By Erik T.X. Squire In Mr. Obama’s State of the Union speech he said he would raise the minimum wage to $10.10 through the power of executive order. As the POTUS said […]
Analysing the $10.10 Minimum Wage
Memorable Sports Facts: February 18, 1988
By The Beacon Staff The reason why [quadruple-double] is such a hard thing to accomplish is because it requires a player to be completely dominant on both ends of the court without […]
MISSING PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN
by Patrick Doyle On Sunday, February 2nd, actor and director Philip Seymour Hoffman was discovered in his office in Greenwich Village dead of an apparent heroin overdose. He was 46. Among friends […]
Sabering Hollywood: The Monuments Men (2014)
by Sabra Schirm “A Monumental Waste of Time” is the only way to describe George Clooney’s latest cinematic embarrassment. Based on actual events, The Monuments Men tells the story of the unlikely […]
Let’s Rethink This (?)
By Richard Sawyer Someone who is likely to be to be drafted into the NFL has come out as gay. Does this matter? No. All that matters is if the offensive tackle can […]
Bittersweet Baby
By A.S. Kinsman For all of the fathers or husbands out there, it’s a nightmare. The thought of the unimaginable happening is an all-too-real possibility. For anyone, it can happen in a […]
From Behind the Curtain
By Jason Glynn Can you believe that we are 6 weeks into this semester already? Time flies when you’re having fun right? As college students, we can often find ourselves locked up […]
Making their Mark
A.S. Kinsman For anyone who’s traveled in the Greater Portland lately, they’ve noticed graffiti defacing and defiling, it seems, almost everything that resides within the zip code.Squiggly, balloon-like, colored, impossible to decipher […]
SMCC Tech Talk .
Use Windows Safe Mode, before you throw your Computer out the window By Robert B Wiseman Imagine going to your computer and turning it on, only to realize something is wrong. The […]
The Science Watchroom
Creation vs. Evolution: The Great Debate…Still? By Jason Glynn How did we get here? This is a question that has plagued the minds of men and women since we could think. There […]
The SMCC Beacon 