1. The Knox Student | Mosaic | September 24, 20156
Kiwanis
Park
Galesburg, Ill.
Only ten minutes from campus, Ki-
wanis Park has over 50 acres of land to
explore. If you have any interest in play-
ing frisbee golf, or “frolfing,” Kiwanis
Park is equipped with 18 holes that span
the entirety of the grounds. Aside from
providing your own frisbee (there are
plenty of these on campus), there is no
charge to give the game a try. The park
is also home to an outdoor skatepark if
you’re looking for terrain that’s a little
less flat.
Scattered with trees, Kiwanis Park
is a great spot to set up a hammock,
slackline or blanket for a picnic. Al-
though Knox has plenty of outdoor
space, Kiwanis Park is a quick getaway
from the usual campus scenery.
Green Oaks
Biological
Field Station
Victoria, Ill.
Many Knox students don’t realize how much the Green
Oaks Biological Field Station has to offer. It is not only for
biology majors conducting field research, but for anyone who
enjoys camping, fishing, swimming, canoeing and a plethora
of other activities. During warmer months, you can swim in
the lake, though be warned: it is full of fish, some large, some
small. You can also grab a canoe and travel the entirety of
Lake Sharvy, named after late Knox College President Sharvy
Umbeck. You can also rent camping supplies from Knox, at
no cost, and go on a camping trip. There are spots for bon-
fires and marshmallow-roasting as well. Green Oaks is about
a 35-minute drive from campus in Victoria, Ill. but if you’re
feeling especially adventurous, it is possible to bike there.
Affordable outdoor destinations within an hour of campus
BY ELIZABETH CLAY AND NADIA SPOCK
The Knox Student
Whether it’s your first term at Knox and you’re still adjusting to life in Galesburg, or you’re an upperclassman facing a slump, we all need to get off
campus occasionally and escape the “Knox Bubble.” Even though much of the student population doesn’t have a motor vehicle on campus, there are still places
that can be biked to, and there is the option of renting the campus U-Haul car to get to further destinations. For biking-distance spots, you can take advantage
of the campus bike repair shop, where you can rent a bicycle for free.
ESCAPING THE
KNOX BUBBLE

2. The Knox Student | Mosaic | September 24, 2015 7
The Carl Sandburg
Birthplace
Galesburg, Ill.
The largest part of the Carl Sandburg birthplace site is the beautifully
-manicured garden. Though the museum and cottage are only open Thursday
through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., the garden is open to visitors 24/7. There
is a quote walk, paved with stones bearing quotes from his works, as well as a me-
morial rock and bust of Sandburg. The garden is a tranquil space, equipped with
stone benches perfect for reading a book, or writing your own work.
The small museum houses an impressive collection of items that Sandburg
owned, as well as first printings of his various written works. His acoustic guitar is
housed in a cylindrical display case, and his typewriter in another. On my visit, I
learned that Sandburg was a folk singer as well as a writer; his music was playing
in the background, and they sell CD’s of his songs. The cottage that Sandburg was
born in is tiny, but incredibly charming. The entire house is not much larger than
a dorm room at Knox, though there is a separate living room, bedroom, dining
room and kitchen, and it looks the same as when Sandburg and his family were
living there.
There is also a barn in the garden, where a different musician or musical
group performs on the last Saturday of every month. For the month of Sept. on
the 26, there will be a Celtic band performing, and the Oct. performance will be
on Halloween.
Luthy Botanical
Gardens
Peoria, Ill.
If time allows for the 45-minute trip to Peoria, Luthy Botanical
Garden is a must-see destination before winter hits. With over a
dozen outdoor gardens and an indoor conservatory, wandering the
paths that wind through the park is both picturesque and relaxing.
Lined with several benches and a gazebo, Luthy Botanical Garden
offers a vibrant change of scenery for Sunday reading or enjoying
a picnic lunch. Adjacent to the Peoria Zoo, both sites can be easily
explored on the same outing.
Luthy Botanical Garden also holds classes, presents live music
and hosts other events. Upcoming events include Good Eats from
the Fall Garden on Sept. 29, and the Hogwarts Botanical Garden
Chrysanthemum Show which begins on Oct. 8. Open daily from
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Be sure to take advantage of the greenery before
it’s gone.
Forest Park
Peoria, Ill.
Tucked away in the bluffs of the Illinois river, Forest
Park is the perfect location if you’re looking to escape the
vast fields of Galesburg. With seven different hiking trails
beginning at the Forest Park Nature Center, you can take
your pick depending on the length you’d like to go and
sights you’d like to see.
Being an Illinois State Nature Preserve, the Forest
Park Nature Center offers both educational and recre-
ational programming to visitors of the park. Some activi-
ties include guided hikes, yoga and a bimonthly Old Time
Folk and Country Jam. The next artist performing as part
of the 2015 Forest Park Nature Center Concert Series will
be folk musician Bill Staines on Oct. 4. Although some
concerts and offerings have fees attached, many request
donations.
Open from dawn till dusk all year round, traveling to
Peoria to witness the leaves change at Forest Park is well
worth the trip.

