Campus Events Newsletter
January 21st - 27th
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Please use the following guidelines when submitting events for the Campus Events Newsletter:
All events should be submitted to www.knox.edu/addevent. If you would like an image included, please upload it when submitting your event online. In order to ensure your event is included in the newsletter, please complete your submission at least one week prior to the Monday Newsletter you would like your event to appear in. Earlier submissions are encouraged!
If your event is missing from a newsletter, please email Campus Life at campus_life@knox.edu.
Weekly Events
A number of individuals, organizations, and offices host weekly events! If you would like to learn more, please check out www.knox.edu/calendar.
- Students For Sustainability Meeting: Mondays
- Blessing in a Backpack Evening Packing: Tuesdays
- Spanish Table / Mesa Española: Tuesdays
- Film Club: Tuesdays
- Zen Buddhist Meditation Practice & Dharma Dialogue: Tuesdays
- Music Red Room: Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays
- Red Room Tutoring: Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays
- Red Room SMC: Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays
- Harambee Meeting: Wednesdays
- Smash Club Weekly Tournament: Wednesdays
- German Table / Deutscher Tisch: Thursdays
- French Table / Table Française: Thursdays
- Nature Club: Saturdays
Mortar Board Applications
Mortar Board is looking for innovative and driven Knox students with current Junior standing to join our chapter! We are a national college senior honor society that acknowledges (soon to be) seniors for their exemplary scholarship, leadership, and service.
Membership expectations:
Maintain a GPA at or above the minimum of 3.2
Attend bi-weekly general assembly meetings
Participate on a committee (Membership, Philanthropy, Public Relations)
Engage in events, philanthropy
1 hour of service to the honor society per term
Pay one-time dues of $80 nationally & $20 locally (limited scholarship funds are available for income-eligible students)
Applications are due February 7 by 11:59pm.
If you're interested or have any questions regarding Mortar Board or potential membership, please contact Cassie Stear, Membership Selection, at clstear@knox.edu. Application: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Znu0DwFQ6fTmoaNfmgWm6XbUnErvMYLv5f4wet5GAs/
Traveling Bicentennial of Illinois Law Exhibit
Jan. 10th - Feb.18th
All day
Alumni Hall, Third Floor
The Illinois Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission presents a three-tower exhibit to highlight the history of the Illinois Supreme Court, famous Illinois lawyers and cases, and a general history of the judiciary’s first 200 years.
Cases featured include Block v. City of Chicago, which concerned the first movie censorship laws. Lawyers featured include Ferdinand Barnett, one of the first African American attorneys licensed in Illinois.
The exhibit commemorates 200 years of the Illinois judicial branch.
Sex Ted Talks for First-Year Students
Jan 16th - Jan 25th
5 - 9 pm
Wilson House
Please contact with your RA regarding the time and location of your talk.
Also note that all talks given on Thursday will be held in the Compass Room.
The Sex Ted Talks is an inclusive and comprehensive sex education curriculum designed by students, for students. The program covers a variety of topics from boundary-setting to consent. Because we understand that safer sex is not one-size-fits-all, workshop facilitators will perform demonstrations for a wide range of accommodating barrier methods including both internal and external condoms, dental dams, gloves, and lube.
Health and wellness is a basic human right. As such, we seek to encourage a campus-wide conversation on the importance of sexual health in maintaining a community of personal and mutual respect.
All students are encouraged to attend Sex Ted Talks, with a special emphasis on first year students who may attend with their suites. Trained peer facilitators are approachable and knowledgeable--and excited to share their passion with other students on campus.
Monday
Winter Open House
All Day
Martin Luther King Day Convocation
Jan. 21st
11 am - 1 pm
Harbach Theatre, CFA
The annual celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be held Monday, January 21, 2018, at 11:00 am in Harbach Theatre. In order to allow faculty and students to attend and show their commitment to King’s ideals and ideas, the College will follow the Convocation class schedule:
1st period……..8:00 – 8:45 am
2nd period…….8:55 – 9:40 am
3rd period…….9:50 – 10:35 am
Convocation – 11:00 am
4th period…….1:20 – 2:05 pm
5th period…….2:15 – 3:00 pm
6th period…….3:10 – 3:55 pm
Wednesday
Last Day to Declare a Class Elective S/U
All Day
Summer Camp Employment Fair
Jan 23rd
10:30 am - 2:30 pm
Seymour Gallery
Stop by the Gallery from 10 am - 2:30 pm to speak with a variety of summer camps hiring for summer positions!
Camps Attending:
Girl Scouts of Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois (Bettendorf, IA)
Camp Kupugani (Leaf River, IL)
Girl Scouts of Central Illinois (Bloomington, IL)
Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa (Des Moines, IA)
Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago (Joliet, IL)
Easterseals - Timber Pointe Outdoor Center (Hudson, IL)
House in the Wood (Delavan, WI)
Easter Seals Wisconsin (Madison, WI)
North Star Camp for Boys (Hayward, WI)
Thursday
KNect: Sam Hart '15
Jan. 24th
12:15 - 1:45 pm
Alumni Hall, 300
Join senior software engineer Sam Hart ’15 for a luncheon dialogue devoted to his experiences in computer science as a participant in Knox’s first StartUp Term and his career after Knox. Free taco bar!
Find full details and registration at www.knoxalumni.org/KNect
Friday
Saturday
Off Campus Events
Milk Route, a reading series
4:30 pm
306 E. Simmons | The Space
Milk Route is the English Department’s student reading series held on occasional late afternoons throughout the year. An homage to Carl Sandburg, who at the age of thirteen left school to get a job driving a milk wagon so that he could assist in supporting his family, Milk Route honors the transitional period in which our senior writing majors may find themselves. While finishing their studies at Knox, they also are beginning their lives as adults, discovering new experiences in jobs, graduate programs and cities of residence. All the while, too, they are still making room to make their art.
Students and faculty gather for these formal readings, which offer senior writing majors an opportunity to share from their own work.