By Cali Morrison Carss & Samuel Bovitz One of the Beacon United Unions’ demands from the sit-in came to reality Thursday when an assembly was called to discuss racism and diversity, the main issue at hand from Monday’s sit-in. The administration led assembly took note of teachers’ determination to work with students through the issues…
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How Our Society Deals with Sex Abuse and Why it’s All Wrong
By Daniel Arturi In a world plagued by so many pressing issues it can sometimes be difficult to retain compassion for each individual issue. However, the sexual abuse of minors is worth everyone’s rapt attention and absolute empathy. I myself have a very personal relationship with this issue, as I live a sliver of a…
An Analysis of Sports Pages and The New York Times
By Samuel Bovitz When I first moved to New York City, I was a kid accustomed to reading the LA Times sports page. It was so well done. Bill Plaschke led a crew of great sportswriters, and I slowly started to compile a list in my head of what makes a great sports page or…
The Wolves: A B'Dat Production
By Sanai Rashid Beacon’s intensive theatre arts extracurricular, B’Dat’s, production of The Wolves sure scored a goal in my referee book after watching it on opening night. The Wolves, a play by Sarah DeLappe, follows the ups and downs of a high school indoor soccer team and the drastically different personalities of its members. The…
Sexy Psychos: The Evolution of American Psycho
By Linus Coersmeier The 1991 novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis follows the incredibly suave and successful Patrick Bateman through about two years of his life on Wall Street as it revels in the economic boom of the 1980s. The name may have given a bit of insight on this fact already, but the…
A Victory Lost in the Pool: Alaskan Girl Disqualified for ‘Inappropriate’ Suit
By Cali Morrison Carss This past December, the state of Alaska held its high school girls state championships for swimming. Breckynn Willis, a star swimmer for Diamond High School, swam the 100 fly event and won her heat, her section of the race. This would add a number of points to her team’s overall score…
Two ‘Chips One Night
By Jaiden Fisher-Dayn After a long road to the finals and two amazing seasons, both the boy’s and girl’s soccer teams finished off by winning both the city championships. It started off with the boys, who were facing John Adams in the finals. John Adams’ side of the field was half full with fans, and…
Kanye West – “Jesus Is King” Review
By Maki Nientao Jesus Is King is the latest album from one of popular culture’s most prominent polymaths in the last two decades: Kanye West. After 2018’s ye and Kids See Ghosts, he hasn’t released any new music except for the raunchy Lil Pump collaboration, “I Love It”. However, by early 2019, Kanye had turned…
Gun Violence in Entertainment Media: How on the Screen Translates off the Screen
By Esme Laster After 27 students and teachers were gunned down at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newton, CT in 2012, the head of the Motion Picture Association of America pledged to curb violence in society. “Those of us in the motion picture and television industry want to do our part to help America…
A Closer Look at the SHSAT: How it Helps and Hurts NYC Students
By Tali Lebowitsch This year only seven out of eight hundred and ninety five seats were offered to black students to attend Stuyvesant High School, a specialized high school in New York City. Out of the other seven specialized high schools in the city, only ten percent of the student body consists of Black and…
