• Obama Announces Free Community College Proposal

    Obama Announces Free Community College Proposal

    By Garrick Hoffman Liberal Arts Major If you’re a future college student, or even currently a college student, you might end up pondering your path of education, so long as Obama’s recent Read more

  • Maximizing Your Smartphone’s Battery Life

    Maximizing Your Smartphone’s Battery Life

    By C. Samuel Belton CTEC Major If you are anything like me, you are at least mildly worried about having enough battery life on your phone to last the entire day, or Read more

  • Tyranny in the Blaine House

    Tyranny in the Blaine House

    Beacon Editorial Staff Feeling frustrated by John Fitszsimmons, the President of the Maine Community College System (MCCS), Governor Paul LePage demanded that the system’s trustees ensure Fitszsimmons’s resignation. If the trustees did Read more

  • Examining Incarceration

    Examining Incarceration

    By Ashley Berry SMCC Student Our prison system is one of the largest in the world, incarcerating roughly 25% of the world’s prisoners. This number is especially monstrous when one considers that Read more

  • Rome and  the US: How Money  Affects Politics

    Rome and the US: How Money Affects Politics

    By Ian Ziller Political Science Major Today we are facing a problem with money in politics, but what are the dangers really? If we look back 2,000 years to the end of Read more