On Jan. 6, the construction of a 1-million-square-foot Amazon fulfillment center, projected to provide over 500 jobs, was announced by Beloit City Manager Lori Curtis Luther. The warehouse will be located in Beloit’s Gateway Business Park, a development center east of Beloit and north of
The Beloit track and field teams competed at the Red Hawk Invite at Ripon College on Saturday, February 8, against twelve women’s teams and thirteen men’s teams. The women placed fourth overall and the men placed eighth. The competition featured several Midwest Conference rivals, including
From Friday, Feb. 7 through Saturday, Feb. 8, the Winter Meeting of the Board of Trustees of Beloit College was held throughout campus and inside the newly opened Powerhouse. According to the Winter 2020 Meeting Board Book, posted by Executive Administrative Assistant Erica Daniels and
Beloit College honored its 174th birthday with a celebration in the atrium of the Sanger Center for the Sciences on Wednesday, Jan. 29, from noon to 2 p.m. Over 300 students, faculty, and staff filled the first and second floors of the Science Center for
[Content warning: This piece discusses, in detail, scenes of rape and trauma resulting from sexual assault.] Netflix’s new, original limited series Unbelievable begins with a misleading premise but is based, horrifically, on a true story. Episode One tells the story of Marie Adler (Kaitlyn Dever),
Taika Waititi’s latest film Jojo Rabbit is the newest addition to his irreverent and lovely collection of works including Boy (2010), What We Do in the Shadows (2014), Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016), and his Hollywood debut Thor: Ragnarok (2017). If you haven’t seen the
Additional reporting provided by Nathan Marklin’21. On Thursday, Nov. 7, Beloit College hosted Ramón Márquez, the director of La 72 Migrant and Refugee Center in Tenosique, Tabasco, Mexico for a lecture titled “Refugees and Migrants in the Southern Mexico Border Region.” The talk took place
On Sunday November 3rd, otherwise known as the worst day of my life, Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton won his sixth world championship, his third world title in a row, and his fifth in the last six years. But this victory is not a cause
On Mon., Oct. 28 Beloit College’s chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) hosted American diplomat Paul Bremer in Wilson Theater. The lecture was attended by approximately fifty students, faculty, and staff. Bremer spoke for twenty minutes, and answered forty minutes of questions from the
The video footage is haunting. A strange dog-cat-hybrid creature anxiously paces back and forth along the wire cage of its prison in Hobart Zoo, Tasmania (Lutruwita), yawning with its massive jaws. A stiff, black-striped tail sticks out behind it in a straight, boney line; its