Jack Loessberg – Page 17

Everything You Wanted to Know About the Lake Forest College Endowment Fund

Posted on April 21, 2015December 18, 2015 by Jack Loessberg

The College has an $85 million endowment fund, which is an accumulation of donations and gifts from alumni, friends of the College, and residents of Lake Forest since the start of LFC in 1857. The endowment fund is essentially the “saving account for the College,” according to President Stephen Schutt. The Board of Trustees and an investing committee decide how to invest the money in order to make a return of about 6 to 7…

Efficiency of 24/7 Computer Lab Workstations Debated

Posted on April 21, 2015December 18, 2015 by Jack Loessberg

Donnelley and Lee Library’s 24/7 computer lab stations give the College’s students free access to use a PC. Recently, there have been numerous complaints regarding how productive a student actually can be while using these computers. Adil Hussain ’16, a frequent user of these computers, said that while the computers are convenient, they are “way too slow” and “unreliable… and need to be upgraded.” A student took to Yik Yak to complain about the slow…

The World is Not Your Oyster: Why Color Runs Have No Place at Lake Forest College

Posted on April 21, 2015December 18, 2015 by Jack Loessberg

On April 14, the Department of Athletics sponsored the annual Ry’s Run, a 5K held in honor of Ry McCarthy ’10, a goalie on the women’s hockey team who lost her battle with cancer in 2009. While the goal of the event is admirable— to raise money for the American Cancer Society—the fact that it involves the appropriation of Hindu culture is deplorable. The situation is this: approximately 92.5 percent (49 of 53) of athletic…

Efforts for an Eco-friendly Campus: A Naturalized Prairie

Posted on April 21, 2015December 18, 2015 by Jack Loessberg

For the past year, the Lake Forest College Campus Sustainability Committee, along with several of the school’s faculty members, has begun working on a new project for Middle Campus: a naturalized prairie. The goal of the project is to cultivate an area using a myriad of native plant species to show what the area’s natural, pre-settlement landscape looked like. James S. Kemper Foundation Professor of Liberal Arts and Business Jeffrey Sundberg is one of the…

Saturday’s a Rugby Day

Posted on April 21, 2015December 18, 2015 by Jack Loessberg

The Lake Forest College men’s and women’s club rugby teams headed to the Tournament of Champions (TOC) hosted by Northern Illinois University in Sleepy Hollow, Illinois on Saturday, April 11. The tournament included more than 20 men’s and women’s collegiate and club rugby teams from around the area, including Wisconsin, Iowa, and Indiana. The women started out the day against the Fox Valley Vixens, a women’s club team from St. Charles, Illinois. Lake Forest dominated…

Forester Field of Dreams: Should the College Bring Baseball Back to Campus?

Posted on April 21, 2015December 18, 2015 by Jack Loessberg

Many people have wondered why baseball is not a varsity sport at Lake Forest. Actually, baseball was the first varsity sport at the College in the late 1890s. During both world wars, there was an elimination of varsity sports. However, baseball continued at the College until the early 1970s. It died out because there was great pressure for fielding a lacrosse team. Coach Michael Dau ’58, who coached the baseball team in the 1960s, argued…

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