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When it comes to smoking at Grand Valley State University, the magic number is 25. One must be 25 feet away from any academic building, 25 feet away from any bus stop on university property, and 25 feet away from the Little Mac Bridge.
However, the 25-foot rule might soon encompass the entire campus.
In a new proposal brought up by Student Senate, GVSU could become a smoke-free university, banning the use of tobacco on all campus property.
Should the proposal pass, GVSU would join the company of Saginaw Valley State University, the University of Michigan and, most recently, Central Michigan University, among other Michi-gan colleges that have embraced a tobacco-free policy.
The proposal has received sup-port from several departments
including Health and Wellness, which recently began a task force to ensure GVSU is a healthy uni-versity.
GVSU Health and Wellness specialist Lindsey DesArmo said she believes that making the campus smoke-free could be benefi-cial for students, fac-ulty and staff health.
“GVSU would need to look at oth-er universities and trends,” DesArmo said. “From a health perspective, it could be positive. However, if GVSU were to go smoke free, I believe there would need to be support systems and processes in place to benefit everyone, not just non-smokers.”
The task force recently sur-veyed 600 students in regard to health and their environment. The questions addressed an array
of health topics including smok-ing. The results will help deter-mine the next step for the senate’s proposal.
The current GVSU Smok-ing Policy, while a c k n o w l e d g i n g smoking as an ad-dictive activity, also recognizes the pos-sible dangers of sec-ondhand smoke, stating, “It is the re-sponsibility of smok-ers to be respectful of non-smokers in choosing a location in which to smoke so as to minimize non-
smokers’ contact with second-hand smoke.”
Secondhand smoke is a known human carcinogen and is one of the main reasons for the proposal. While effects of secondhand smoke may not have an immediate impact on
BY PETER [email protected]
BY CARLY [email protected]
At 8 a.m. today, the Grand Val-ley Police Department released video footage of the person responsible for graffiti at the Mary Idema Pew Library.
The video will be playing through-out the Kirkhof Center and the library, and GVTV has also agreed to air it.
“We are trying to identify the in-dividual responsible so we can have a conversation,” said Capt. Brandon De-Haan, assistant director of DPS.
After three cases of vandalism at the southeast entrance of the library, police installed a security camera. The fourth incident, which occurred Jan. 22, was captured on tape.
The footage shows a male in a green jacket writing on a donor recognition plaque. It also shows two students en-ter the library and pass him.
“We’re also trying to identify the two witnesses who we believe can be helpful in this investigation,” DeHaan said. “We ask individuals to come for-ward.”
Related incidents of vandalism oc-curred once in October and twice this semester on Jan. 15 and Jan. 16.
A recent Lanthorn article, “MIP li-brary vandalized in protest,” discusses the Jan. 15 incident.
Officers stated that “money shouldn’t dictate education” and “do-nate for good, not recognition” were
written on the plaque. Similar messag-es about donor recognition were writ-ten during each of the four incidents.
Though police have not confirmed that one person is responsible for all four occurrences, DeHaan said the handwriting appears to be the same, and there are striking similarities in the incidents.
DeHaan also said that the uni-versity will not be pressing criminal charges outside of the university judi-cial system.
Student Senate President Ricardo Benavidez said the senate fully sup-ports GVPD’s decision to release the
Several senators and guests were forced to find a spot on the floor at the first meeting this semester of the University Academic Senate. On Fri-day, about 70 faculty, staff and students settled into Room 107D in the DeVos Center all vying for a chair to sit on for the afternoon of debate.
The UAS unanimously approved a new Master’s of Philanthropy and Non-Profit Leadership pro-gram, but it was one of the few things agreed upon.
“It’s a spinoff from the work we already do in the Master’s of Public Admin-istration,” said a spokes-man for George Grant, Jr., the dean of the College of Community and Public Service. “We have a lot of students who are interested in working in the non-profit sector learning man-agement skills, and this degree is going to better suit those students that would like to have a degree that has their in-terest in the title.”
When the UAS moved on to discuss changes to the maternity leave policy, agreement quickly came to a halt.
The Faculty Personnel Policy Com-mittee has been working on rewording the policy to include all faculty and staff at Grand Valley State University, not just those with teaching responsibilities.
The committee has also been work-ing to clear up confusion regarding temporary medical leave and paid leave. Currently, the length of mater-nity leaves are being defined and nego-tiated differently in each college.
“We can’t specify every possible contingency here,” said management professor Marie McKendall, also the chair of FFPC. “It’s like a 100 different groups on campus want to shape this thing in particular ways and it’s not possible to satisfy every concern.”
Depending on the date of birth, fac-ulty and staff can take off up to a se-mester of paid leave. Part of the prob-lem is defining what a late fall birth
is versus a mid-term birth as several senators asked what is “late?”
For the past two years there has been a concerted effort to fix the cur-rent language in the policy. However, the discussion did not start then.
“This issue has been alive and worked on at this campus for a de-cade now,” said writing professor Ellen Schendel, who worked on the original
task-force that examined the policy. “There have been task-forces, there have been groups, there have been this and that. It’s important to nip in the bud the problems that ex-ist in the policy right now.”
Another complaint from senators is that the policy does not address adoption or paternity leave.
“We were trying to be very pragmatic in how this
was approached,” Schendel said. “We were afraid if we did nothing it’d stay a problem and if we reached for the stars we wouldn’t get the support we needed.”
To the dismay of some, the UAS could not agree on language and voted to send the policy back to the FFPC for further review.
“It’s taken us two years to address the very minor issue of maternity leave,” Schendel said. “If you were on ECS several years ago and heard the stories that women told about negoti-ating a maternity leave, you would act on this quickly.”
The debate continued into the topic of standardizing student evaluations, which has been under review at the Ex-ecutive Committee of the Senate. The ECS voted last week to recommend the proposal to the UAS.
The UAS voted in favor, 25-16, for a standardized measure of evaluation. The discussion about which tool to be used will now continue in the ECS.
“It is disappointing when we don’t get any written comments,” said Kin Ma, assistant professor of geography and planning. “Hopefully this will help faculty get the consistent feed-back they need.”
BY CARLY [email protected]
This month, members of Student Senate are planning trips off
campus in order to make big changes for Grand Valley State University students.
Vice President of the Educational Affairs Committee, Scott St. Louis, and other members of the committee will head to Lansing Feb. 12 to talk with state legislators about an open access bill.
Open access is the free
and unrestricted availability of peer-reviewed scholarly research through the Internet.
For about a year, the Educational Affairs Committee has been working closely with university libraries on an open access campaign.
“What we’re doing, it’s really a work in progress,” St. Louis said.
So far, there are no laws in Michigan that require open access, but St. Louis hopes that this trip will help change that.
“What we’re interested in doing is going to Lansing to talk with a few state legislators
about the prospect of bringing a bill that’s on the table in New York and California to Michigan,” he said.
St. Louis said the bill would require any researcher who gets a grant directly from the state of Michigan to publish their research on the internet free to the public.
The bill would not require open access for all scholars who get grants in the state of Michigan, only those who get a grant directly from the state.
Although this trip may not lead to big changes in Lansing,
St. Louis is certain that it’s a step in the right direction.
“It’s a long road, and they’ve got an election in November so it might be stalled until next year, but we’ll see what happens,” he said.
Vice President of the Political Affairs Committee Andrew Plague and senator Madelaine Cleghorn are working on a different aspect of student life.
