Opinion

The best songs on your playlist are your friends

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

For better or worse, fandoms shape social change

I grew up chronically online and stumbled into corners of the internet that someone so young should not have been in.

Why we need more contemporary media

“The idea of having to photograph a car makes me ill. And the idea of photographing a cellphone is just … death. So, no.” That’s what...

Boston needs ranked choice voting, and Emerson should be on board

Emerson students are filmmakers, writers, artists, journalists, performers, storytellers, activists—and often more than one of those. We are...

LETTERS

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

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...

Letter: Emerson College must act now to protect its most vulnerable students

As students and members of the Emerson College community, we are demanding immediate action from the administration to protect our most vulnerable peers—immigrant, refugee, and international students—whose safety is increasingly at risk.

Letter: I have no syllabus for teaching during a fascist takeover of the country

I returned to campus yesterday to teach my first class since spring break. I rarely go anywhere over spring break, but this year, I decided I...

Letter: From an SJP organizer: Our encampment failed, and we’ve been failing it every day

It doesn't take much to realize the encampment failed. If you were there, and knew why you were there, you would know it did.

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