Beginning December 18, 2024, Beacon staff will be away from the newsroom for the Emerson College winter break. Daily news coverage will resume on January 13, 2025.
By Zac Olivadese, Beacon Contributor
/ October 17, 2024
It’s 3 p.m. after school, and a young girl sits at a kitchen table, hands holding her head while she studies her English textbook, dreaming of reaching others of different cultures and traveling the world.
For some, Indigenous Peoples’ Day marks a date on the calendar where Indigenous people and allies can come together with a mutual cause. Indigenous Peoples’ Day may also mark a day for people to reflect upon the land they currently inhabit and the Indigenous communities that live there. This is the act of a land acknowledgment.
Since taking over Twitter, Elon Musk has reigned as a tyrant over the app’s policies. He’s changed a variety of harmless features, like the app’s name, but the more pressing matters of his tyranny are the restrictions to privacy and free speech.
Late on a Thursday night in September and via phone call, two long-distance friends and I recounted the details of videos that made us cry that past week.
Recreational drugs have become extremely widespread in recent years. In the ‘50s and ‘60s, smoking embodied coolness and glamour of the early rock ‘n’ roll era; it was a symbol of social status.
Pain is all I felt after I got elbowed in the face during a wrestling match. My nose had broken pretty bad, but in hindsight, breaking my nose was lightwork compared to the surgery I had two years later.
By Merritt Hughes, Opinion Co-Editor
/ September 25, 2024
Journalists have always had a lot of influence when it comes to current events. Especially in this digital age of online journalism—aka X, previously Twitter—how a reporter frames a story is vital.
I left the college for a multitude of reasons, but the main one was the way the Emerson community handled the past year. Not the administration, the Emerson community.
