• Boston Marathon Bombings: One Year Later

    By A.S. Kinsman It’s been a year since the Boston Marathon bombings. It was a day that was meant to be spent rallying racers and cheering on the goodness of humanity and celebrate the human body’s potential. This all changed when two pressure-cooker bombs exploded near the finish line in a congested crowd of spectators.… Read more

  • The Last Goodbye

    By A.S. Kinsman It’s been an amazing year in the world of journalism for me. Encouraged by Chuck Ott, the Faculty Adviser for The Beacon, I decided to take up the proverbial pen and dip my quill into the inkwell of journalism. As a writer of primarily fictional stories, I had never really tried my… Read more

  • On Accountability and Resolution… 

    By D.M. Smith In a recent blog post, President Cantor talked about taking accountability asking, to whom and to what must we be accountable? He listed several entities, including us. I’ve also been thinking a lot about a quote from Maya Angelou, I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you… Read more

  • From Behind the Curtain

    By Jason Glynn Well boys and girls, ladies and gents, professors and adjuncts, the moment we’ve all been waiting for has arrived. In your hands you are holding something special. You are holding the last printed issue of The Beacon for the Spring 2014 semester. But don’t worry yet. This summer we will be trying… Read more

  • Literacy & Liberation

    By Garrick Hoffman John Locke, an English philosopher and physician of the 17th century, once was quoted, Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. If I could curtail that quote to just Reading furnishes the mind, I would be content. If reading furnishes our… Read more

  • Letter to the Editor

    In the last issue of The Beacon there was a tactless and very disparaging “Letter to the Editor,” that was written by a self-proclaimed ‘smart student.’ It was a clearly petulant person with an obvious vendetta or animosity towards our chapter or its members. Not only was it laden with grammatical errors which question the… Read more