Sitting on top of chairs, couches, and one another, students packed into the Gizmo last Saturday in order to see student-organized bands perform hip-hop, punk, and indie-pop music. The shows were part of a benefit, Cure-a-Palooza, co-sponsored by Pi Beta Phi and Tau Kappa Epsilon’s TKE Pink party to raise money for breast cancer.

“It was a very diverse show,” said junior Mackenzi Harmon, a member of Pi Phi. “I thought that everyone did ...

Senior Myra Thompson is the 36th winner of the annual Associated Colleges of the Midwest Nick Adams Short Story Contest. Thompson's story was one of 44 entries in the contest.

Her winning piece “Recollection,” tells the story of an old man in Russia who takes apart his watch and hides the pieces around his apartment as a mental exercise. Author Stuart Dybek, who judged this year's contest, said in an ACM press release ...

Journeys, the incredibly moving mainstage dance concert presented by the Knox Department of Theatre and Dance, ran from May 22 to 24 in Harbach Theater. The show included lots of student-designed costume, lighting, and choreography.

“It was invigorating and spoke to my artistic side,” said freshman Danielle Daly after the concert.

A jazz band led by Knox Director of Jazz Studies Nikki Whittaker performed as the audience filtered in during the half hour leading up ...

Students and faculty were treated to a reading by writer Rebecca Barry on Monday in the Alumni Room. The event, which was sponsored by the Caxton Club, started off with a brief introduction from sophomore and Caxton Reading Group coordinator Lauren Assaf. Rebecca Barry read from her book Later, at the Bar. She was very interactive with the audience when she read. She would often stop and explain certain parts that amused her and related ...

It was 3 a.m. this past summer and senior Mark Munoz was in the middle of working 50 hours straight at a hospital in Oregon when he discovered his senior honors project. He started the project in the fall and it lasted him all the way through spring term.

“My project is all about stroke therapy,” said Munoz. “I ate, slept, and breathed science. It was a weird feeling.” Munoz said he has at ...