KnoxPix

Students drew their own tarot cards at the Tarot Card Workshop on November 12, sponsored by the Pagan Student Alliance. Photo by Kate Hovda '15.

A student in the Knox College computer science course Computing, Technology and Society this fall checks the Lego Mindstorm robot that he and his teammate assembled for the final class project. The survey course is designed for students who are not planning to major in computer science, and the robotics component provides a challenging real-world experience in programming technology, explains professor John Dooley. "You see a lot of this in movies, and it looks easy. It's not." Photo by Peter Bailley.

Poets and Peasants, a band sponsored by the Non-Traditional Students Club, performs in the Gizmo. Photograph by Hongyu "Sophie" Zhou '14.

A member of the Knox College men's swim team competes in the November 5 meet against Eureka College. Photograph by Peter Bailley.

College students took off their clothes and ran around campus... for a good cause! Each time the runners passed a checkpoint, they pulled off something that they were donating to "Shedding for Service," organized by Alpha Phi Omega (APO), the community service fraternity. Photograph by Kate Hovda '15.

Jennifer Nass of Galesburg brought her home-schooled son to the Special Collections and Archives in Knox College's Seymour Library to study pre-modern forms of writing this week. Here, they look at two samples of papyrus with hieratic writing, an ancient Egyptian script. In front of them on the table is a small Middle Eastern cylinder seal. Photograph by Peter Bailley.

Leaf-covered sidewalk on the Knox campus. Photo by Adriana Colindres.

A student shows off his handiwork at "Too Many Pumpkins" -- an October 28 all-campus pumpkin carving party on the Gizmo patio sponsored by Sigma Nu. Photo by Mia Sol Del Valle '15.

"This is what your lie looks like!" one student exclaimed, as lab partners watch a computer display of data from a student, at right, whose finger is hooked up to a skin galvanometer -- a.k.a. a "lie detector." Student lab assistant Michael Kolbeck (standing at rear) explained that the lab is designed to build experience with real-world data gathering into intro-level psychology courses. Photo by Peter Bailley.

An Irish dance workshop sponsored by Gaelic Fire, the Celtic dance club on campus. Photo by Kate Hovda '15.

Student Elizabeth Cockrell '12, looks through the plastic curtain of a walk-in freezer in the College's Dining Services area. She's working on a project that is bringing sustainably harvested wild Alaskan salmon to campus menus. Photo by Peter Bailley.

From the KnoxPix Archives:

October 2011: Intriguing student photos from Homecoming to Halloween.

September 2011: Student activities, such as the Fish 'n Chips party, staff at work, Pumphandle and other events at the start of the academic year.