The senators will be meeting with officials at The Rapid Bus Company to propose a resolution that will allow more students access to the busses.
Plague and Cleghorn plan to meet with officials to propose a resolution that passed in Student Senate last fall. The resolution will require the busses to run farther down Pierce Street to cover the already established Mystic Woods apartment complex as well as the two new housing developments that will be finished next fall.
“We’re going to propose this resolution, see what they think, see if it’s plausible,” Cleghorn said.
The resolution has already been sent to an administrator
at The Rapid who has agreed to meet with Cleghorn and Plague.
“We’re cautiously optimistic,” Plague said.
Though the resolution is the main reason for the trip, the senators also have ideas to try to make sure that the student voice is really heard by The Rapid.
“We’re hoping to get a seat or a student spot on whatever planning group that they have,” Plague said. “I’m guessing that there’s somewhere they make the decisions and we want students to be involved in that, so that’s kind of a sub-goal.
Senate works on open access bill, new bus routeBY CLAIRE [email protected]
GVPD seeks help identifying graffiti suspectUnidentified male caught by security cameras defacing donor plaque in the Mary Idema Pew Library
On camera: An unidentified student writes on a donor recognition plaque on the Mary Idema Pew Library. GVPD is looking for leads on his identity.
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Free air: During warmer weather, students smoke on campus between classes. The Grand Valley State University Student Senate recently proposed a resolution to prohibit smoking on any of GVSU’s campuses.
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LINDSEY DESARMOHEALTH AND WELLNESS
From a health perspective, it could be positive.
MARIE MCKENDALLFPPC CHAIR
...it’s not possible to satisfy every concern.
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UAS starts semester with heated debateSenators approve new program, table maternity leave policy
one’s health, the continual exposure is what might be hazardous in the future.
A c c o r d i n g to www.cancer.org, tobacco smoke contains more than 7,000 chemical com-pounds, and more than 250 of them are known to be harmful. At least 69 of them are known to cause cancer.
From a main-tenance approach, cigarettes pose another problem. They are found on the ground as much as they are in their designated receptacles, said Tim Thimmesch, associate vice president of Facilities
Services.“Cigarette butts are a lit-
ter problem across campus,” Thimmesch said. “We have provided extra receptacles across campus to help with
that problem, but is a constant m a i n t e n a n c e item.”
The current policy assumes the individu-als will volun-tarily adhere to the regulations with minimal e n f o r c e m e n t . However, Thim-mesch said this
is not always the case.The senate will continue
to work with departments across campus on the pro-posal and may conduct a campus-wide survey to get feedback from students.
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Lecture series by World Affairs Council of Western Michigan free for GV communityGrand Valley State University has partnered with the World Affairs Council of Western Michigan to make the “Great De-cisions 2014” lecture series free for members of the campus community. The series begins today and continues every Monday until March 31. Both national and international ex-perts will be featured in the series, presenting on a variety of topics such as national security leaks, food insecurities and trade policies. Lectures will begin at 6 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids. Students, faculty and staff members that plan to attend are asked to sign in at the college desk. Dina Temple-Raston, the counter-terrorism correspondent for National Public Radio, will be the first to present.
Free and Open Auditions for Sex and the SupernaturalTonight and tomorrow there will be free and open auditions for the upcoming March 28 through April 5 production of Sex and the Supernatural. Tonight, auditions will be from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Room 1506 of the Performing Arts Cen-ter. Tomorrow they will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the same location. No preparation is required, but memorized and rehearsed monologues are preferred. More sign-up de-tails can be found at the Louis Armstrong Theatre Box Office or by emailing [email protected].
Gov. Snyder establishes Michigan Office for New Americans to promote immigrationOn Friday, during an event in Grand Rapids, Gov. Rick Sny-der officially signed into law the Michigan Office for New Americans. Several international students from Grand Val-ley State University were in attendance. The office has been created to coordinate all efforts related to immigration and recruitment of international students. At the event, Snyder also named Bing Goei the office’s official director.
Student Scholars day registration beginsRegistration for Student Scholars Day has been opened for students who wish to participate in the annual celebration of scholarship and creative work by students. The event on April 9 will feature keynote speakers Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, the co-authors of the book, “Sleights of Mind.” The deadline to register is Feb. 14. Stu-dents interested can register at www.gvsu.edu/ssd.
OMA hosts Professionals of Color Lecture SeriesTomorrow the Office of Multicultural Affairs will continue the Professionals of Color Lecture Series with a presentation by Yui Kwon. Kwon, is the head of the Privacy Program for Facebook and the first Asian American to win the reality tele-vision show, “Survivor.” He will speak Tuesday at the “Be-yond Math Geeks and China Dolls: Overcoming Stereotypes about Asian Americans to Find Success in the Real World” lecture presented by the Asian Student Union. The lecture will be from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Cook-Dewitt Center.
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The Student Environmen-tal Coalition is working in high gear to raise awareness on campus for the seventh annual RecycleMania tour-nament.
Bill Kinter, president of the SEC, said Grand Val-ley State University is one of hundreds of universities across the U.S. that partici-pates in the event. As of Jan. 30, 424 colleges and univer-sities were signed up for the nationwide competition.
The official competition began Jan. 19 and will con-tinue through March 29.
There are eight categories in the ten-week tournament
including which institu-tion can collect the largest amount of total recyclables, which can generate the least amount of trash per capita and which has the highest re-cycling rate.
Last year, GVSU ranked 106 out of 273 universities in the grand champion cate-gory. In 2012, GVSU ranked 77 out of 266 schools in the same category.
Kinter said the SEC wants to raise awareness about recycling and show students how to do it prop-erly while having fun at the same time.
He said sometimes peo-ple can get confused with all the options for recycling
or composting that Cam-pus Dining offers, especially the compostable plastics. However, he added that this should not discourage them from recycling.
“I want to get a conver-sation going with people,” Kinter said. “Something that will resonate.”
The SEC plans to set up tables in the Kirkhof Center where people can engage in recycling activities and com-petitions. Kinter said many students do not know much about the RecycleMania competition, so they often participate less than the uni-versity as a whole does.
“Even though Grand Val-ley is hailed as a sustainable
school, they actually don’t do that well,” Kinter said.
He said he thinks this is because students lack en-couragement to get involved.
Katie Torkelson, vice president of the SEC, said the SEC will work on advertising the competition and plan-ning fun events.
“There’s so much to learn about it,” she said.
The SEC also discussed the composting efforts on campus.
According to the GVSU RecycleMania website, be-tween 2010 and 2012, the university has been increas-ing its composting while de-creasing the pounds of waste it puts out.
The SEC plans to start a campus-wide composting initiative beginning with the Frederik Meijer Honors College. The group will then spread the initiative to other dorms and on-campus hous-ing.
On weekends, the SEC volunteers at Comprenew and the Blandford Nature Center. It also works with the GVSU Farm Club at the Sus-tainable Agriculture Project,
located at 4539 Luce St. in Allendale. The two clubs of-ten come together between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Fridays to volunteer during the farm’s open hours.
For more information about the SAP and ways to get involved, visit www.gvsu.edu/sustainableagproject.
Students interested in Re-cycleMania can visit www.gvsu.edu/facilitiesservices/recyclemania-2013-31.
BY STEPHANIE [email protected]
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video footage and police ef-forts thus far in the investiga-tion.
