Greetings! As part of CNMS 105 I am to write a letter to the Editor of the Beacon. And so here it is; I chose to focus this letter upon the article […]
Letter to the Editor 2
Letter to the Editor 1
Dear Beacon editor, I would like to applaud you for being able to get a gang of college students to be in a room together and write stories for a newspaper that […]
Upholding the Right to Be Stupid: Houston’s Vote Against HERO
By Paul L. Young Like many Americans in presidential election season, a majority of Houstonians last week asserted their constitutional right to be knuckle-dragging troglodytes by rejecting the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance […]
Ethical Dilemmas: A Path to Truth
By Alice Barakagwira Back in Fall 2014, in the Introduction to Human Services course, we were having a conversation about whether there are links between one’s belief in God, or a lack […]
The “Death with Dignity” Movement
By Marilyn Smith California. Oregon. Vermont. Montana. Washington. There has been a dramatic increase in the number of states considering death with dignity laws. Sometimes called “assisted suicide” or “right to die,” these laws […]
Tech Talk
By Laurence F Adams III Spying, collecting, tracking, and processing everyone’s data are par for the course nowadays in America. Before June 2013, with Edward Snowden’s confirmation, it was denied. Even with […]
Wolverine vs. Vegeta
X-Men’s Wolverine (Aiden Bothwell) and Dragonball Z’s Vegeta (Kenneth Reddinger) square off before the SMCC Halloween Dance Party on Thursday, October 29. No blood was shed…this time.
Scholarships
So, you are a little bit of an unconventional student and your thought process goes something like this: “There’s no financial aid available for me “because of who I am.” Well, maybe […]
Hydrate Humanity Continues
Illaria Dana,Education Major The political science classes taught by Julie Mueller and Ellen Moy continue to raise money for water pump for the village of Cameroon. This village has a population of […]
EMT Practice
Last Thursday students in Eric Wellman’s EMSP-225 Medical Emergencies II class worked through an overdose scenario. The goal of the simulation was to understand the ways an overdose affects the victim and […]
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