• Letter to the Editor 2

    Greetings! As part of CNMS 105 I am to write a letter to the Editor of the Beacon. And so here it is; I chose to focus this letter upon the article Read more

  • Letter to the Editor 1

    Dear Beacon editor, I would like to applaud you for being able to get a gang of college students to be in a room together and write stories for a newspaper that Read more

  • Upholding the Right to Be Stupid: Houston’s Vote Against HERO

    By Paul L. Young Like many Americans in presidential election season, a majority of Houstonians last week asserted their constitutional right to be knuckle-dragging troglodytes by rejecting the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance Read more

  • Ethical Dilemmas: A Path to Truth

    By Alice Barakagwira Back in Fall 2014, in the Introduction to Human Services course, we were having a conversation about whether there are links between one’s belief in God, or a lack Read more

  • The “Death with Dignity” Movement

    By Marilyn Smith California. Oregon. Vermont. Montana. Washington. There has been a dramatic increase in the number of states considering death with dignity laws. Sometimes called “assisted suicide” or “right to die,” these laws Read more

  • Tech Talk

    By Laurence F Adams III Spying, collecting, tracking, and processing everyone’s data are par for the course nowadays in America. Before June 2013, with Edward Snowden’s confirmation, it was denied. Even with Read more