From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
In conjunction with the Great American Cleanup, various Knox College organizations and students spread across Galesburg Saturday morning, beautifying the city as they went.
Although the main focus of this year’s cleanup program was freeing Galesburg of trash and litter, some groups took on different projects of landscaping, home repair, planting trees and other various jobs.
“This is a really busy time on a college campus. We’re hurdling towards the end of the term and graduation. The fact that so many kids would still come out today is a great thing,” said Knox College President Teresa Amott… Read more…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
More than 15 vendors took part in Friday’s first West Central Illinois Sustainability Expo… at the Sustainable Business Center… Companies and organizations represented included Cross-Fire Soil Remediation, Blackburn Sampling, Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, Ameren Illinois, Carl Sandburg College, U of I Extension, Sitka Salmon Shares, KnoxCorps, Growing Together, Pennycress Energy, Intellihot and others. Genevieve Crow of Sitka Salmon Shares said the company that works with independent fishermen in Sitka, Alaska, to bring fresh salmon and other fish to the Midwest is gearing up for the season… The company was formed at Knox College by Nic Mink and a couple of his students… Read more…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
A two-day Peacebuilding Conference at Knox College this weekend celebrated the five-year anniversary of its unprecedented status in being the first college in the United States to implement a Peace Corps Prep Program for its students…
The weekend event was comprised mainly of panel discussions with participants in the program returning to Knox College to recount their stories. Judy K. Olsen, former Acting director of the Peace Corps, was the keynote speaker Friday. Saturday saw 15 different speakers discuss the impact the Peace Corps has had on their lives… Read more…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
A frenzied group of Knox College students, covered head to toe in a multitude of colors, gathered Saturday afternoon to throw powdered paint at each other in celebration of the traditional Indian festival Holi… “This event gives people perspective about just how diverse Knox College is,” said Shelly Bhanot, Pre-Health Club Treasurer and Public Relations Representative.
Knox College’s Pre-Health Club organized the event not only to pay homage to the Indian tradition, but also as a charitable fundraiser. Each person in attendance paid a $3 entry fee, and with a turnout that exceeded expectations, the Pre-Health Club raised at least a couple hundred dollars for charity… an orphanage in Migori, Kenya. Bhanot spent the past summer volunteering at a hospital and at the orphanage… Read more…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
Historian Tom Wilson notes a few interesting episodes from Knox College history: “When young Albert Britt entered Knox in the 1890s, there was no examination, no aptitude tests and no psychological examinations. Tuition was $40 and there were no official athletic teams… [20 years later, when Britt was serving as President of Knox, he was] the toastmaster when the inventor of basketball, James Naismith, spoke at the college basketball banquet…
[Wilson also describes how] “the original Knox College charter was very specific in spelling out that any land it sold would be given back to the college if intoxicating liquor was used or sold on the buyer’s property… [In the 1930s] Knox sold property to the federal government for the current Post Office on East Main Street… Knox filed suit against the Federal Government, [apparently] to establish punitive damages if the Federal Government decided to sell liquor on the Post Office site at a future date and even use a room on the premises… The jury [decided] that Knox College might collect as much as a dollar if an infraction occurred…” Read more…
