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Attitude the Name of the Game for Scots' Women's Lacrosse Fall Ball
With their promising season canceled after just three games last spring, the Monmouth College women's lacrosse team entered their 2020 fall ball practice season with a bit of an attitude. "Yeah, I think the returners all had a little bit of a chip o...
Nov 30, 2020, 4:00am EST
Monmouth College Concludes 2020 Fall Semester Classes
Monmouth College 2020 fall semester classes concluded on Tuesday, Nov. 24. Final examinations and projects will take place remotely Monday, Nov. 30-Friday, Dec. 4. Upon completion of fall classes, Monmouth President Clarence R. Wyatt sent the follow...
Nov 25, 2020, 11:29am EST
Baseball's Fall Ball a Time of Rebirth for Scots
With the 2020 spring baseball season shortened to just 10 games, Monmouth College coach Alan Betourne knew his squad was ready to begin the fall ball season. "Everyone was really upbeat and excited," reported Betourne of the first practice back in S...
Nov 16, 2020, 4:00am EST
First-year Monmouth College student Charlie Conkle brings home awards from Security Savings Bank Photography Show
When it came time to pick his next school, Niles West High School graduate Charlie Conkle '24 of Morton Grove, Illinois, chose Monmouth College in large part because of the way it stood out to him at a college fair. Now it's Conkle who's standing ou...
Nov 13, 2020, 3:50pm EST
Chicago Native Dr. Harvey Echols Named to Monmouth College Board of Trustees
Dr. Harvey Echols of Jacksonville, Florida, has been named to the Monmouth College Board of Trustees. A 1981 graduate of the liberal arts college, Echols has worked in the medical profession for more than 25 years. "Dr. Echols is ideal to serve a...
Nov 13, 2020, 3:34pm EST
Scots' Braun Reflects on 21-Game Bronze Turkey Streak
Only a world war and a pandemic could stop the annual Bronze Turkey game between rivals Monmouth College and Knox College. The annual trophy game was halted from 1943-45 during World War II and in 2020 a worldwide pandemic has put the game on hold for ...
Nov 11, 2020, 4:00am EST
Monmouth theatre students hope next production reaches out and touches audiences
Since the invention of cell phones as brick-sized monstrosities in the 1970s, they have risen in prominence and their use has become ubiquitous. Simultaneously, and perhaps consequently, other practices and beliefs have begun to recede. What is sacr...
Nov 10, 2020, 10:32am EST
Monmouth College students reflect about voting in their first general election
When current Monmouth College students prepare to vote in the Election of 2060, they might think back to what a crazy time when they voted for the first time - the Election of 2020, held during a global pandemic when U.S. political polarization was hig...
Nov 9, 2020, 11:30am EST
McClaughry's First Fall Ball with Scots a Productive Venture
Other than poor weather delaying the start of the season, Alexa McClaughry's first softball fall ball practice season at Monmouth College was as productive as she had hoped, even with a pandemic. "Actually, the COVID restrictions on group sizes real...
Nov 9, 2020, 4:00am EST
Monmouth's Simmons honored for Classics Day with prestigious Outreach Prize
Bringing ancient Greece and Rome to life through his ambitious Classics Day events has earned Monmouth College professor Bob Simmons the 2020 Society for Classical Studies Outreach Prize. Simmons brought Classics Day to Monmouth from his previous cl...
Nov 6, 2020, 11:13am EST