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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

Letters

Letter: Response to “Emerson Special Olympics Event Draws Hundreds”

Letter: Response to “Emerson Special Olympics Event Draws Hundreds”

January 25, 2020

If you would like to send a letter to The Beacon please email [email protected]. Letters for print must be sent by Wednesday, 6 p.m. EST and not...

Letter: A response to the Marlboro Board of Trustees

Letter: A response to the Marlboro Board of Trustees

By T. Hunter Wilson, Marlboro College Faculty Emeritus / January 25, 2020

If you would like to send a letter to The Beacon please email [email protected]. Letters for print must be sent by Wednesday, 6 p.m. EST and not...

An Asset Transfer Agreement, signed by Emerson and Marlboro, revealed that Emerson expects to receive just over $20 million from the merger.

An open letter on Marlboro College from former Marlboro faculty, staff, and alumni academics

January 20, 2020
Marlboro College community members send an open letter on the potential closure of the college.
Letter: Jan Tarlin responds to “Marlboro College Alumni Association disapproves of proposed merger with Emerson”

Letter: Jan Tarlin responds to “Marlboro College Alumni Association disapproves of proposed merger with Emerson”

By Jan Tarlin, Marlboro College ’76 / January 15, 2020

To the Editor: Writing as just one of the 500 very different people holding very different views who make up the current membership of the Marlboro...

Letter: Abigail Semple on the importance of The Beacon

Letter: Abigail Semple on the importance of The Beacon

By Abigail Semple / December 7, 2019

Abigail Semple is the executive treasurer for Emerson College's Student Government Association. Although it has been a long and rocky semester, we, as...

Letter: Abigail Semple advocates community members to donate to the college's endowment

Letter: Abigail Semple advocates community members to donate to the college’s endowment

By Letter to the editor / October 30, 2019

Abigail Semple is the executive treasurer for the Emerson College Student Government Association. To the editor: At Emerson College, we have a problem....

Letter: Sylvia Spears Responds to "Title IX hiring process failed to involve students enough"

Letter: Sylvia Spears Responds to “Title IX hiring process failed to involve students enough”

By Letter to the editor / October 23, 2019

To the editor: Re “Title IX hiring process failed to involve students enough” (Editorial, Oct. 17) While the editorial makes a valid point about...

Letter: Alumnus responds to "College removes long-time WEBN faculty"

Letter: Alumnus responds to “College removes long-time WEBN faculty”

October 7, 2019

To the editor: Re "College removes long-time WEBN faculty" (News, October 1) The other day, my morning producer called me to check in on a script...

Letter: Students respond to "Person of Color Column: I am from Hong Kong, not China"

Letter: Students respond to “Person of Color Column: I am from Hong Kong, not China”

By Xinyan Fu, Jiachen Liu and Xinyi Tu / April 24, 2019

To the Editor: Re “Person of Color Column: I am from Hong Kong, not China” (Column, April 21) The Living Arts Section recently published a Person...

LETTER: Healing and Advocacy Collective responds to "When 'the best course of action' isn't enough"

LETTER: Healing and Advocacy Collective responds to “When ‘the best course of action’ isn’t enough”

By Letter to the editor / October 16, 2018

For anyone who is reading this, we talk about power-based interpersonal violence, including sexual assault, the Title IX process, and reference some current...

LETTER: Sylvia Spears responds to "When 'the best course of action' isn't enough"

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"

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"

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

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...