Thoughts from the Embers: The fate of Wallace Lounge

Thursday, October 2, 2008
By TKS Staff

It looks as though Wallace Lounge is finally going to get cleaned up. A pizza lounge might be cool, we guess, except that it takes away from local businesses and could cause the Gizmo’s hours to shorten. Although Helmut Mayer’s interest in making the pizza healthy is a bonus, the fact remains that pizza is available at every ...

Senate Election Results, Fall 2008

Thursday, September 25, 2008
By TKS Staff

District 1: Seymour

Gordon Barratt

District 2: Post (1-6)

Monica Harasim

Krista Anne Nordgren

Annika Paulsen

District 3: Raub/Sellew

Katherine Miller

Ross Pencock Miller

Elizabeth Ann Cockrell

District 4: Elder/Campbell

New Election

District 5: Sherwin/Neifert

No representatives - election winter term 2009

District 6: Displaced First-years

No representatives - election winter term 2009

District 7: Conger/Neal

Alison Mariel ...

Thoughts from the Embers: The "Greek issue"

Thursday, September 25, 2008
By TKS Staff

Some of us in TKS are Greeks, and some of us are not. As such, when it came time to produce our weekly consensus opinion in Thoughts from the Embers, we did not agree on every point. The fact is that the Greek issue will probably always matter more to the Greeks, at least until the rest of us are ...

Thoughts from the Embers: Unrest and oppression at the national conventions

Thursday, September 18, 2008
By TKS Staff

This whole year has been a media circus. The usual measure of political scandals and celebrity gossip has been compounded by the most historic election any of us students have been alive to see. National affairs have been sliding toward this point in history since we became old enough to be politically aware.

Much of this is positive: we have ...

Thoughts from the Embers: Remember

Thursday, May 29, 2008
By TKS Staff

This is the last issue of The Knox Student for the year, and what a crazy year it’s been! “Campus Discourse” became the official 2008-2009 catchphrase of the year, because we just couldn’t stop yelling at each other. We at TKS consider this to be a good thing, within respectful bounds, of course, but we’d like to ...

Thoughts from the Embers: Lip service

Thursday, May 15, 2008
By TKS Staff

Barely a month after getting blasted for being less than forthcoming with information regarding Knox's relationship with Family Planning, the Knox administration failed to release Nathan Engstrom's sustainability report until pressured to do so. Roger Taylor cited a desire to maintain warm relations with Engstrom as the reason for not releasing the report, but Knox hasn't seen ...

Thoughts from the Embers: SLC is not representing you

Thursday, May 8, 2008
By TKS Staff

I have been going to Student Life Committee meetings just about every week now for a year as a TKS reporter. The committee does not usually “do” things worth writing weekly stories about, but the meetings are useful for knowing what issues are coming up. Weeks before things turn up in Senate or elsewhere on campus, SLC talks about them ...

Thoughts from the Embers: A pattern in Knox conversation

Thursday, May 1, 2008
By TKS Staff

We’ve noticed what looks like a pattern with the state of conversations on campus from our perspective.

Week 0: Something happens. In the past, this has taken many forms. Proposal of the sworn officer initiative, publication of an insensitive column in TKS, John Ashcroft’s lecture, to name a few. Depending on when in the week the event occurs ...

Thoughts from the Embers: Civil Discourse?

Thursday, April 24, 2008
By TKS Staff

This has been a year of intense, at times rancorous debate. From the beginning of the year, we’ve engaged one another nonstop in tireless discourse. Some commentators have called this “the awakening” of our campus. Others have wondered where civil discourse has gone. Nevertheless, we at TKS think bringing John Ashcroft was just what the doctor ordered.

The Knox ...

Thoughts from the Embers: It's time to change the Grievance Panel

Thursday, April 17, 2008
By TKS Staff

It has been two years since the Grievance Panel was the talk of the campus, with faculty and student groups demanding change to this important judicial process that has been unable to earn the trust of the student body. Suggestions for reform have gone as far as recommending it should be disbanded, while others, like Gamble in her report, want ...