Three professors promoted, recommended for tenure

Thursday, May 27, 2010
By Anna Meier

President Roger Taylor announced on Wednesday that he had promoted assistant professor of art Mark Holmes and assistant professors of English Nicholas Regiacorte and Barbara Tannert-Smith to the rank of associate professor and would recommend that the Board of Trustees award them tenure. Tenure is assigned on the basis of "candidates' teaching and creative narratives, student evaluations, assessments of academic advising, enrollment data, recommendations from the candidates' academic departments, examples of the candidates' creative work, and evaluations of candidates' creative ...

Knox speaks: Claypool among new senate officers elected

Newly elected state goals for upcoming year

Thursday, May 27, 2010
By Anna Meier

The election results for the 2010-2011 Student Senate Executive Board were released on Tuesday, May 25, with junior Sam Claypool winning the presidency.

“I want to be better at doing what Senate is supposed to do,” she said. “This year, a lot of good ideas came to senate and we passed resolutions, but then they got left in a drawer ...

Students travel far with Fulbright

Three Knox students receive grants to study and work abroad

Thursday, May 27, 2010
By Anna Meier

While most seniors graduating next week will either head to graduate school or into the workforce in the fall, seniors Tasha Coryell, Jessa Dahl and Karin Rudd will each spend a year abroad with the support of Fulbright Fellowships.

The Fulbright Program is one of the most prestigious of its kind in the country. Every year, it awards millions of ...

College's party policy to be revisited soon

Old rules no longer effective, IFC revisits policies

Thursday, May 20, 2010
By Anna Meier

By the end of next year, students can expect to see changes to Knox’s social events policy.

“The policy hasn’t been revisited in over ten years,” Associate Dean of Students Craig Southern said. Southern decided that the policy needed a facelift. “Some of it doesn’t make sense.”

Few students understand the ins and outs of the current ...

WOI gets closer to sorority status

Colony takes necessary steps toward becoming a national sorority

Thursday, May 20, 2010
By Anna Meier

Multicultural sorority colony Women of Influence (WOI) has begun to take steps towards affiliating with a national organization. On Tuesday, the Student Life Committee (SLC) approved them to go before the faculty in the fall.

“The biggest benefit [of nationalizing] will be positive recognition,” said WOI president Sam McDavid, '10. “We’ll be more respected and we’ll be able ...

News Briefs: May 13-May 20th

Thursday, May 20, 2010
By Laura Miller, Anna Meier

BANGOK, Thailand — Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva imposed a nighttime curfew after buildings were torched by rioters as a result of army troops routing anti-government protesters. The protesters are believed to include members of the Red Shirts as well as criminals and “young hoodlums” of the city. Since the protest commenced in mid-March, there have been 74 Red Shirts killed and ...

WOI colony presents progress to SLC

Colony to stay at least through next fall

Thursday, May 20, 2010
By Anna Meier

Three members of colony Women of Influence came before the Student Life Committee (SLC) to address concerns the committee had about their organization last year. These included the group GPA, sustainability of membership and the correlation between WOI’s events and their mission statement.

WOI President, senior Sam McDavid, explained WOI had increased their cumulative GPA to 2.96, recruited ...

Student Senate: Two amendments passed, Killer Coke to move to school-wide vote

Thursday, May 20, 2010
By Anna Meier

The regular weekly meeting of the Knox College Student Senate was held on May 13, 2010 at 7:05 p.m. in the Round Room of the Ford Center for the Fine Arts, with President Heather Kopec as chair.

Treasurer Liesl Pereira presented the club budget proposed by the Finance Committee for the 2010-2011 school year. The budget was approved ...

Coffee, Kaldi's, creativity

Knox professors share their work with local community

Thursday, May 20, 2010
By Anna Meier

Kaldi’s Coffeehouse and Tearoom was packed May 6 as assistant professors of English Cyn Kitchen, Sean Mills and Chad Simpson read from their work.

Students filled every available seat and crowded onto the floor for a chance to hear their professors, all published writers, present their work in an informal setting.

Simpson started off the evening reading three short ...

Knox alumnus aims high

Graduate brings together technology, health care

Thursday, May 13, 2010
By Anna Meier

With multiple aid programs and a spot on Time’s 2010 list of “The 100 Most Influential People in the World” to his name, it’s easy to forget that Matt Berg is only 32. Yet this 2000 Knox alum has not let the spotlight go to his head. Instead, he comes across as a modest, down-to-earth man who has ...