Earlier this month, President Donald Trump announced his plan to posthumously pardon former Major League Baseball (MLB) player Pete Rose. Known as the player with the most hits and as one of the best ...

“A Looking in View” is The Beacon’s newest online-exclusive music review segment. With each edition, our resident metal music aficionado Parker takes a look at an iconic album released in the world of ...

Of all of the power metal bands that would come into prominence in the late 1980s, Blind Guardian could arguably be considered the most forward-thinking of them all. One of several hugely influential ...

As academics, professors and people who are influenced by pedagogy in one way or another, we all have some degree of understanding in terms of world cultures. As children we were instructed to cut out ...

Young and old people are two separate groups of people in society that differ in their behavior, their likes, dislikes and their nature. There are several different ways in which they differ, but ...

Malevolent Creation found themselves right in the thick of death metal’s “golden age” in the early-to-mid 1990s. Despite originally being imports from Buffalo, Malevolent Creation settled quite nicely ...

This year, the National Hockey League (NHL) replaced its traditional all star game format with an international tournament called the Four Nations Faceoff. The league’s best players from Canada, ...

The third annual Athlete of the Year tournament completed its two-day Semifinal Round on Tuesday, advancing two athletes on each side of the bracket to the Championship Round. Action concluded in the ...

Despite freezing temperatures, hundreds came out in support of the SEIU Geisinger nurses’ strike that occurred from Feb. 17-21 across multiple locations. A new contract was not reached during that ...

Every week, The Beacon will offer a chance for majors to be placed in the spotlight. Each student that gets chosen will have a few words to express why they chose the major and how they feel it will ...

On Thursday, Wilkes University’s Programming Board held their “Paws and Unwind” event to destress from midterms. Taking place in the JPAC and Miller Room, this event had many calming activities, such ...

Sydney Allabaugh is the editor-in-chief of The Beacon and will graduate in May 2025 with a degree in Communication Studies. Outside of her work at The Beacon, she is the director of Wilkes Now and ...