Samantha Mullen is the Assistant Sport Editor for the Beacon. Mullen joined The Beacon as a first-year writing for the news section. She then moved over to write for sports in her sophomore year.

As the third installment of the After Hours series, The Weeknd has released his long-awaited project, “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” finishing the trilogy. With this project, The Weeknd plans to “kill The ...

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 ...

The Eugene S. Farley library holds a piece of history within its walls. In 1977, Mrs. Mignonette Fisher’s dollhouse was placed on the first floor and has stayed there since. Fisher traveled during the ...

Welcome to the final winter edition of the Icebox! After three years of keeping it cool with lots of video games, anime and just a hint of Venom, the Icebox series is nearing the end of its time here ...

The Roman Emperor Galerius, in his dialogues with ambassadors of the Sassanid Empire, at that time under Shah Narseh, describes that “Rome and Iran are like the two eyes of the Earth,” which for two ...

My brother and I have been playing video games pretty much everyday for as long as we can remember. It came to us as no surprise when one day our youngest brother Nicky, asked if he could play ...

If you frequent the Icebox, you may remember that I once wrote about beatboxing at the competitive level. Specifically, I was hyping up the Grand Beatbox Battle of 2025 because the roster for this ...

Streaming services used to be all the rage during the mid-late 2010s and especially during the COVID pandemic. Streaming was all we could do in order to watch movies since theaters were closed. All we ...

Since the dawn of time, society has been obsessed with beauty. Our desire to stay forever young or turn back the clock to the days of our youth to be “young and beautiful” is ubiquitous in society.

Leah Smith is an English major at Wilkes University. Smith also minors in Communications Studies and Creative Writing. For 2025-2026, Smith is the Editor-in-Chief of the Beacon. She began her work ...

It’s pretty hard to describe the many important decisions an author must make when they start working on a new book, especially when it comes to fiction stories. Voice, themes, tone, genre and imagery ...