“Quite honestly I’m em-barrassed that this has hap-pened,” Benavidez said. “This is not the Grand Valley that we know. This is not how stu-dents typically feel the need to express themselves. This incident does not reflect the atmosphere of the university we wish to have.”
The senate will be host-ing town hall meetings in conjunction with University Development, University Re-lations and GVPD to create a dialogue between students, faculty and administration about free speech on cam-pus and donors’ relationships with the university.
“Students don’t really un-
derstand what is happening,” Benavidez said. “And adminis-tration, faculty and staff don’t really understand what the students understand. We’re trying to clear all that up.”
Provost Gayle Davis agreed with Benavidez and offered full support and as-sistance to the senate.
“On a campus that has very little vandalism, this sticks out,” Davis said. “This is an age-old conflict about donors but vandalism is not the way to solve differences of philosophy.”
Police request that any knowledge or information about this incident be for-warded to Detective William DeWitt at 616-331-2691 or [email protected].
“We need people to be responsible for their commu-nity and help with this inves-tigation,” DeHaan said.
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Starting in the fall 2014 semester, the Frederik Meijer Honors College
of Grand Valley State Uni-versity will be implementing an additional fee of $20 per credit hour for students of all class standing.
This is the first time that an extra fee is being added to the tuition of the Hon-ors College. The money will be used to help cover the additional costs of run-ning the college, said Jef-frey Chamberlain, director of the college.
Chamberlain said there are several factors that are causing the rise in the cost of tuition, including small class sizes, team teaching and significant administra-tive support.
“We often use multiple faculty from different disci-plines in the classes, and the more intensive nature of the courses requires that classes be smaller,” he said.
Chamberlain also said the additional $20 will not cover all of the extra costs of running the Honors Col-lege. In an email sent to the students in the Hon-ors College, Chamberlain expressed his hope that it would not be a financial burden for the students.
“I can understand how it could become an issue because if you are already taking five credit hours that is $100,” said freshman Ra-chael Vruggink, an honors student majoring in adver-tising and public relations.
However, Vruggink said that overall the school is a
bang for her buck.“It is a reasonably priced
college and I think that rais-ing the tuition for the honors classes is totally justified,” she said. “The classes are high quality, the professors love what they are teaching, and during the classroom time you are getting the academics and education of an excellent university in a small classroom setting.”
Though the price increase may cause a strain on the wallets of students, Cham-berlain said it is important to keep in mind that quality outweighs quantity.
“The value of participat-ing in honors far exceeds the extra fee,” he said, adding that compared to other state schools, GVSU has been able to keep the cost down to a reasonable price. “I know that the administration’s goal is to provide a quality education at an affordable price. In my opinion, they are doing a very good job.”
According to the Honors College Annual Report, the university’s freshman-to-sophomore retention rate is 83 percent, whereas the Honors College has a rate of 93 percent.
In addition, the Hon-ors College has almost a 20 percent higher graduation rate. In 2008, the Honors College four-year gradu-ation rate was at 50.7 per-cent compared to 31.2 per-cent at GVSU.
“Honors students are among those who are able to complete their pro-grams within a reasonable amount of time,” Cham-berlain said.
In honor of National Stalking Awareness Month, the Grand Valley State University Women’s
Center, in cooperation with Safe Haven Ministries, held the presentation, “Stalking: Know it. Name it. Stop it.”
The Thursday event featured Tara Aday, development and communications associate for Safe Haven Ministries, who explained some statistics, misconceptions and real life examples of modern day stalking incidents.
“Keeping students educated on stalking is important since it is a topic not often discussed,” Aday said. “It needs to be recognized locally, nationally and across campus to ensure that it is portrayed in an accurate manner.”
The event started off with an online quiz to identify stalking misconceptions that are often held by students. The quiz revealed that 6.6 million people are stalked every year in the U.S., and
most stalkers are related to the victim in some sense.
Other facts included:- one in six women are stalked;- one in 19 men are stalked;- and one third of victims need to seek the help of a mental health professional after being stalked.
One main topic of conversation was the idea that stalking is often misconstrued by the media in a playful, unserious way.
“Stalking is often seen as a joke and not as the crime that it truly is,” Aday said. “Opportunities like this presentation give us a chance to talk about the reality and seriousness of stalking and ways to prevent dangerous situations and ways to receive the help that you may need.”
The main problem associated with catching and punishing stalkers is the idea that many people are afraid to report an uncomfortable situation and stalking is often not seen as a crime, said Aday.
GVSU defines stalking as, “...a
willful course of conduct involving repeated or continuing harassment of another individual that would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed or molested, and that actually causes the victim to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed or molested.”
Aday said if any student feels as though their safety is being compromised, they have the right to reach out to law officials to take the next step regarding the situation at hand.
To report a stalking related incident or to get help on what steps to take to avoid a dangerous situation, students can contact the Women’s Center at 616-331-2748. The center is also available for students needing to talk about a past encounter.
“It is important to remember that no one is at fault for being a victim of stalking,” Aday said. “No matter the action taken, there is always a resource and a way for someone to get the help that they need.”
Stalking: not a joke but a crime
HONORS COLLEGE HIKES TUITION
Women’s Center hosts discussion for students
Personalized classes means a lighter wallet
BY HANNAH [email protected]
The Frederik Meijer Center for Writing and Michigan Authors at Grand Valley State University welcomed local elementary students from Black River Public
School to campus on Friday to discuss the writing process and strategies.
This is the second year that the writing center has partnered with Black River to host the event. The group, which consisted of 4th and 5th graders, was able to pick the brains of Writing Center consultants and share their own story ideas.
“The students have the opportunity to learn about the writing process and why writing is important at every level of their lives,” said Jim Levering, the group’s teacher.
While there, the students also had the opportunity to question the consultants about college life. One of the requirements to graduate from Black River is to be accepted into a four-year college institution, and many of the students were curious about what to expect.
Questions ranged from how to schedule classes to what kinds of extracurricular activities are offered.
The students were also given a tour of Lake Ontario Hall where Patrick Johnson, the assistant director of the Writing Center, showed them what a typical college class will look like.
“It’s a good opportunity for young students to talk with ‘college experts’ and to see how writing can be used in their futures,” Johnson said. “We’re excited to give them that chance.”
After some of their questions about college life were answered, the classes split into small groups with writing consultants to talk about the fiction assignment they are currently in the midst of.
They discussed how to brainstorm and further develop story ideas that have already been formed. Suggestions from the Writing Center consultants included carrying a notebook everywhere and writing everything down, or carrying a
device like a phone to record your voice.“It’s hard to think of a good story idea,” Levering said.
“You have to take everything you experience and filter it. Stories come from your interactions.”
During the two-hour session, consultants helped
students develop their main characters and add in supporting characters. While in their “pow-wows,” they also discussed the other elements of a story including conflict, setting and plot.
Writing Center welcomes young authorsLocal elementary students get a taste of college life, writing techniquesBY ERIN [email protected]
Fostering creativity: Fiona, a student of Jim Levering at Black River Elementary in Holland, Mich., shares ideas for a story she is writing with consultants from the Writing Center on campus. To the right, Anna White advises her on her writing process.
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A safe environment: Tara Aday, a graduate student here at Grand Valley State University and the Development and Communications Associate at Safe Haven Ministries, educates students on campus about the dangers of stalking.
