Fall/Winter 2005
Cover Story: What’s Wrong With the World Is... A provocative convocation address by Lynn Franken, vice president for Academic Affairs and dean of the College, kicks off the new academic year. Features: A Blueprint for a Green Campus Beloit is on the verge of making dramatic improvements to campus after completing its first comprehensive master plan. Home Ground: Farmer John Gets Down to the Real Dirt An award-winning documentary film by Taggart Siegel’81 chronicles the life of organic farmer, writer, and wildly original personality John Peterson’72. Waiting for Rain in Mauritania Recent graduate Karin Elisabeth Dahlgren’04 experiences life as an agricultural engineer amid the desiccated landscape of Chegar, Mauritania.	Photo by Collective Eye, Inc. On the cover: John Peterson’72 shows off a head of organically grown cabbage at Angelic Organics, his farm in northern Illinois. Peterson’s life, which for a time dramatically paralleled the rise and fall of the small family farm, is the subject of a new documentary film by Taggart Siegel’81.	Alumni Return to Beloit Homecoming/Reunion 2005 draws hundreds back to Beloit to commune with classmates and revisit campus haunts. Taking Financial Services Where Few Have Gone The United Nations declared 2005 The International Year of Microcredit, a field Robert Christen’78 helped pioneer. Departments: From the President News Athletics Profiles Letters Last Word Contact Us: Editor: Susan Kasten Beloit College Office of Public Affairs 700 College Street Beloit, WI 53511 Ph.: 608-363-2828 Fax: 608-363-2870