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By CYDNEY SALVADOR ‘18 FEATURES EDITOR While tending to Lake Forest College’s garden last summer, Katie Harris ’20 cultivated her knowledge of sustainable living while producing plants for the community. Alongside Olga Gutan ’19 and Isabelle Cadrot ’19, and with supervision of psychology professor Kathryn Dohrmann and former assistant to the environmental studies program, Alex Blanchard, Harris spent the summer tending to the plants and learning sustainability practices. This fall, Gutan and Harris will return…

BY CAITLIN BROWN ‘18 ASSOCIATE EDITOR HIGHLAND PARK – Orange leaves and pumpkin-spiced lattes may be common signifiers of the upcoming (albeit preempted) seasonal shift, but they are also representative of another significant change: the increasingly hectic tempo of the academic semester. With the onslaught of more intensive workloads and extracurricular commitments, Coffee Speaks, Highland Park’s recently-established chic café serves as a quiet haven for students to study, relax, and relish in the friendly atmosphere…

The summer is quickly approaching. In just a few weeks, we’ll all leave campus for summer break. Some students here at Lake Forest College are just going home to hang out with old friends, but other students have some very interesting plans. This summer, 45 students of the class of 2020 are staying on campus for the Richter Scholar Research Program to conduct research projects for either four or 10 weeks. The research projects cover…