By: The Beacon Editorial Board

Lindsey Wotanis is not a typical fi rst-year instructor. While many would take their first year of teaching to test the waters at their new university, Lindsey decided to dive in at Wilkes. She taught courses, advised The Beacon, organized the prestigious...

By: Andrew Seaman

I struggled to grasp the concept of censorship at private universities during my first few years at Wilkes. Students from other private universities would tell me horror stories from their institutions. To me, Wilkes was that city upon a hill that bucked ...

By: Matthew Gogas

Over the course of the past few months, I have shared many of my own personal observations with all of you. Some of them I do have strong, unwavering opinions about and others were merely written to arouse conversation. This...

By: Cathryn Frear

When I was a kid, I shared a room with all of my three brothers at one point or another. When I was about nine or ten, it stopped. Why? Because we finally had a house with enough room to separate us. But, we still lived in the same house and occasionally ...

By: Adrienne Shellenberger

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By: Dr. Tim Gilmour

In last week’s editorial on the future of the University, The Beacon Editorial Board recounted the story of Benjamin Franklin at the signing of the Constitution of the United States. They noted that, “Franklin wondered whether a carving of a h...

By: Editorial Board

Anyone who is admitted to a hospital for an emergency or must stay for an extended period of time deserves the right to have the person who cares for them most at their bedside. In the past, same-sex couples were not allowed visits from their partners wh...

By: Jacqueline Lukas

Misericordia University recently decided to cut their Circle of Friends program due to lack of funding. The program assisted challenged women through college. Yet, somehow, Misericordia raised all of its salaries for professor, associate professor and as...

By: Michele Flannery

Let me set the scene for you. It is a beautiful spring day, the sun is shining and students are starting to file out of their morning classes. On a jaunt from the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center to the library, you tend to see many people hustling about with...

By: Editorial Board

Questioning the future of the United States, Benjamin Franklin wondered whether a carving of a half sun in Independence Hall was rising or setting during the crafting of the Constitution. One has to wonder the same about the future of Wilkes University a...

By: Matthew Gogas

It is that time of year again: Spring Commencement. This year’s Commencement, which is right around the corner, makes me quite weary. I see a crop of graduating seniors that are completely unprepared to face the challenges of the world. These stude...

By: Anthony Truppo

Imagine one day you are sitting at home eating dinner with your family when a bunch of men break into your home and take you away. You are then locked in a cage where your only options are to stand or turn around. When you are finally released from the c...

By: Dr. Mark Reid

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By: Editorial Board

In my life, I have ...

By: Anthony Truppo

Ever since 9/11, I have been plagued with recurring nightmares of witnessing a nuclear detonation before feeling a most unpleasant sensation of being severely burned by the blast. I know I am not alone, as several others have mentioned having similar drea...

By: Matthew Gogas

Don Mclean’s famous song “American Pie” contains the lyrics “the day the music died.” When he wrote this, he was talking about the 1959 plane crash of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper. Truly it was a sad day in ...

By: Cathryn Frear

I don’t go a day without hearing four-letter words that people have deemed “inappropriate.” The thing about words is that the same people who deem them inappropriate are the people who define them. Therefore, it is the people who use t...

By: Dr. Mischelle Anthony

I don’t know if you’ve heard, but Wilkes is all about community involvement. Perhaps the best part of this job, for a faculty member, is seeing the high-level scholarship that my colleagues and students across campus produce, and how that scho...