Lake Forest College
According to the Lake Forest College website, the average cost of annual tuition totals up to over $53,000, with more than $5,000 going toward meal plans per student each year. Since Lake Forest College students have already paid for dining costs, why are we stopped at the exit of the dining hall for taking out more than just a dessert and a beverage? Why are we required to throw away excess food instead of being…
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Leadership is one of the most emphasized values at Lake Forest College, and one of the ways many students chose to get involved and develop leadership skills is through Student Government. As a student-led or-ganization with Aldo Guzman as a faculty supervisor, the Student Government oversees many aspects of the campus. These include but are not limited to the approval of new of clubs and organizations on campus, as well as the management of their…
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Mind Sumo connects college students to the business sphere from the comfort of their rooms. It is about a webpage that provides students experience on working with a company while giv-ing them a chance to earn money in return for ideas only college students can think of at that time. You can win between $50 to $500 dollars per challenge when your solution is picked as number one out of the ten winners in competitions…
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L.E.A.P., which serves as an important environmental awareness group on cam-pus, hopes to introduce a project that would allow for even greater conservation on campus: reusable bags. If you think about it, we are always given the choice for a bag whenever we go to the P.O.D., and chances are that most of the time people will say yes. But, have you ever thought about the implications that this poses on the environment? L.E.A.P. Stands…
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They met during the first month of their fresh-man year at a WMXM 88.9FM event. Since then, they have regularly attended other ex-tracurricular activities together; in doing so, they have developed a long-lasting friendship that has lead to the first student-led delivery service on campus. Tyler Armentrout’18 and Mariano Garcia Jr.’18 are two young entrepreneurs who, within a 24-hour time span, have launched Awubis, an on-campus delivery service that provides food and other items from…
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It was a Tuesday morning–the first sunny one we’d had in weeks. We crammed into a white minivan with three other Lake Forest College students, along with Donald Stanley in the driver’s seat. We were on our way to a protest in the heart of downtown Chicago to meet hundreds of other Illinois college students demanding support for the MAP (Monetary Assistance Program) grant. We sat behind Parth Tank, a sophomore neuroscience major at Lake…
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