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A Refugee Again: Iraq from the Inside
By Maisarah Miskoon The Beacon has featured many stories of student summer expeditions,… Read more
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That’s Awkward
By Rachel Flowers So, I have 130,000 miles on my truck. I drive everywhere! Going to school or to a friend’s house, I always have my truck. My truck is comfortable to me. So comfortable in fact, that it is the only place besides the shower where I can sing and dance obnoxiously and not… Read more
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Tech Talk: Choosing Anti-Virus Software
By Lawrence Durant CMPT235 Senior Seminar Computer Technology Choosing the right antivirus software can be a confusing and daunting issue, one that can make you want to “shelve” the idea until later. What can lead one to put off free or purchased software? The vast choices of products out there for software and what they… Read more
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My Euro-trip: Prague – The City of a Hundred Spires
By Erik Squire Here it is, my third edition, revealing to you, my journeys through Europe. In the first two issues of the Beacon, I wrote of my sojourn in Spain and gallivanting in Germany. This edition is dedicated to the incredible Prague. The trip to Prague started out a little rough, because the rideshare… Read more
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Alestorm: Sunset On The Golden Age
By Nicholas James Miller I truthfully didn’t enjoy my job working the dinner shifts at a nameless restaurant when I was sixteen years old. My entire sleep cycle for the school year was ruined by those late nights, getting let out of work at 2am, then sleeping all day. On the bright side though, every… Read more
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Under The Banner of Heaven: An Overview
By Garrick Hoffman Jon Krakauer earned himself a reputation in the wake of his success with his adventure-themed nonfiction novels Into The Wild and Into Thin Air, both published in the late ‘90s. In 2003, however, he decided to take a different route for his novel Under The Banner of Heaven, a book exploring Mormonism… Read more
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