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8 | February 20, 2020 | The lake forest leader community
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Ellie
The Jahraus Family, Lake
Forest
My name is Ellie. Libby
came into my life Dec. 9,
2017. I know that date
well because I no longer
got to rule the roost. I was
the princess for 13 years
and now I have to share
my house with a scaredy cat! I’m really good at
snuggling with my mom and making Libby scoot
over away from me at bedtime. I keep an eye on
things and a great mouser if it’s filled with catnip.
I’m polydactyl, more toes to slap ya with! And I
have a stub tail, my dad says I always leave the
room with an exclamation point!
To see your pet featured as Pet of the Week, send a photo
and information to peter@lakeforestleader.com or 60
Revere Drive, Suite 888, Northbrook, IL 60062.
Student covers the Iowa Caucuses for LFHS newspaper
Peter Kaspari, Editor
A student editor of The
Forest Scout, Lake Forest
High School’s student
newspaper, experienced
what it’s like to be a realworld
journalist earlier this
month when he went to the
Iowa Caucuses and reported
on them for his fellow
classmates.
Casey Murray, who is
the news and opinions editor
for The Forest Scout,
spent four days in Iowa —
Feb. 1-4 — with his father
and some of his father’s
friends as they went to the
Democratic caucus to kick
off who that party will
nominate as its presidential
nominee.
Murray said his father
has been going to the caucuses
since 2008 with his
friends, with the exception
of 2012, and the student
journalist was able to join
his father this year and in
2016.
When the fellow staffers
of The Forest Scout learned
Murray was going to the
caucus, it was decided to
have him report from Iowa
on what was happening.
“I thought, this is interesting,”
he said. “It’s something
that we don’t generally
see because nobody
really comes out here, so I
thought I’d do some reporting.”
He described his time in
the state as “hectic.”
“We were either driving
or in a campaign rally pretty
much the whole time,”
he said. “There was a very
energetic attitude, but there
was also some kind of,
‘How do any of them win?’
attitude in our car.”
Murray got to see an
actual caucus at the Clive
Learning Academy, located
in the Des Moines suburb
of Clive.
“And we went to see
Elizabeth Warren’s caucus
night party because we really
hadn’t heard her give
a substantive speech,” he
said.
He even got to ask the
Massachusetts senator a
question, which was the
only interaction with a candidate
he had that night.
“We were basically at
one of her rallies and we
were outside of where the
event was actually going to
be held, because we didn’t
get there in time,” Murray
said. “But she came out
for the first five minutes of
the event and answer a few
questions. I got to ask her
one.”
Murray also stood just
feet away from U.S. Sen.
Bernie Sanders, of Vermont.
“He was there for like 10
minutes and it was mainly
(Ohio) State Sen. Nina
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Turner and Jane Sanders
(the candidate’s wife) and
the regional campaign director,”
he said.
What made this particular
caucus a little unique
was the fact that caucus
results weren’t officially
reported until nearly 24
hours after the caucus had
ended, which has been attributed
to an app that was
being used by the caucuses
for the first time.
Murray said he was at
the Warren campaign rally
when he learned of the delay
in results.
“We thought it was fine
until we were at the party
and it was 9:30 (p.m.) and
there were still no results,”
he said. “And we were kind
of like, ‘Oh, what’s going
on?’”
Murray said Warren
eventually took the stage
to explain what was happening.
As a student who enjoys
both journalism and politics
— he is also a member
of the Lake Forest High
School Model United Nations
team — he really enjoyed
seeing how the caucus
worked.
“Seeing the retail politics
in action was very interesting,
because they have to
persuade these people and
have to engage the audience,”
he said. “So they’re
really putting on their best
performance.”
He also learned a lot
from being a student journalist
covering a major
event that countless other
media were at.
“...the press was very
present,” he said. “I was
looking around. At each
rally, I would look for the
press, see where they were.
They had all the better
spots than me, which was
kind of upsetting.”
But he learned a valuable
lesson; when you’re with
the press and covering an
event, let them know ahead
of time so they’ll know to
expect you.
He said he’d also look
at other media outlets and
how they reported on the
caucus, which gave him an
idea of what to include in
his own stories.
As for a future career,
he’s unsure of what he
wants to do after college,
but he said politics does
interest him, and he’d
consider going into it, or
at least volunteering for a
campaign.
He also praised Iowa as
a state and suggested that
others from Illinois go out
to experience the state.
“Iowa is literally right
next door,” he said. “It’s a
beautiful state, if a bit flat
in parts. I’m not sure why
more people don’t go out
there themselves.”
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