Any Knox College students or Alum here? IT'S FLUNK DAY !!!

[abq e streeter]

:hi: :dunce:

[Blue_Tires]

1. my favorite professor back in grad school was a Knox alum

(don't know the year, but i'm guessing back in the late 50s) he's the only reason i know about the school at all...he did have great memories of school and entertaining anecdotes...

[mysuzuki2]

2. How can you stand

living in Galesburg? Transfer to University of Illinois immediately!

[abq e streeter]

3. Attended Knox MANY years ago----and welcome to DU

:hi: ......I loved Knox and liked Galesburg too, but this was late 60's/early 70's.....I pass through the 'Burg on Amtrak occasionally these days, and it does look kind of rundown and depressed these days. Don't know why though. Weren't those republican economic policies supposed to have created prosperity in the REAL America? Anyway, they notify us alums of flunk day by email every year so we can relive ,as my friend Steve puts it, "so many memories I can barely remember". Flunk day, btw, is a Knox tradition of one day each spring when everything is canceled and its just a campus-wide par-tay, and what day it is, is kept a secret until 6 am of the day. Probably more drunkenness than anything now; plenty of that then too, but I must admit many of us indulged in slightly more esoteric forms of mind alteration...Many of us survived Galesburg and went on to great things ( I'm not one of em); in fact one was my best friend back then, who after graduating Knox, DID attend U of I for his masters in journalism, and among his accomplishments springing from his combined Knox/Illinois education are a Pulitzer in international reporting , (from Afghanistan for the NY Times) and the longest article ever published in the history of the Times' Sunday magazine ( stories of individual tsunami survivors). Barry, is also the Times reporter who was briefly jailed by the Mugabe regime for "committing journalism without a license " or some such BS about a year ago.