Chive

By Sergio Bardesi-Texocotitla ’22 A&E Editor and Chive Editor bardesitexoc@lfc.edu In April of 2016, Kristina Rawlings ’19 documented a tragedy in the making for the Stentor’s Chive section. The situation challenged Lake Forest College mascot’s position, tenure, and mental stability. Boomer the Bear was under an un-bear-able amount of stress. I decided to dig through the Stentor’s archives to figure out how the Boomer kept his job and what he did during the pandemic.  In…

The Article below was published in Vol. 137, Issue 1 of the Lake Forest College Stentor on September 17, 2021. By Sergio Bardesi-Texocotitla ’22 A&E Editor and Chive Editor bardesitexoc@lfc.com “We were sitting down, Snoop Dogg in the background, getting ready to smoke a bowl mixed with wax…and we were already kind of gone because of some strong brownies my friend got us. Anyways, that stupid, buzzing alarm in my room started to go off…

The Article below was published in Vol. 136, Issue 8 of the Lake Forest College Stentor on April 30, 2021. Sergio Bardesi-Texocotitla ’22 Staff Writer bardesitexoc@lfc.edu  As Lake Forest College struggles with assuaging concerns and fears about the COVID-19 pandemic, one student in particular has developed an ingenious solution. I asked Showa de Vaccinas ’21 for more details about his perfect plot. “First, we will require that ALL Foresters receive the vaccine! How will we…

The Article below was published in Vol. 136, Issue 6 of the Lake Forest College Stentor on March 12, 2021. By Sergio Bardesi-Texocotitla ’22  Staff Writer  bardesitexoc@lfc.edu  I remember my last stress-free break from school. It was the summer after sixth grade, and all post-sixth-grade Sergio did to fill his time was bike to the library, play Pokémon: SoulSilver on my red Nintendo DS Lite, and consume concerning amounts of candy. One evening, in particular,…

The Article below was published in Vol. 136, Issue 3 of the Lake Forest College Stentor on November 13, 2020. Cole Wimmer ’22 Staff Writer wimmernr@mx.lakeforest.edu “Zoom crush probably hasn’t noticed me”—thinks forlorn student.  All types of people have had to restrict their normal and abnormal social interactions to Zoom, and there may be no group more hindered by this exclusively virtual experience than the Romantics among us. The head-in-the-clouds dreamers who have watched too many early…

The Article below was published in Vol. 135, Issue 5 of the Lake Forest College Stentor on February 7, 2020   By Jon Call ’20 Staff Writer   On January 1, 2020, Illinois became the eleventh state to legalize marijuana. Lake Forest College, which is a federally funded institution, decided to take precautionary measures to enforce its anti-cannabis policy, beyond placing Hawaiian Breeze air fresheners throughout Moore’s hallways. Lake Forest College enlisted a program called N.A.R.C (Nicely…