By The Beacon Staff After a fall that has been relatively quiet, weather wise that is, a Nor-easter visited the coast of Maine over the course of a few days, October 22nd […]
Sailboats Beached
CCleaner: Making your computer run faster
By Ryan Plouffe Is your computer working slower than it should? Try using a free program called CCleaner also known as Crap Cleaner. There are two editions that an individual can choose, […]
20 years of Shawshank Redemption
By Garrick Hoffman Take a look at the IMDb Top 250 list on its eponymous website – a list dictated by users, not just critics or hierarchal IMDb staff – and at […]
Marin on Movies: Fury
By Rebeka Marin Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, and Michael Pena… could David Ayer have chosen a better leading cast for his newest drama “Fury”? I was certainly more than thrilled […]
Dining out on a Student’s Budget: Back Cove BBQ and Pizzeria
By Dierdree Glassford Have your midterms got you in a slump? Do you just wish it were summer again, so you could kick back and relax? Do you wish it were Super […]
Poetic License
By Garrick Hoffman Poetry doesn’t come easily for me. Analyzing it, understanding it, writing it – I’ve always endured a lot of difficulty with it, even despite my title as an enthusiastic […]
America’s Feeble Infrastructure
By Garrick Hoffman August 1, 2007, remains a date of haunting memories for many. During the evening rush hour in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the nearly 2,000 foot-long Mississippi River Bridge, carrying scores of […]
A Glimpse Inside: Sam Underwood
By Garrick Hoffman Sam Underwood is a student here at SMCC who spent his fall season canvassing for the Maine Democratic Party. I recently had the pleasure of interviewing him to discuss […]
Arrogant Dogmatism in American Media
By Rachel York In his essay The Problems of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell uses a term, “arrogant dogmatism,” to describe the personality of someone who has never “travelled into the region of liberating […]
Democracy: Why is it hard in Africa and the Middle East compared to Western Europe?
By Ian Ziller In some nations, democracy has become a long-standing tradition. In countries like the U.S., democracy is such a tradition that we think of it as a core of who […]
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