Excerpt from the Register-Mail:
The Knox College softball team split a doubleheader with Lake Forest College on Saturday, winning the first game 5-2 before dropping the second 14-5 in five innings.
Katie Dura collected three of the Prairie Fire’s seven hits while knocking in a run and Jessa Dahl drove in two runs on one hit to pace the Knox offense in the opener. Bridget McCune pitched the win after allowing just two runs on eight hits with one walk and one strikeout in seven innings.
Excerpt from the Register-Mail:
Friday morning’s earthquakes were a once-in-a-lifetime event for most people.
According to Mihai Lefticariu, visiting assistant professor of environmental studies at Knox College, while earthquakes of the magnitude felt here in Galesburg are rare in the Midwest, they are not altogether impossible. A magnitude 5.2 quake with an epicenter near West Salem, Ill., shook people awake from Kentucky to Wisconsin around 4:30 a.m.
Earthquakes of a magnitude six — on the 12-point moment magnitude scale, successor to the Richter scale — happen once every 80 years or so, he explained.
This particular quake, aftershocks of which were felt around 10:15 a.m. Friday, originated in the Wabash Fault in the Wabash Valley Fault System, located in southeastern Illinois, southwestern Indiana and a small corner of Kentucky. It is located very near the New Madrid Fault System, a “major fault system that started forming between 700 (million) and 600 million years ago,” Lefticariu said.
Excerpt from the Register-Mail:
A senior at Knox College, Harris is among 11 members of the Knox Republicans group on campus and is among the five or six who attend meetings. Politically, they are the minority. The Knox Democrats group boasts 30 to 35 members.
But Harris says he likes the challenge.
“To be a Republican at Knox is great. It really challenges what you believe and makes you appreciate the other side and what it is like to be a minority,” [Knox senior Maurice] Harris says.
Another lonely Republican at Knox College and political science chair for more than 20 years, Louise Sue Hulett says liberals far outnumber the conservatives on campus. “Sixty percent would be my guess of the liberal students, with a core of 20 percent of conservatives and another 20 percent that don’t want to be identified politically,” Hulett says.
Elizabeth Carlin-Metz’s production of A Passage to India receives rave reviews from Chicago theater critics.
Excerpt from the Chicago Sun Times:
Vitalist Theatre, whose creative roots extend from Chicago to the Galesburg, Ill., campus of Knox College (where Elizabeth Carlin-Metz, its exceedingly gifted founder-director, is a professor of theater), sets up shop at the Theatre Building here about once a year. And invariably it unveils a work of great literature that has been adapted with fierce intelligence; a thrilling devotion to movement, music and design, and a unique feel for place and character….
….Even fans of David Lean’s extraordinary 1985 film version will not be disappointed. This production is a true “jewel in the crown.”
Excerpt from Chicagocritic.com:
Director Elizabeth Carlin-Metz specializes in mounting epic theatre projects. Her King Lear, Anna Karenina and last year’s hit, Mother Courage and Her Children, have placed her into an elite category of directors. Her latest work, A Passage to India, now playing at the Theatre Building Chicago’s West stage, may be her best directorial achievement to date. This lady knows how to tell a large scale story in a stunning theatrical manner.
Wally Funk and author Martha Ackmann talk about the secret astronaut training 13 women underwent in 1961. Funk was among those 13 and eventually became the first female FAA analyst.
Excerpt from the Register-Mail:
“This was at a time when space, the next frontier, certainly wasn’t a place for women,” said Ackmann. “(The results) of the program were secret because they didn’t know how they’d turn out.”
Women who were accomplished in flight were recruited to go through the training in order to see if they would make good astronauts. It was suggested that the women might be better than men because they weighed less, needed less oxygen, and were better suited for sitting passively in a spacecraft for long periods of time.
Those women who were chosen to go through the training, however, took exactly the same physical tests as the men, which included at least 75 fitness, stress and medical exams.
“We took exactly the same tests as the Mercury guys and we did them better,” said Funk.
“The women didn’t whine,” said Ackmann. “They wanted to contribute something to their country.”
The 13 women went through the same training as the seven men in a similar program, but NASA abruptly ended their training in the fall of 1961.
According to the New York Times, Knox alumnus and Times reporter Barry Bearak has been released from a Zimbabwean jail. He had been arrested Thursday, April 3 for covering the elections in Zimbabwe without government permission.
