Students begin chapter for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, goal $100,000

afford costly medication.

At a summer program for Northwestern, Femi Ololade, junior, met an intern who recruited him for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Student Visionaries of the Year program. The following school year, he reached out to juniors Hannah Loredo and Ethan Loredo as candidates to run alongside him.

“I am aware that cancer affects the lives of many, many people, and there is still a lot more than should be done to combat it and find many treatments,” Femi said. “I feel like more access should be taken now, especially since it’s such a bad problem.”

The moment you enter the game, you are instantly drawn into its gasp-evoking visuals. As you follow Joel and Ellie along their journey across a desolate country, the weathered-down houses to the wild vegetation immerses the player into the ruin of their world.

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Having moved from a predominantly black school to Munster, a predominantly white school, Kam Hubbard, junior, felt a shift in how she was seen by her peers. She felt pressured to have a bigger personality and caught herself code-switching.

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Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day

Tomorrow marks the end of National Society of Professional Careers Engineering Week with Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day. Freshmen and sophomores are eligible to openly dive into the field of engineering with hands-on activities and an engineering student mentor’s guidance on the West Lafayette campus. This program gives students the opportunity to dive into how engineers can make an impact on science and technology.

“His dad talked about what LLS means to them, and what it has done for them.” ethan junior

The program is seven weeks long and runs through a program called Student Visionaries of the Year until March 18. There are individual chapters with a total of 32 teams, and each group picks a subgoal of money put towards research, advocacy and direct care. The goal for the chapter in Munster is to raise a grand total of $100,000 for advocacy, which helps patients who cannot

The amount of money raised is not publicly shared due to other competing teams. The team is no longer accepting applicants and has a total of 16 students; information about donations can be found on their website events.lls.org. Each team member has their own personal goals for raising money, reaching out to local businesses and placing advertisements all over. Both Hannah and Ethan joined, in part, in honor of their grandmother Karen Moses, who passed away in 2017 from metastatic breast cancer.

“Seeing that from a young age, I feel like I can understand the pain that a lot of families go through,” Hannah said. “Especially since Leukemia is the number one cancer that children get. That’s also a big reason I wanted to join because it’ll affect a lot of families.”

“I think it’s a great experience for girls to go out and get that experience for what engineerings all about,” Mr. Jim Davidson, engineering teacher said. “There’s another whole field out there. There’s so many opportunities and fields of scholarships for females in engineering, so it’s an incredible chance to explore these possibilities.”

emily dywan corrections

In Issue 6 of Crier, on page 1, Steven Glombicki is a sophomore and Mrs. Brook Lemon is an English teacher. On page 5, Maple Leaf Crossing is located North of the train tracks on Calumet Avenue, not across from Rosebud Steakhouse. Crier regrets these errors.

Academic asset or waste of time?

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Sitting in the fieldhouse during lunch freshman year, I made my final decision to switch to online classes. Finishing all my homework and still having time to finish an entire episode of Criminal Minds, I thought, “why am I wasting so much time here?” With half of the students were online and the other half were in person, there was a lot of free time to work at school. Although the extra work time is a major benefit, especially for students who are in sports and extracurriculars, I can picture how it would change in the future now that covid isn’t a factor.