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

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

The Berkeley Beacon

Emersons Title IX office.

Title IX policy review stalls under potential new federal guidance

By Abigail Hadfield, Deputy Copy Editor / April 22, 2019

The college will not implement revisions to its sexual misconduct policy until the U.S. Department of Education issues its final regulations for federal...

Op-Ed: Emerson put my sexual assaulter before me

By Piper Clark / October 4, 2017

The Beacon reviewed documentation and email correspondence around this case to verify its results and timeline. Click here to find further reading about...

Piper Clark, a resident assistant, was one of three students who started the group. Photo by Shafaq Patel

Emerson Buddy System takes off

By Shafaq Patel / December 1, 2016

While students discussed street harassment during Emerson’s Stop Negative Attention in Public spaces week at the end of October, three concerned students...