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I wrote a story featuring a fictionalized version of myself (writers sometimes indulge in a little situational narcissism) going for a walk and dealing with some heavy thoughts, like leaving loving parents in a mostly empty nest and trying not
to lash out in psychotic rage when I feel someone walk too closely behind me when I’m using a urinal. Some-thing like that.
Anyway, one of the comments left for me was involving setting: Where is this character going, why is he walking, etc. As if those are questions that need to be answered; as if the focus of the story was on the destination and the possibility of a life-chang-ing Hallmark movie kiss.
The story actually involved none of that. The focus wasn’t even on the one and only main char-
acter, really — it was on coping with anxiety in a couple of specific ways. Or at least, I intended it to be. I questioned my final grade, but more so than that, I question the bigger picture: why must there be a desti-nation? Why is “going for a walk” not good enough? What greater motivation for “going for a walk” need there be, besides “I wanted to go for a walk?”
That’s been weighing on me for a while now. I’m wondering things like… “Am I not ambitious enough?” I always heard that the journey could be
more important than the destination, so I figured if there was no destina-tion, there would be more importance to allocate to the journey. I’m not concerning myself with the destination, so I can devote more attention and enjoy-ment to the journey.
It’s always about the message with people. The subtext, the hidden mean-ings, the social changes the writer wants to see enacted or redacted. Why, though? Why does there need to be these things? Why can’t a good story be a good story and nothing more? What’s
so bad about taking things at face value? The efforts of overcomplicated people to overcomplicate things that aren’t complicated in the first place and certainly don’t need to be, are abso-lutely frustrating.
Hmm, example: Winnie-the-Pooh. Kid’s stuff. I’ll bet you that someone out there in the vast ranges of the Internet has a blog or article talking about all kinds of different things Winnie-the-Pooh can teach children. And those online postings don’t even need to mention “poor spelling habits” or “gluttony,” because we have
texting and Epic Meal Time for those other purposes. As if kids actually care, you know? We could stand to be more like kids sometimes — loving and appreciating things for what they are, not what they mean.
I guess I’m just sick of all the navel-gazing. I want to smile and enjoy and play with the living, hop-ping frog, not lay it out on a platter all chloroformed up and cut its heart out. I wish relationships could be like that frog, without the scalpel and pins. Or the chloroform.
OPINIONA4 FEBRUARY 3, 2014
GRAND VALLEY LANTHORN
Let’s make it about the journey, not the destination
DO YOU THINK GVSU SHOULD BECOME A SMOKE-FREE CAMPUS?
“No, I think people should be allowed to smoke if they’d like as long as they stay away from crowded areas.”
SETH RICE SeniorCell and Molecular Biology Schoolcraft, Mich.
“Yes, because it’s annoy-ing having to smell cigarette smoke blow into your face on your way to class. GV is supposed to be ‘healthy’ so if we can’t have McDonald’s we should get rid of smoking as well.”
BRIANNA RAMSEY JuniorPsychology Detroit, Mich.
“Yes! The worst thing has to be getting smacked in the face with some nicotine.”
SHANNA JONES SeniorPhysical Education Detroit, Mich.
“No. I believe that smoking is a freedom that should be al-lowed to anyone that chooses to smoke and there should just be designated smoking areas (that there already are). If peo-ple don’t like smoking, they don’t have to be around it.”
JOHN TIBBITTS JuniorCreative Writing Muskegon, Mich.
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D uring its last meeting, Student Senate proposed a resolution to make Grand
Valley State University a smoke-free campus. If the university approves an anti-smoking policy, it would join the ranks of many other Michigan universities, such as Saginaw Valley State University, the University of Michigan and Central Michigan University.
Some are opposed to the pro-posal, as they claim that it stands in the way of smokers’ rights. But many of us are aware that the contents of a lone cigarette are inhaled by more people than the person who lit it. So if smoking is continued on campus, the “right” to health of passers-by are diminished. If smoking is done away with, the “right” for smokers to light up is gone. In this case, we have to ask: which “right” is a priority?
Yet, some argue that no choice
between the two “rights” needs to be made. After all, they say, people who are bothered by the smoke can stand or walk elsewhere.
But we wonder how easy it is to avoid the smoke on campus. Our experiences walking to class on campus have led us to believe that many smokers do not follow the 25-foot rule outside academic and dining halls, so we play a game of “who can hold their breath the longest” as we sprint behind the doors of our respective buildings. Walking behind on-the-go smok-ers — especially over the Little Mac Bridge where no alternative route is available — also poses a problem, and we do our best to take detours to avoid inhaling the billows in our path.
For those of us with asthma or other breathing problems, the high potential to encounter smoke is par-
ticularly troublesome.So while we understand the
points made by pro-smoking or pro-designated-smoking-spot com-munity members, we — as students perhaps selfishly looking out for our own health — still have to extend our support of the Student Senate’s efforts to diminish smoke exposure on campus.
Perhaps it can propose an alterna-tive wherein people must retreat to the edges of campus to smoke, or perhaps it can start by simply ban-ning smoking on the stretch of pave-ment between Lake Michigan Hall and Mackinaw Hall, which is heavily trafficked during the week.
Maybe banning smoking alto-gether isn’t the answer, but the Sen-ate is on the right track by consider-ing alternatives to the regulations already in place.
EDITORIAL
CLEARING THE SMOKEThe Student Senate proposed a recent resolution to ban smoking across campus, and we support open conversation regarding alternatives to the current regulations.
GVL EDITORIAL CARTOON I LEAH FISHWICK
I remember, long ago, when I first started thinking about what I might want to study in college. The possi-bilities seemed endless, and I still had trouble feeling confident in what I wanted to pursue. I always knew I wanted to do something that involved writing, but whenever I would express that to adults in the working world I would always be en-
couraged to try something more broad, like business or communications.
The problem was that none of that really interest-ed me, but the overwhelm-ing push to go to college and “figure it out when I get there” eventually clouded my vision of what I wanted to do, what I needed to do, and what was best for me personally.
Along came my fresh-man year of college, and in all my doubts I chose a pricey private school in hopes of finding some clarity. Instead I found a good hunk of debt and my envisioned clarity seemed like a far off dream.
I could tell you the
whole story, but eventually, I dropped out of not only the private college, but out of GVSU as well. We are talking four weeks from the end of my winter semes-ter. Looking back I always cringe. What a waste.
But I also try to look at the bigger picture. There was so much pressure from society to know what I wanted to do by the time I was seventeen years old. Ev-eryone around me seemed to have a plan or at least have a tiny bit of direction. Where was mine?
I don’t want you to feel sorry for me, but by all means, feel free. The point I’m trying to make is that I still don’t have a set in stone
path that I’m following. Just because I’m older doesn’t mean I have it all figured out. The difference this time around is that I’m listening to my own intuitions rather than the voice of society around me.
If you’re in that rut – wondering what the hell you’re doing, why are you the only one who doesn’t have it all figured out – stick it out. Clarity may not come, but if you follow your gut, you will very likely feel a lot less anxiety, and at least you’ll be doing what you en-joy. I also highly encourage you to not drop out towards the middle or end of any semester. That is not a fun bill to pay.
Advice from a non-traditional student: persevere
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Dear Editor Balboa,
Congratulations on the stand you have taken on the commercial branding of your campus by corporate donors. This innovation represents a nationwide strategy to compromise our institutions of higher learning. A donor always deserves to have discreet recognition, like a brick or plaque in a wall, but corporations should not be naming classrooms and buildings.
