Opinions

By Edward Aguilar ’26 and ChatGPT Staff Writer  aguilare@lakeforest.edu  Fears of technological unemployment are thousands of years old. Writing in his Politics (c. 350 BCE), Aristotle imagined a world where the strings of harps plucked on command and where “a shuttle could weave itself.” Nearly 2,000 years later, with the creation of textile mills in 19th century Britain, that world was realized and, in its wake, sparked the most infamous revolution against machines: The Luddite…

By Lia Fiffles ’24  Opinion’s Editor fiffleslm@lfc.edu Born between the years 1997 to 2012, Gen Z is the first generation to grow up with easy access to the internet, and we’ve maintained our reputation as a group of jaded individuals that struggle to utilize it in an appropriate way.  With a variety of topics that make headlines on social media, almost each and every one has faced the blunt and careless humor from Gen Z….

By Reece Wearing ’24  Staff Writer  wearingrd@lfc.edu “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise,” claims Aldo Leopold, establishing what has since been referred to as the Land Ethic. On the Lake Forest College campus, three locations—Shooting Star Savannah, Reverie Prairie, and the McClure Rain Garden—exemplify the College’s attempts to follow the Land Ethic; however, the College consistently…