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Monmouth College's growing Fighting Scots Marching Band ready to start season
Good musicians will be playing songs about bad men when the Monmouth College Fighting Scots Marching Band makes its football game debut under new director John Eckstine this Saturday night at April Zorn Memorial Stadium. The band, which has nearly do...
Sep 1, 2022, 11:33am EDT
National ag broadcaster Mike Adams to present Monmouth College's Wiswell-Robeson Lecture
Based in Jacksonville, Illinois, nationally syndicated farm broadcaster Mike Adams has been to Monmouth many times. His next trip to the Maple City will be to present Monmouth College's annual Wiswell-Robeson Lecture at 7 p.m. Sept. 12 in Dahl Chapel ...
Sep 1, 2022, 11:30am EDT
Saturday night's alright for Fighting: Scots host Wartburg under lights in football opener
For the past several years, Monmouth College football coach Chad Braun has wanted his team to play the first home night football game in school history. The reason? He thought it would be a cool experience - figuratively and literally - for his Fighti...
Aug 31, 2022, 7:08pm EDT
Monmouth College's Great Lecture Series returns Sept. 3 with exploration of the moon
Although outstanding talks by Monmouth College faculty never went away during the pandemic, the school's Great Lecture Series did, but it will return this fall, starting Sept. 3. The series features Monmouth faculty giving free public talks prior to h...
Aug 31, 2022, 11:50am EDT
Monmouth College grad Abierre Minor '21 named chief of staff for Sen. Mattie Hunter '76
Monmouth College graduate Abierre Minor '21 has joined the team of another Monmouth grad. Minor will serve as chief of staff for Sen. Mattie Hunter (D), who has served Chicago's 3rd District as a state senator for the past two decades. A 1976 Monmouth...
Aug 30, 2022, 3:08pm EDT
Monmouth College's Clay, Hafner valued their summer experience as interns, students in nation's capital
Shay Hafner '23 has spent the three summers between his Monmouth College school years in three different locations. The first two - his hometown of Sterling, Illinois, and Monmouth, where he was a Richard "Doc" Kieft science research program participa...
Aug 29, 2022, 2:19pm EDT
Freshman Natalie Labicki Wins Twice, Scots Tennis Falls to Central
The Monmouth College women's tennis team opened the 2022 season on Saturday with a 6-3 loss to Central College. The match was the first under new head coach Brian Dahlstrom and also the first match on the newly resurfaced Monmouth tennis courts. Fre...
Aug 27, 2022, 5:38pm EDT
Admission Remains Free to Monmouth College Home Athletic Events
The cost of nearly everything might be increasing because of rising inflation rates, but one place remains unaffected - Monmouth College's regular-season home athletic events. Once again this school year, all home regular-season Fighting Scots athleti...
Aug 26, 2022, 11:50am EDT
Monmouth College's new personnel for 2022-23 includes four professors, five alumni
As Monmouth College begins its 170th academic year, there are several new faces filling faculty and staff positions on campus. Some of the faces are familiar, though, as Monmouth alumni have taken on those responsibilities. New to the faculty this ye...
Aug 26, 2022, 10:26am EDT
Monmouth's SOFIA students finish three-week research program, though some 'are not done yet'
As the spring semester wound down last April, Monmouth College formally dedicated its Champion Miller Center for Student Equity, Inclusion and Community. In the three weeks leading up to the fall semester, students dug deeper into the life of 19th-cen...
Aug 26, 2022, 10:21am EDT