I am well aware of this issue because of the way it affected my career. I had just achieved tenure at a large public school, the University of Montreal, in the mid-1990s. The administration signed a contract with an advertising company to plaster the miles of our corridors with commercial advertising in return for a fee, without consulting either students or faculty. Unfortunately, both of those groups were so cash-strapped by tax cuts (engineered primarily by corporations) that they could not be roused by my plea that this was a grave insult to the ancient principle on which the university is founded: that it must be shut off from outside influences. Students cannot be expected to think freely for themselves if it appears that their infrastructure (and faculty!) is provided by some force independent of (and more powerful than) the independent
taxpayers. After agitating until it was obvious the
administration was not going to change the policy, I resigned. In my last freshman course, in order to get into our classroom, my 300 students and I had to march past a brilliantly-illuminated, full-color acrylic poster of a young woman, naked, on all fours, with a very suggestive look on her face, her golden tresses barely covering her nipples—no caption necessary. It was an advertisement for a leading brand of shampoo. If you let corporations get a toe in the door, that is where they are headed: to brand every inch of your public property, with all the censorship that implies, and the dulling of students' ability to think critically about a world that is branded everywhere outside the schools. I put up with a lot of hooting over my stand, but after I left, the university did not renew the contract with the company because I had embarrassed the administration across Canada. Don't back down!
Sincerely yours,
Thomas N. IngersollAssociate Professor, HistoryOhio State University[a native of Kent County, Mi.]
To Lanthorn Editor:
The administration is pleased by the Lanthorn's denouncing of graffiti and its strong call for civil discourse (January 26). We commit to fully participating in any dialogue that will benefit our university community.
As an educator and president, it is my belief that all of us need to be actively engaged in our educational mission. And as a chemist, I observe, set out assumptions and seek evidence to understand the course of a reaction. I am always asking the question, "Why?" I use this technique in class and in labs to encourage critical thinking. Through this process, I also learn from my students.
I appreciate the Lanthorn’s direction and student voice on civil discourse. By first asking “Why,” we can set the stage to listen, engage, respect and learn from each other. We can enhance understanding, especially when there are different points of view.
As we look at the current discussion on campus of donor recognition, we can ask several "whys."
- Why do donors give to Grand Valley?
- Why do we recognize donors in the way we do?
-Why is the public/private partnership part of our history and our future?
- Why are access and affordability elemental to this inquiry?
- Why is a Grand Valley degree a public good?
The answers to these questions and others will illuminate the outcomes we would like to see and the different paths to achieve them. Our noble mission is to shape students’ lives, professions and societies, and it must be our North Star.
My time at Grand Valley has taught me how passionate the administration and faculty and staff are about our students’ success and this university. As the Lanthorn clearly called on us to do, let’s listen and learn from each other. Our university will benefit from our civil discourse.
Very respectfully,Thomas J. Haas, president
Dear Editor:
Thank you for the piece on GVSU’s bias incident protocol and the red light rating given to it by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. The article did not directly quote the part of the bias incident protocol that is problematic, but you do quote it in your editorial in the same issue. Here is another questionable passage from the protocol: “Anytime anyone in the Grand Valley community feels belittled, disrespected, threatened, or unsafe because of whom they are, the entire university community is diminished.” This is ungrammatical (“who” would be correct, not “whom”) and probably unconstitutional, since the standard it sets forth is how the person “feels,” not whether there was an actual threat. If a student says something during a discussion on campus and another student feels disrespected or belittled (no matter what the objective content
of the statement was), it is enough, under this code, to constitute a bias incident. A policy based on such purely subjective responses would not stand up to legal scrutiny. Speech that is truly threatening or harassing may not be protected by the Constitution, but speech on a controversial subject is exactly what the Bill of Rights of the Constitution protects, even if some listeners feel belittled or disrespected.
The responses quoted in your article from Vice President McLogan and Dean Merkle were defensive, disingenuous, and obfuscating. Instead of defending it, they should take legal counsel and rewrite the protocol to bring it into conformity with the U.S. Constitution, thereby protecting the free speech rights of all our students.
Sincerely,
Benjamin G. Lockerd, Jr., Ph.D.Professor of English
On biased incidents
On civil discourse
Lanthorn Editor:
I write to congratulate and thank you and the Lanthorn staff for your recently published articles about the potential dangers of the increasing corporate presence on the campus of GVSU. Notwithstanding the disdainfully arrogant and intimidating response by the two Grand Valley Vice Presidents, which ultimately proves the point of your expressed concern, I write to support not only your right and freedom of speech, but also share and advocate the critical substance of your concern. There does exists a well-founded, historical and social system concern that such corporate “donations” are not as philanthropic or harmless to the educational purpose of a university as it is often presented to be.
Your cautioning critique of the recent celebration of the corporate presence on this campus [Lanthorn, December 5, 2013] was very well stated in both form and content. If this discourse continues on a campus wide basis, as I hope it will, I suggest that the discussion not be reduced simply to a zero-sum argument about corporate “donations” to the university. This would result in a diversion from the much more problematic and serious concern about the burgeoning corporate culture and its influence on the substance and direction of higher education that can accompany such donations.
The etymological root of the word education, derived from Latin, is e'duca or e'ducere, which means quite simply to "lead or bring people out." The ultimate task of education, particularly that of a liberal arts university, is to lead people out of ignorance into enlightenment and wisdom; out of superstition into critical [not just instrumental] thinking and reason; out of servility, fear and conformity toward freedom, integrity and human solidarity in a more reconciled and peaceful society. This is the telos even of the technical side of academics, which is the strategic concern of the corporate world's push for academics to emphasize increasingly Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics [S.T.E.M] over all else.
However, the suspicion if not fear that is attached to such corporate donations to educational institutions is that this critical task of education can be if not already is being undermined by the accompanying implicit if not explicit corporate agenda and culture that emphasizes “having” over “being,” and the pursuit of ever-increasing profit over everything else. The fear is that this corporate culture, which is already endemic in modern civil society, can infiltrate and become an even more established norm within academic institutions. Within this wider social context, writing the names of corporations and their representatives on campus buildings and rooms does not appear so innocent, as it is a constant advertisement of and for those narrowly deemed successful by means of their ability to make such donations that bring such recognition. What is also implicitly celebrated in this, however, is the existing social system and its increasing class
inequity through which such wealth and profit are made. In other words, the danger lies in the subtle inversion of the fundamental purpose of the academe: of creating knowledgeable “citizens” of and for a good State and not mere bourgeois consumers and corporation workers. As the celebrated donations and influence of the corporation’s and the capitalist class becomes more accepted in the culture of academic institutions, the very meaning and purpose of a liberal and humanistic education becomes endangered of being inverted from leading people out of mindless acceptance and conformity to the systemically created antagonisms of the status quo into leading people further and more deeply into them. This danger cannot be dismissed by the ideological and reductive argument that such “donations” are merely a philanthropic gesture of support by the wealthy for the furtherance of the purpose of higher education. Of course, as expressed by you as well as by the administrators, this might be correct in some cases and thus, should be celebrated. However, such honest philanthropy is not the concern at hand.
