• April: A Monumental Month

    By Garrick Hoffman Liberal Arts Major   April seems like it’s teeming with significant historical events, birthdays…and tragedies. Every time it rolls around, my brain begins the slow process of exploding as I try to keep up with birthdays of friends and family while also trying to remember each day’s historical significance as they pass.… Read more

  • Fat Plus-Sized Fallacies: The Flaws of the Fat-Friendly Media and Movements

    Fat Plus-Sized Fallacies: The Flaws of the Fat-Friendly Media and Movements

    By Garrick Hoffman Liberal Arts Major   Many of us are becoming disillusioned to how the media both continually and criminally portrays women: they’re almost invariably thin – too thin – and alarmingly glossed in cosmetics. But lately another approach has been employed to combat the media’s status-quo with women. Unfortunately, it too is flawed, and… Read more

  • Letters to the Editor

    Dear Editor of The Beacon,   I am writing in regards to the article [i]Surfsite Exposed: Inside SMCC’s Dirtiest Dorm[i] in volume twelve, issue eleven of The Beacon. In my opinion this article manipulates the perspective of Surfsite. The article makes Surfsite sound like a dirty pit for students that aren’t expected to succeed. Although… Read more

  • Detached Together

    By Lauren Michelle Communications and New Media Major   An oxymoron; if you think about it for a moment maybe life is just that. It seems while everything we do, think and feel, we also experience the polar opposite; a balance of sorts. Yet, sometimes one side of this equation outweighs the other; this unparalleled… Read more

  • Let’s Talk About Race

    By Ashley Berry   The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is about 50 years behind us, and we have an African-American President for the first time ever, so does that mean the United States is past the days of bigotry and discrimination? The answer to that incredibly loaded question is NO. That is a very… Read more

  • Roman Senate vs. the U.S. Congress

    Roman Senate vs. the U.S. Congress

    By Ian Ziller Political Science Major   When we think of democracy we often look back to the Romans, and by the same extension, we think of the Roman senate as being the equivalent of the U.S. Congress. However, the truth is very different.  At the heart of the Roman political system were the consuls… Read more