Emerson released an update to students, faculty and staff Friday morning concerning the college’s community equity action plan. The plan outlines the college’s commitment to “dismantling systemic...
By Maddie Khaw, Assistant Enterprise News Editor April 21, 2022
COVID-19 precautions have enveloped Emerson’s campus since the onset of the pandemic in 2020. Masks in classrooms, mandatory weekly COVID tests, and designated isolation spaces for COVID-positive students...
Sophomore visual and media arts major Yujun Liu gets texts from his friend in Ukraine, who updates him on the war he is experiencing firsthand.
“He told me he was awakened by the bombing at 5:30 a.m....
By Sophia Pargas, Living Arts Editor December 9, 2021
Upon walking into the Huret and Spector Gallery on the sixth floor of the Tufte Building this week, one is greeted by a professional, vibrant, and emotional exhibition filling the space around them.
The...
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As we reflect on this past suicide prevention month, it’s important to remember the message of September throughout...
By Maeve Lawler, Deputy Enterprise News Editor October 7, 2021
Three Emerson students participated in the college’s orientation volunteer event at St. Francis House, the largest day shelter for those experiencing homelessness in Massachusetts, located in downtown...
By Sophia Pargas, Living Arts Editor October 4, 2021
After 559 days of closed curtains and empty theaters, Emerson Stage kicked off its fall season with a production of “The Late Wedding,” a play about love, marriage, and all of its complexities.
The...
For the average student, being an environmentalist comes with a hefty price tag. Eating organic foods and exclusively supporting eco-friendly brands are expensive choices to make— especially if you’re...
For young people everywhere, looking for employment after graduation has become much more difficult. High competition, little work experience, a pandemic, and the recession it caused, have made it increasingly...
A year into pandemic, professors—forced to straddle the two modalities of hybrid learning—say the new form has proven onerous, while others have learned to work around its constraints.
Last March,...
Emerson will hold the first ten days of spring semester classes online and delay move-in to on-campus residence halls by a week, President M. Lee Pelton announced in an email Wednesday afternoon, 20 days...
By Camilo Fonseca, Content Managing Editor December 1, 2020
Businesses around Emerson’s Boston campus are anticipating a dropoff in sales after most students left for an extended seven-week winter break.
The imminent closure of residence halls and departure...
Emerson will continue to house students and hold classes in the four-star W hotel during the spring semester, extending a deal that put approximately 200 students in the downtown space this fall.
Students...
By Camilo Fonseca, Content Managing Editor November 9, 2020
Emerson’s dining services cut back on the special accommodations traditionally offered to students with allergies and dietary intolerances, making their eating experiences during the pandemic far more...
Mark Leccese never opened his briefcase for class on Nov. 9, 2016.
That day—just after Donald Trump’s election to the U.S. presidency in 2016—a campus mourned.
“The day after the election...
Students living in the W Boston hotel lost wifi early Thursday evening, due to an internet outage in the area.
Students living in the hotel received an email from the Office of Housing and Residential...
By Andrew Brinker, Senior Investigative Reporter October 19, 2020
Boston Fire responded to a fire alarm on the third floor of the Little Building at around 3:45 P.M. Tuesday.
Residents evacuated onto Boston Common and two fire trucks arrived at the scene within minutes...
Every weekend, Tim Schwab, a junior, takes the commuter rail home to Shrewsbury, Massachusetts to work as a shift supervisor at Papa Gino’s pizzeria. Shrewsbury is about 40 miles from campus, a 70-minute...
Emerson will begin linking its daily symptom tracker to student, faculty, and staff ids in October, meaning community members will no longer have to display their symptom tracker results to security guards...
Five months and 11 days after Emerson prematurely shuttered its campuses due to the initial U.S. outbreak of COVID-19, the college officially reopened its newly-retrofitted campus Monday, welcoming thousands...