The Emerson Recognition Achievement Awards, or ERA Awards, took place in the Robert J. Orchard Theater last Friday, where students across all majors were recognized for various extracurricular achievements...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor November 18, 2021
Emerson lifted a suspension of the college’s Turning Point USA chapter this month, allowing the conservative organization to resume on-campus activities weeks after drawing backlash for promotional material...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor November 4, 2021
Responsible for remaking the college’s relationship to student organizations, keeping his colleagues up-to-date with pop culture, and advising the Student Government Association, Director of Student...
By Bailey Allen, Former news editor October 20, 2021
Director of Student Engagement and Leadership Jason Meier will leave Emerson in November to take up a position at Harvard College after nearly a decade at the college.
Meier announced his departure...
The Emerson chapter of Turning Point USA was suspended by the college after the conservative organization passed out controversial stickers that many students saw as propagating harmful anti-Chinese stereotypes,...
By Karissa Schaefer, Staff Writer, Living Arts September 16, 2021
After 18 months of only using Zoom, student organizations are once again filling theaters, staging scenes for film sets, and collaborating with each other to create art. The true on-campus experience can...
Students entering 172 Tremont this semester will be greeted by a new 13-foot piece of art, installed in July, that intends to signify the importance of inclusivity and equity through brightly colored statements...
By Frankie Rowley, Content Managing Editor April 8, 2021
Emerson’s Fraternity and Sorority Life organizations are facing an internal reckoning as they seek to “reimagine” themselves to make recruitment processes more inclusive, hold themselves accountable...
Although Lions Cheerleading just formed this semester, the aspiring club team is already reaching for large goals.
“We’re hoping we could compete in the future, which might take a while after COVID,”...
College officials temporarily rolled back a decision Tuesday that would have prevented first-year students from earning non-tuition credits for their participation in select student organizations.
Student...
Men’s basketball center Jarred Houston was scrolling through Twitter on April 9 when he found out he earned the Emerson Recognition and Achievement Student Leader of the Year Award.
“This means...
By Diana Bravo, Copyeditor/Photographer October 23, 2019
Several student leaders expressed appreciation for the Student Engagement and Leadership Office's workshops helping independent organizations navigate the path toward affiliation.
Emerson Ultimate Frisbee...
By Andrew Brinker, Senior Investigative Reporter October 2, 2019
The Office of Student Engagement and Leadership spoke with Student Government Association members about the progress of EmConnect, the college’s website for student organizations, during their weekly...
The faint scent of dry erase markers constantly lingers in the rooms of 172 Tremont St. ever since the college hired senior comedic arts major Joe Scardilli to create pop culture and meme illustrations...
Turning Point USA—a conservative, nonprofit organization commonly found on college campuses across the country—began the recognition process with Student Engagement and Leadership and the Student...
At issue: Student workload increases
Our take: Don’t take advantage of us
Student organizations are a huge aspect of Emerson culture. And the system was pretty loose. For example, at the Beacon,...
Emerson’s newly reimagined lion mascot fits in well with the student body, sporting a “man bun,” gauges, and flannel.
Senior and graphic designer Mercedes Lamb designed Griff the Lion...
Is your ego that fragile that you have to be busy all the time? This question was raised during a series of four-hour training workshops held by the Office of Student Engagement and Leadership (SEAL)...
The Emerson Poetry Project used to meet weekly in any space they could find: classrooms, the dining hall, the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common. This year though, Vice President Myles Taylor said the...
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