Students seek to bring a climbing wall to Knox

Freshman Ben Robbins speaks about the benefits of having a climbing wall at Knox

Thursday, March 6, 2008
By Poli Blintsovskaya, Klayr Valentine-Fossum

A new climbing wall for Knox? The answer may be yes if freshman Ben Robbins has any say in it. Robbins has been working with Knox officers, alumni, students, senate, and safety personnel to push to make this a reality. The latest survey Robbins created had 300 votes expressiong a strong desire for a rock wall.

Robbins approached senate with ...

Terpsichore . . . forget me not

This term’s Terpsichore show plucked Knox’s heartstrings.

Thursday, March 6, 2008
By Klayr Valentine-Fossum

Ending the month of love, the campus was entertained by Terpsichore’s dance “Forget Me Not,” presented on Feb. 29 and Mar. 1 in the Auxilliary Gym. The presentation was a compilation of 13 dance pieces, ranging from the romantic to the burlesque to the lover’s quarrel. “Regarde///Quotidian” was a particularly well-choreographed piece by Senior M.S. Krenz ...

Dancers as instruments: artistic integration

This week’s artist participated in over half of the winter Terpsichore pieces and will integrate her dancing with other art media.

Thursday, March 6, 2008
By Klayr Valentine-Fossum

Sophomore Kate Cochran, majoring in psychology and minoring in dance, has been active with Terpsichore since her first year and has been dancing since she was nine. She was in seven of the 13 dance pieces for Terpsichore’s latest performance, Forget Me Not, as well as choreographing “I’m So Tired--(Heavy) set to The Beatles “I’m So ...

Making media, killing cowboys

A Knox student is taking the media into his own hands by building his own printing press.

Thursday, February 28, 2008
By Klayr Valentine-Fossum

Junior Zach Hagar has built his own printing press, co-founding the new literary magazine Cowboy Killers to be published using it. The goal behind the press and magazine is to “build a community without having to deal with the middle man.”

The “middle man” Hagar speaks of is the current elite of literary magazines at Knox. He hopes this new ...

Cocaine on the brain

Senior Andy Arnold is dosing rats with cocaine to learn more about how to break addiction in humans.

Thursday, February 28, 2008
By Klayr Valentine-Fossum

Venture into the depths of the SMC psychology department and you will find senior Andy Arnold surrounded by red-eyed rats and busy at work on his honors project. Arnold is working to discover if “the insular Cortex [of the brain] mediates cocaine craving.”

Arnold, a neuroscience major, became interested in this question while taking behavioral pharmacology with Heather Hoffman. Arnold ...