The concern and problem of universities courting corporate donations as a means for their continuance and growth, not only here at GVSU but on campuses across the nation, is historically grounded, particularly in the recent experience of the wealthy and powerful corporate elite’s reconstructing not only the economy but also the supposedly independent realm of politics into a means of furthering and legitimating their own agenda and culture as the national norm. This concern is informed not only by the tragic, corporately created Great Recession of 2008 and the resulting re-distribution of national wealth to the top 5% of the population that has tragically impacted every aspect of society – particularly that of the working class. It is also rooted in the increasingly class-driven orchestration of this strategic corporate culture and praxis into the realm of politics, the courts, the media, the entertainment industry, religion, as well as academia. The danger and rightful concern about corporate influence in academia lies within this concrete reality of this colonizing system and culture of the wider corporate capitalist system, of which such corporate donations to universities is a part, and this cannot be marginalized or forgotten.
Again, I congratulate you and your staff for your critical thinking and courage. Keep up the good work! I am very happy that we have students like you at GVSU, for you represent all that is good and hopeful about the critical, liberating, and humanizing purpose of e’duca.
In Solidarity,
Michael R. Ott, Ph.DAssociate Professor of SociologyOffice Phone: (616) 331-3799Email: [email protected]
On donor recognition
Dear editors:
Although not specifically invited by editor-in-chief Lizzy Balboa who “encourage(d) professors, staff and students to...express... personal views,” regarding the role of donors at GVSU, I feel welcomed to express mine. You see, I’m a donor, just a small one in monetary terms, but a pretty loyal one. I am not a major player and I have so many worthy causes to consider, I have to review my donations to GVSU every single time I make one.
My name is not on a building or a room. It is on a collection of French Impressionist theatre posters that was donated several years ago. It’s also included in the Fall Arts program on a reoccurring basis, as well as a musical composition competition under the direction of GVSU’s Music Dept.’s Bill Ryan during winter semester. Most of this money comes jointly from my husband and me, some is from my personal check book. There has only been one stipulation attached to any of our donations: anything we support MUST have inter-disciplinary application and be used, not stored. We value the opportunities that a liberal arts university should offer to every student and the surrounding community. It encourages free thought.
Yet my name is on the marketing material for these donations. It would be easy to keep it as ‘anonymous’ or ‘a friend of GVSU.’ But I’m PROUD of my name and my story and the effort it took to be in a position to champion my alma mater. I’m a non-traditional student who returned to GVSU after a 40 year absence, class of 2012. Grand Valley is a recognized
name as an important university throughout the United States. Dismissing the fame that the Miley Cyrus “Wrecking Ball” episode brought, I have every reason to be proud and want to support future Lakers. If someone sees my name and wants to find my story, I would be pleased.
I am not speaking for any other donor, especially not the major donors, nor do I have insight into the administrative concerns expressed in previous editorials. Several major donors have been part of the governing board for years. They have opportunity to dismiss or challenge policy elements, yet they continue their support. I do recognize that, according to Carly Simpson’s article, “A public university run by private donations ,” quite a few rooms have been named after donors recently. That seems so generous to me! My question to The Lanthorn staff is, why are you dismissing the donors’ reasons for contributing? The development branch of GVSU treads a fine line between pleasing donors/ future donors and appearing too ‘commercial’ to other people. If there are SO MANY donors, it seems that Grand Valley State University is doing quite a few things right. I hope The Lanthorn takes all of this a few steps further, to determine why donors contribute, what they expect from those donations regarding policy decisions and what effort it took to make that contribution.
Personally, a thank you note from a student would not hurt my feelings.
Elaine Rutowski Shay, 2012
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LAKER LIFEA6 FEBRUARY 3, 2014
GRAND VALLEY LANTHORN
Finding a date in time for Valentine’s Day can be diffi-cult. For those still searching for a partner to spend the evening with, Grand Valley Television offers a solution.
GVTV is hosting its first Valentine’s Day date auction today from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. in the Pere Marquette room in the Kirkhof Center. Admission is $3 at the door and participa-tion is limited to students.
Currently, 12 eligible bachelors and bachelor-ettes are set to be put on stage to be bid on by par-ticipants for the opportu-nity to go on a date for Val-entine’s Day. And currently anyone who still wants to be auctioned off is encour-aged to do so.
In order to win a date, at-tendees will be given a spe-cial currency. These “love bucks” will be used to pro-cure dates. Five “love bucks” will be given with the price of admission, but more will be available for purchase with
cash and credit.If that wasn’t enough,
students who successfully acquire a date from the auc-tion will also receive a prize donated by local restaurants and businesses that have sponsored the event. Prizes include gift cards to Pep-pino’s, Uccello’s, Applebee’s and Bagger Dave’s, as well as tick-ets to a Grand Rapids Griffins game and the Presidents’ Ball. These prizes are geared toward giving the date p a r t i c i p a n t s something to do.
“Some people don’t have the money to go on dates,” said Jaret Grins-amer, public relations man-ager of GVTV and host of the Valentine’s Day auction. “So, we found sponsors who would. It’s amazing how many people are willing to help students out.”
But even if students aren’t
interested in the auction, itself, they are still encour-aged to come and take part in the event.
“Even if you don’t bid, come out anyway. You’ll be donating your energy by having a good time,” Grins-amer said. “It’s a fun event for
a great cause.”P r o c e e d s
from the event will go to the Relay for Life charity that helps fund can-cer research and aid those with the disease. The event was con-ceived by GVTV President Jamie Bartkowicz as a
way to help raise money for a good cause and bring aware-ness to the television station.
“Most students don’t even know we have a stu-dent-run television sta-tion,” Grinsamer said. “This is just a way of get-ting some more exposure and doing it for a good
cause, too.”If this year’s auction
goes well, Grinsamer and the rest of GVTV hope to hold another next year with more participants and bigger prizes.
“The more people who attend, the more that will be bidding, which means when we go to businesses and show them how well we’ve done, they’ll be will-ing to donate much more,” Grinsamer said.
The television station’s next big event is its annual telethon, which will also raise money for Relay for Life. While a date for this year’s event has not yet been set, GVTV hopes to beat the fundraiser’s record from last year of $2,400 raised.
“We’re hoping with the attention we get through this, it’ll help raise dona-tions maybe to $5,000,” Grinsamer said. “We want to give back to the commu-nity, show them we’re not just a TV station, but that we care about people.”
GVTV to host Valentine’s Day date auctionBY BEN [email protected]
The men of Grand Valley State Uni-versity’s varsity rowing team are taking off their shirts the second year in a row for their calendar fundraiser, which brings in money for them to travel to England once again in the summer of 2016. After first debuting the calendar last year, the team sold more than 400 copies and hopes to sell that and more this year.
GVSU’s rowing crew travels to England every three years to represent the universi-ty at the Henley Royal Regatta — a five-day rowing competition in London that fea-tures rowing teams from all over the world. Some teams traveled to London from the United States, Ireland, Germany New Zea-
land and Australia, among others.With all the costs of traveling, along
with lodging, renting equipment and oth-er expenses for the London trip, raising money is essential.
“The calendar is a great way to fund-raise. It’s a fun way to show others what we do,” said club president Costas Cuingan.
The calendar also features a full sched-ule of the rowing team’s competitions.
“It was completely the boys’ idea to do the calendar, and when I first saw the fin-ished product last year I loved it, and I’m glad they’re doing it again this year,” coach John Bancheri said. “I’m really proud of all that they’ve done with it.”
Bancheri said the calendar is a tes-tament to the members’ dedication to the program.
