New Health Professions Program Coming Fall 2020

New Health Professions Program Coming Fall 2020

By Adam Hartzer ’23 Layout Editor hartzeraj@mx.lakeforest.edu    In the first semester of the 2020-21 academic year, Lake Forest College will unveil an exciting new program for students interested in the health sciences. Known as the Health Professions Program, or HPP, this innovative program “provides a core curriculum and a set of articulated pathways into graduate programs that will prepare students to join a 21st-century workforce,” according to a statement from Senior Director for Science…

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Coronavirus and Capitalism 

Coronavirus and Capitalism 

By Josh Hager ’22  Staff Writer  hagerjm@mx.lakeforest.edu  The pandemic of COVID-19 is exposing the fragility of the system of capitalism. As the world plunges deeper into the pandemic situation, with the US being the country with the most cases, the capability for a proper response is limited in a system where the labor of the working class is necessary so that profits do not collapse. Stories are pouring in from across the country of mass…

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COVID-19 Affects Spring Sports

COVID-19 Affects Spring Sports

By Stephanie Carlson ’21  Associate Editor and Sports Editor  carlsonsa@mx.lakeforest.edu  With the ongoing spread of COVID-19, colleges across the country have shut down their campuses and gone completely online. With the sudden breach in students’ everyday lives, collegiate and non-collegiate sports took a major hit. College students have not only lost their time with friends, their typical college experiences, and, for seniors, the postponement of their graduation ceremonies. COVID-19 has halted all spring collegiate sports…

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Thoughts on the Coronavirus Stimulus Bill 

Thoughts on the Coronavirus Stimulus Bill 

By Nathaniel Bodnar ’21  Staff Writer  bodnarnm@mx.lakeforest.edu    The current Coronavirus Stimulus Bill highlights one of the biggest problems with our current democracy. Bills have no singular focus and, as a result, they often have many provisions that have little to do with each other. The economic impacts of coronavirus are very wide and, as a result, almost any industry can claim they have been affected. The end result is that the Coronavirus Stimulus Bill…

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Book Review: Genderqueer: A Story From a Different Closet  

Book Review: Genderqueer: A Story From a Different Closet  

By Maryam Javed ’21  Opinions Editor  javedm@mx.lakeforest.edu  “I’m one of the girls. That’s my gender. I’m male. That’s my sex. I’m attracted to females. That’s my orientation. My experience was different from anything else I’d ever heard of. I wanted to write it down so there would be a book showing what it is like to grow up like this,” writes Allan D. Hunter in GenderQueer: A Story from a Different Closet.  GenderQueer: A Story…

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