• Alabama Shakes Vocalist Voices Injustice

    Alabama Shakes Vocalist Voices Injustice

    Nik Hasenfus     The existence of African American voices speaking out to the world has increasingly become a topic of interest in recent times. Since Barack Obama became our first black president as a country, this changing perspective of African Americans  has lead other individuals to speak out politically to an audience  that they… Read more

  • The YSCC Elite Eight Gets Underway: The Women take to the court in opening round action

    The YSCC Elite Eight Gets Underway: The Women take to the court in opening round action

    St Joe’s of Vermont 70 – University of Maine Machias 24 Beacon Sports Staff   The Yankee Small College Conference post-season basketball tournament, The Elite Eight Road to Union Town, PA, tipped off officially today at 3pm when the University of Maine-Machias took to the court against the College of St. Joseph’s of Vermont.  … Read more

  • Seawolves Suffocate Lynx

    Seawolves Suffocate Lynx

    Gio DiFazio CNMS   SMCC kicked off competition Friday evening in the YSCC Elite Eight Tournament in the second contest of the evening as they were pitted against the Lady Lynx of New Hampshire Technical Institute. The Lynx finished the season just a hair above the .500 mark with an overall record of 16-15, while… Read more

  • Onion Rings to Super Bowl Rings

    Onion Rings to Super Bowl Rings

    By Gio DiFazio Hinds Community College, Popeye’s Chicken, and Super Bowl 49 Champion. What could these three things possibly have in common? You would never guess the answer is Malcolm Butler. Let me refresh your memory. It is Super Bowl 49 with the Seattle Seahawks driving down the field inside the 2 minute mark. Ricardo… Read more

  • Hoops Season Winds Down – Teams Prepare for YSCC

    By Beacon Sports Staff   With only 5 games remaining in the 2015-16 season for the women and men’s Seawolves teams, the squads are in the midst of adjusting, ironing out and fine tuning their games in preparation for the YSCC post season tournament. This year’s Elite 8-Road to Uniontown, PA is hosted by Central… Read more

  • Sperm Powered Locomotion in Nanobots

    Nicholas Moll Marine Science Major   For years, many scientist have dreamed of one day using nanobots for medical purposes, in production and in construction. These ideas have been the stuff of science fiction for years but nanobots may be closer than you think! Chinatsu Mukai, Alex Travis and some other researchers at Cornell University… Read more