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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 proposal comes into fruition. Under what’s been dubbed the America’s College Promise plan, about nine million students could benefit from a tenure at… Read more
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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 at least until the next time you find time to charge it. Because all modern smartphones run on lithium-ion batteries, it doesn’t matter… Read more
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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 not meet LePage’s order, LePage insisted that “they’re certainly going to feel the wrath.” Fitszsimmons, after 25 years as the MCCS president, announced… Read more
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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 the United States is only about 5% of the world’s population. It is time to rethink our vast prison system. With statistics as… Read more
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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 the Roman Republic what we see is a lot of corruption. During this time, with wealth and power only in the hands of… Read more
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