Lamp Newspaper

11/04/2021

Only 8 percent of students get involved in extracurricular activities at Lincoln Land Community College. The low-engagement rate leaves many students missing learning opportunities. “Students come to community college to leave,” said Kyle Roughan, student engagement coordinator at Linocln Land C...

11/04/2021

Kyle Roughan hopes he can connect students with opportunities beyond the classroom as Lincoln Land’s Student Engagement Coordinator. Beginning in June 2021, Roughan’s job is to help students discover what they are passionate about and how to get involved in those passions. He is also largely inv...

11/01/2021

Lincoln Land’s Environmental Club is back in full swing after an almost two-year hiatus. Club President Anthony Lamb explained: “We’re taking this club out of the grave essentially. It was dormant for basically two years and we’re just trying to find our feet this year. Hopefully the next fe...

10/28/2021

10/27/2021

A $6.1 million grant from Memorial Health Systems of Springfield, the new Nursing Education Center in Montgomery Hall has opened on the main campus of Lincoln Land Community College. The Nursing Education Center provides many upgrades to the facilities for the program. For example, the center has an...

10/27/2021

Why did the deer cross the road? The answer is unknown, but one can assume it did not look both ways. While bears may be viewed to some as the most dangerous creature of the woods, statistics reveal that deer are on average a considerably bigger threat to humans. Approximately 1.23 million road acci...

09/24/2021

The New Kreher Agricultural Center is officially open at the Main campus in Springfield. The center features state-of-the-art laboratories and cutting-edge technologies. The tall wooden doors of the main entrance gives a hint to a magnificence within, and opens to a welcoming space. The design is a....

09/13/2021

Hungry for something convenient and delicious? Learn more about the opening of Bistro Verde on Tuesday in The Lamp.

With COVID-19 restricting the number of on-campus classes in 2020, there simply was not enough students to run Bistro Verde, a restaurant that is operated by Food Pro 4 students of the culinary program. However, the new on-campus guidelines allow Bistro Verde to return this Tuesday, giving staff and...

06/23/2021

A few businesses closed during the pandemic and didn't reopen, but most see a bright side after everything reopens.

Even before the pandemic, Downtown Springfield was known for being one thing: Dead. The pandemic accelerated the decline. Del’s Popcorn Shop, which had been located downtown for nearly 40 years, never reopened after the shutdown in March 2020, along with Robbie’s Restaurant and others. With busi...

04/27/2021

Organizations opposed who attended the event were Faith Coalition for the Common Good, American Civil Liberties Union-Springfield Chapter, Springfield Call2Action, Action Illinois, Black Lives Matter Springfield, UIS Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Abraham Lincoln Unitarian Universalist Church, Planned Parenthood Illinois Action, Sierra Club, Education and Action Together, Sangamon Valley Green Party, Sangamon County Democratic Socialists of America, Resistor Sisterhood.

Twelve community groups gathered outside of the Sangamon County sheriff’s office to oppose adding a mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicle (MRAP). Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell has requested the decommissioned military vehicle. The sheriff’s office previously acquired one in 2014, but t...

04/16/2021

Illinois reported a 23% increase in the number of COVID-19 cases this week. However, the Land of Lincoln is not the only state that is experience a spike in numbers. The CDC is reporting a rise in the number of COVID-19 cases around the country despite the availability of vaccine’s. Even more alar...

04/15/2021

SPRINGFIELD — The Lamp student newspaper at Lincoln Land Community College won 19 awards, including seven first-place awards, for journalism excellence at the Illinois Community College Journalism Association’s spring conference held virtually April 8. The Lamp staff, led by Editor Richard Baile...

04/12/2021

Current and prospective students of summer classes at LLCC can register now. Classes are being offered in a variety of formats including in-person, online, flex classes, and remote learning. Students who are interested in attending classes over the summer are encouraged to register as soon as possib...

04/06/2021

Have you had a virtual reality (VR) experience?

Aside from the occasional pop-culture nod – which usually features an over-the-top depiction of Science Fiction – the technology has largely been out of the mainstream. Often considered a ‘fad’, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (AR) are set to have an exciting year with big tech giants ...

04/05/2021

The Biden administration has been in office since Jan. 20, 2021, and 50 Executive Orders later, there was no executive order for paid college tuition. This is an important issue to all of us in college, as well as our parents. As a Presidential Candidate, Biden repeatedly said that he would push for...

04/02/2021

April is 'Counseling Awareness Month'

The American Counseling Association (ACA) has named April ‘Counseling Awareness Month’ which will be dedicated to highlighting available services. Lincoln Land Community College no longer offers on-campus services – but the college has partnered with ‘TalkSpace’ to provide broader and more...

03/29/2021

Left. Right. Democrat. Republican. Socialist. Liberal. Trumpist. The labels and divisions are everywhere today in the United States. However, a small group of women in Springfield is using their differences to build bridges and community in Springfield. The Hispanic Women of Springfield hopes to hig...

03/24/2021

Monday, March 15, 2021 Dear Editor, Devin Trubey ( Moving out of Illinois, 03/12/2021) reports that many people are moving out of Illinois during the pandemic. I happened to get onto another train in life that brought me to Illinois during the pandemic. I moved to the Land of Lincoln in June of 2020...

03/19/2021

Wishing you the best!

After spending the last three years as the Student Engagement Coordinator for Lincoln Land Community College, Jacob Deters is moving onto the University of Illinois in Champaign. Deters, a 2011 LLCC graduate, went on to Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. There he continued general studies wh...

03/17/2021

The Lincoln Land Loggers men’s basketball team rolled to an overtime victory to defeat St. Louis Community College with a score of 75-72. The Loggers got off to a rough start, at one point finding themselves down by 10 points early in the game. At the half, the Archers held the 29-24 advantage. Ne...