As Election Day approaches, Emerson College students evaluate each candidate’s platforms and consider what positions to take on the four ballot questions before voting this upcoming Tuesday.
The...
By Ryan Forgosh, Staff Writer, News November 5, 2022
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at a rally on Nov. 2 to endorse the Massachusetts democratic candidates for this year’s general election.
Harris, alongside democratic gubernatorial candidate Maura...
Maura Healey (D) is set to face Geoff Diehl (R) in November’s midterm elections for Massachusetts governor after both clinched a victory in the primary election on Tuesday.
Currently serving as attorney...
Over 1,000 miles from the Boston campus, some of Emerson’s 47 Georgian students are vying to send two Democratic hopefuls to the Senate on Tuesday, which would give President-elect Joseph R. Biden total...
By Kaitlyn Fehr, Chief Copyeditor November 18, 2020
When I think of emo music, I used to think of Gerard Way, Patrick Stump, Brendon Urie, or Hayley Williams. After the 2020 presidential election, I now know the truth—President-elect Joe Biden is the...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor November 15, 2020
Some Emerson students woke up on November 7 with a unique sense of hometown pride, seeing their states vote blue for the first time in years. The presidential election had just been called for former Vice...
Four years ago, I had just turned seventeen. I was balancing the stress of school at Medford Area Senior High in Wisconsin, a social life, and the mental toll from losing three grandfathers within the...
Statements from former vice president Joe Biden and President Donald J. Trump struck strikingly different tones, following the Associated Press and several other major other news organizations’ declaration...
By Lucia Thorne, Assistant Lifestyle Editor November 3, 2020
There’s a reason why Google posted a breathing exercise video to its Twitter account.
As the end of Election Day nears, political anxiety is much higher than previous elections. To add on to the...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor November 3, 2020
Outside of the Lower Mills Branch of the Boston Public Library Tuesday morning, a line of Boston voters, all six feet apart, waited to cast their votes in the general election. In that line, dressed...
By Camilo Fonseca, Content Managing Editor November 3, 2020
In the lead up to Election Day, Emerson’s Office of Student Engagement and Leadership established an outreach campaign this semester to encourage students to vote.
Much of the “get-out-the-vote”...
Sophomore Austin Hand used his half a million TikTok followers to help establish TikTokers For Biden, an account rallying young voters behind Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. “What...
This election season, a vast majority of the American population is likely going to vote by mail. The COVID-19 pandemic has upended just about everything in our American way of life, including the way...
What does it mean to vote? When anyone casts their ballot in a normal year, they are fulfilling their civic responsibility as an American citizen. But this November, for the first time in a long time,...
The Student Government Association released its spring general election results Monday, revealing an extremely close race for the organization’s executive presidency with self-described LGBTQ+ activist...
The Student Government Association restructured the way the organization conducts business within its class councils and academic senate ahead of the upcoming spring 2020 elections by expanding the number...
The Boston City Council election this fall is quickly ramping up to be one of the most competitive in recent years with a total of 24 candidates running for 13 seats.
Tuesday, Sept. 24 marks the Boston...
With just over a year and a half until the 2020 presidential election, a new form of fake news is growing more prominent and dangerous than what we experienced in the months leading up to the 2016 election....
As a woman of color, I’m an advocate for an American political landscape with more females and more color. The influx of minorities into higher offices after the 2018 midterm elections shows this shift...
At issue: The approaching midterm election
Our take: Educate yourselves—then vote
Despite our activist culture, most Emerson students did not turn out at the polls during the last midterm...