3. MOSAICA R T S & E N T E R T A I N M E N T
5The Knox Student | May 21, 2015
A joy for the gameSenior Eric Crawford
releases debut
mixed tape
BY ELIZABETH CLAY
Co-Mosaic Editor
On Wednesday, May 20,
senior Studio Art major Eric
Crawford dropped his new
tape, “The Joy of the Game.”
This project had been in the
works for over a year now,
though at the end of the tape he
says he’s been working on it for
three years.
“Really the three years came
from just working on myself,
because really it’s not just about
the rap part, it’s about being a
better you. That’s another sig-
nificant part about the joy of the
game, it’s really a journey,” said
Crawford. “It’s a journey from
your lower to your higher self,
for me at least. It was about be-
ing a better me, whether that’s
being a better student, whether
it’s being a better athlete, it’s
putting that work into whatever
you’re trying to do to get to that
next level. That’s what the joy of
the game really means.”
He says the message behind
“The Joy of the Game” is all
about “keeping the faith.”
“You can be in college, you
can make change on campus,
you can make change in your
community, just by keeping
that faith. I’ve got a track on
there called “Thank the Man,”
and I think that track really gets
that message across.” Crawford’s
faith is a huge part of what mo-
tivates him to make music, and
what keeps him going through-
out the process, not just of mak-
ing music, but of being a college
student.
There is also a lot of sig-
nificance behind the title of
this album. “About a year ago,
I had gone through a period of
depression, but I was always one
of those people that was like,
depression isn’t real, get your ass
up. But when it really hits you,
and you start questioning, I just
kind of had to pull myself out of
it, but I wouldn’t have been able
to pull myself out of it if I didn’t
have any faith at all that things
will get better. On top of that,
I’ve been playing basketball all
my life, it’s the game. Rap game,
basketball game, it’s a game, you
know?”
For Crawford, it’s all about
improving himself, being a bet-
ter student, a better athlete, “It’s
about putting that work into
whatever you’re trying to do
to get to that next level. That’s
what the joy of the game really
means.”
When he first started rap-
ping, Crawford was working at
Walmart, pushing carts. “We
didn’t have shit to do. So I was
just rapping in my head, like
playing beats in my head go-
ing over bars, and then I’d take
those bars and write them down
later when I got back home, or
just go and spit them on the
mic, whatever, you know.”
He practices every day, and
records most of his tracks at the
WVKC studio, on the fourth
floor of George Davis Hall.
The Recording Studio En-
gineer, senior Griffin Belzer,
is only in the studio for a cer-
tain amount of hours a day, so
Crawford works with a limited
amount of time in the studio.
“I’ve got to get a lot done in a
short amount of time. Usually
it’s like two hours, two and a
half hours, so I usually have my
verses ready, or pre-written, or I
try to at least, and I have Griffin
mix the stuff up, and whatever
happens after that, happens.”
He also collaborates with
other student artists at Knox,
like sophomore Marcellis Da-
vis, whose stage name is Cello.
“I collaborate with people all
the time, like Cello, whoever is
in the studio at the time, some-
times we’ll write some stuff, and
then just go spit it, that’s usually
how most of my collaborations
come about.”
Crawford has also collabo-
rated with Chicago artist Aya
Smith. “Probably one of my
favorite tracks is one I did with
Aya. Me and Griffin were try-
ing to get that out there on a
deadline, and it was just tough,
but we got it done. But that was
one of my favorite memories,
because it felt like it was a mile-
stone. At this point I’d never
met her in person, Griffin just
told me about her so I sent her
the beat and she did her thing
on it, and it turned out to be a
hit.”
When preparing for a show,
he treats it like a game. “A lot of
times I’m drinking a lot of wa-
ter before, and just going over
the verses in my head prepping,
and once you’re on stage you
just feel out the crowd. And you
just kind of go, you just play the
game.”
Like many artists, Crawford
says he does get some nerves be-
fore going on stage.
He says, “Most of my
nerves come from butterflies in
my stomach, like before the ac-
tual performance, but then once
I get up there, it’s like, alright,
just start rapping. I usually like
to get straight to work, just go
in right away.”
This summer, he plans on
doing a lot of promotion for
“The Joy of the Game.” “I’m
trying to get some shows to-
gether and connect with some
people, link up with probably
Aya again, go to her shows, just
do my own stuff. I’m going to
be working on an EP, I’ve got a
few names for it, but I’m not go-
ing to drop anything right now.”
Currently, you can find
his music on SoundCloud, at
CrawTheSage, and on Twitter.
Mainstage play fails to
send feminist message
BY CARLY BERINSTEIN
The Knox Student
If you are a woman who
chooses a career over having
kids, you will never find a man
who wants you, even when you
lower your standards so much
that you are “ready and willing
to embrace mediocrity and
ambivalence.”
That’s what Catherine
(played by senior Sam Auch),
the protagonist, tells us in this
quote from “Rapture, Blister,
Burn” (written by Gina Gion-
friddo, 2012). The play opened
in Harbach Theatre on May 13
and was directed by Assistant
Professor of Theatre Jeff Grace,
and was advertised as a femi-
nist play. However, there was
little besides preachy book dis-
cussions and the high propor-
tion of female characters that
reinforced this idea. Perhaps
it was a bad idea to produce a
play at Knox with a hypocriti-
cal, sad, lonely academic for a
protagonist, with an artificial
and sugar-coated ending and
with an inconsistently support-
ive mother. Think about where
some Knox students, including
myself, are going to be in 20
years.
Without the intention of
scaring viewers “straight” (get
a family before it’s too late) or
creating a satire of contempo-
rary feminist thought, I don’t
see why this play was showing
me an elaborate nightmare of
the “double bind,” illustrated
by Avery’s (played by senior
Missy Preston) cynical ques-
tion: “So is the message that
women are fucked either way?
You either have a career and
you wind up lonely and sad,
or you have a family and you
wind up lonely and sad?” Rap-
ture’s answer was a resounding
yes.
To call this a feminist
play would be a tremendous
oversight, though perhaps an
easy mistake to make for those
who are unfamiliar with con-
temporary feminist thought.
While there were three female
characters with more lines than
the one male character, it is
much more important to note
that the show spends more
time discussing anti-feminist
thought, discouraging women
who have sex and those who
choose their careers over fami-
lies, and provides no solutions
to the problems presented to
the women.
While the production
was absolutely phenomenal,
the set, costumes and act-
ing could not distract me
enough.
SEE RAPTURE, PAGE 8
Senior Eric Crawford performs new tracks at Lincoln Fest. Crawford rehearses on a daily basis and primarily records at the WVKC studio in George
Review:
"Rapture,
Blister,
Burn"

