You’ve heard it all before: Entrepreneurs are risk takers, mavericks, probably overconfident, maybe even greedy. But Beloiters on the ground prove otherwise, offering a different perspective on entrepreneurs and their roles in society.
As Beloit pursues its next student union—integrated with a recreation center in a decommissioned Powerhouse—College Archivist Fred Burwell’86 takes us back to Smith, yet another student union shaped from a building with a previous life.
At last fall’s Convocation, the formal ceremony that kicks off the academic year, new students marched en masse to Eaton Chapel along College Street through a phalanx of cheering faculty instead of the other way around.
Each fall, when the college holds a flu shot clinic on campus, the Human Resources Office sends an email to all campus denizens, reminding them to make an appointment.
At a public forum in September, the Beloit community discussed findings of a Sexual As- sault and Campus Climate survey, conducted last spring by the Dean of Students Office.
The stage is set for Beloit’s one-of-a-kind building to open by fall 2019 Beloit’s plans to reimagine a decommissioned power plant along the Rock River as a sustainable, fully integrated student union and recreation center have reached a turning point.
The heartbreaking news reached campus and spread quickly on social media that Darrell Scott, Jr. and Abigail Bohstedt died in a car accident on Aug. 1, 2016, while driving from Chicago to Iowa.