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Federal Budget Cuts Impact Environmental Jobs: Students Are Scared

Posted on March 21, 2025March 21, 2025 by Stentor Staff Writer

Gemma Mueller ‘27muellergal@lakeforest.edu Staff Writer Environmental studies students depend on healthy ecosystems for their future careers — and income. Now, with the Trump administration disrupting the EPA and environmental initiatives nationwide, students like Zoey Young fear for their professional futures. “This is definitely a scary time to be a climate-based scientist,” said Young, a Lake Forest College senior majoring in Biology and Environmental Science. To date, President Trump has exited the Paris Agreement, an international treaty…

Robot Calls, Real Crimes

Posted on March 21, 2025March 23, 2025 by Stentor Staff Writer

Sam Lubar ‘28JOUR 320 Studentlubarspa@lakeforest.edu The phone rang repeatedly after a Lake Forest grandfather had spoken to his son. His son had hung up to go to his grandson’s baseball game. Answering the call, the grandfather heard a familiar voice. It was his grandson, and the young man sounded panicky and distraught. “I need money,” he said, crying. Wait, the grandfather thought. This can’t be my grandson. He’s playing in a baseball game. Then who…

Rethinking Disability: From Kitchen Tools to Cultural Shifts

Posted on March 21, 2025March 23, 2025 by Stentor Staff Writer

Photo courtesy of the Public Domain.
The vegetable peeler than Sam Farber invented

Frozen Firsts: How International Students Are Dealing With Winter

Posted on March 6, 2025October 18, 2025 by Stentor Staff Writer

Tracy Wamarema wamarematwa@lakeforest.eduJOUR 320 Writer When Oswald Mugitswa ‘27 stepped outside after the season’s first snowfall, he was mesmerized. “I had never seen snow in real life before,” he said, stomping his boots into the icy ground to test its texture. “It felt like something out of a movie. But then I realized— it’s also painfully cold.” For many international students at Lake Forest College, winter is more than just a season: it’s an entirely new…

Lake Forest College Students Ready to Vote

Posted on November 4, 2024November 7, 2024 by Stentor Staff Writer

Written by the Lake Forest College Journalism 120 Class With the November election just days away, faculty members, staff, and students at Lake Forest College are casting their ballots for U.S. presidential candidates early, while others have yet to decide. Many students, part of nearly 41 million Gen Z voters eligible to vote in 2024, are voting for the first time—leaving experts to speculate whether they could swing the vote, one way or another. JOUR…

Go Touch Grass: A Lake Forest Student’s Guide to the Illinois Outdoors

Posted on October 31, 2024October 31, 2024 by Stentor Staff Writer

Gemma Mueller ’27 Illinois is the 25th largest state in the United States with a total of 57,915 square miles. Lake County, the county where Lake Forest College is located, has a total land area of 443.6 square miles. Over 10% of the land in Lake County is a forest preserve. Many view Illinois as a bland landscape with nothing to offer but Chicago, but boy are they wrong. That 10% of protected land has…

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