• Reading with the Beacon: ‘Solitaire’ by Alice Oseman

    Madison Meeks Editor-in-chief mvm7037@psu.edu (SPOILER WARNING; WARNING OF MENTAL HEALTH AND EATING DISORDER DISCUSSION) If you love a good mystery or young adult novel where a love story is not the main focus, then ‘Solitaire’ is the book for you. ‘Solitaire’ is a novel written by famous young adult author Alice Oseman. Oseman is the…

  • Local Eats: Erie Curry House

    Samhi C. Features Editor skc5908@psu.edu The last time I told you about the Erie Curry House in Fall 2023, I told you about how I was going almost every other weekend. The habit has held. ECH is still home to the best chai I have ever had and they let me stay a few minutes…

  • equinox

    by Gemma Malone the flowers begin to bloom one by one by one across my yard in yellow, pink, and blue my garden a color wheel and i think this year maybe it will all work out but i know myself i know this soil and i know the weeds and the rot and the…

  • Note from the Managing Editor: Our Online Presence

    Chase Burdick Managing Editor cxb1345@psu.edu It has come to my attention that the website for The Behrend Beacon isn’t that easiest thing to find and access. For one, the quick response, QR, code that we were previously using turns out to have been expired. That has been fixed for this issue and won’t be a…

  • This New Device Could Help You Control Your Dreams

    Eva Buto Staff Writer evie@psu.edu   Lucid dreaming is a state of consciousness where you are asleep but aware that you are sleeping and able to control your dreams. Most people in dreams see things play out as a movie: things happen and you react to them with no regard to what you actually want…

  • TV Return: ‘Doctor Who’ new season arrives in 2024

    Madison Meeks Editor-in-Chief  mvm7037@psu.edu   After the return of the famous series ‘Doctor Who’ with a Christmas special, the BBC has confirmed that the series will return with a new season in spring 2024. According to the BBC, the new season will be the first full one with the new Fifteenth Doctor, played by Ncui…

  • Kidnapper Pleads Guilty to Kidnapping and Assaulting 13 Year Old Girl

    Charlie Garner Opinion Editor avg6206@psu.edu Steven Robert Sablan, a 62 year old man from Texas, has been found guilty of kidnapping a 13 year old girl. She was rescued after holding up a “Help Me” sign while she was trapped in the back of the man’s car.    According to a statement from the U.S.…

  • Catfished: Teen killed in murder-for-hire plot by offender seeking videos of death

    Madison Meeks  Editor-in-Chief  Mvm7037   ANCHORAGE, ALASKA The villain in the vicious “catfish” murder for hire plot that baited teens into killing a 19-year-old woman was sentenced to 99 years in prison. The perpetrator, Darin Schilmiller, was facing five to 99 years in prison for the murder-for-hire scheme. As he sat in court and cried,…

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