rationally say… Read more