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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

Opinion

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Editorial: What happened to the alley happened to all of us

By Editorial Board / April 23, 2025

The alley is a thoroughfare. A shortcut through the block, two minutes shaved off your Dunkin’ or CVS trip, a direct route from point A to B. But it...

Photo Alec Klusza

As a freshman, Emerson’s silence about the encampment is deafening

By Josie Arteaga, Dept. Opinion Editor / April 23, 2025

It’s been a year since the Emerson encampment made national news, and it continues to haunt the college to this day. Last April, students were arrested,...

Illustration Kellyn Taylor

There are no online spaces for kids anymore

By Bella Nordman, Senior Opinion Columnist / April 23, 2025

Lately, I have been reflecting on my relationship with the internet: From fandoms to reaction videos and subsequently trying to get offline, but I really...

Illustration Rachel Choi

Letters from the SGA President: My farewell address—reflecting on my presidency and one parting request

By Nandan Nair, Guest Author / April 23, 2025

Well, this is it.  As crazy as it sounds, we're at the end of the academic year, and as well as my term as SGA President.  Reflecting on this year,...

The Emerson College Visitor Center on Boylston Street in Boston. (Arthur Mansavage/ Beacon Staff, File Photo)

Letter: We are concerned about the weaponization of antisemitism at Emerson and nationally

By Concerned Jewish Faculty, Guest Authors / April 16, 2025

Dear President Bernhardt and Provost Socarides: We write as Jewish faculty members at Emerson College to express concern about the weaponization of...

The Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College on Tremont Street. (Arthur Mansavage/ Beacon Staff, File)

We must create art under autocracy

By Samuel Cahill, Guest Author / April 16, 2025

As the United States rapidly recedes into fascism, finding one’s place and purpose is the least of our priorities as young people. How does one operate...

Skywell of the Little Building.

No one wants to be friends with their neighbors anymore

By Helen Armstrong, Beacon Contributor / April 16, 2025

Are you friends with your neighbors? Do you know them? Did you meet them after you moved in, or have you never met them?  I ask these questions as...

Illustration Rachel Choi

Between ghosting, gridlock, and graduation panic: Why we still hope

By Mariam Tsintsadze, Beacon Contributor / April 16, 2025

Over the weekend, I fell into a rut of watching feel-good inspirational movies. They did not work.  Halfway through “Good Will Hunting,” I realized...

Illustration Rachel Choi

Letters from the SGA President: Meetings, victories and making way for the future.

By Nandan Nair, Guest Author / April 9, 2025

We’re in the home stretch! With March in the books, it’s crazy to think that we have 22 days left in the spring semester. SGA is shifting into transition...

A Trump supporter wearing a MAGA hat looks toward the U.S. Capitol building as Trump is sworn in for a second term. (Nick Peace/Beacon Staff)

Art will suffer at the hands of the Trump administration

By Helen Armstrong, Beacon Contributor / April 9, 2025

The Trump administration has had a public impact on every aspect of America; from tariffs, to immigration, to egg prices. But while these topics flood...

Illustration Ben Putney

Breaking free from the digital grip

By Bella Nordman, Senior Opinion Columnist / April 9, 2025

There has always been pressure to be online. I remember first getting Instagram when I was 13 because the YouTubers I watched had it. I wanted to fit into...

Graphic Bryce Heilmann

A decade of Disney remakes: Were they ever great or always just “good enough”?

By Bryce Heilmann, Senior Living/Arts Reporter / April 5, 2025

Ten years after adapting arguably its most iconic princess, Cinderella, to live action, Disney has done it again, but this time with the one who started...

A sign reads "free speech is a constitutional right!" during a protest in March 2025. (Hannah Brueske/ Beacon Staff, File Photo)

Letter from the Editor: What we feared is here and we must face it together

By Adri Pray and Meg Richards / April 2, 2025

The Berkeley Beacon stands with The Tufts Daily. After the detainment in broad daylight of Rumeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student arrested...

Illustration Rachel Choi

No gimmicks here: Arnheim, ‘Adolescence,’ and ‘the oner’

By Charlie Desjardins, Dept. Opinion Editor / April 2, 2025

For such a zeitgeist-defining show, “Episode 3” of Netflix’s miniseries “Adolescence” begins in an entirely unassuming place: Psychologist Briony...

Little Building on Boylston St., is Emerson's freshman housing dorm (Bryan Hecht / Beacon Staff).

Paying more, getting less: The student housing crisis

By Mariam Tsintsadze, Beacon Contributor / April 2, 2025

It’s 1:39 a.m., and I’m scrolling through apartment listings like it’s TikTok. Only instead of videos, it’s dimly lit kitchens, crumbling bathroom...

Illustration Ben Putney

Remakes aren’t going away, so we need to change them

By Dante Greco, Beacon Contributor / April 2, 2025

Disney's “Snow White” premiered on March 21 to mixed reviews. Earning a 43% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, many critics were let down by some of the movie's...

Illustration Rachel Choi

Editorial: Want a real education? Take these classes.

By Editorial Board / March 26, 2025

It’s that time again. Class registration can be competitive. Especially with limited availability and requirements to fulfill, the process often involves...

Illustration Ben Putney

The best songs on your playlist are your friends

By Daphne F. Chandler, Beacon Contributor / March 26, 2025

Everyone has spent hours, and sometimes days, mulling over the perfect songs to complete their playlist—especially if that mix is for a friend or loved...

Illustration Rachel Choi

For better or worse, fandoms shape social change

By Bella Nordman, Senior Opinion Columnist / March 20, 2025
I grew up chronically online and stumbled into corners of the internet that someone so young should not have been in.
Emerson College buildings in Downtown Boston on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (Arthur Mansavage/ Beacon Staff, File)

Letter: Emerson needs a real plan to rebuild our campus culture

By Angus Abercrombie, Guest Author / March 19, 2025

It’s been almost a year since our campus watched 118 people get violently arrested in the Boylston Place alleyway. The next day, I worked to ensure the...