Lake Forest College
Students at Lake Forest College who live on campus have to purchase a meal plan, and the commuters and part-time students have the option of eating in the cafeteria as well. This results in a rather large proportion of the student body eating (or having to eat) in the caf. Aramark says it caters to all diets and has various food options. The truth is that when you do sit down and eat, you may…
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Lake Forest College Visiting Assistant Professor of English Zachary Martin has no problem boasting about his fetish–a book fetish, that is. He first discovered his passion for the written word while working in the special collections section of the library. The rest is history. Martin grew up in Miami, Florida under two parents who taught theater at their local college. In high school, he attended a magnet school that focused on visual arts. From Miami,…
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The College’s Health and Wellness Center introduced the Medicat Patient Portal on February 7, which allows students to make appointments and upload their health history. The service is accessible to all students through my.lakeforest.edu or lakeforest.medicatconnect.com. Department Assistant for Health and Wellness Siobhan Michelotti helped organize the effort to make the Patient Portal available. “This is something a lot of other colleges are doing,” Michelotti said. “The hope is now students can make appointments, so…
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In an initiative to improve the freshman dormitories, the College opted to remove all the furniture that was deemed in poor condition in Lois Hall and other freshman dorms. Andrew Pollom, the College’s residence life director, said, “The third floor [of Blackstone] along with Lois was replaced this past winter break. It, along with Blackstone, had some of the oldest and worst condition [of] furniture.” This comes off the heels of the latest phase of…
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African American studies is now offered as a major, while journalism was added as a new minor at the start of the 2016–2017 school year, bringing the number of combined majors and minors offered by the College to 57. The African American studies major was established after Lake Forest College received a $600,000 Mellon Foundation Grant to be used over the next six years. The funds are allocated to tenuring a faculty member, supporting the…
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Apparently, Foresters were not the only people excited to arrive at Lake Forest College after a long winter break. Nyemba Bryant ’20 and Nick Edlund ’19 are just two of the 24 transfer students who enrolled at the College this spring semester. They are also both transfers from a rival school, Knox College. Knox and Lake Forest are two Midwestern liberal arts colleges that share a lot in common; they have almost identical enrollments, compete…
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