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Liza Buhr, Staff Writer September 19, 2019

Have you been wondering how you can receive some help on campus? Is that math problem leaving you stumped? Are you looking for the perfect research resource? Look no further! By participating in...

Notre Dame Cathedral

IVCC Student at Notre Dame

Elle Bottom, IV Leader Reporter April 25, 2019

Notre Dame Cathedral went up in flames at approximately 6:30 p.m. on April 15, causing around $1 billion in damages. Investigators are still trying pinpoint the cause of the blaze, but experts say there...

Giving Slime, Getting Scholarship Funding

Matthew Klein, Staff Writer April 25, 2019

The IVCC Foundation’s annual Giving Day took place on April 3 and raised over $29,000 which supports their mission directly. The Giving Day 3 event consisted of slime, relay races, raffles,...

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Teacher spotlight: Retiring Jean Batson-Turner

Alex Martinez and Regan Baker April 4, 2019

Professor Jean Batson-Turner has dedicated most of her adult life to assisting others and has taught at IVCC for almost 17 years. To summarize someone so monumental, so full of love and light, is a...

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Something historical this way comes to IVCC

Summer Hoagland-Abernathy, IV Leader Editor-in-Chief August 30, 2018

A 60 year-old at IVCC received a facelift this year. The Mary Margaret Weeg Cultural Center underwent renovations in ramps and seating after a $630,000 donation from Weeg. And in conjunction with this...

IV Leader staff attended the Illinois Community College Journalism Association spring conference and accepted awards. Back row: Noah Currie, Summer Hoagland-Abernathy, Rachel Einhaus, Alexandria Bennett, and adviser Lori Cinotte. Front row: Kellsie Edgcomb and Martha Hoffman.

IV Leader wins again

IVLeader, Staff Writer April 26, 2018

For the second straight year, IV Leader, the student newspaper at Illinois Valley Community College, was awarded the Mike Foster Award for General Excellence, the highest award presented, at the Illinois...

Sith down for this one—

Sith down for this one—Edgcomb won in less than 12 parsecs

Kellsie Edgcomb, Assistant Opinion Editor April 26, 2018

On April 18, MIMIC (Making Industry Meaningful In College) had their 23rd Annual MIMIC Fair in the hall near the cafeteria. This year, they had many original items for sale. This includes the “Torch-nado,”...

Skoflanc moves on to other art

Skoflanc moves on to other art

Madalyn Robbins and Riley Johnson April 26, 2018

Francie Skoflanc, retiring IVCC Graphic Design Technology program director and instructor, had always been the artistic type, finding art as a way to entertain herself as an only child and discovering...

Quipster

Quipster

Award-winning comic
Alex Bennett, Cartoonist April 26, 2018

Alex Bennett

Barbed Wire Betties practing a braced-wall drill in Sycomore. Pictured from left to right, Demon, Slaughtermelon, Millennial Falcon and TsumAmy.

‘Hey, Millennial Falcon!’: My roller derby life

Kellsie Edgcomb, Assistant Opinion Editor April 26, 2018

Roller derby has a way of finding people at just the right moment. I first found roller derby while I was struggling to find a group I fit with. I was active-duty military living in the Metro-East St....

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