The Beacon Staff The final month of the semester wa welcomed a few days early as recipients of the 26th annual Student of the Year & John H. Lapoint Leadership Awards. The recognition ceremony was held […]
Congratulations MCCS Students of the Year
SMCC to the TPC
Gio DIfazio In 2011 Tommy Stirling and The SMCC Golf Team, placed SMCC in the national spotlight by winning numerous tournaments and finishing two golfers among the top five in the […]
Baseball and Softball Stay Hungry
With less than three weeks to go in the spring semester, the softball and baseball teams are rounding third base and heading for home plate ending their fall and spring seasons. Arms […]
Transcending the Perfunctory: Portlanders Philosophize Together
Evelyn Waugh Physics Major After entering Portland Public Library, climbing the towering staircase, and finding the ‘Portland Room,’ one is immersed in an atmosphere of scholasticism. A large table sits at […]
Tech Talk: GIMP Your Image Manipulation Program
Nicholas Small GIMP is an image manipulation program. If you are unfamiliar with the term “image manipulation” you might know it better as “Photoshop”. Photoshop was one of the first and […]
Tech Talk: Good Passwords and How to Create Them
Dierdre Lee IT Major Most people aren’t very good at choosing passwords. The two most popular passwords (according to SplashData) are “password” and “123456”. Other popular choices include names of family […]
The Future of Virtual Reality
Christopher Tran IT Major The definition of “Mixed Reality” is the merging of real and virtual worlds to produce new environments and visualizations where physical and digital objects co-exist and interact […]
Look Both Ways
Christian Guthrie CNMS Major Over the past few years, there has been a shift in the culture in the Portland area. It is a new, more chaotic method of how the […]
Divisive Laws Threaten Value of Human Life
Sarah Ford CNMS Major Mississippi recently passed a law that allows discrimination. Business owners are now legally allowed to refuse service to people if they feel that it would violate their […]
Letter to the Editor: On Alex Serrano’s Tedx Piece
Dear Editor, I am writing to complain about The Beacon’s editor for the latest issue of your paper. Your article on TEDxSMCC was critical and way too novel for the context. […]
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