In Defense of Press Freedom

The press has a crucial role to play in keeping people and governments accountable, but lately, journalists around the world have been maligned and silenced–even violently attacked. This spring, with guidance from one of the world’s top advocates for press freedom, Beloit students had the chance to dig deeply into this timely issue.
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Books & Media

General-Interest Books and Media by Alumni Authors

From the president

A Showcase of Love and Support for Beloit
Rick Brooks’69 is co-founder of Little Free Libraries, the book sharing movement with more than...

Beloit: That Unique Place Right Across the Border

Rick Brooks’69 wrote and recorded this audio essay for WNIJ, the DeKalb, Ill.-based National Public Radio affiliate, giving Beloiters within earshot a pleasant surprise when they heard it air live on February 27, 2019.
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Profiles

 

Paying Taxes, Times Two

Running a business and living in London, Rebecca Lammers’07 gets hit twice with taxes from the U.S. and the U.K. She’s lobbying to change that for herself and all Americans living abroad.
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Notebook

Inside the Powerhouse auditorium as it takes shape in the spring of 2019.

Powerhouse Goes from Vision to Reality

Construction on the Powerhouse, Beloit’s one-of-a-kind combination student union and recreation center, makes progress toward completion slated for fall 2019.
Natasha Islam, a Beloit College sophomore, stood quietly all evening in Moore Lounge on March 27....

The Controversial Speech That Never Happened

The Beloit chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, a sanctioned student club, brought the founder of the private military contractor Blackwater Worldwide to campus March 27 to speak in Moore Lounge, Pearsons Hall. More than one protest ensued.
Beloit’s turn-of-the-century baseball teams produced some impressive players, including Ginger ...

Baseball Cards from the Archives

Some of Beloit’s early baseball players made history. Their faces are immortalized on early 20th century baseball cards that were often give-aways with the purchase of cigarettes.
Chemistry major Sarah Farr’19 shoots a handheld X-Ray fluorescence analyzer at a painting in th...

Art and Science

Chemistry and art history students learned to appreciate the overlap of art and science when they collaborated on projects that focused on the Wright Museum of Art’s permanent collection.
Syliva Lopez, professor of Spanish, is surrounded by her students as she received the Underkofler...

Excellent Undergraduate Teaching

Professor Sylvia López was the latest Beloit professor to receive the highest teaching honor given at the college: the James R. Underkofler Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. 

Students celebrate Holi on Chapin Quad by tossing colored powder into the air. The Holi festival ...

Spring Day

Since the 1970s, Beloit students have celebrated one entire day to honor the arrival of spring.
Letters: from our readers

Mentors, More Basic Elmo Sightings, and a Legacy of Paddling

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A New Generation Advocates for the Mounds
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On The Cover

Freedom of the press, one of the critical issues of our time, was a hot topic at Beloit this year, when international press freedom advocate Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalist, served as Beloit’s Weissberg Chair.
Illustration by Brian Stauffer.

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