Author: Adam Hartzer

By Jovana Jovanovska ’23 Staff Writer jovanovskaj@mx.lakeforest.edu    On March 16, President Schutt informed the campus community via e-mail that residence halls were closing and students were expected to leave campus as quickly as possible due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, as the virus spread to almost every part of the world, international flights were canceled and many countries decided to close their borders. As a result, many international students were unable…

By Emma G. Overton ’21  Editor-in-Chief and News Editor  overtoneg@mx.lakeforest.edu    We are all living through the current coronavirus pandemic, but in 1918, the influenza pandemic emerged as a serious health threat that was spread quickly by mass movements of troops for World War I. According to the CDC’s “Past Pandemics” website, “the vulnerability of healthy young adults and the lack of vaccines and treatments created a major public health crisis, causing at least 50…