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Reevaluating academic freedom: President Schutt’s Response

Posted on April 25, 2019April 26, 2019 by Publisher: Sangjun Hornewer

As included in “Reevaluating academic freedom” by Editor-in-Chief Sangjun Hornewer ’20, below is President Schutt’s response to the student reaction document: The letter from 16 student leaders, which I received on Friday, April 19, raised serious concerns about the experience of students of color on our campus. In response to the letter, I was very pleased to be able to meet Tuesday afternoon, April 23, with those student leaders and more than 20 other students. Davis Schneiderman…

Reevaluating academic freedom: LFC Student Reaction

Posted on April 25, 2019April 26, 2019 by Publisher: Sangjun Hornewer

As stated in “Reevaluating academic freedom” by Editor-in-Chief Sangjun Hornewer ’20, below is the student document in its entirety: To the Board of Trustees, the President, the Deans and Directors, and all senior administration of Lake Forest College, We, a collection of equity-minded student leaders, stand in solidarity with the students of color at Lake Forest College, as well as those organizing similar initiatives for complete equity at educational institutions across the nation. We write…

Lillard Opening Brings Old Faces to a New Campus

Posted on November 18, 2018April 26, 2019 by Stentor Staff Writer

By Pouriya Soltani ‘22 and Sangjun Hornewer ’20 Staff Writer and Editor-in-Chief The Grand Opening of the Lillard Science Center represents more possibilities for the Lake Forest College community. Over 700 people gathered at the new center on Middle Campus to celebrate the Grand Opening on October 12. The presentation began with opening remarks from President Schutt and messages of thanks to all those who contributed to the over $43 million project; principal donors John…

Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian Gives Talk

Posted on November 18, 2018 by Stentor Staff Writer

By Emma Overton ‘22 News Editor To honor the late Ruth Winter, who was a dynamic director of student activities at Lake Forest College for many years, the College invited Pulitzer Prize winning professor and historian Heather Ann Thompson to speak on Wednesday evening, October 10 in the Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel. Thompson, who won the coveted 2017 Pulitzer in history for her book “Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971…

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…

Power failures see the light

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Stentor Staff Writer

By MATT DEMIRS EDITOR IN CHIEF Power has been restored across campus after nearly three weeks of electrical issues caused by multiple failures in the underground power lines during March. On March 13th, during Spring Break, Phillip Hood, the Vice President of Development and Alumni Relations, alerted the student body via email of a major power outage that was originally said to take hours to repair. Hood’s email was the first in a series of…

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