On average, 47 million prescriptions are unnecessarily written up by doctors and emergency departments per year across the United States. But there’s...
Throughout the college application process, I felt pressured to attend school somewhere far away from my home in southeastern Massachusetts. Everyone...
In a town hall last Wednesday, President M. Lee Pelton announced that Emerson College plans to merge with Marlboro College, a small liberal arts institution...
By Katie Redefer, Former Staff Writer
/ November 13, 2019
As an elementary school student, I was that kid who got yelled at by the teacher for reading in the back of the classroom. With my nose tucked into The...
I learned about the protests in Chile while having dinner with a friend who works as a telescope researcher in Chilean labs for the University of California,...
*Content Warning: This article discuses themes of disordered eating and body image.
In high school, I used to cry in the mornings as I got dressed for...
Last week, Student Government Association Executive Treasurer Abigail Semple wrote in a letter to the editor, “At Emerson College, we have a problem.”
She...
This Monday, the registrar’s office shut down class registration for students with 92 or more credits following a technical issue. According to an email...
Last semester, I took the Fundamentals of Speech Communication class everyone is required to take at Emerson. We completed several group speech presentations,...
By Abigail Hadfield, Former Deputy Copy Editor
/ November 6, 2019
As a journalist, I try to follow as many diverse voices on Twitter as possible. I follow journalists from news outlets I like, from ones I don’t like,...
With all of the hate and prejudice in the world, who knew teenage girls wearing oversized T-shirts and scrunchies would be the bane of our society’s...
One year has passed since the shooter in the Tree of Life Synagogue took eleven innocent lives during Shabbat services on Oct. 27, 2018. The Tree of Life...
When The Beacon’s Editor-in-Chief Chris Van Buskirk stepped before the Student Government Association last week to present an amendment, he cited the...
Abigail Semple is the executive treasurer for the Emerson College Student Government Association.
To the editor:
At Emerson College, we have a problem....
My high school selected The Laramie Project for its fall production during my senior year. This was a shock to me, knowing my town and the conservative...