All the proceeds from the calendar go
directly into the Head for Henley fund that the team set up through GVSU, which will benefit both the women’s and men’s crew teams for their next trip to the Henley Royal Regatta. The team will be selling the calendars in the Kirkhof Center on Monday, Wednesday and Fri-day this week from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. The calendars are $10 for students and $15 for non-students and can be purchased through www.grandvalleyrowing.com; calendars will be sent to buyers for a $5 shipping charge.
Students can also pick a calendar up from a team member on campus by emailing [email protected]. To make a donation directly to the team, www.visit gvsu.edu/giving. To learn more or to purchase a calendar, go to www.grandvalleyrowing.com.
Rowers model for calendar fundraiserBY MADDIE [email protected]
If students walked into the Kirkhof Center on Jan. 29, they might have been con-fused by a sight not native to the student center. Locks of hair scattered the floor by the 2020 Information Desk, and by evening, the tiles were covered with the stuff.
Why was there an im-promptu barber shop in Kirk-hof? The men of Delta Tau Del-ta took turns allowing students to shave their heads for charity.
The fundraiser, which benefits Gilda’s Club of Grand Rapids, took shape shortly af-ter fraternity brother Michael Albachten learned that his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer.
“My mom got diagnosed back in October, and so I had a really rough first semester,” Al-bachten said. “I thought, ‘Well, what if we do a fundraiser for it and turned it into a philanthro-py event?’ So I brought it up to our guys before Christmas break and everybody loved the idea. I pitched it to my fraterni-ty, and everyone volunteered to shave their heads. Pretty much everybody responded to it.”
This type of event is right up Delta Tau Delta’s alley. Its chap-ter mission statement empha-
sizes community, courage and faith in brotherhood, and those attributes are exactly what it took for the brothers of Delta Tau Delta to shave their heads.
“It’s just a great coming to-gether of all our brothers,” Con-nor Cauvet said. “People value their hair — it’s one of those things in today’s society — but now we’ve had at least 20 broth-ers come and shave their heads. It’s just really supportive of a brother that’s going through a tough time right now.”
Though the event was or-ganized and put on by Delta Tau Delta, other fraternities at GVSU also participated.
“We’ve had a couple other brothers show up from other fraternities,” Gerald Archam-beau said. “It’s a good thing to see. We had a guy from Delta Sigma Phi here earlier, and he helped a lot of brothers clean up their heads.”
Though shaving their heads in the middle of winter requires dedication, the members of the fraternity were unfazed.
“A brother asked, I do a lot of things for my brothers, and this is just one of them,” Ar-chambeau said. “It’s great. It really captures the essence of brotherhood that you find in a fraternity. It’s the one thing that drew me to join Greek life.”
The response did not sur-prise Albachten either.
“I was hoping for (a good response), but it didn’t surprise me,” he said. “I’m from Allen-dale, so growing up in West Michigan, everyone is super nice to each other and that’s the culture around Grand Val-ley. If you fall down, someone will pick you back up. That’s just how it typically is here. I couldn’t have hoped for better.”
For some members of Delta Tau Delta, shaving their heads was a way to show support for more than just Albachten’s mom.
“I decided to shave my head because I learned about this in November, and my grandmother back home is actually going through the same thing, cancer,” Cauvet said. “I thought it was a good way to show my support be-cause I’m not home right now, but it was a good way to show my support over here.”
Those who participated in the fundraiser could pay $2 for a single swipe with a razor or could shave an entire head for a $9 donation. All the money will be donated to Gilda’s Club of Grand Rapids.
“I thought donating to Gilda’s Club of Grand Rap-ids would be a good idea be-
cause I know my mom’s talk-ed about them, and it’s on the way to where my sister lives in Grand Rapids,” Albachten said. “(My mom has) talked about it ever since she was diagnosed, so I thought that would be a good thing.”
Though Albachten’s mother was recently diagnosed, she is coping well and greatly appre-ciated the fundraiser.
“She actually came out and she was one of the ones that helped shave my head,” he said. “She took a couple swipes at some of the other guys’ heads, too, which was cool. She said she had a ton of fun, she could have been there all day. She re-ally enjoyed it. She’s taking it really well; she’s super strong through the whole thing.”
Though the head shaving has been completed, those who would like to donate can make a monetary contribu-tion through Wednesday at www.gvsu.deltsconnect.org/page.php?pageid=9.
“This was a great fundrais-er for us,” Albachten said. “It’s important for people to know that more people than not are affected by some kind of can-cer, and it’s important to be supportive of the people that are struggling with it.”
Fraternities unite, shave heads for cancer fundraiserBY AUDRA [email protected]
Fundraiser: The GVSU Rowing Team shows off its members with its calendar last year. The team will be selling this year’s calendar in Kirkhof Center from 9-11 a.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday this week.
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NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field Champion-ships aren’t held in Febru-ary, but Saturday’s matchup between Lincoln University and Grand Valley State Uni-versity had a national cham-pionship ambiance as the top two women’s teams in the country went toe to toe at the GVSU five-Way meet.
“The atmosphere was in-credible, as it should be for a meet that features two of the best teams in the country,” senior Lisa Galasso said. “This meet really benefited us, as we got somewhat of a sneak peak against a team that we will see at nationals.”
The Lakers, who were without injured senior Kale-na Franklin, faced the im-mense task of trying to take
down the No. 1 team in the country without one of their strongest athletes.
It seemed the loss was too much to overcome, though, as the Lakers finished second behind Lincoln by a score of 141-132. Hillsdale College (78), Lewis University (54) and St. Joseph’s College (24) followed behind.
“It’s a 12-point swing with (Franklin) out of the line up,” Galasso said. “If anything, it puts a bigger target on their backs for the rest of the year.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that we could have beaten them if we were at full strength. Luckily for us, we will have that chance lat-er this season.”
There were no injury concerns within the Laker women’s distance crew —
although it wouldn’t have mattered if there were — because GVSU dominated the mile by sweeping first through seventh place.
“Seeing everyone com-peting on the same page was great,” junior Hannah Osborn said. “Everyone brought every-thing they had to the table. When we per-form to our po-tential, we have this type of suc-cess.”
Those hop-ing for a similar, nail-biting competition on the men’s side of the meet left the Kelly Family Sports Center disap-pointed.
The Laker men routed
the competition, as second-place Lincoln (85), Hillsdale (82), Lewis (59) and St. Jo-seph’s (38) rounded out the competition.
“There was definitely an added feeling of team camarade-rie,” sophomore Darien Thorn-ton said. “We wanted to make a statement at this meet. I think we did that. We are see-ing consistent i m p r o v e m e n t in many differ-ent areas, hope-
fully that won’t stop anytime soon.”
The Lakers made a state-ment by taking home first-place finishes in six events.
Two of the event victories
came from the throw crew as freshman Lovell Peterson came onto the scene and took home first in the weight throw with a toss of 18.78 meters. Thornton finished first in the shot put by set-ting a new personal record with a 16.99-meter hurl.
“That’s a big mark for (Pe-terson),” Thornton said. “He has shown the potential; it became clear today. For me, shot put is finally clicking. It was a good feeling to have that type of performance. It’s everyone’s goal to keep mov-ing our marks further; hope-fully we can continue to do that.”
GVSU will hit the road this weekend for a two-day competition beginning Fri-day and concluding Satur-day at the Hillsdale Invita-tional.
Junior guard Ryan Sabin slowly made his way out of the locker room with disbe-lief in his eyes and a team-high 43 minutes worth of sweat in his uniform — his valiant performance wasn’t enough.
