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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

Maya Gacina, Former Staff

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Three Emerson students planned and led a protest against Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court. Anissa Gardizy / Beacon Staff

Student Facebook event turns viral

By Maya Gacina, Former Staff / October 4, 2018

Senior Erin Swauger said she sobbed after watching nine hours of the Supreme Court committee hearing on Sept. 27 for the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh,...

Content on Median can be downloaded or saved onto Panopto, Emerson's newest video streaming program.

Median content expires June 1

By Maya Gacina, Former Staff / April 30, 2018

Content uploaded to video streaming program Median will be erased once Instructional Technology Group decommissions the service on June 1. Panopto...

Emerson's campus was blanketed in snow.

What does it take to get a snow day?

By Maya Gacina, Former Staff / March 22, 2018

A nor’easter predicted to drop upwards of a foot of snow loomed over Boston Tuesday, March 13. Emerson students and faculty members waited by their phones,...

Amanda Flower is one of two female employees in the Emerson College Police Department.
MAYA GACINA / BEACON CORRESPONDENT

ECPD lacks gender diversity

By Maya Gacina, Former Staff / November 30, 2017

This year, two of the 28 people employed in the Emerson College Police Department are women. The department employed just one woman last year and...

CreativityKit costs climb

By Maya Gacina, Former Staff / September 21, 2017

The journalism department required that incoming students purchase an over $1,600 model of Macbook Pro, while last year’s freshmen received Macbook Air...