From: WBYS Radio (Canton, IL)
The new members of the Knox College Board of Trustees are Tom Anderson of Indianapolis, Indiana; R. Kyle Winning of Little Rock, Arkansas; and Tino Schuler of Jacksonville, Florida… Read more… New board leadership also elected; details on the Knox web site…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
James Clark was the head baseball coach at Spoon River College for the 2010 and 2011 seasons and recently stepped down as the head baseball coach at Eureka College… to continue his pursuit of a Master’s Degree in sports management at Western Illinois University. Clark, who played baseball for Post 727 and the Tigers before he continued his playing career at Knox College, said it was only natural he became a head baseball coach.
Clark, a 2009 Knox graduate who played mainly first base and designated hitter, said he settled on the idea of being a head baseball coach when he was a member of the Jami Isaacson-led Prairie Fire. “I wanted to do something in athletics and throughout college I decided to coach,” he said. “Coach Isaacson let me pick his brain about the game and told me how to go about getting a job…” Read more…
From: National Review Online
Earlier this month, Knox College psychologists Gail Ferguson and Christy Starr released troubling findings showing that girls as young as age six view themselves as sexual objects. The new study is the first to identify self-sexualization in young girls. The study, published online July 6 in the journal Sex Roles, used two differently dressed paper dolls, one dressed provocatively and the other in normal attire. When asked which doll the young girls wanted to look like, 68 percent of the girls indicated the provocatively dressed doll; 72 percent indicated that the sexy doll “was more popular than the non-sexy doll.” …
Lead researcher Christy Starr said of the results that, “it’s very possible that girls wanted to look like the sexy doll because they believe sexiness leads to popularity, which comes with many social advantages.”… Read more… Also covered by Medical Daily, WorldNet Daily, and the Daily Mail of London.
From: Legends and Lore of Illinois (Rockford, IL)
Which of these two locations do you think is the scariest? … The Excalibur Club in River North, Chicago versus Knox College in Galesburg. The Excalibur Club has had a long and colorful history. Built in 1892 by the Chicago Historical Society, since 1931 it has been home to the Loyal Order of the Moose, [and] a nightclub called the Limelight… When the Limelight opened, its staff almost immediately noticed unusual activity, especially on the third floor… On one visit, Scott Markus (author of Voices from the Chicago Grave) claimed to hear keys rattling…
Steeped in history, Knox College is a private liberal arts school that was founded by abolitionists in 1837… In 1874, Knox County built a brand new, red brick jail across the street from the college. A few years ago, Knox College purchased the jail and it is now home to the Center for Global Studies… The basement of the former jail at Knox College is reportedly haunted by a number of tortured spirits from the past… Read more…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
The Gilbert and Sullivan musical extravaganza and comic operetta, “The Pirates of Penzance,” will be performed by Prairie Players Civic Theater at the Orpheum Theatre Friday through Sunday… “We have some wonderfully talented Knox students who are applying their education by designing the costumes, serving as stage manager, actors, and sound design. It is a wonderful mix of college and community coming together,” [director Kurt Killam] said. “Altogether there are 15 current [students] or recent graduates of Knox College directly involved in the production — on stage or behind the scenes.”… Read more…
From: MSNBC
Most girls as young as 6 are already beginning to think of themselves as sex objects, according to a new study of elementary school-age kids in the Midwest… Psychologists at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., used paper dolls to assess self-sexualization in 6- to 9-year-old girls. Sixty girls were shown two dolls, one dressed in tight and revealing “sexy” clothes and the other wearing a trendy but covered-up, loose outfit… 68 percent of the girls said the [sexy] doll looked how she wanted to look, and 72 percent said she was more popular than the non-sexy doll.
“It’s very possible that girls wanted to look like the sexy doll because they believe sexiness leads to popularity, which comes with many social advantages,” explained lead researcher Christy Starr, [a 2010 graduate who conducted the study at Knox with] research adviser and co-author, Gail Ferguson… The study, published online July 6 in the journal Sex Roles… is the first to identify self-sexualization in young girls… Read more… Also covered by the Toronto Globe and Mail, The Christian Post, Live Science, Huffington Post, TV stations in Denver, CO, and Rochester, NY and several media in India.
