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The Berkeley Beacon

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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Students skate, frolic and play the Eskimo way

December 31, 2012

Go to the Little Building or Piano Row. Walk to the nearest elevator. Push the up button for floor 12. Now go into the common room and look out the window....

Bonjour! Voulez-vous parler avec moi, ce soir?

December 31, 2012

"Ou est le crayon de mon oncle?" "Wo ist der Bleistift von meinem Onkel?" "Where is my uncle's pencil?" While certainly a valid question if your uncle...

PostSecret book gets personal on paper

December 31, 2012

So says Frank Warren, and like the secrets he collects, he'd probably rather remain anonymous. Warren, the creator of the weekly PostSecret blog is a humble...

Money matters on the global scale

December 31, 2012

In late September, the American dollar hit a record-breaking low in exchange rates. The current exchange rate for the European Union's Euro is about one...

April Fools: PoMo performance on Boylston

December 31, 2012

A rhythmic free-form chanting could be heard above the strummed chords of a guitar and ukulele, as one student-who wished to be identified only as Docter...

Dot-com dorm delivery services hit-or-miss

December 31, 2012

Foodler.,At seven o'clock Thursday night, three roommates decided to order dinner in from two different online delivery services. At the end of the night,...

Bikers beware: Practice safe city cycling

December 31, 2012

Last year, Kelly Anne Wallace pushed the peddles of her bike through Allston for the final time.,Boston's track record for driving has never been something...

All in the fine print: Keeping your private life private

December 31, 2012

Social networking sites MySpace.com and Facebook.com have fine print that dictates what photos, videos and blogs they can and cannot use for marketing...

College Tonight parties its way across the country

December 31, 2012

Does taking Jell-o shots off of someone's stomach sound more enticing than "poking" them over cyberspace? If it does, College Tonight, the new online social...

Boston#039;s Mortified performers relive embarassment

December 31, 2012

Try to picture yourself, back in your glory days of high school, and remember all the screw-ups that made it feel like hell with textbooks. Mortified is...

Grampy#039;s gas station holds hidden taqueria

December 31, 2012

The restaurant is a welcome addition to the burrito-starved neighborhood of Beacon Hill, and the expanded menu of traditional Tex-Mex taqueria fare, including...

Motivate your muscles for a winter warm-up

December 31, 2012

Freezing temperatures and frigid wind chills shift the focus from self-improvement to survival. Finding motivation to exercise may be harder than ever,...

New toilets criticized in e-mails

December 31, 2012

Gender-neutral status was given to 21 campus bathrooms that were formerly one-person special needs stalls in the Walker Building, Little Building and the...

Orientation hits highs and lows with new students

December 31, 2012

Orientation Leaders (OLs), like cocker spaniels on copious amounts of caffeine, bound up to the car and pull out a terrified new student. After the car...

Staying the courses: The perfect picks for next fall

December 31, 2012

bNutrition and Human Health-SC203/biProf. Joanne Keaveney/i"It was really great because most people at Emerson don't care about science, but we learned...

Where have all the good fries gone? New dorm diner gets served some negative feedback

December 31, 2012

The building, which houses the new Max Mutchnick Center, includes meeting rooms, offices for student run organizations, a state of the art gymnasium complete...

Photo editor stops being polite and starts getting real at MTV auditions

December 31, 2012

What was I thinking? The people on "Real World" are crazy.,When I woke up this past Saturday, my first thought, as usual, was of everything I needed to...

Freshman team delivers jokes, jokes, jokes

December 31, 2012

But can it help turn lives around?Emerson freshmen Matt Lieberman and Seth Inglis think it can. The duo arranged to teach a weekly stand-up comedy workshop...

Emerson grad MAPs a successful life after graduation

December 31, 2012

With classes officially beginning this week, many Emerson seniors may be feeling anxiety that their last "first day of school" has just come and gone....

Campus porn: T amp; A and your RA

December 31, 2012

. "That's why when I was a dancer I got more men at my stage when I wore a business suit than anything else. When I did my striptease, they were seeing...