April 27, 2021

The Parkour Club

2020
By Pam Miller Withers’78
and Arooj Hayat
The Parkour Club by Pam Miller Withers'78

Inspired by a group of parkour athletes in Yemen—who practice their gymnastics-like sport despite their war-torn surroundings—young-adult author Pam Withers joined forces with a mosque youth leader and parkour athlete. The result is the story of a Yemini refugee and parkour star trying to adapt to life in North America.

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A formal tip of the hat to celebrate Beloit’s 175th anniversary comes courtesy of an authentic Beloit top hat, now in College Archives, that belonged to a student named Amos Van Tassel, class of 1887.

This issue’s contributors

Todd Anderbyrne and Nicholas Doret’24.

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