Knox in the News

Excerpt from USAID:

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) administered the oath of office to William Brands as its Mission Director for Honduras. USAID Acting Deputy Administrator James R. Kunder, presided at the event.

As Mission Director for Honduras, Brands will lead USAID’s programs that improve the quality of basic education and health, increase economic growth, promote democracy and good governance, and provide environmental and disaster assistance. Honduras will be a partner in President Bush’s Merida Initiative to confront criminal organizations whose actions plague the region and spill over into the United States.

From the Register-Mail:

A new survey of activities available for Knox County youth shows plenty of options for younger kids, but a lack of activities outside of school for teenagers.

Organizers of the project hope the information will be useful to teachers, families and counselors and help prevent juvenile delinquency….

….Work began with Knox College student Martha Camargo, who created a survey with roughly two dozen questions as part of an independent study, and sent the survey to a wide variety of organizations in the area. After recording the data she received, the result was a chart on a piece of cardboard about four feet long.

Of 163 surveys conducted by mail, e-mail and phone, 111 were returned. The surveys resulted in information on more than 400 programs in Knox County. Dawnelle Glass, an intern from Southern Illinois University then took over the project and created the Youth Community Calendar, the 176-page document that lists Knox County activity opportunities.

In the August 2008 issue of Reader’s Digest, Comedian Stephen Colbert talks about his Commencement address at Knox College. In the interview, Colbert says giving the Knox address a year after Senator Obama and the year before President Clinton is like being the meat in “an Obama-Clinton sandwich.”
Listen to the interview in Reader’s Digest.