Opinion
A dose of ethics for magazine classes
December 13, 2012
For a good part of my first four semesters writing and editing this college newspaper, something restrained me from going so far as to call myself a journalist. As far as I knew, I wrote, but didn’t report. I edited journalism, but I wasn’t a journalist. As a writing, literature, and publ...
An Empire State of mind for Emerson
December 13, 2012
Each year, droves of Emerson graduates migrate from sleepy Boston to the bustling epicenters of their chosen industries. Filmmakers and actors head to Los Angeles to pursue work on the silver screen, an easy transition from spending a semester interning and studying in the college’s expanding ...
Have some class; don’t play hookey
December 13, 2012
Despite that fact that these past few months have been a winter washout, students who were kept inside on gray days are now coming out of hibernation in full force. Even the Boston Police have taken notice. “Police say students plan to skip school today” read one headline in...
Editorial: SGA candidate endorsements
December 13, 2012
President—Tau Zaman Finishing the remainder of Jeffrey Rizzi’s elected term has proved uneven, but Zaman’s experience and commitment to SGA suits him to the challenge of leading student government for a full term. With a new start and a laundry list of goals for next year, we urge him...
Letter to the editor from Tau Zaman
December 13, 2012
Dear Editor, I’d like to congratulate the Beacon on dramatically improving the quality of its reporting over the past few years. Overall, I’ve found that your contributors are earnest and professional. This is why I’m disappointed that I don’t see the same qualities in the Beacon&rsq...
Marrying the W, the L, and the P
December 13, 2012
Writing, literature, and publishing. It’s a major unique to Emerson that is the wet-dream of any Wilde-infatuated, Orwell-crushing high school kid — not unlike myself two years ago. While Emerson is ahead of its competition in offering a major that examines all three...
Nonfiction is for facts, not fibbers
December 13, 2012
It’s said that truth is stranger than fiction, but for some nonfiction writers, not even the truth is strange enough. Barely a quarter of the way through 2012, two emboldened storytellers have met intense, highly-publicized rebuke for bending (or completely fabricating) the truth in unambiguously-lab...
Absence policy works for workshops
December 13, 2012
It’s a common complaint heard in the halls of the Walker Building, the dining hall deli line, the smoke cloud outside of the Little Building. The gripe is that Emerson’s class attendance policy that limits unexcused absences doesn’t treat students like adults, and truant students sh...
Editorial: SGA session a frosty Pelton pow-wow
December 13, 2012
At issue: President, trustees, and SGA meet awkwardly to talk money. Our take: Meeting did little to bridge the gap between students and administrators. ___________________________________________________ Preparing for important company can be a stressful endeavor. Some people pull out their best...
Guilty pleasures are best over breakfast
December 13, 2012
Last week, for the first time since 1995, NBC’s Today show ratings dropped below its ABC competitor, Good Morning America. The culprit behind this coup at daybreak was none other than former Today anchor Katie Couric, now under contract at ABC. Executives capitalized on the juicy prospect of p...
Think small for summer internships
December 13, 2012
Long gone are the summer days of the bronze age, the era of our most youthful youth. When we were kids we were welcome, even encouraged, to spend endless hours at the pool until our feet became hardened by the sandpaper deck and our fingers adopted a permanent state of prune-like-wrinkle-ness. But t...
Endorsing Barack Obama
December 12, 2012
There is not a day that has gone by in the past six months where I haven’t thought about the upcoming presidential election. How could I not when 24-hour news channels, Twitter followers, phone bankers, and essentially every person I stumble into conversation with has the same message about the...
