By Garrick Hoffman Liberal Arts Major With the fall semester well into action and bounties of students, faculty, and staff alike still lamenting on what seems to be a complete absence of […]
The “New”s of SMCC
From SMCC to Damnationland
By Alexander Balzano Going from graduate to intern has been a fast-pace yet exciting journey. Having just graduated SMCC this past May with a degree in Communications and New Media with a […]
Upcoming Article: The Rocket
SMCC welcomes another new feature to the campus: The Rocket, a compost contraption that will be put to use by horticulture and culinary students to turn food waste into compost. According to […]
Dining With Dierdree
By Dierdree Glassford Major? Hello everybody! Hello readers! This summer has been full of so many adventures, from visiting family in Canada, to swimming in the local watering hole, to getting together […]
Autumn Shows and New Releases
By Garrick Hoffman If you’re an audiophile, bibliophile, cinemaphile, and livemusicphile such as myself (indeed, that I just coined that last term), you’ll be ecstatic to know what kind of entertainment is […]
Beyond SMCC and Still a Seawolf
By The Beacon Sports Staff With the start of a new academic year, new dreams and aspirations for success on the baseball and softball diamonds, the soccer pitch, the basketball court and […]
Midcoast Campus Welcome BBQ is Abuzz
by Rosemary Harkenrider-Crossman On Thursday, September 3rd, while students, staff and faculty enjoyed a welcome back barbeque on the South Portland campus, listened to the Proftones, comprised of SMCC professors, and marveled […]
Student Senate Synopsis
By Erik Squire Education Major The Student Senate conducted its second meeting of the semester last Wednesday, and it went straight to the last minute. We covered everything from the Senate budget […]
SMCC…We’re Still Not Failures
By Ashley Berry Wallethub has recently released a study that casts Southern Maine Community College in a most unflattering light. In the study, they ranked 670 community colleges based on things like […]
African Gospel Singer CD Release
One of seven children, Fiston Bujambi Seba remembers fleeing war-torn Congo with his little brothers in hand and running with thousands of others toward the Rwandan border. Fiston Bujambi (known as Seba […]
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