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When COVID Hit Home, Scots' Teammates Stepped Up
Campuses across the nation began to empty last March when COVID-19 reached the U.S., but for two Monmouth College student-athletes, they had nowhere to go. What they did have were teammates who had their backs, and their temporary homes. Football's ...
Oct 28, 2020, 4:00am EDT
When COVID Hit Home, Scots' Teammates Stepped Up
Campuses across the nation began to empty last March when COVID-19 reached the U.S., but for two Monmouth College student-athletes, they had nowhere to go. What they did have were teammates who had their backs, and their temporary homes. Football's ...
Oct 28, 2020, 4:00am EDT
Parents' Sacrifices Motivates Monmouth's Baltierra-Chavez
Anyone who comes into contact with Monmouth College junior Ezzie Baltierra-Chavez can just tell there's something extra driving the first generation college student, whose journey began far away from the rolling prairies of Illinois. The eldest of f...
Oct 27, 2020, 4:00am EDT
Parents' Sacrifices Motivates Monmouth's Baltierra-Chavez
Anyone who comes into contact with Monmouth College junior Ezzie Baltierra-Chavez can just tell there's something extra driving the first generation college student, whose journey began far away from the rolling prairies of Illinois. The eldest of f...
Oct 27, 2020, 4:00am EDT
With Halloween approaching, Monmouth College class investigates ancient magic, witchcraft
Ancient Greeks and Romans didn't go door-to-door dressed in costumes, asking for sweets from their neighbors, but they celebrated a holiday in which they could be someone other than themselves and they believed in what we might call the "scary" practic...
Oct 26, 2020, 11:14am EDT
Monmouth professors' interdisciplinary research studies how foreign media is covering election
How Russian, Iranian and Chinese media are covering the U.S. presidential election is the topic of a recent research article by a pair of Monmouth College faculty. Some of the news isn't encouraging for President Donald Trump's re-election campaign ...
Oct 22, 2020, 10:30am EDT
Wunderlich's art exhibit on display at Monmouth College through Nov. 19
When Monmouth College art professor Janis Wunderlich won Best of Show for a ceramic piece at a national juried exhibition last fall, she said the piece depicted "a way to rise above." Now, a year later, she has built an entire exhibit around that th...
Oct 21, 2020, 2:57pm EDT
Trio of Scots' Teams in NCAA 2019-20 Statistics Top 10
While most of the NCAA's national stats rankings for last year's spring sports did not count due to the season-shortened pandemic, Monmouth College did have three top 10 marks from last fall and winter that did count, statistically speaking. Footbal...
Oct 19, 2020, 4:00am EDT
Doner crowned Monmouth College's moot court champion
Monmouth College's Student Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois is also now its moot court champion. Joe Doner '21 of Arlington Heights, Illinois, earned that honor Wednesday evening, topping three other finalists in the 10th Annual Monmouth ...
Oct 15, 2020, 11:15am EDT
Monmouth College to stage 'Enemy of the People' in person and online Oct. 23-31
Monmouth College will turn to two of the most influential playwrights in the history of theatre for its first full-length play of the 2020-21 theatre season. Theatre professor Doug Rankin will direct Enemy of the People by Arthur Miller, which the A...
Oct 12, 2020, 5:57pm EDT