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Illustration Molly Boyke

Sales over songs: What’s up with undercover musicals?

By Olivia Flanz, Beacon Correspondent
February 7, 2024

Opinion editors are not responsible for agreeing or disagreeing with their writers but rather elevate each individual’s specific voice. You are sitting...

Illustration Kellyn Taylor

Guide to a successful single Valentine’s Day

By Merritt Hughes, Co-Opinion Editor
February 7, 2024

Opinion editors are not responsible for agreeing or disagreeing with their writers but rather elevate each individual’s specific voice. We’re a...

Illustration Rachel Choi

Ring, ring: Vibrate(r) on, earbuds in, getting off

By Mariyam Quaisar, Managing Editor
January 31, 2024

Opinion editors are not responsible for agreeing or disagreeing with their writers but rather elevate each individual’s specific voice. Alrighty folks,...

Illustration Molly Boyke

Drawing a blank on animation at The Oscars

By Molly Boyke, Beacon Correspondent
January 31, 2024

Opinion editors are not responsible for agreeing or disagreeing with their writers but rather elevate each individual’s specific voice. I was six...

Illustration Rachel Choi

Out with the old, in with the new; reboots have got to go

By MacKenzie Zwillman, Beacon Correspondent
January 31, 2024

Opinion editors are not responsible for agreeing or disagreeing with their writers but rather elevate each individual’s specific voice. Growing up,...

Illustration Rachel Choi

‘Have you seen THE Jacob Elordi edit?’: The rise of TikTok’s fan edit community

By Maggie Kaprielian, Beacon Correspondent
January 31, 2024

mOpinion editors are not responsible for agreeing or disagreeing with their writers but rather elevate each individual’s specific voice. In a midnight...

Illustration Rachel Choi

New Year’s resolutions suck

By Merritt Hughes, Co-Opinion Editor
January 24, 2024

Opinion editors are not responsible for agreeing or disagreeing with their writers but rather elevate each individual’s specific voice. It’s the...

Illustration Claire Smith

“2024 is the new 2014”: Our incessant craving for nostalgia

By Maggie Kaprielian, Beacon Correspondent
January 24, 2024

Opinion editors are not responsible for agreeing or disagreeing with their writers but rather elevate each individual’s specific voice. Remember when...

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ADVICE: We are SO back, but you have to believe it

By Maddie Barron, Opinion Co-Editor, Magazine Editor
January 24, 2024

Opinion editors are not responsible for agreeing or disagreeing with their writers but rather elevate each individual’s specific voice. Dear Maddie,  We’re...

Illustration Kellyn Taylor

Cheerleading? I’ll cheer for the legitimization of womens’ sports

By Ella Duggan, Assistant Opinion Editor
January 24, 2024

Opinion editors are not responsible for agreeing or disagreeing with their writers but rather elevate each individual’s specific voice. Cheerleading...

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Letter to the Editor: Letter to the President and Provost

December 14, 2023

Dear Jay Bernhardt and Jan Roberts-Breslin, We write to you as members of the Emerson College faculty who approach our duties with civic mindedness...

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Take a Bow: Saying Goodbye to Balletcore.

By Emma Bowen, Beacon Correspondent
December 13, 2023

I didn’t realize until I reached for my decade-old leotard to make a “fashion statement” that I had fallen victim to the pastel, ribbon-adorned teeth...

Illustration by Rachel Choi.

Why is Boston overrated?

By The Editorial Board
December 13, 2023

For nine months of the year, Boston is full of babies. The city seems always to be chock full of college students—so much so that the New York Post,...

Illustration by Meg Richards.

What the hell does “The South” even mean?

By Meg Richards, Staff Writer
December 13, 2023

There are some Northeastern liberals, particularly of the wealthy and white disposition, who think their Northern-ness absolves them of any accountability,...

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Christmas on a budget

By Merritt Hughes, Co-Opinion Editor
December 13, 2023

Christmas and the holiday season can be one of the happiest times of the year. Well, Christmas Day can be.  The weeks between Black Friday and Dec....

Illustration by Rachel Choi.

Panem Today, Panem Tomorrow, Panem Forever: Exploring the Social Implications of “A Ballad Of Songbirds and Snakes.”

By Shannon Garrido and Hadera McKay
December 6, 2023

Citizens of Panem, in the name of nostalgia and not-so-carefully concealed social commentary, the time has come to delve into another dystopian teen drama...

Illustration by Rachel Choi.

Astrology should not be a means of explanation

By Ella Duggan, Assistant Opinion Editor
December 6, 2023

A few weeks ago, I was browsing through an astrology magazine, mulling over year-old horoscopes and astrological book reviews when I stumbled upon an article...

Illustration by Kellyn Taylor.

Home for the holidays: The privilege of taking a break.

By Sydney Thomas-Arnold, Staff Writer
December 6, 2023

It’s that time of year again: the dreaded holiday season. I usually look forward to Southern cooking, caroling, and chestnuts roasting over an open fire...

Illustration by Molly Boyke.

“Babe wake up, a new Beatles song just dropped”: The power of AI in the music industry.

By Maggie Kaprielian, Beacon Correspondent
December 6, 2023

It’s 2023; and the Beatles, a beloved English rock band that broke up in 1970, just released a new song.  Who cares if half the band members have...

Illustration by Rachel Choi.

Cotton Isn’t As Comfortable As You Think.

By Bryan Liu, Assistant Opinion Editor
December 6, 2023

Ethical consumption doesn't exist. I found out last summer in New York when the world’s leading denim heads told me so—this was the Kingpins Show;...

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