Knox in the News

From the Register-Mail:

The Knox College swim team will participate in the fourth annual Ted Mullin “Leave it in the Pool” Hour of Power Relay for Pediatric Sarcoma Research, sponsored by the Carleton College swimming and diving teams Tuesday.

The Knox “Hour of Power” will run from 5-6 p.m. The swimmers will enter the pool at 5 p.m. where they will be divided into four lanes. Each swimmer will swim all out for 30 seconds to two minutes, depending on the distance they are going and then handoff to the next swimmer.

From the Register-Mail:

The Knox College Music Department will present fall-term concerts by the Knox-Sandburg Community Concert Band and the Knox Wind Ensemble and three recitals by music students. All performances are free and open to the public in Kresge Recital Hall, Ford Center for the Fine Arts.

The Knox-Sandburg Community Concert Band will perform at 3 p.m. Nov. 15. Directed by Laurel Kay Filzen Etzel, associate professor in applied music, the band includes musicians from Knox College, Carl Sandburg College and the Galesburg area.

The Knox Wind Ensemble will perform at 7 p.m Nov. 16. The ensemble is a student group directed by Jill Marasa, associate professor in applied music. Individual music students will perform in recital at 4 p.m. Nov. 16.

From the Register-Mail:

The sound of children singing. Half-seen images of women, dark hair dangling over their faces. And the Japanese urban legend of a beautiful woman who sheds a surgical mask to reveal a cut mouth.

The horror offered Friday night inside Knox College’s Lincoln Room was based on implication — and comforting images twisted in terrifying ways.

A group of about 20 Knox College students in the Japanese Club offered a different take on Halloween horrors, hosting what they called a “Kimodameshi.” The haunted house with a distinctly different flavor was free and based on ghost stories from both long-standing and popular Japanese culture.

“A kimodameshi is translated as a kind of test of courage,” said 22-year-old Yumi Kusunoki, a Knox student from Osaka, Japan and co-president of the Japanese club.

From the Register-Mail:

Don’t let the set fool you — ornate Victorian sofa, tall white pillars. Don’t let the costumes distract you — fitted corsets, long dresses and three-piece suits. The display on stage may seem like a passport to 1901 — and to an extent it is — but the themes of Anton Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” performed by Knox College still resonate today.

“The audience will be spending two hours with people who existed long before them, but whose preoccupations and struggles are very much the same as those we face today,” said director and chair of the theater department Neil Blackadder.

The play, at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4-7 in Harbach Theatre, tells the story of three sisters in a small 19th century Russian town filled with “snap shots of moments” and “snippets of life,” said Samantha Newport, one of two assistant directors and a Knox senior.

From WGIL radio:

Events that took a team of individuals months to schedule and prepare for will be on display this weekend at a local college.

Knox College celebrates its homecoming beginning Friday running through the weekend, and there’s plenty for both alumni and current students to attend that will make the weekends events worthwhile.

Director of Alumni Programs at Knox, Carol Brown, who is also a Knox grad, says she began preparing for homecoming celebrations earlier this year in order to get the word out to the schools 14,000 alumni all around the country.

Brown tells WGIL in addition to many programs being offered this weekend, one provides alumni with the opportunity to head back to class and interact with current students.

“It’s very popular. Alumni are given the opportunity to return to the classroom on Friday morning, and there are a selection of classes for them to choose from,” Brown said. “The feedback I receive both from faculty and alumni, is that it’s a very good experience, and there is some interaction that happens between the alumni and current students.”

From the Register-Mail:

Knox College alumni from near and far are expected to flock here this weekend for the college’s 2009 Homecoming.

An estimated 1,000 alumni are expected to attend events on the Knox campus and in Galesburg during homecoming, today through Sunday. Events for alumni include reunions organized for class years, clubs, athletic teams, fraternities, sororities and academic majors; inductions into the Knox-Lombard Athletic Hall of Fame; and presentation of Knox Services Awards by the Knox Alumni Association and Scrolls of Honor awarded by the Knox-Lombard Fifty Year Club. Alumni have also been invited to attend selected course sessions Friday.