Next Thursday from 7 to 9 the Knox Democrats and Campus Life are hosting a voter registration event. The school will be deputizing individuals, students and perhaps faculty, who are registered to vote in Knox County, as registrars who can lead you through the voting registration process.

There will be LIVE MUSIC and FREE FOOD.

These Illinois voter registrars and other trained individuals will lead you through the registration process and explain your states’ regulations ...

DENVER, COLO. - Approximately 50,000 people attended events associated with the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colo. August 22-25. Those 50,000 people also visited Denver restaurants, and occupied 17,200 out of the 40,000 hotel rooms in the Metro Area. It was the responsibility of the Denver Heath and Safety Department, in coordination with other agencies, to account for their safety.

Environmental Health Director Karol Holcomb, explained that the department conducted inspections ...

The flowering crab trees that, until a few days ago, were located outside the Ford Center for the Fine Arts (CFA) were planted in the 1960’s and were as old as the building.

“We took them out because they were looking scraggly,” said Facilities Services Director Scott Maust.

Several bushes were also removed to make room for the new plants that will be put in starting next week. Many students felt the removals decreased ...

The first thing Knox College President Roger Taylor said to senior Kelli Refer and freshman Alison Ehrhard when they arrived at his office on April 23 was that he could not talk long, because he had other business to attend to. The three spent 45 minutes in what Taylor termed “a discussion,” rather than a meeting, talking about a list of grievances and demands presented by Students Against Sexism in Society (SASS).

While Refer felt ...

The round room of the Ford Center for Fine Arts (CFA) moved beyond standing room only, to floor space only, for Monday’s faculty meeting.

Junior Randy Geary, president of Inter-Fraternity Council, was among the students in attendance. Within the first ten minutes, he addressed an issue that turned out to be pertinent to the rest of the meeting. He said he, and other students who have approached him in the last week, were disturbed ...