Knox in the News

From: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)

The chief prosecutor of five Guantanamo Bay prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 attacks has given the commencement address at Knox College in western Illinois. Brigadier Gen. Mark Martins spoke at Saturday’s commencement in Galesburg. The Register-Mail reports Martins told the more than 300 graduates to understand the importance of contrasting worlds. He says “sharp contrasts are the source of dramatic action.”

Martins also received an honorary degree, along with Lyric Opera of Chicago music director Sir Andrew Davis and Purdue University physical chemistry professor Joseph Francisco… Read more in the Tribune… Also reported by Fox TV News Chicago, Rockford Register-Star, West Point Connection and other media.

From: The Washington Post (Washington, DC)

“Zeitgeist: New Playwrights From Austria, Germany and Switzerland”… mounts staged readings of acclaimed German-language scripts in English translations [in Washington DC from June 11-25]…
“A lot of the time, work that is accepted as fairly ordinary in the German-language realm can seem very out there and experimental in the American or Anglo-American context,” said [the translator of one of the plays,] Neil Blackadder, a professor of theater at Knox College who has translated [several] contemporary German-language plays (including “Chirping Hill” and “Hamlet Is Dead”) into English. “German-speaking audiences are much more used to seeing plays which don’t have clear narratives.” Read more…