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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 College signage outside of the WERS studios in Downtown Boston on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (Arthur Mansavage/ Beacon Staff, File)

Emerson College sells a false dream: A letter from a terminated resident assistant

By A Former Resident Assistant, Guest Author / May 2, 2025
It is disrespectful to disregard my leadership and accuse me of failing my community for allegedly choosing to act within my capacity as a student and an American within my constitutionally guaranteed First Amendment rights.
Illustration Rachel Choi

Letters from the SGA President: My farewell address—reflecting on my presidency and one parting request

By Nandan Nair, Guest Author / April 23, 2025

Well, this is it.  As crazy as it sounds, we're at the end of the academic year, and as well as my term as SGA President.  Reflecting on this year,...

The Emerson College Visitor Center on Boylston Street in Boston. (Arthur Mansavage/ Beacon Staff, File Photo)

Letter: We are concerned about the weaponization of antisemitism at Emerson and nationally

By Concerned Jewish Faculty, Guest Authors / April 16, 2025

Dear President Bernhardt and Provost Socarides: We write as Jewish faculty members at Emerson College to express concern about the weaponization of...

The Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College on Tremont Street. (Arthur Mansavage/ Beacon Staff, File)

We must create art under autocracy

By Samuel Cahill, Guest Author / April 16, 2025

As the United States rapidly recedes into fascism, finding one’s place and purpose is the least of our priorities as young people. How does one operate...

Illustration Rachel Choi

Letters from the SGA President: Meetings, victories and making way for the future.

By Nandan Nair, Guest Author / April 9, 2025

We’re in the home stretch! With March in the books, it’s crazy to think that we have 22 days left in the spring semester. SGA is shifting into transition...

A sign reads "free speech is a constitutional right!" during a protest in March 2025. (Hannah Brueske/ Beacon Staff, File Photo)

Letter from the Editor: What we feared is here and we must face it together

By Adri Pray and Meg Richards / April 2, 2025

The Berkeley Beacon stands with The Tufts Daily. After the detainment in broad daylight of Rumeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student arrested...

Emerson College buildings in Downtown Boston on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (Arthur Mansavage/ Beacon Staff, File)

Letter: Emerson needs a real plan to rebuild our campus culture

By Angus Abercrombie, Guest Author / March 19, 2025

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...

The Emerson College Little Building dorm on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (Arthur Mansavage/ Beacon Staff, File)

Letter: Emerson College must act now to protect its most vulnerable students

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.
Emerson College Walker Building in Boston on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (Arthur Mansavage/ Beacon Staff, File)

Letter: I have no syllabus for teaching during a fascist takeover of the country

By P Carl, Guest Author / March 19, 2025

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...

Pro-Palestine encampment tents line 2B alley at Emerson College on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (Iselin Bratz/Beacon Staff)

Letter: From an SJP organizer: Our encampment failed, and we’ve been failing it every day

By Fadwa Bishara, Guest Author / February 26, 2025
It doesn't take much to realize the encampment failed. If you were there, and knew why you were there, you would know it did.
Emerson College signage outside of the WERS studios in Downtown Boston on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (Arthur Mansavage/ Beacon Staff, File)

Letter: Faculty who demand a blanket student disciplinary pardon must remember the harm that has been done

By Ruth Grossman, Guest Author / February 26, 2025

On Feb. 25, faculty assembly debated a motion for an “immediate end to any and all disciplinary action related to protests, demonstrations, leafleting...

A person holds a sign with the transgender flag in front of the State House. (Brianna Silva/ File Photo)

Letter: Emerson’s refusal to publicly support its transgender community speaks volumes

By P Carl, Guest Author / February 18, 2025
Several administrators say that Emerson doesn’t want to put a “target” on its back. Let's be clear: Trans students, faculty, and staff are suffering.
Illustration Rachel Choi

Letters from the SGA President: We’re investing in the Emerson community, but we need your help

By Nandan Nair, Guest Author / February 12, 2025
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.
The Emerson College visitor center on Boylston street. (Arthur Mansavage / Beacon Staff, File)

Letter from the Editor: Moving forward, together

By Adri Pray, Editor-in-Chief / January 15, 2025
The Berkeley Beacon is, and has always been, an ever-evolving community effort. 
Illustration Rachel Choi & Kellyn Taylor

Letter: Looking back and moving forward

By Merritt Hughes, Dept. Campus Editor / December 11, 2024
The Berkeley Beacon was the first student organization I joined when I stepped on campus in August 2023.
Illustration Rachel Choi

Letter from the SGA President: reflecting on the Fall 2024 semester

By Nandan Nair, Guest Author / December 11, 2024

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...

Berkeley Beacon Archive

Letter: Emerson: why create programs you don’t want to nurture?

By Avanika Lefcowitz, Guest Author / November 13, 2024
Emerson College announced two new majors in Spring 2022: one of them titled Health and Social Change.
Illustration Kellyn Taylor

Letter from the editors: living in Trump’s America

By Merritt Hughes and Ella Duggan / November 7, 2024
Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States. What comes next?
The Emerson College visitor center on Boylston street. (Arthur Mansavage / Beacon Staff, File)

Letter to the Editor: Please pause the blame game!

By Rich West, Guest Author / October 30, 2024
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.
Anna Feder at the Bright Lights Film Series in 2019.

Letter: My termination shows the hypocrisy at the heart of Emerson

By Anna Feder, Guest Author / October 23, 2024
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