Thoughts from the Embers: Rising from the Embers

Thursday, May 21, 2009
By Deana Rutherford

Well, folks, this is it. It’s the seniors’ last issue: next week, we’ll pass the reins to the new folks and get the chance to go to Senior Meeting for the first time ever. It feels weird. I wonder if my body will remember how to sleep on Wednesday nights.

I figured out this week that I’ve made about a hundred issues of TKS. In the four years I’ve been at Knox, I’ve served as ...

Union Board show "Justin Kredible"

Kredible combined comedy and sleight-of-hand to shock and delight

Thursday, May 14, 2009
By Deana Rutherford

Describing himself as “like a magician but cooler,” Justin Kredible drew a full house to Kresge in the pouring rain last night. Kredible combined quick sleight-of-hand and rapid-fire jokes both dirty and clean to make the latest Union Board event a solid success.

Kredible launched his magic career at a young age. After breaking both of his arms at the ...

Five new houses to host campus events

A quick introduction to next year's new theme houses

Friday, May 8, 2009
By Deana Rutherford, Annie Zak, Amanda White, Klayr Valentine-Fossum, Katy Sutcliffe

Tree House

By Amanda White

The Knox Student

The Tree House, a house dedicated to fun, will debut on campus next year. Its residents, sophomores Martha Baumgarten, Sam Martone, Tim Lee, Liz Thomas, Grace Forman, Stef Gordon, Caroline Coatney, Sierra Knechtel, Katie Harte, and Priya Sharma want this house to bring out the childhood fun in everyone.

“This is going ...

Knox Reality comes crashing down

Inebriated students, weather comply with Knox wishes

Thursday, May 7, 2009
By Deana Rutherford

After a massive “scare” that turned into the real deal, Flunk Day 2009 erupted on campus at the crack of dawn on Wednesday.

Members of the senior class knew about Flunk Day first, as senior, Union Board Mascot, and Flunk Day planner Pam Schuller invited them to her house for what might have been the biggest Flunk Day scare in ...

Campus on guard for swine flu

Knox Health Center gearing up to manage potential health crisis

Wednesday, April 29, 2009
By Deana Rutherford

Swine flu, or H1N1, has now joined SARS, West Nile Virus, and bird flu in this decade’s list of panic-prompting pandemics. H1N1 began as a respiratory infection in pigs, but has now begun to spread to humans. As of this writing, there have been 91 cases of swine flu reported in the United States, nine of them in Illinois ...

New prairie plot in the works

The Student Senate Prairie Plot committee hopes for approval to install native plants behind Post

Thursday, April 23, 2009
By Deana Rutherford

Next fall, the Knox campus might look a little more like it did in the old days, when Illinois was a sprawling prairie. The Prairie Plot Committee members in Student Senate are pushing to install a new plot of grasses, wildflowers and other native plants near Post.

Senator Tim Lovett, a sophomore and chair of the committee, said this idea ...

Stephen Bailey steps down as associate dean of the college

Lori Haslem to take Bailey’s place

Wednesday, April 15, 2009
By Deana Rutherford

As of January first of next year, Associate Professor of English and chair of the department Lori Haslem will serve as Associate Dean of the College. The position has been held by Stephen Bailey since 1984, making him the longest-serving Associate Dean in the college’s history.

The Associate Dean deals with academic advising and the Honor Code, among other ...

Mayoral Candidate Margaret Hall hopes to build communication within Galesburg

Thursday, April 2, 2009
By Deana Rutherford

How do you plan to address the safety of off-campus students and Galesburg residents in the greater Galesburg community?

“By helping form more volunteer neighborhood watch programs.”

How do you see Knox fitting into the community at large?

“Knox has been underappreciated for many years. We need to extend through both invitation and direct inclusion of the college faculty and ...

ATP receives faculty approval

After months in limbo, the group can now seek a national affiliation.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009
By Deana Rutherford

Following the unofficial approval of the Student Life Committee and the Student Senate, the faculty voted Monday to allow local colony ATP to progress to the next step in their quest to become a sorority.

In the coming weeks, members of ATP will send a letter to the National Panhellenic Council, which ATP president senior Liz Soehngen described as a ...

New suggestions follow GTF report

Some members of the faculty suggest a different approach to faculty-Greek communications

Wednesday, February 18, 2009
By Deana Rutherford

Last Monday, a special meeting of the faculty was called to discuss the Greek Task Force report and begin the process of acting on it. The meeting was closed to TKS and the student body, minus members of the Greek Task Force and the Student Senate who were present by regulation.

At that meeting, history professor Penny Gold suggested the ...