Archives Exhibit: ‘Beloit College Against War: Alumni Stories of Anti-War Movements’

On Friday, April 3, The Beloit College Morse Library hosted an opening for a student exhibit, “Beloit College Against War: Alumni Stories of Anti-War Movements.”

The exhibit, curated by Casper Voca’26, hosted pictures, news clippings, and other various archival materials, along with oral histories from alumni of three different times. 

The Vietnam War, the 1991 Golf War, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq were the three wars that Voca focused on. 

Out of the three time periods, Voca spoke on four similarities across time: Beloit students traveling to Washington D.C. to protest, student organizations spearheading and organizing anti-war protests and events, faculty hosting teach-ins to educate students on the war, and lastly, almost all of the interviewed alumni-activists were largely led by their morals and ethics. 

Alumni who went to the opening felt the Vietnam war was the largest anti-war movement at the school, as the draft directly affected many Beloit students. 

Voca’s project was for their Museum Studies minor, and they are a History and Anthropology double major. A large portion of their past year was spent in the archives, having worked closely with Diane Ray, the college’s archivist, through the summer and throughout the past two semesters. 

The exhibit is open to the public during library hours, on the first floor directly outside the archives. 

_{Featured image: Kaila Nork’26}

_{Additional image: Kaila Nork’26}