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
Beloit College’s Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) is promoting the Sixth Annual Midwest Conference Canned Food Challenge. The group has been collecting non-perishable food and monetary donations for Caritas Food Pantry in Beloit, beginning on October 16 and continuing until November 19. Beloit College is
On Wednesday, Nov. 6 at 12:20 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium, Professor Mariana Hernández spoke about the counter-insurgency in southern Mexico. The event was brought to Beloit by the Autonomous University of Social Movements (AUSM), and organized by Favi Ramirez‘20. Professor Hernández is currently the head
On Friday, November 1st at 12:30 pm Dr. David Anderson Hooker gave a talk entitled “Building a Narrative of Our Shared Future: Doing Community Amidst Global Division and Local Controversy.” This talk was a part of an ongoing lecture series by the Mellon Community Transformation
The 2019 installment of Beloit College’s Richardson Lecture Series featured Dr. Brenna Wynn Greer’94, the Knafel Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and assistant professor of history at Wellesley College. On Mon., Oct. 21, Greer spoke in Richardson Auditorium about her book “Represented: The Black Imagemakers
Students and community members gathered in the atrium of the Sanger Center for the Sciences on the evening of Fri., Nov. 1 to honor the Latin American holiday Día de los muertos by welcoming local ballet folklórico and mariachi groups, eating freshly cooked tamales and
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
Additional reporting from Clare Eigenbrode. On Thursday, Oct. 24, at 10:53pm, the Beloit College campus community received an email from Bruce Heine, Director of Safety & Security, regarding the investigation of a reported “race related hate act” in the dining room of the Tau Kappa
This is preliminary coverage of the various events held on the night of September 10. The Round Table will continue to cover the event hosted by YAF and the SIC Block Party in the coming days. This Thursday, Oct. 10, the Beloit College chapter of
Originally published in the September 23 issue of the Round Table. Last week The Round Table sat down with new Provost and Dean of the College Eric Boynton, who outlined several new plans developed over the summer for Beloit’s academic curriculum, including the newly appointed