4. MOSAICa r t s & e n t e r t a i n m e n t 5The Knox Student | November 12, 2015
“Vitality” represents the
diversity of Terpsichore,
dance department
BY ELIZABETH CLAY
Co-Mosaic Editor
Terpsichorepresentsbreadthofdanceforms
Juniors Esai Ponce, Lara Brewner, sophomore Bridget McCarthy, senior CarlyTaylor* and junior Elise Goitia line up
during a rehearsal in the Auxilliary Gym forTaylor’s dance,“Exorcism.”*CarlyTaylor is a staff writer forTKS. (Casey Mendoza/TKS)

5. MOSAICa r t s & e n t e r t a i n m e n t 5The Knox Student | October 29, 2015
BY ELIZABETH CLAY
Co-Mosaic Editor
Fledgling cast puts on
18th-century French play
Marivaux’s ‘The Island of Slaves’
welcomes new actors to Harbach stage
The cast of“The Island of Slaves”at dress rehearsal. None of the cast members have
performed in HarbachTheater before, but they have been rehearsing for the past
seven weeks, getting used to the space. (Casey Mendoza/TKS)

6. MOSAICa r t s & e n t e r t a i n m e n t 5The Knox Student | September 5, 2015
MISSING HOME
MOVING TO GALESBURG
FRIENDLESS
COMPLETELY CONFUSED
IS KNOX RIGHT?
Surviving O-Week
If O-Week has you stressed, don’t worry. It’s okay.
BY NADIA SPOCK
Co-Mosaic Editor
Myths about college debunked
BY ELIZABETH CLAY
Co-Mosaic Editor
Feeling stressed?
Enjoy these tips on how to relax and de-stress
BY ELIZABETH CLAY
Co-Mosaic Editor
Wheretofindhelp
Health Services in located at 175W. Knox St., across from the soccer field (beneath Furrow residence hall).They are open from 8
a.m. to 4:30p.m. Mon. - Fri. (TKS Archives)
YOU HAVE TO GO GREEK
TO HAVE A SOCIAL LIFE.
YOU HAVE TO DRINK TO
HAVE A GOOD TIME.
IF I’M ON A SPORTS
TEAM OR IN A GREEK
ORGANIZATION, I’LL
GET HAZED.
SCHOOL SPONSORED
EVENTS ARE
INHERENTLY LAME.