The Office for Inclusive Living and Learning is hoping to bring Beloit College’s campus together with members of the greater Beloit community for a Freedom March on Saturday, Oct. 1 to commemorate the Voting Rights Marches of the Civil Rights Movement and encourage citizens to
Five people were left dead after a gunman opened fire in a mall north of Seattle. Arcan Cetin, a 20-year-old man, was arrested without incident on Saturday, Sept. 25, following a massive manhunt. Four women and a man were gunned down on Friday, Sept. 24,
The Miami Marlins announced on Sunday that José Fernández, one of Major League Baseball’s premier starting pitchers, was killed in a boating accident near Miami Beach. A United States Coast Guard crew on patrol at 3:30 a.m. discovered a 32-foot boat overturned with two bodies
In the midst of a financial crisis, South Beloit city officials are exploring the option of outsourcing fire and police services to the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Department. According to Mayor Ted Rehl, the town is far from making a decision, as they are still unsure
A powerful explosion rippled through the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City on Saturday night, injuring at least 29 people. So far, no major terrorist organizations have claimed responsibility for the blast. Authorities were going through surveillance footage, speaking with witnesses and examining components of
Last week The Round Table published that, in a report released this summer by The Washington Post, Beloit was found to have the ninth-highest rate of sexual assaults in the United States. Last Spring administrators sent out the HEDS Sexual Assault and Campus Climate Survey
Amid rising tensions over worldwide multiculturalism and religious fundamentalism, Islamic head covering remains a complex and often misunderstood issue. Four professors offered their cultural, political and historical knowledge on the controversial topic at a panel called Burkini Blues in Richardson Auditorium the afternoon of Monday,
Another summer in the U.S. meant another stretch of mass gun violence in the world’s most firearm-happy country. According to Mass Shooting Tracker, a nonpartisan and crowd-sourced data outlet dedicated to following all mass shootings in the U.S., there have been 326 mass shootings in
On Aug. 1, Abigail Bohstedt and Darrell Scott Jr — both ‘13 — were driving to a family reunion in Iowa when their vehicle was struck by a truck near Ottawa. Sadly, both recent Beloit graduates lost their lives in the six-vehicle crash. Abigail and
A little over two months after blog Gawker was forced to declare bankruptcy, the website was forced to cease operations. Gawker Media’s six other property sites — Deadspin, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku and Lifehacker — are able to continue under the control of Univision Communications