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Emerson College’s only independent, student-run newspaper since 1947

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Emerson College’s only independent, student-run newspaper since 1947

The Berkeley Beacon

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Owen Elphick is the youngest writer to be published in The Hartford Courant's Poet's Corner. Photo: Cassandra Martinez/ Beacon Staff

Owen Elphick pens way into Poet’s Corner

By Stephanie Shih / February 1, 2018

The largest daily newspaper in Connecticut recently published eight of Owen Elphick’s poems in its monthly Poet’s Corner column, making the sophomore...

Jake Bailey '14 joined the Board of Advisors this past year and has been focusing on alumni donations.
COURTESY OF JAKE BAILEY

Alumni cite student debt for donation reluctance

By Stephanie Shih / December 6, 2017

Since Emerson alumna Anna Correa graduated in 2012 with her masters degree in theater education, she has worked at Emerson Los Angeles as department...

Bailey Galvin-Scott has taken his last semester in Boston as an opportunity to camp instead of sublet off campus. 
CASSANDRA MARTINEZ / BEACON STAFF

Meet the senior living off campus and off the grid

By Stephanie Shih / November 29, 2017

While most off-campus students wake up to the ringing of alarms in their apartments, Bailey Galvin-Scott rises to the chirping of birds in the woods....

Senior Adam Ward took photographs for Jonathan Simkhai and Vogue.
CASSANDRA MARTINEZ / BEACON STAFF

Em Mag editor-in-chief photographs Fall Collection

By Stephanie Shih / November 1, 2017

Amid the commotion at a star-studded Hamptons wedding in July, senior Adam Ward focused his camera and tried to capture every moment. Little did he...

Arasha Lalani speaks to students at PERIOD's first chapter meeting last Friday.
ALARA SIEGEL / BEACON CORRESPONDENT

Freshman brings menstrual movement to campus

By Stephanie Shih / September 20, 2017

With over 100 high school, university, and community chapters established around the world, PERIOD is the largest and fastest growing youth-run nongovernmental...

Photo: Provided.

Entrepreneurs envision future after E3 experience

By Stephanie Shih / September 13, 2017

Since its establishment in 2005, the Emerson Experience in Entrepreneurship program (E3), which results in an entrepreneurial studies minor, has served...