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By Paityn Tabor ’23  Managing Editor and Sports Editor  taborpn@lfc.edu  Camille Yale is an Associate Professor of Communication here at Lake Forest College and is also the Chair of Communication. Yale received her bachelor’s degree in communication from Ohio University, her MA in communication from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and her PhD in the Institute of Communication Research from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After working in television production for seven years…

Sergio Bardesi-Texocotitla A&E and Chive Editor bardesitexoc@lakeforest.edu An integral point of identity for Lake Forest College: Boomer the Bear. He has been performing on campus since 1995. In spring 2020, due to health concerns arising from the pandemic and a rather small audience on campus, the athletics department put Boomer the Bear into hibernation. In summer 2020, Boomer let out a low, rumbling yawn and began a slow, difficult return to the minds of Foresters. …

By Katelyn O’Callaghan ’25  Staff Writer  ocallaghankch1@lfc.edu  Trending on Twitter and TikTok, pseudo friendships have recently captured social media attention. Instances of celebrity stalking and unhealthy obsessions have spotlighted the conversation.  Many are pushing back against this narrative.   Parasocial relationships are one-sided relationships humans form with fictional characters in books and TV shows, celebrities, and social media personalities. The term was first coined in the 1950s by psychologists Donald Horton and Richard Wohl, but in-depth…