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The Article below was published in Vol. 136, Issue 1 of the Lake Forest College Stentor on September 18, 2020. Emma G. Overton ’21  Editor-in-Chief and News Section Editor  overtoneg@mx.lakeforest.edu In the summer of 2020, Lake Forest College junior Zahra Nadeem ’22 of Vernon Hills, Illinois, with the help of LFC alumna Zaria Sydnor ’20, founded Full Circle. Full Circle is described as an “advocacy, support, and awareness group” that Nadeem says “provides a safe space for…

The Article below was published in Vol. 136, Issue 1 of the Lake Forest College Stentor on September 18, 2020. Jovana Jovanovska ’23  Staff Writer  jovanovskaj@mx.lakeforest.edu In the last few months, people across the country and around the world have experienced mandatory quarantines, new social distancing procedures, wearing face masks, the shift to working from home, and the transition to remote learning. Zoom meetings have become a regularity and the simple act of hugging our friends and…

The Article below was published in Vol. 136, Issue 1 of the Lake Forest College Stentor on September 18, 2020. Emma G. Overton ’21  Editor-in-Chief and News Editor  overtoneg@mx.lakeforest.edu  The transition to remote learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic during the Spring 2020 semester became official on March 16, following an announcement by President Schutt that the College would move to online learning and cease the residential program for the remainder of the semester. This transition was,…

By Emma Overton ’21  Editor-in-Chief and News Editor  overtoneg@mx.lakeforest.edu    As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to worsen— with 776,093 positive cases and 41,758 deaths recorded in the United States as of April 21, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—scammers are using the resulting disruption in our daily lives to defraud victims. As thousands of college students across the country have returned home and transitioned to online learning, scammers are targeting their…

By Emma Overton ’22 Editor-in-Chief and News Editor  overtoneg@mx.lakeforest.edu    Noting that “the Coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread across the United States and around the globe” in a March 11 email, President Schutt announced the extension of Spring Break to Tuesday, March 17. Although he noted that there were “no known cases of COVID-19 on the Lake Forest College campus,” Schutt explained that “because the number of cases continues to rise across the country ……

By Arielle Van Deraa ’21  Digital Editor  vanderaaas@mx.lakeforest.edu   As the Chicago Sun-Times staff who covered the Illinois Primary Election on March 17 noted, “it was an unprecedented Election Day in Illinois—with delayed results, missing election judges, dwindling supplies of hand sanitizer and bickering over whether the state should even hold its primary during a global health pandemic.” On Monday, March 16, the federal government published a new set of guidelines urging Americans not to…