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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

Boston City Hall Plaza in the evening on Monday, October 28, 2024. (Nick Peace/ Beacon Staff, File)
City council deadlocks over resolution to pause and review White Stadium rebuild
53 minutes ago

After nearly 90 minutes of debate Wednesday, Jan. 29, city councilors remained deadlocked on a resolution calling for an “immediate pause” on the White Stadium...

Signage for the 2025 Teach-In on Race outside of the Bordy Theatre in the Union Bank Building on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (Arthur Mansavage/ Beacon Staff)
Annual Teach-in on Race explores future of DEI, liberation struggles, art as resistance
22 hours ago

The Teach-in on Race is an annual series of guest speaker panels and interactive audience discussions hosted by Emerson that aims to provide a space where students,...

The Max Cafe and Market after it's renovations in 2023. (Ashlyn Wang/Beacon Staff, File Photo)
Food for fuel: how does Emerson feed its athletes?
February 8, 2025

Emerson’s dining facilities’ nutritional value and hours trouble their student-athletes. Because they need good food to sustain them in their academics and...

Senior Missionary Elder Butt and Assistant to the Bishop Stephen Patterson catch up over holiday fanfare in the Latter-day Saints' chapel gymnasium. (Bryan Liu/ For The Beacon)
Latter-day Saints celebrate Lunar New Year
February 5, 2025

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints held a Lunar New Year party celebrating Chinese culture in their Cambridge chapel last Friday night.  Latter-day...

A protestor holds up a sign with the word “fascism” crossed out in front of the Massachusetts State House on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (Arthur Mansavage/ Beacon Staff)
Country wide movement to protest President Trump reaches Mass. State House

At noon on Wednesday, protesters wearing keffiyehs and carrying pink and blue transgender pride and rainbow flags gathered at the Massachusetts State House in protest of President Donald...

Super Bowl LIX: The unlikable rematch everybody’s going to watch anyways
Super Bowl LIX: The unlikable rematch everybody’s going to watch anyways
How the Kansas City Chiefs became the most hated team in the league
How the Kansas City Chiefs became the most hated team in the league
Column: How political is the NFL?
Opinion
Column: How political is the NFL?

“This is very much a political Super Bowl, and it all started with a tweet.”  This is how Professor...

Illustration Rachel Choi
Op-Ed
‘Seguimos aqui’: Bad Bunny’s ‘DeBí TiRAR MáS FOToS’ calls us to come home
Illustration Rachel Choi
Op-Ed
The Brutalist’s biggest problem is perfectionism, not AI
Illustration Rachel Choi
Op-Ed
Trump’s immigration policies towards non-white groups spike anxiety
Illustration Helen Armstrong
Op-Ed
If you need AI to write, don’t become a writer.
Boston City Hall Plaza in the evening on Monday, October 28, 2024.(Nick Peace/ For the Beacon, File)
Josh Kraft announces campaign for Boston mayor, takes on incumbent Michelle Wu
February 5, 2025

Just a few months after a contentious presidential election, Bostonians are beginning to prepare for another—this time, for mayor.  On...

The alley entrance to the Walker building casts a beacon of light on the campus.
‘My dream would be a refund’: Unfulfilled promises, under-enrollment, and an uncertain future for health and social change students
February 5, 2025
A year and a half after its integration into Emerson’s curriculum, the future of the health and social change major remains in limbo as it confronts low enrollment and staffing shortages.
Emerson women's basketball players huddle in a timeout against Clark University on Feb. 1, 2024 (Courtesy of Nate Gardner).
Women’s basketball’s win streak ends with loss to Clark University
February 5, 2025

Emerson College women’s basketball’s five-game win streak ended with a 75-72 loss to Clark University on Saturday, Feb 1. It was the first...

Søren Lind (left) and Larissa Sansour (middle) discuss “Entire Nations Are Built on Fairy Tales” with Dr. Leonie Bradbury (right). (Nick Peace/ Beacon Staff)
‘Entire Nations Are Built on Fairy Tales’: Emerson Contemporary’s newest exhibition gives a voice to Palestine
February 5, 2025

On Feb. 4, Emerson’s Media Art Gallery opened a new multi-media exhibition: “Entire Nations are Built on Fairy Tales.” The exhibition features...

Burning down the house: the night America turned red
Burning down the house: the night America turned red
Hacking message. (Internet Archive)
“Nuking a museum”: cyberattacks on a non-profit
A Heaven Burned
A Heaven Burned
Photo by Nick Peace
Experimental hip-hop
Brain. (Creative Commons)
The Comfort Room
(Nick Peace / Beacon Staff)
Let’s get physical: physical media
Repo Man. (Criterion Forum)
Death, consumerism, and UFOs: the absurd nature of 1980s comedies
Phone. (Creative Commons)
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Doug Struck holds the latest issue of Discipline News on Boylston Street outside of Emerson College on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. (Arthur Mansavage/ Beacon Staff)
Discipline News argues it’s ‘reasserting Emerson’s values.’ The college calls it an ‘anonymous propaganda campaign.’
Students at Emerson’s Kasteel Well campus in the Limburg, Netherlands arrived for orientation just days before Trump was sworn in (Bryan Hecht / Beacon Staff).
Some Americans said they would leave when Trump took office. Students studying abroad actually did.
David Methven, piper for the 15th annual Burns supper at The Haven last Thursday night.
‘Everybody gets to be Scottish tonight’: In Jamaica Plain Burns supper honors Scotland’s national poet
Illustration Kellyn Taylor
Class of 2028, this one’s for you
Kim Meadows (left), the Beacon's then editor-in-chief, and Rachel Layne (right), then managing editor and current Emerson Journalism affiliated faculty member, work on laying out the school newspaper, the Berkeley Beacon, on April 12, 1989. (Photo courtesy of the Emerson College Archives & Special Collections)
Editorial: ‘Democracy dies in darkness’: Our statement of transparency
The Emerson College visitor center on Boylston street. (Arthur Mansavage / Beacon Staff, File)
Letter to the Editor: Please pause the blame game!
(Yogev Toby/ Projects Editor)
Bill Gates says DEI has ‘gone too far at times’ in Colonial Theater book talk
Volunteers conducting the Homeless Census in Boston on Jan. 30, 2025. (Hannah Brueske/ Beacon Staff)
Volunteers brave the cold to conduct 2025 Homeless Census
Left to right: bassist Joey Sorkin, drummer Luke Tan, lead guitarist Charlie Silver, frontman Jack Silver, guitarist Kevin Mortenson. (Courtesy Ava Nagy)
Brothers to bandmates: ‘Cut The Kids In Half’ drops debut album
Junior outside hitter Chase Fagen (#5) elevates for an attack against MIT on Jan. 28, 2025 (Rian Nelson/ Beacon Staff).
Men’s volleyball loses to MIT in home opener
Photos: Choose your own character
Photos: Choose your own character