Lake Forest College
Editor’s note: The Stentor has greatly benefitted from all three of our graduating seniors, and we will definitely miss their work and dedication. We interviewed Managing Editor Ellerese Topacio, A&E Editor Leah Moss, and Staff Writer Christian Metzger about their time on the paper and their plans for the future. To the entire Lake Forest College Class of 2020, thank you all for supporting the Stentor during your time at LFC. We wish you…
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Nathaniel Bodnar ’21 Staff Writer bodnarnm@lakeforest.edu In 2009, the American Tea Party movement arose after the great recession. The movement was spawned as a response to the massive spending and corporate bailouts that occurred during the recession. One of the Tea Party’s primary concerns was the massive debt America had been accruing. The movement primaried some incumbent Republicans and brought in a new wave of Republican politicians. In addition, the movement had significant financing from…
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By Emma Overton ’22 Editor-in-Chief and News Editor overtoneg@mx.lakeforest.edu Noting that “the Coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread across the United States and around the globe” in a March 11 email, President Schutt announced the extension of Spring Break to Tuesday, March 17. Although he noted that there were “no known cases of COVID-19 on the Lake Forest College campus,” Schutt explained that “because the number of cases continues to rise across the country ……
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By Stephanie Carlson ’21 Associate Editor and Sports Editor carlsonsa@mx.lakeforest.edu Senior tennis player and women’s tennis co-captain, Leeza Bodnar, from Orland Park, Illinois is currently majoring in finance with a double minor in Spanish and digital media. With the spread of COVID-19 ending her final season as a collegiate athlete, Bodnar is heartbroken that her career was cut short. Stentor staff interviewed Bodnar about her plans after college and how the cancellation of spring sports…
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By Jovana Jovanovska ’23 Staff Writer jovanovskaj@mx.lakeforest.edu Ann Roberts has been an art history professor at the College for 25 years. She grew up in and around Baltimore, Maryland. Roberts attended Johns Hopkins University for her undergraduate degree and the University of Pennsylvania for her master’s and PhD degree. She was in the first class of women admitted to the then all-male Johns Hopkins University when there were about 25 women in the first-year…
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By Arielle Van Deraa ’21 Digital Editor vanderaaas@mx.lakeforest.edu As the Chicago Sun-Times staff who covered the Illinois Primary Election on March 17 noted, “it was an unprecedented Election Day in Illinois—with delayed results, missing election judges, dwindling supplies of hand sanitizer and bickering over whether the state should even hold its primary during a global health pandemic.” On Monday, March 16, the federal government published a new set of guidelines urging Americans not to…
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