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Emerson College’s only independent, student-run newspaper since 1947

The Berkeley Beacon

Emerson College’s only independent, student-run newspaper since 1947

The Berkeley Beacon

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Emerson releases new visual identity amid controversy

Emerson releases new visual identity amid controversy

April 27, 2016

Emerson College introduced its new logo and graphic identity for the school in a meeting last Tuesday. It’s the college’s first comprehensive...

Students walk for Fight for $15 campaign

Students walk for Fight for $15 campaign

April 27, 2016

About 10 Emerson students, organized by the college’s Progressives and Radicals In Defense of Employees (PRIDE), joined thousands last Thursday on...

Year in review: Cultural competency, college-wide

Year in review: Cultural competency, college-wide

April 27, 2016

After students flooded a monthly faculty assembly meeting last spring with demands for cultural competency, President M. Lee Pelton promised change would...

College announces Commencement speakers

April 27, 2016

Novelist Alice Sebold will give the undergraduate address at this year’s commencement ceremony. Poet and essayist Danielle Legros Georges will give...

Kasteel Well program celebrates 30 years

Kasteel Well program celebrates 30 years

April 24, 2016

Emerson’s Kasteel Well study abroad program turned 30 this year. On Tuesday, the Limburg, Netherlands, campus hosted a banquet at De Bunn, a recreational...

Class of 2015 graduates with laughter and words of wisdom

Class of 2015 graduates with laughter and words of wisdom

April 21, 2016

Over 900 students from the class of 2015 graduated from Emerson College on May 18 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. The ceremony featured...

Petition created in response to cancellation of ELA Acting class

April 20, 2016

Students and alumni in the college’s performing arts community have created a petition to voice their displeasure with Emerson Los Angeles’s...

SGA addresses diversity and course offerings for academic initiative

April 20, 2016

The Student Government Association revised the 2015-2016 academic initiative to include increased diversity in curriculum, and broader course offerings...

Students dissatisfied with senior marketing courses

April 20, 2016

Just weeks before walking across the stage at commencement, Lia Brouillard, a senior marketing communication major, said she values the knowledge she’s...

Emerson staff vote to unionize

April 20, 2016

Emerson’s clerical, technical, and professional staff in academic affairs voted last Thursday to form a union with Service Employees International...

First ever TEDxEmersonCollege event held last weekend

First ever TEDxEmersonCollege event held last weekend

April 20, 2016

Updated 4/17/16; 4:20 p.m. Members of the Emerson community were de-coding transphobia, advocating for ergonomic education, and giving a voice to black...

Annual tuition rise reflects higher rate of increase

Annual tuition rise reflects higher rate of increase

April 20, 2016

Emerson has announced its annual tuition and room and board increase, another peg in the decades-long surge beyond national norms.  According to...

Community members walk for survivors of sexual assault

April 20, 2016

Members of the Emerson community participated in the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center’s Walk for Change last Sunday, raising over $200 in registration...

Journalism department to give students laptops

April 13, 2016

The journalism department will issue computers loaded with video editing and other software to incoming freshmen this fall, according to Paul Niwa, associate...

TEDx to talk trans spaces and gay porn

April 13, 2016

From the visibility of the transgender community to why women watch gay male porn, TEDxEmersonCollege will feature six speeches from the Emerson community,...

Rosas remembered for clever comedy and authenticity

Rosas remembered for clever comedy and authenticity

By Laura King, The Berkeley Beacon / April 13, 2016

Last spring, Ishmael Rosas performed stand-up at The Hideout, a bar in Faneuil Hall. He and his friend, fellow Emerson student Natalie Torres, had signed...

4/7 Crime Log

April 13, 2016

Monday, March 28 The Emerson College Police Department investigated a report of an individual who ignored a Securitas guard’s request to stop, and...

SGA grants appeals to em Mag, CPLA, and Emertainment Monthly

April 13, 2016

At Tuesday’s meeting, the Student Government Association granted appeals for two organizations: the Communication, Politics, and Law Association,...

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Annual tuition rise reflects higher rate of increase

By Bret Hauff, Former Managing Editor / April 13, 2016

Emerson has announced its annual tuition and room and board increase, another peg in the decades-long surge beyond national norms.  According to...

New fraternity and sorority organizations look to join campus

April 6, 2016

Updated 3/31/16 Two pairs of students are looking to create new organizations under Fraternity and Sorority Life. One is a social sorority, and the other...