It’s almost that time of year again. The Wilkes University softball team is gearing up to kick off the 2014 season. After ending last year’s season with a record of 17-23, Wilkes hopes to make this season even better. The women will be kicking off their season Feb. 28, when they head down to Virginia […]

Gargoyles and demons wage centuries-old war over who claim rights to the world and who’s trapped in the middle of it all? Frankenstein’s Monster, played by Aaron Eckhart (“The Dark Knight” & “The Rum Diary”) who gives a new vigilante twist to the classic character created by Mary Shelley in the early 19th century. Frankenstein […]

I’ve read some interesting autobiographical stories. Rock stars, drug users, former prostitutes – they all end up writing books about their escapades for the public to read. What I had never heard before was a story from a stock broker (one that wasn’t in the “get rich quickly” financial section). This summer I picked up […]

When Wilkes University and King’s College get together, it’s always a battle until the final whistle sounds. Year in and year out, in every sport, the schools play highly competitive games against each other, where everything is left out on the court or field. Over the past five years, the two schools’ men’s basketball teams […]

“I am currently an environmental engineering major. I won many awards in high school for wrestling, some of the bigger ones being Tunkhannock Kiwanis champion, Lackawanna league a runner-up, but my biggest achievement by far has to be PIAA District 2, 170-pound champion. It was a surreal feeling because all of high school being a […]

Entering his 14th season at Wilkes University, woman’s softball coach Frank Matthews is looking forward to this upcoming season. With 240 wins, Matthews is the all time winningest coach in school history. In his tenure here, he has made the postseason six times, including a berth in the NCAA tournament in 2006. Wilkes plans to […]

Get ready to embrace your inner hippie or pull off that Grunge look you always wanted because this year’s theme spans multiple decades. “Decades” was selected by students Monday as the most popular theme for this year’s Winter Weekend celebration, beating out several other choices include “fruit from a tree.” “The Decades theme won by […]

The Sordoni Art Gallery will be exhibiting the work of the late painter and teacher George Gabin until May 11 – one of the only times an artist has been on display for an entire semester. Gabin, who died in 2012, was born in 1931 in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn and had been […]

Through a number of celebration events, Wilkes University, along with the Wilkes-Barre community, seeks to remember the accomplishments of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A nonviolent Baptist minister who helped to orchestrate the American civil rights movement was honored throughout the city of Wilkes-Barre on Monday. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is honored each year […]

Senior News Editor Christine Lee is a senior communication studies major with concentrations in journalism, broadcast media and rhetoric and minors in history and political science. She brings three and a half years of experience writing for The Beacon, having served as Life Editor from January 2011 (spring semester of her freshman year) to April […]