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Lake Forest College leads in Liquor-Law Arrests in 2017 across ACM schools; Lawrence University leads in sexual assaults

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Matthew Demirs

Lake Forest College proved to be a relatively safe small liberal arts college during the 2016 academic year in comparison to similar-sized schools across the Midwest. According to clerycenter.org, under rules outlined in the Jeanne Clery Act, a consumer protection law that aims to provide transparency around campus crime statistics, institutions must distribute their security report annually by October 1. The Stentor’s comparison of similar-sized schools that are fellow members of the Associated Colleges of…

Ghost Hunter Christopher Moon to Reveal Spooks and Scares

Posted on October 26, 2017October 26, 2017 by Matthew Demirs

BY CHRISTIAN METZGER ’20 STAFF WRITER Students will have the chance to revel in the haunted enchantments of Lake Forest College at midnight on October 29 with ghost hunter Christopher Moon, just in time to truly celebrate the spirit of Halloween. “The Ghost Hunter is an event that will include palm readers, the movie Annabelle: Creation, a presentation on haunting around the country and Christopher Moon’s experience,” Vice President of Student Programming Board (SPB) Alexa…

Student-Directed Play to Put An Original Spin on Macbeth

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Matthew Demirs

BY LEAH MOSS ’20 Arts and Entertainment Editor When one typically thinks of Shakespeare, they think of a somewhat boring text that they have to read in English class. However, this fall a new and very unique interpretation of Macbeth will take place here at Lake Forest College. In the Shakespeare class last semester, the students were assigned a paper on a Shakespeare play they hadn’t read in class. Tyler Madeley ’18 chose to write…

A Beginner’s Guide to Starting A White Club

Posted on September 26, 2017September 26, 2017 by Matthew Demirs

BY EMMA ANDERSON ‘20 STAFF WRITER So, you wanna start a White Club on campus? Well, you’ve come to the right place. Step 1: Come up with a name. It’s easy! Are you tempted to come dangerously close to sounding like a pre-existing hate group? Do it anyway! It doesn’t matter; it’s not like anything is going to happen to you. It’s just a name! Words don’t hurt! You know what? It helps to mock…

Athletes spend summer around the world

Posted on September 26, 2017 by Matthew Demirs

By FRANKIE CORRADO ’18 SPORTS EDITOR Aram Arslanian ’20 Romania & Armenia Arslanian ’20, a 6’6” shooting guard for the Forester basketball team, played in Oradea, Romania, this summer as a member of the U-20 basketball team for the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). He averaged 15.5 points, 5.7 rebounds, and 3.7 assists per game, including a 33.4 minute playing average time each game in the tournament. Afterwards, he went back to Armenia to join the European Cup…

Movie Review: ‘It’ Floats Above Expectations

Posted on September 26, 2017 by Matthew Demirs

By CHRISTIAN METZGER ‘20 STAFF WRITER Remakes of classic films often earn scorn from general audiences, but It, based off Stephen King’s novel of the same name, manages to trump its predecessor in spades. Perhaps the biggest godsend of the remake is time—the original It is just over three hours long while the remake is only an hour and thirty minutes, and with the original you feel every minute. Part of that is the sloppy…

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