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Lawrence celebrates Native American Heritage Month

To celebrate Native American Heritage Month, the Lawrence University Native Americans Organization (LUNA) worked with the Diversity and Intercultural Center (DNIC) and Student Organization for University Programming (SOUP) to put on a virtual event on Nov. 12 — a dialogue open to students, faculty and staff about Indigeneity. President of LUNA, junior Jessica Hopkins, played…

Goodbye, Burstein

Photo by Sebastian Evans The Lawrentian reflects on President Burstein’s years at Lawrence following the announcement of his end-of-the-year departure Is this something we can do? That’s the question Lawrence University President Mark Burstein remembers asking himself, as he sat in City Park with his husband, David Calle, and gazed at the president’s house during…

World News

Canary Islands A hotel in the Spanish Canary Islands has been locked down due to the coronavirus following the visit of an Italian doctor infected with the illness. Several hundred guests have been forbidden to leave. Italy has been hit the hardest by COVID-19 in Europe with 283 cases and seven deaths. However, globally there…

Features

The Sustainability Section

The Sustainability Steering Committee is a group on campus that is devoted to creating more sustainable practices at Lawrence. This column highlights some of their recent initiatives in order to educate students on sustainable options and plans available to them. The Sustainability Steering Committee is wrapping up its initiatives for this term but is looking…

Opinions and Editorials

Staff Editorial: Take care of yourselves

This term seems to have left everyone far more exhausted than any other in recent memory. From the added stress of online classes to the severe lack of social interaction that helps keep us pushing in the late weeks of every term, the whole student population seems to be running low on fumes. And because…

Arts & Entertainment

Black and Brown empowerment event

Juniors Earl Simons and Sarah Navy duet together in front of Warch Campus Center. Photo by Zhixuan Lyu The balminess of the afternoon on Saturday, Nov. 7 made for the perfect environment to host an outdoor event. The Committee on Diversity Affairs (CODA)’s event organizers, senior Adona Lauriano and freshmen Allison Wunderlin and Avery…

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