The Berkeley Beacon

The Berkeley Beacon, established in 1947, is the student-operated newspaper of Emerson College. It is released every Thursday throughout the fall and spring semesters of the college year.

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Rain doesn’t dampen spirits or stars at Boston Calling 2025

2 weeks ago | berkeleybeacon.com | Sam Shipman

Boston Calling 2025 had plenty of holes in its biggest crowds. The empty spaces weren’t from the days that didn’t sell out, or the start of a mosh–it was the thick clumps of mud that populated the Harvard Athletic Complex during the three-day genre eclectic music festival. The festival’s “rain or shine” motto was pushed to its limit, with sights of dirty shoes and plastic ponchos that peppered the crowd all three days.
Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner actually did it. They saved tennis.

2 weeks ago | berkeleybeacon.com | Ella Duggan

It’s 3 p.m. on a sleepy Sunday in Pepperell, Massachusetts, and miracles of the human variety are happening 3,400 miles away on an orange tennis court in Paris, France. There, Spanish wunderkind Carlos Alcaraz has just pried his way to victory over Italian virtuoso Jannik Sinner in the final of the 2025 French Open, and the handsome Euro crowd is in fits and hysterics.
A $360 million-dollar question: What happens to Taylor Swift now?

2 weeks ago | berkeleybeacon.com | Ella Duggan

My senior year of high school was soundtracked by Taylor Swift and the re-recordings of her masters, known as “Taylor’s Version”. My friends and I would drive around our Midwestern suburban town late at night, screaming her lyrics and soaking up our time together before we all departed for college. I had the privilege of seeing her live after my friend fought in the Ticketmaster queue, and I am still indebted to her.
Letter: Commencement, Courage, and Crackdown

3 weeks ago | berkeleybeacon.com | Ella Duggan

The courage of young speakers during this commencement season has been inspiring—and the backlash discouraging. A bold, young class president at MIT, Megha Vemuri, last Thursday in a speech lauded her fellow students for supporting Palestine and condemned the university’s ties with “the genocidal Israeli military.” She was banned from the next day’s commencement ceremony.
Photos: Mass local “Djo” and Post Animal rock a sold-out show at Roadrunner.

3 weeks ago | berkeleybeacon.com | Arthur Mansavage

The Newburyport local and Stranger Things superstar rocked out at his homecoming show. Stranger Things superstar Joe Keery has placed acting on the back burner, returning to the limelight under his Musical alias “Djo.” Djo is celebrating the release of his third studio album, The Crux, through a large-scale tour with his former band Post Animal.
The People’s Party packs Church Street in Cambridge with Fashion, Music, and colossal clothing piles

3 weeks ago | berkeleybeacon.com | Jordan Pagkalinawan

Crowded around a multi-colored mountain of shirts and pants, thrifters of all ages, each with their own unique style, sifted through piles of clothes at The People’s Party block party. Drawn by the promise of $5 clothing piles, food vendors, and live music, thousands of thrifters took over Church Street in Harvard Square on May 17, 2025, for a block party featuring over 100 vendors in collaboration with Select Markets.
Cost of attendance and financial aid assistance will increase for upcoming year

1 month ago | berkeleybeacon.com | Sam Shipman

In an email communication from President Jay Bernhardt on Tuesday, he announced that Emerson College’s tuition and financial aid are expected to rise in the upcoming year. Current students have been told to expect to see a rise in their cost of attendance for the upcoming academic year, along with an increase in their financial aid packages, according to the email.
Why won’t movie studios make movies?

1 month ago | berkeleybeacon.com | Ella Duggan

“We’re saving Hollywood,” said Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos in an interview with Variety, speaking on Netflix’s impact on movies. “Folks grew up thinking, ‘I want to make movies on a gigantic screen and have strangers watch them [and to have them] play in the theater for two months, and people cry, and sold-out shows’ … It’s an outdated concept.” There is no doubt that filmmaking can be a commodity.
Softball falls to Coast Guard Academy in NEWMAC Tournament play-in game

1 month ago | berkeleybeacon.com | Jordan Pagkalinawan

After a six-year drought, the Emerson softball team stormed back into the playoffs as a No. 6 seed, battling the No. 7 Coast Guard Academy Bears in a play-in game on May 5. The postseason berth came after a historic season for the Lions, who finished with a program-record ten NEWMAC wins. Despite various opportunities with runners in scoring position, the Lions fell to the Bears, 7-0.
Emerson softball celebrates senior day with playoff-clinching victory

1 month ago | berkeleybeacon.com | Jordan Pagkalinawan

While most Emerson seniors were prepping for senior week and graduation, the Emerson softball team celebrated with a split against Wheaton College on May 3, locking in their spot in the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference playoffs. Emerson opened the game hitting hard, loading the bases in the bottom half of the first inning and stranding all three runners. In Game 1, Wheaton jumped to an early 2-0 lead in the top of the first on a hard-hit RBI single to left field.