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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
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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
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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
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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
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Metal Up Yr Ass, Part 4: A 5-Part Review of Metallica’s ‘80s Albums
By Garrick Hoffman and Patrick Doyle Liberal Arts and Liberal Arts – English Majors Review of the Issue: …And Justice For All (1988) Garrick: My second-least-visited ‘Tallica album of their first five (save for Kill Em All, which is my least favorite),…And Justice For All nonetheless boasts some killer songs (“One” and “Blackened” in… Read more
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Poetic License
By Patrick Doyle Liberal Arts – English Major Poems about internet videos should exist more. ‘Fail videos’ are little bits of time captured that make us either go “eek!” “ahhh!!!” or “haha.” There is something about them that gives me a great deal of joy. The ones of exceptional pain, not so much, but nonetheless… Read more
