Constitution Day lecture

Farber spoke on the legacy of Lincoln's presidency on modern day.

Monday, September 22, 2008
By Sadie Arft

University of California-Berkeley law professor Daniel Farber spoke in Ferris Lounge on Thursday, September 18 for Constitution Day. His lecture, “Lincoln’s Constitutional Legacy: How Lincoln Finished the Work of the Founding Fathers and Laid the Foundations for Modern America,” went beyond Abraham Lincoln’s influence upon America and delved into how he added meaning through his presidency to more ...

Furuya augments Asian Studies program

Professor specializes in theatrical and Japanese linguistics

Thursday, September 25, 2008
By Zoe Hatton

Kaori Furuya is the visiting instructor of Japanese at Knox College, and works for the Asian Studies program. She got her BA at the Shizouka University at Japan in 1994 and her MA at Shizouka University in 1996. She is a Ph. D. candidate at the City University of New York. Before she came to Knox, she was in New ...

Women's soccer impressive in match against Illinois College

Thursday, September 25, 2008
By Andrew Horn

The Knox women’s soccer team is a young team, starting four freshmen, four sophomores, no juniors and only three seniors. But the team has shown signs of a bright future with an array of young talent in their recent contests. Coming off a 1-16-1 season and losing seven seniors to graduation, the team has a lot cut out for ...

First hand perspective of the RNC '08

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
By Amelia Garcia

I arrived in St. Paul on Friday, August 29 and was surprised to see how much the city resembled a police state, even then, when demonstrators had yet to assemble in number. On Tuesday, September 2, I spent the entire day in downtown St. Paul. It was hard to go anywhere without seeing people expressing their political views in one ...

New coach, new year; women’s tennis to head in new direction

Thursday, September 18, 2008
By Merritt Rohlfing

A new era has dawned for the womens’ tennis team, with the ’08 season being the first at Knox for freshly minted coach Amanda Barkema. The team shows a lot of potential this year, though senior Jessica Wise is currently out with a broken foot - perhaps for the season - leaving four freshmen and two sophomores marching into the heat of ...

The Senate Perspective: New senate elections are everybody's responsibility

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
By Bryan Lund

This week marks the 98th time in Knox’s history that the responsibility of electing new student leadership falls upon you. It also marks the 98th time in our institution’s history that the responsibility of running for student leadership falls upon you. And for the 98th year, the responsibility falls upon someone in my office to facilitate the Student ...

Irwin to lead cross country team in second year at Knox

Thursday, September 18, 2008
By Megan Young

Last season for the cross country was “a transition year” according to head coach Patrick Irwin. Though there were improvements from both teams last year when Coach Irwin first stepped up as head coach, Irwin expects even better results this season. The team has already run in two meets, improving in each one and competing well together. Coach Irwin is ...

65-year-old man murdered over summer break

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
By David Nolan

While the students were away this summer, Galesburg was busy. Students living here over the summer were shocked to learn that a murder occurred here in Galesburg only a few minutes away from campus.

Nicholas T. Sheley, 29, is facing 17 charges in connection with the death of Galesburg local Ronald Randall. Sheley is accused of killing Randall, 65, at ...

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 ...

Cynthia Kitchen joins English department

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
By Poli Blintsovskaya

Although Cynthia Kitchen, who teaches Fiction, Non-Fiction and Introduction to Literature at Knox, has only been teaching since 2006, she is no stranger to Knox College. After completing two years at Carl Sandburg Community College in 1998, her advisor strongly recommended attending Knox. Knox was very accommodating to the fact that she was an older student and a mother of ...