Can Galesburg benefit from Knox College? Karen Lafferty certainly thinks so. Lafferty, who calls Knox a “valuable asset,” would like to see Knox graduates stay in Galesburg and establish businesses locally. She also would like to see Knox students put the academic knowledge they obtain in the classroom to practical, hands-on use in Galesburg. “For example, if someone in Galesburg wants to start a business, a student can help develop a business plan.” She would also like to see students ...
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Enthusiasm was high for the drag show last Thursday night. Even before it began, the Gizmo was packed with students chatting excitedly with each other. Some had painted moustaches and goatees on their faces. Adorning the stage was the rainbow-striped flag, a known symbol of the LGBT community, and a large poster which had “WE ARE ALLIES” drawn on it ...
Read MoreOn Friday November 7, SASS hosted a sex toy party in the Compass Room at the Townhouse Residences. The event began at 8 p.m., with the attendees snacking on stuffed breadsticks from Alfano’s Pizzeria.
The event was not so much a party, but more of an informational workshop on various sex toys. The speaker, Searah Deysach, is one ...
Read MoreOn Tuesday, Nov. 4, Election Day, a party took place to keep track of the final campaign hours and await the countdown to who will be announced as the next president-elect of the United States. Knox’s Campus Life Office hosted the party in Post Lobby, where the large, flat-screen television broadcast CNN’s coverage of the end of the ...
Read MoreOn Monday Oct. 27, Knox College hosted a real ghost hunter, Carmen Reed, as part of its Haunted Homecoming. The ghost hunt, sponsored by Knox’s Union Board, is but one of many events that will be happening throughout the week as part of a celebration to welcome hundreds of Knox alumni visiting the campus.
This event began at 8 ...
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The Reading Buddies program is only one year old, but it is already gathering momentum. Jennifer Bredemeier, a Knox alum with a degree in Education, came up with the idea for the program.
Bredemeier, who currently teaches at the Nielson Elementary School in Galesburg, was concerned by the fact that many students attending Nielson were not reading as much as ...
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Wake up, feel dead
Ingest two cups of coffee
Still feeling dead
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Last Wednesday, Sep. 17, students gathered in Ferris Lounge to listen to a presentation by Carrie Teiken, a recruiter from the Peace Corps’ Chicago Regional Office. Teiken, herself a former Peace Corps volunteer who taught environmental education in Ghana from 2003-2005, tabled in Seymour Hall from 9 a.m. till 4 p.m., providing students with handouts and talking to ...
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The Blackness
No longer harsh
But soothing now
A blanket of nothingness
Let it cover me, fill me
See nothing, hear nothing
A warm nothing
Like a womb
Extinguish all colors
Slipping into quietus
Within the womb
Float in the black abyss
Millennia within a second
A moment within infinity
The blackness
Pressing against my eyes
Sliding down my throat ...
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I remember...
A decade ago...
A little kid, seven years old
Sitting on the beach
A little sand dune
My own private haven
To which I escape
And hide for hours
From that man
Who calls himself my father
Watching the azure waves
Crash against the sand
Sea foam, like whipped cream
Tickles my toes
I rub the bruise on ...
Read MorePoli Blintsovskaya has written 16 articles since first writing for The Knox Student Online on March 6, 2008. To date, Poli's most-read article is "Hunting ghosts at Knox".