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Is wearing the cross as a non-believer cultural appropriation?

By Margarita Ivanova, Beacon Correspondent / April 24, 2024

Opinion editors are not responsible for agreeing or disagreeing with their writers but rather elevate each individual’s specific voice.  This is...

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Some friendships are disposable—and that’s okay.

By Margarita Ivanova, Beacon Correspondent / October 20, 2022

Do you ever pass by the people you once laughed through packs of Pale Ales with, and now approach them with casual gestures and seemingly meaningless small...

Anzhelika Holdobina photographed in Ukraine before the war.

A connection resistant to displacement, battling loneliness during times of war

By Margarita Ivanova / September 17, 2022

It was late February during my study abroad program in The Netherlands when I first heard about Russia’s potential attack on Ukraine. The talk of an...

Writing, literature, and publishing professor Jerald Walker won the Annual Massachusetts Book Award for his nonfiction work.

WLP professor Jerald Walker’s ‘How to Make a Slave and other essays’ wins the Annual Massachusetts Book Award for nonfiction

By Margarita Ivanova / December 9, 2021

Writing, literature and publishing professor Jerald Walker brought home the Massachusetts Book Award for nonfiction this year for his essay collection...

Going home for the holidays is a privilege

Going home for the holidays is a privilege

By Margarita Ivanova / December 2, 2021

This Thanksgiving, following a pandemic, many of my peers and I were able to experience the warm feeling of being able to go home and take in a semblance...

Students' stories highlight the importance of mental health

Students’ stories highlight the importance of mental health

By Margarita Ivanova / October 12, 2021

TW: This article mentions depression, anxiety, and suicide  *Name changed for privacy As we reflect on this past suicide prevention month, it’s...

The spark of a climate revolution

The spark of a climate revolution

By Margarita Ivanova / September 9, 2021

Over the course of the past 20 years, Chevron Corporation, the second-largest oil company in America, has spent billions of dollars trying to silence those...

U.S. media coverage of Palestinian struggles lags behind

U.S. media coverage of Palestinian struggles lags behind

By Margarita Ivanova / September 2, 2021

Calling family is something that the average person sees as routine, not an emotionally grueling task. You talk about your day, maybe complain a bit about...

10 songs that will make the spring season that much better

10 songs that will make the spring season that much better

By Margarita Ivanova / April 22, 2021

Spring is here in Boston (besides the random snow day in April), and the best way to enjoy the warm weather is with new music. This list of alternative,...

Students working on a film set.

Productions amid a Pandemic: how student films are being affected by COVID-19

By Margarita Ivanova, Correspondent / April 1, 2021

Visual media arts majors involved in creative projects outside of school have had numerous opportunities taken away from them during the pandemic. Despite...

Founders of "Hidden Gems of Emerson"

Students set out to uncover creative Emersonian ‘Hidden Gems’

By Margarita Ivanova / February 25, 2021

Three students recently came together to create “Hidden Gems of Emerson,” an online human interest platform that aims to highlight fellow creative...

Jasmine Hawkins

Jasmine Hawkins ‘23 set to produce College’s first predominantly Black musical, Jelly’s Last Jam

By Margarita Ivanova / January 17, 2021

Sophomore theatre and performance major Jasmine Hawkins is set to become the first Emerson student to produce a musical with a predominantly Black cast...