By Rina Laby, Dept. City Editor
/ November 12, 2025
Is woke really back? It sure seems like it, as Zohran Mamdani begins his transition period in New York City and Democrats elsewhere won their races decisively.
Those...
Distance makes the heart grow fonder, or at least that’s what everyone says. But what happens when distance actually makes the heart grow worried sick...
I’ll never forget crying in my bedroom after a boy in high school told me nobody wanted to be my friend, that everyone found me annoying, and that it...
By Bella Nordman, Senior Opinion Columnist
/ November 12, 2025
Would you think I am attractive based on the way I write? Maybe based on the language I use, or my niches? Not to break the fourth wall, but I wonder this...
A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine posted a suspicious picture of what was undoubtedly the back of a man's head to her Instagram story. At the bottom...
By Jake Semmel, Beacon Contributor
/ November 5, 2025
For the past two years, as an Emerson student living in Boston, I’ve relied on teletherapy once a week instead of traveling over 200 miles back to my...
By Ava Velez, Beacon Contributor
/ October 29, 2025
Around a year ago, my friends decided to go to Red Robin after one of their birthday parties. I had prior engagements and was unable to attend, but was...
It’s officially Halloweekend eve. Soon, as throngs of college students finalize their costumes and prepare official plans for the festivities ahead,...
I’ve had posthumous albums on my mind lately. Not just because I hate them and everything they stand for, but because I’ve been listening to a whole...
Over the weekend, major presidential elections took place in Bolivia, my home country. For the first time in almost 20 years, the long-reigning political...
Our TikTok feeds have been inundated with girls dressed as the Lorax—wearing neon orange nylon bodysuits stuffed with pillows for bellies, big fluffy...
By Soham Gupta, Beacon Contributor
/ October 22, 2025
I have just moved to the United States. The English here is not what I learnt at home.
As an international student from India attending a liberal arts...
As has been widely reported across both local and national news fronts, last Tuesday, Oct. 7, amid a “Flood Downtown for Palestine” rally, the Boston...
By Bella Nordman, Senior Opinion Columnist
/ October 15, 2025
Trying to be sustainable as a college student is like doing yoga on a moving treadmill: noble, but not practical.
The idea and thought to be sustainably...
By Tess Gleason, Senior Opinion Columnist
/ October 15, 2025
In my sociology class last semester, one of my classmates attributed the increased aggression and fighting among middle school and high school students...