It’s been almost a year since our campus watched 118 people get violently arrested in the Boylston Place alleyway. The next day, I worked to ensure the...
As students and members of the Emerson College community, we are demanding immediate action from the administration to protect our most vulnerable peers—immigrant, refugee, and international students—whose safety is increasingly at risk.
I returned to campus yesterday to teach my first class since spring break. I rarely go anywhere over spring break, but this year, I decided I wanted to...
On Feb. 25, faculty assembly debated a motion for an “immediate end to any and all disciplinary action related to protests, demonstrations, leafleting...
We are so back. After a very productive fall semester and much-needed winter break, it’s so nice to be back on campus for the spring semester, my final one in Boston.
When I started telling people that I was the incoming Student Government Association (SGA) President, the first thing a lot of people asked me was “What’s...
Faculty teach—and even implore—students to think critically and to avoid sweeping claims that are unwarranted, based on premature information, or rooted in personal animus.
A big weapon they’re depending upon is shame. They want to make dissidents feel ashamed. At universities around the country, administrators want us to feel guilt
Last month, the president of Brandeis University resigned following declining enrollment, mishandling of student protests, and a vote of no confidence by the faculty. We have the same ingredients at Emerson.
By Hannah Nguyen, Editor-in-Chief
/ September 18, 2024
I spent almost every day during the final two weeks of last spring reporting on the Emerson encampment, from the moment tents were set up to when Boston police forcibly cleared it, and nearly every single event that unfolded in its aftermath.
We write as a group of faculty and staff concerned about the tenor of Beacon opinion pieces in recent weeks. The regulations of specific time, place, and manner of demonstrations, for any cause, do not violate but actually support freedom of speech.
Your passion and concern for the suffering in Israel and Palestine is laudable.
There is tremendous suffering that you can help alleviate by volunteering...
