Knox in the News

From the Register-Mail:

Knox College senior Stephanie Frambes realizes she may have never visited the Great Wall of China if it weren’t for her participation in the Gale Scholars program.

Established in 1996, the program is a collaborative agreement among Galesburg District 205, Carl Sandburg College and Knox to help first-generation college attendees and low-income students achieve a higher educational degree they otherwise may not be able to afford. Students apply for the program at the end of their eighth-grade year and participate in meetings and development activities through their four years at Galesburg High School….

“Because the cost of college was so much, I knew it would help out a lot,” Frambes said of her decision to apply for the program. “If I could just get four years where I didn’t have to take out a huge student loan, it would make getting my master’s (degree) more feasible.”

In the Frankfurter Allgemeine, Rod Davis and Doug Wilson, co-directors of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College, and other historians discuss President Obama’s inaugural address.

Both Wilson and Davis speak of the speech as solid and convincing, but with no highly memorable moments.
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From the Monitor on Psychology:

As the world slipped into economic meltdown, the nation started talking about greed: greedy lenders, greedy Wall Street executives, greedy CEOs and greedy Americans who used credit to finance untenable lifestyles.

Greed may very well have driven much of the economic crisis, says University of Rochester social psychologist Richard Ryan, PhD. But does the blame fall on the individual, or on our increasingly materialistic culture?

“America has an economic system set up to create the kind of mess we’ve seen recently,” says social psychologist Tim Kasser, PhD, of Knox College in Galesburg, Ill. “Our form of capitalism encourages materialistic values, and the research shows that people high on materialism … are more likely to engage in unethical business behaviors and manipulate people for their own purposes.”

From the Register-Mail’s Special Section on the Inauguration:

Obama in Galesburg: A Timeline

Obama prepared to wing-it at Knox commencement

Knox students react to Obama inauguration

Editorial: 44th president knows Galesburg

Group seeks Obama’s presidential library at Knox

From the Register-Mail:

There was an air of celebration around 11 a.m. Tuesday morning in the lobby of Post Hall at Knox College as Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States.

“I’m just very proud at where we are right now,” said Cameron Posey, a freshman from Clayton, Md.

About 40 students gathered to watch the inauguration of the man who has significant ties to their campus and their generation. Cheers rang out as the new Commander-in-Chief proclaimed a message of hope and change which reached millions of ears across the world.

People scrambled to their feet for the Oath of Office, some standing on chairs and tables in order to get a good view of the television screen.

The Register-Mail’s special section on President Obama’s inauguration.

From the Register-Mail:

On the eve of the inauguration of the nation’s first African-American president, the eighth annual convocation to celebrate Martin Luther King Day at Knox College took on added significance this year.

Featured speaker Konrad Hamilton told a crowd of faculty, students, prospective students and community members in Harbach Theatre on Monday morning the temptation to compare Barack Obama to King is great — and indeed the two have similarities beyond the color of their skin — but there is a difference between a civil rights activist and a president.

“Presidents must compromise. It’s part of the job description,” said Hamilton, an associate professor of history and chair of the American Studies program at Knox whose presentation was titled “The Audacity of Citizenship: The Meaning of King in the Obama Era.”