Knox students showcase their talents

Musical, literature, dramatic acts delight audience

Friday, October 30, 2009
By Sheena Leano

Friday’s Purple Reign Homecoming Talent Show kicked off Homecoming Weekend by featuring 11 acts in Kresge Recital Hall. Students auditioned and of the 11 acts chosen to perform, prizes were given out to the top three. The judges were seniors Jordon Stoune, Sarah Kurian and Clayton Besong, with Joyce Omondi hosting the show.

The first act of the night ...

Shlaes creates a different sort of Depression narrative

Amity Shlaes shares her views on the Great Depression

Thursday, October 22, 2009
By Sheena Leano

Bloomberg financial columnist and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations Amity Shlaes questioned the common conceptions of the Great Depression in her lecture, “The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression.”

During his introduction, Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs Larry Breitborde recalled personal stories told by his parents and grandfather which referenced Franklin Delano ...

One man show replicates famous images

Diven’s traveling show recreates art while speaking to audience

Thursday, October 22, 2009
By Sheena Leano

Artist Bob Diven performed an original one-man show depicting the struggle of an artist called “John Singer Sargent: Painting Madame X.” Diven, who wrote the show himself, studied Sargent in the perspective of an artist himself and noticed parallels between Sargent’s life and his own.

He created many of the props used on stage, such as the furniture, and ...

Speaking on presidential power

Historian explains how we should look at presidency and politics

Thursday, October 15, 2009
By Sheena Leano

Historian Andrew Bacevich gave the 2009 Caterpillar Distinguished Lecture in Global Affairs titled “Presidency and the Limits of Power” during the first day of Family and Friends Weekend. The lecture was sponsored by the Knox College Center for Global Studies through support from the Caterpillar Foundation.

Bacevich said to understand the central truths of contemporary American politics, people had to ...

Colleges suffer from budget cuts

Universities across the nation not immune to economic downturn

Thursday, October 15, 2009
By Sheena Leano

As institutions of higher education face budget cuts, students and staff across the country initiated demonstrations, petitions, walkouts and even law suits in protest against raised tuition fees, lay-offs, and cuts to financial aid. Here is a breakdown of what is happening in some of the country’s largest public universities.

Arizona

Arizona State University (ASU) could close at least ...

Guest lecturers discuss recession

“The Great Recession: Two Perspectives”

Wednesday, October 7, 2009
By Sheena Leano

You’ve heard the words “housing bubble,” “rate of unemployment,” and “economic recession” in the news, but what does it all mean? William Longbrake and John T. Lawler '88 gave a presentation and lecture custom made for Knox College called “The Great Recession: Two Perspectives.”

Longbrake, retired vice-chair of Washington Mutual and former CFO for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ...

Life in two dimensions

A history of 'territory' in Israeli culture

Thursday, October 1, 2009
By Sheena Leano

Visiting Professor Amos Morris-Reich gave a lecture called, “Life in Two Dimensions: A History of ‘Territory’ in Israeli Culture,” to explore the relationship between two similar words for “territory” with very different meanings. Despite the word for “territory” (pronounced “shetach”) and its plural, “territories,” (pronounced “shtachim”) coming from the same three letter root, they are not thought to be the ...

Dan Guillory—Caxton Club: “The Lincoln Poems”

Contemplates how Lincoln might have seen the world

Wednesday, September 30, 2009
By Sheena Leano

Dan Guillory intertwined history and poetry as he recited poems written from the perspective of Abraham Lincoln in Wednesday’s Caxton Club reading. Co-sponsored by Caxton Club and the Lincoln Studies Center, Professor of English Monica Berlin introduced Guillory in the year’s first Caxton Club reading with an anecdote from her son who told her that a “man with ...

Caxton Club not only for English and writing majors

Club has new year’s line-up they hope will attract people from all departments

Wednesday, September 23, 2009
By Sheena Leano

Ever wanted to ask writers why they write the way they do? Ever wanted to sit just a few feet away from authors while they were reading their greatest work? If you attend readings sponsored by Caxton Club, you’ll have that chance.

Caxton Club is a student-run organization that works with members of the English Department to bring professional ...

Arizona trip revisited with photo presentation

Students tell their story of giving aid at the border

Wednesday, May 27, 2009
By Sheena Leano

Students Without Borders presented their pictures, thoughts, and experiences about their spring break trip bringing humanitarian aid to immigrants traveling through Arizona and the Mexican border. Through the organization No More Deaths/No Más Muertes, students saw and experienced firsthand the perils immigrants go through while crossing the Mexican border into the United States.

Students would split up into groups ...