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Senate Perspective: Weighing in on Killer Coke

Thursday, November 5, 2009

At last week’s Senate meeting, the campaign for Killer Coke presented a resolution to ban Coca-Cola products. Although the resolution would have been unbinding, meaning the actual abolishment of Coke products would not necessarily have happened, it would have made a strong statement about the way students feel concerning this issue. Unfortunately, the resolution barely failed by a sixteen-to-fifteen vote, with eighteen votes needed. Here are some of the reasons argued against passing the resolution and our counter points ...

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Bioneers promote environmental change

Conference attracts 65 Knox students

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Bioneers

In a school of 1,300 students, an event with an attendance of more than 20 is a big deal. So what does that say about a weekend long conference, six hours away in which 65 students attend? It says Knox College students are passionate about something. That something happens to be the current global environmental movement.

This past weekend ...

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La Diada de Sant Jordi

Thursday, April 23, 2009

When I studied abroad in Barcelona this past winter term, I learned about the Catalan version of Valentine’s Day called La Diada de Sant Jordi (translated, it means Saint George’s Day), which just happens to be today, April 23! The tradition on this day in Catalunya is for the man to give the woman a single rose and ...

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Creal Zearing

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Creal Zearing has written 3 articles since first writing for The Knox Student Online on April 23, 2009. To date, Creal's most-read article is "Senate Perspective: Weighing in on Killer Coke ".