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Community Values Project to Represent Campus Priorities

Posted on May 4, 2025 by Jillian Beaster

Jillian Beasterbeasterjro@lakeforest.edu News Editor With the presidential search underway, Interim President Rob Krebs expressed interest in unifying the campus by creating community values to present to the new president and the campus. Overall, the project allows students, staff and faculty to collectively create and define shared values that reflect the campus community’s goals and beliefs. Receiving a cumulative response of 445/2,310 (19%) members of the campus community, the project exceeded their initial average of 10%-15%…

Public Safety, police acknowledges College party scene

Posted on May 4, 2025 by Stentor Staff Writer

Natalie Booth ’28boothn@lakeforest.edu JOUR 320 Writer According to students, staff and police officers alike, nightlife at Lake Forest College has gotten quieter. Compared to previous years, there’s been a noticeable decline in the scale of drinking both on and off campus, according to the Lake Forest police. “Drinking on campus and drinking off-campus in college houses was, from our perspective, a much bigger thing,” said Michael Lange, the deputy chief of operations. “Not that it doesn’t…

College undergoes change in presidential leadership

Posted on March 24, 2025April 18, 2025 by Jillian Beaster

Jillian Beaster ’28 | beasterjro@lakeforest.edu | News EditorCaleb Pope ‘27 | popecse95@lakeforest.edu | Staff Writer An unexpected email was sent on December 10, 2024, informing staff, students, and faculty of an immediate change in college leadership. Board of Trustees Chairman Bill Lowry announced the transition from former President Jill Baren to Interim President Robert Krebs. Krebs has served on the Board of Trustees since 1990 and has been elected Chairman twice. During his time in…

“Free Store” initiative to begin in May

Posted on March 21, 2025April 18, 2025 by Jillian Beaster

Jillian Beaster ’28 beasterjro@lakeforest.edu News Editor Starting this May, Professor Siobhan Moroney’s “Free Store” initiative will be underway. Moroney’s vision entails a space where students can donate items they no longer need, to allow for students to shop second-hand on campus for free. “Every May for the last 25 years [I have been] dumpster diving in college dumpsters, and I live better because of that, and I sent two kids off to college without buying…

“This Site Can’t Be Reached”: The disappearance of ReproductiveRights.gov

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

Atala Johnson ’28johnsonael@lakeforest.edu JOUR 320 student Laine Hole, a 19-year-old sophomore at Lake Forest College, has feared for the future of reproductive rights since her Catholic school years when her peers debated abortion. Most of her classmates opposed abortion, but Hole said she has always believed it is a fundamental right. “I never thought the day would come when my rights would be taken away,” said Hole, who grew up in California, where voters altered the state…

Mass deportation orders leave colleges in uncertainty

Posted on March 21, 2025March 24, 2025 by Stentor Staff Writer

Natalie Booth ’28 boothn@hartzera JOUR 320 student College administrators across the country are unsure about the Trump administration’s new executive orders that initiate the mass deportation and expedited removal of undocumented immigrants in the U.S., including college students. Lake Forest College admits undocumented students as part of its mission to embrace diversity, according to its website. Now, their future status is uncertain—here and elsewhere. “As far as what the future holds for undocumented students on…

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