By Garrick Hoffman Liberal Arts Major Many of us are becoming disillusioned to how the media both continually and criminally portrays women: they’re almost invariably thin – too thin – and alarmingly […]
Fat Plus-Sized Fallacies: The Flaws of the Fat-Friendly Media and Movements
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor of The Beacon, I am writing in regards to the article [i]Surfsite Exposed: Inside SMCC’s Dirtiest Dorm[i] in volume twelve, issue eleven of The Beacon. In my opinion this […]
Detached Together
By Lauren Michelle Communications and New Media Major An oxymoron; if you think about it for a moment maybe life is just that. It seems while everything we do, think and […]
Let’s Talk About Race
By Ashley Berry The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is about 50 years behind us, and we have an African-American President for the first time ever, so does that mean the […]
Roman Senate vs. the U.S. Congress
By Ian Ziller Political Science Major When we think of democracy we often look back to the Romans, and by the same extension, we think of the Roman senate as being […]
Metal Up Yr Ass, Part 4: A 5-Part Review of Metallica’s ‘80s Albums
By Garrick Hoffman and Patrick Doyle Liberal Arts and Liberal Arts – English Majors Review of the Issue: …And Justice For All (1988) Garrick: My second-least-visited ‘Tallica album of their […]
Poetic License
By Patrick Doyle Liberal Arts – English Major Poems about internet videos should exist more. ‘Fail videos’ are little bits of time captured that make us either go “eek!” “ahhh!!!” or “haha.” […]
“Get Hard”: Ellsmere BBQ and Wood Grill
By Nicholas James Miller If there’s one thing I’m certain I always will be, it is an extreme cheapskate. Now, I almost never am willing to pay the ten dollars required to […]
University of New England
Interview with Julia Howe
By Nickolas Evan Acker I sat down a few weeks ago with the head coach of the Women’s Basketball Team Julia Howe. We discussed how the season went and how she feels […]
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