On Tuesday, April 21st, former director of the Australia Institute think tank and Australian National University Professor of Public Ethics Clive Hamilton delivered a lecture to Knox students and faculty entitled “Growth Fetishism and the Climate Crisis.” Introduced by Knox professor Tim Kasser, Hamilton spoke steadily and earnestly about how the world’s preoccupation with gross domestic product was getting in the way of the bigger picture.
“Most countries nowadays measure their prosperity by GDP,” said Hamilton. “Either they’re ...
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This year’s men’s golf team still has some work to do if it is going to follow up last year’s Midwest Conference Championship. Shooting a combined score of 671 during the two-day invitational, the Fire finished 16th and last in the Beu/Mussatto Invitational at Western behind comparably sized Monmouth, in eighth, and Bradley, in sixth. When ...
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Over this past weekend 169 students received an e-mail from Knox faculty member Marilyn Webb concerning the elections for mayor and alderman, which took place on Tuesday, April 7th. According to Dean of the College Larry Breitborde, a misuse of a Knox College Directory will lead to an examination of college policy regarding political campaigning on campus. In a letter ...
Read MoreSal Garza, 45, lives with his wife, Eva, and their three children, ages 18, 14 and five. He worked as a Senior Engineer for Maytag for 20 years, and when Maytag left began a new career leading Illinois’ Workforce Development program “Opportunity Returns Economic Development.” He has since transitioned to a job in the Western Illinois Region, working as a ...
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A report submitted by the Greek Task Force and emailed to the student body yesterday encouraged students who feel they have been hazed to come forward.
After the allegations made against Tau Kappa Epsilon by two of their former pledges two weeks ago, the Knox community has wondered what repercussions might result, but the words published in the report echo ...
Read MoreTwelve students, 11 women and one man, attended the self-defense class taught by Director of Campus Safety John Schlaf this past Sunday, Jan 18. The class, developed as a result of the grievances and demands submitted to President Roger Taylor by S.A.S.S. last year, was the solution to finding a self-defense program that was less time-intensive than ...
Read MoreOver winter break one business disappeared from the community, and before the month was out, a second was to follow. A week before Christmas on Dec. 19th, the gas station on Losey st. burnt down. Around 1 a.m., a police officer driving past the station noticed smoke curling around a neon sign at the front, and after phoning it ...
Read MoreThe Greek Task Force has concluded its series of meetings with students, faculty, and administrators to evaluate the Greek system at Knox.
In March 2008, the Faculty Executive Committee asked that a task force be formed to evaluate Knox’s Greek system as the result of three new colonies forming at the same time. The group was officially formed and ...
Read MoreDue to the recent dip in our country’s economy, several “round two” college building plans, such as adding new boxes to the mailroom and reconstructing Wallace Lounge, have been put on hold.
Students often joke about the “Knox bubble” here on campus; the outside world passes us by without affecting us and we seldom notice. In the past two ...
Read MoreFor the last three weekends, women of Pi Beta Phi and Kappa Kappa Gamma have been getting into their cars, driving twenty minutes north of campus and scaring the pants off people.
This year, the two sororities are trying something new for both of them: a joint philanthropic venture.
“We’re sister sororities,” said senior Pi Beta Phi philanthropy chair ...
Read MoreDavid Nolan has written 18 articles since first writing for The Knox Student Online on February 28, 2008. To date, David's most-read article is "TKE makes changes in wake of allegations".