• The Extraordinary Adventures of a Couch Surfer

    By Erik Squire No, I’m not talking about what Tom Cruise did on the Oprah Winfrey show. There’s an amazing website for the low budget traveller called: couchsurfing.org. Couch surfing (CS) is a community made up of travellers and hosts. If you wanted to travel almost anywhere in the inhabited world, all you would have… Read more

  • Book Review: Francois Villon’s The Poems of Francois Villon

    By Patrick Doyle I’m a big fan of the risqué French poets . . . y’know, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Lautreamont, Verlaine. They all had visionary, oftentimes macabre, dazzling verses with a specific “moodiness” that I identify with. Also, their lives were an embodiment of something, some sort of instinctual nature that simply speaks to me and… Read more

  • Enough is Enough: the Death Penalty must Die

    Enough is Enough: the Death Penalty must Die

    By Richard Sawyer We have all heard the phrase “Eye for an eye” from Leviticus before. This is an age-old quote that is clearly older then the Bible itself. It is a statement that is ingrained in Western society and will likely continue to be for some time to come. Our justice system is built… Read more

  • We Be Burnin’ Not Concernin’

    We Be Burnin’ Not Concernin’

    By Erik Squire In the last edition of The Beacon, Richard Sawyer wrote on the pros of legalizing marijuana, his observations are not far off from what I believe. However for the sake of fairness, I do believe both sides of this controversial issue should be evenly represented. Here’s my earnest attempt at that. A… Read more

  • A Summer with the Maine Conservation Corps

    A Summer with the Maine Conservation Corps

    By Garrick Hoffman  Want to work outdoors for a season or two? How about packing on some serious muscles that would make the average Planet Fitness member wonder how you did it? Would you fancy exploring some of the Maine wilderness, meeting new people, and reaping the many enticing benefits that the Maine Conservation Corps has… Read more

  • As the Season Winds Down the Elite Eight is Eyed

    As the Season Winds Down the Elite Eight is Eyed

    By The Beacon Staff With the YSCC post season-tournament just over the horizon, the Lady and Men’s Seawolve basketball teams have been battling it out on the YSCC hardwood floors trying to secure a berth into the tournament that has been branded The Elite 8. As of this writing, on the women’s side of the… Read more