Letters

LETTER: Sylvia Spears responds to “When ‘the best course of action’ isn’t enough”

By Letter to the editor / October 16, 2018

Open Letter to the Beacon I would like to express my appreciation to the Beacon and its editorial board for their interest in the hiring process for...

LETTER: Elise Harrison responds to “ECAPS overwhelmed by student demand”

By Letter to the editor / April 27, 2018

Letter to the Editor from Elise Harrison, Director of Counseling and Psychological Services I would like to clarify several things in the article about...

LETTER: SGA Executive Treasurer Ian Mandt responds to “Don’t ask students to fund scholarships”

By Letter to the editor / April 15, 2018

Following the release of the editorial “Don’t ask students to fund scholarships,” I wanted to provide some clarifying information that we were not...

LETTER: Henderson-West responds to criticism of SGA

By Christopher Henderson-West / April 5, 2018

Someone asked me what I thought about what occurred on Tuesday morning, and here's the deal: The flagging of the Multi-Purpose Room on Tuesday morning...

Letter from the Editor: An appeal for trust

By Laura King / March 23, 2017

What if our campus had a source of information it could trust? If we didn’t rely on positively-spun emails from administration, petty gossip from your...

An Open Letter to President Pelton from an Ohio University journalism student

By Ugonna Okpalaoka, E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University / December 11, 2011

Dear President M. Lee Pelton, It's been brought to my attention that Emerson College is now the first school in Boston to give its student government...

An open letter to President Pelton from an Emerson alumna

By Channah Barkhordari / December 9, 2011

Dear President Pelton, I'm writing to you as an Emerson alumna and a former staff member and editor of The Berkeley Beacon. I was disappointed to learn...

An Open Letter to President Pelton from a former Washington Post photographer

By Daniel Sircar, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill / December 9, 2011

Mr. Pelton, My name is Daniel Sircar, and I'm a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I've also been a photojournalist for The...

Letter to the Editor from Chris Girard

December 8, 2011

Dear Editor, The amendment passed by a two to one margin, a landslide, from which we can conclude that us-versus-them arguments are extremely powerful....

Letter to the editor from Lauren MacLeod

December 8, 2011

Dear SGA, I am writing as an alumna (WLP, '07) to express my extreme disappointment with the new constitution, particularly in regards to the funding...

Letter to the Editor from former Beacon editors

By Nathan Hurst, Julie Polovina, Christopher J. Girard, Maria Chutchian, Matt Byrne, Gaby Dunn, Paddy Shea, Andrea Gabbidon-Levene, Kimberly Sanfeliz, Richard Cherewich, Steve Klise, Taylor Stafford, Rebecca Anne Flanagan and Patrick Boyle / December 8, 2011

To readers of the Beacon: It’s with heavy hearts that we learned of the end of student press freedom at our alma mater, following the approval of...

Letter to the Editor from Rosalind Fraser

December 6, 2011

Two years ago, I graduated when SGA was debating the Beacon's funding. I am incredibly disappointed to hear the debate is still raging. I know everyone...

Regarding President Liebergott#039;s response

By Roger House and Pierre Desir / April 15, 2009

We are writing in response to President Liebergott's recent statement to The Beacon on the tenure controversy. We felt compelled to take exception to her...

Beacon typos let reader down

By Billy Palumbo / March 18, 2009

It's hard to pick up The Beacon these days and not be embarrassed by the amount of blatant spelling, grammatical and typographical errors. I don't for...

Focus of fire RA story off-the-mark

By Brent Baughman / October 10, 2007

Well, Beacon. You really blew it. You had one opportunity to lend your 9/27 issue's juicy story about the fired RAs at least a semblance of journalistic...

Bias against RAs was evident in article

By Jennie Palluzzi / April 4, 2007

staff should have caught such a biased statement.,Dear Editor, As an Emerson student, a print and multimedia journalism major, and a Resident Assistant,...

Raising the Dean’s List requirement is not welcome by all

By Max Goldberg / February 7, 2007

Simply raising academic standards doesn't necessarily provide a more "rigorous" or "challenging" environment.,I don't know how "welcome" higher academic...

Setting the record straight on Snelgrove

By Andy Michaels, SGA Vice President / November 8, 2006

The front page of your Nov. 2 issue featured an article titled "SGA denies Snelgrove Scholarship funding." Both this title and article are incredibly misleading. The...

Off-campus lounge story was botched

By Kathryn Reiter, Junior Audio/Radio major / November 8, 2006

Dear Editor, In "Students: Bring in the noise" Associate Dean of Students Sharon Duffy suggests that an active off-campus community "takes effort on...

Letters to the editor

By Kate McDonough Senior, Film/Political Communication / October 4, 2006

As someone who was president of EAGLE for two years and has been highly active within the Emerson GLBT community, I stand strongly behind EAGLE's efforts...