After weeks of anticipation, the results from the Student Government Association election for the 2023-24 academic year were made public last week, with sophomore Charlize Silvestrino elected as executive...
William Gilligan knew right away he didn’t want to be president long-term.
Gilligan stepped into the interim presidency in May 2021, just weeks after retiring from his job as vice president of IT....
By Maddie Barron, Magazine Co-Section Editor April 26, 2023
Emersonians celebrated a year’s worth of sustainability strides and reflected on further increasing climate awareness at the 2022-23 Earthfest on Saturday, an event featuring games and activities promoting...
ChatGPT, a new artificial intelligence program that has the capability to write basically anything can write your essays for you. Emerson community members, along with those at other colleges, are adjusting...
By Olivia LeDuc, Assistant News Editor April 19, 2023
Over 30,000 runners began the race in Hopkinton, running through sporadic rain and a blanket of fog in the 127th Boston Marathon on Monday.
Hellen Obiri, 33, of Kenya, bolted across the finish line...
EmComm, the college’s student-run marketing agency, is collaborating with the Friends of the Public Garden to advertise its “No Smoking” campaign, which will be implemented later this year.
The...
By Bailey Allen, Former news editor April 19, 2023
On April 15, 2013, 19-year-old journalism major Madeline Bilis ‘16 stood on Newbury Street with a classmate by her side and a camera, tripod, and microphone in hand.
Bilis and her classmate, Wendy,...
By Bailey Allen, Former news editor April 19, 2023
Emerson College is set to increase the undergraduate costs of attendance by four percent for the 2023-24 academic year, prompting negative reactions from the student union.
The increase will bring tuition...
By Bailey Allen, Former news editor April 14, 2023
Emerson College is set to increase the undergraduate costs of attendance by four percent for the 2023-24 academic year, according to a community-wide email from Interim President William Gilligan and Board...
Emerson honored actress and alumna Judee Wales Watson ’10 last week by naming the Student Performance Center in the basement of the Little Building after her.
The ceremony, held on April 4 outside...
By Bailey Allen, Former news editor April 12, 2023
Brent Smith will become the dean of Emerson’s School of Communication starting this summer, according to a community-wide announcement from Interim President William Gilligan on Wednesday.
Smith served...
By Olivia LeDuc, Assistant News Editor April 12, 2023
Students gathered and laughed at TikTok and Tumblr references at Emerson Poetry Project’s biannual “Box of Doom” slam competition Monday evening.
Dubbed by the student organization as “the worst...
By Olivia LeDuc, Assistant News Editor April 12, 2023
Over 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators, including Boston-area students and organizers, protested in Copley Square on Sunday, condemning an uptick in Israeli attacks in the decades-long conflict.
Israeli...
Emerson celebrated students and faculty that displayed outstanding academic achievement and teaching excellence in the 2022-23 academic year by inducting selected community members into the college's Gold...
By Maddie Barron, Magazine Co-Section Editor March 29, 2023
The Emerson Prison Initiative held its first conference on Friday in the Bill Bordy Theater.
The program, which offers incarcerated persons at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Concord to...
Activists against gun violence gathered on the National Mall, just yards in front of Capitol Hill on Friday, a day after the parents of a Parkland shooting victim were taken out of a Joint Subcommittee...
By Maddie Barron, Magazine Co-Section Editor March 29, 2023
Dozens of local Boston students met at the Boston Common Parkman Bandstand with March for Our Lives in support of gun regulation on Saturday. The group of predominantly young people served as a ray of...
More than 200 Boston residents, including many senior citizens, rallied on the streets of Downtown Crossing last Tuesday, ardently protesting Chase Bank, Citibank, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo—the...
By Bailey Allen, Former news editor March 22, 2023
Emerson College alumni Daniel Scheinert ’09 and Daniel Kwan ’10 swept the 95th annual Academy Awards with their feature film “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” clinching seven Oscars.
On March...
By Maddie Barron, Magazine Co-Section Editor March 22, 2023
On Sunday, attendees of the 2023 South Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade did not need the luck of the Irish to have a good time. Spirits were high, both in feeling and drink, presumably keeping the crowd...
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