Read TKS, or why you should care about my beloved newspaper
Ladies and gentlemen, I write of a great travesty that has stricken our dear college. Why, why, why has the top story on theknoxstudent.com only received 151 hits? There are more than 151 students at Knox, are there not? (Or has the school finally decided that progressively bigger classes + lack of space = everyone getting up in my personal bubble?)
Freshmen, let me implore you: be in the know. Care about what is going on around campus. Knox will be your home for the next four years, and what happens here will often affect you in a very personal way. There’s a lot that’s changed even since I was at Knox in May: the smoothie bar in the Caf, the dumb backpack policy in the Caf, plenty of other things in the Caf (my life most certainly does not revolve around food), and, of course, our new president and Breitborde’s impending retirement (which we all knew was coming, but still).
Knox students often complain that they aren’t told anything about administrative decisions. They say they don’t know what Student Senate does. They moan and groan about being unfamiliar with school policies. Lo and behold, there is a solution! TKS is chock-full of information, and it’s easy to find: in the Gizmo, in the mail room, and of course, online. We even have a handy dandy Twitter feed for those of you who are into that.
There is an elephant in the corner of this post: this blog is linked directly to the TKS website, and if you don’t know that it exists, you’re probably only going to find it through that. Thus, the people reading this likely already read TKS. To you, kudos for caring about what’s happening at Knox. Kudos for caring about your fellow students’ work and opinions. Now, I challenge you to poke your friends/roommate/suitemates/that random kid in Founders and encourage them to visit theknoxstudent.com as well. The coverage this week is fantastic, with everything from why composting has been delayed to reviews of quirky albums. (Thanks, Christopher Poore; I always discover something new from reading your work!) And you know you want to procrastinate on your homework anyway. So really, what’s stopping you?