Happiness through the lens of philosophers By Rebekah Marin In the final segment of the Student Dilemma we’ll examine different philosopher’s viewpoints on where happiness comes from, how to attain happiness, and […]
The Student Dilemma, Part 3
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Get Off My Lawn!
The ravings of a chick who is so over it By Koren Sullivan It felt so good to get my old-lady-style complaints off my chest in the last issue of The Beacon… […]
An Awesome Program for Computer Techs
By Najib Ismael Whenever I see an IT technician’s tool kit it is always large. That large tool kit contains a lot of discs and each disc contains at least one program. […]
Tanning: Suicide on the Surface
By Garrick Hoffman Liberal Arts Major If you’re reading this, summer is either right around the corner or is already here. The advent of the summer invariably denotes that we’ll be stepping […]
Skin Cancer Facts, as presented on the Skin Cancer Foundation website.
Each year there are more new cases of skin cancer than the combined incidence of cancers of the breast, prostate, lung and colon.2 Treatment of nonmelanoma skin cancers increased by nearly 77 […]
The Gilded Age
By Ian Ziller Political Science Major Through the 19th century and early 20th there was a period in U.S. political history known as the “Gilded Age,” which was a time marked by […]
We Are Not Failures
By Ashley Berry Liberal Arts Major Governor LePage, please hear us, the Maine Community College System is not a failure. If there is a failure it is your policy of flat funding […]
Maine’s Gun Control Should Not be Lessened
By Ashley Berry Political Science Major Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, Columbine, Aurora, and the list goes on. Everyone knows those names because they carry such immense weight. They are not just names […]
Metal Up Yr Ass: The Final Edition
By Garrick Hoffman Liberal Arts Album of the issue: Metallica, aka “The Black Album” (1991) One of Metallica’s most controversial albums, Metallica exploded on the charts, and has now been certified sixteen […]
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