Sabin’s 25-point afternoon came in a losing effort at the Fieldhouse Arena on Satur-day, as the Grand Valley State University men’s basketball team was ultimately outmus-cled in a 69-64 overtime loss to Wayne State University.
“It’s tough, it hurts, today hurts,” he said. “We had it, but they got too many and that’s what it came down to. It was our fault. We had some plays to make, we just didn’t make them.”
He pulled his weight by scoring 20 or more points for the third time in four games,
but the other Laker starters combined to tally just eight points on 2-of-10 shooting from the field.
A pair of sophomores also highlighted a suddenly lack-luster offense for GVSU off the bench, as forward Ricky Carbajal notched a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds while guard Dar-ren Kapustka netted 12.
GVSU fell into a fifth-place tie in the overall GLIAC standings with the hiccup.
“It was a rough, ugly game,” head coach Ric Wes-ley said. “It was right from the start. Everything was rough and physical. We lost that battle. They have four seniors, big strong guys, and you could see our new guys really struggled. They were a little overwhelming for our first-year players.”
When mixing a pitcher of Kool-Aid sans any measuring instruments, “close” can get you a couple of refreshing glasses.
After rolling out of bed past the alarm and into class past the bell, “close” can save you an absent mark and a dirty glance.
In horseshoes and hand grenades, it turns out that “close” can be downright effective. Sometimes “close” can cut it. But not in basketball.
The Grand Valley State University women’s bas-ketball team was close in its last two games — a 91-79 loss at Saginaw Valley State University on Thursday and a 78-76 defeat against Wayne State University on Saturday in Allendale — but didn’t cut it on the score-board or in the standings.
The lady Lakers have not only lost six of their last seven games but also had their nine-game home win-
ning streak snapped.“It’s just us,” head coach Janel Burgess said. “We’re
fighting consistency, fighting through those little slumps of offensive woes that we have to where we can fight back and find a victory down the stretch. We’re very, very, very, very close.”
Close.Like when GVSU shot 57.6 percent from the field
in the second half of Thursday’s rivalry matchup and nearly completed a comeback against SVSU (9-7, 7-6 GLIAC) after shooting just 37.5 percent in the first half.
“When it comes to consistency, we just have to keep reminding ourselves that nothing is going to be handed to us,” senior guard Meryl Cripe said. “We have to be ready to play every game and be consis-tent in our effort in what we do so that we’re beating teams we should be beating and not losing to teams we shouldn’t be losing to.
“It’s a must to be successful when you should be.”
SVSU led 12-9 at the 11:40 mark of the first half but embarked on a 22-5 run to take control of the game. The Cardinals made 8-of-9 field goals — four of which from 3-point range — during the six minute span and led 47-35 at halftime.
They shot 61.5 percent from the field in the open-ing stanza.
GVSU returned from the locker room and re-sponded with a 9-0 run of its own during a two-min-ute span. A jumper from senior guard Dani Crandall started the chain and made the score 67-58; freshman guard Taylor Lutz sunk 3-pointer 30-seconds later; sophomore center Jill Steinmetz extended the run with a layup; then freshman forward Kayla Dawson made it a two-point game with 7:31 left on the clock.
The Lakers took a 73-72 lead with less than five minutes remaining in the game, but it wouldn’t last.
The Cardinals put together a 14-4 run over the
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For the win: Sophomore Bailey Cairnduff attempts to block the shot of Wayne State University’s shooter. Cairnduff and the Lakers fell 78-76 to WSU and, before that, 91-79 to Saginaw Valley State University. Grand Valley State University will host Ferris State University in its next contest.
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Making the play: Darren Kapustka searches for a way past Wayne State University’s Gavin Toma to the basket. The Lakers fell to WSU in overtime 69-64.
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MSU/Michigan dual meet cancelled
The NCAA Division I nightcap of the GVSU 5-Way between the University of Michigan and Michigan State University was cancelled on Saturday due to inclement weather across the state.
Softball ranked third in pre-season poll
The Grand Valley State University softball team was recently tabbed as the No. 3 team in the NFCA Division II Preseason Softball Poll after capping off one of its best seasons in school history.
GVSU finished with a record of 46-9 and won both the GLIAC regular season and Midwest Region champion-ships in 2013. The Lakers ad-vanced to the NCAA Division II College World Series for the second time in program history.
Baseball team rakes in pre-season accolades
The Grand Valley State University baseball team, which finished third at the 2013 NCAA Division II Baseball National Finals, is expected to be in contention again this season and has been ranked among the top seven teams in the country by several major publica-tions.
GVSU was given a No. 5 national ranking by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCB-WA), a No. 6 ranking in the College Baseball Newspaper and D2BaseballNews.com, and a No. 7 spot in the CBL-ineup.com rankings.
The NCBWA also tabbed GVSU as the pre-season favorite to win the Midwest Region.
Senior first baseman Giancarlo Brugnoni was named a pre-season First Team All-American, and was also listed on the pre-season All-Midwest Region First Team along with junior second baseman Kevin Zak, junior outfielder Jamie Potts and sophomore pitcher Pat-rick Kelly.
Medo named GLIAC S&D Athlete of the Week
Grand Valley State Uni-versity junior swimmer Milan Medo was named the GLIAC Men’s Swimming and Diving Athlete of the Week on Friday after a strong outing in a dual meet at the University of Indianapolis on Jan. 18.
Medo notched a victory and a pair of second-place finishes individually. He also swam a leg on a second-place 400 medley relay team.
The Bratislava, Slovakia native currently owns NCAA “B” cut times in five individ-ual events and competes on a trio of national-qualifying relay teams.
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It’s a 12-point swing with Franklin out of the line up.
It has been a season of streaks for the Grand Val-ley State University women’s club ice hockey team, and that hasn’t been a good thing so far in 2014.
GVSU took the ice over the weekend for a two-game home series against ACHA Division I rival University of Michigan on a cold streak after losing three of its last four games, and the trend continued as the Lakers were unable to claim a vic-tory in the 0-1-1 weekend at the Georgetown Ice Arena.
“I had been talking with the girls about how it’s all about preparation through-out the week,” said GVSU head coach Sean McKernan. “It may be lacking because of the success we had first semester, but we just have to outwork the other team.”
The effort to turn things around started off strong for his team, as sophomore forward Stacey Mathieu put home an unassisted goal to break a scoreless tie six min-utes into the second period.
The lead didn’t last long, however, as Michigan made it a 1-1 game by beating Lak-er goalie Karen Sloboda with a quick tally to start the third period.
Defense and goaltending dominated the rest of the game.
GVSU had opportunities galore, and, despite knock-ing the puck off a couple pipes, the last 19 minutes of the third period passed with no score. An overtime frame wielded the same results, and the teams left the ice deadlocked with a 1-1 tie.
The offensive woes con-tinued for the Lakers in game two.
The first period battle generated nothing but goose eggs on the score-board, as the two defenses remained as stingy as the night before.
Michigan finally found the elusive first goal in the second period, as the Wol-verines managed to sneak a deflection by Laker net-minder Taylor Watson. Down 1-0, GVSU soldiered on, managing a late offensive surge. The buzzer sounded before the horn had a chance to, however, and the teams entered the third period sep-arated by one tally yet again.
The offensive frustrations carried into the third for the Lakers, as they wound up being shut out in a 3-0 loss to another in-state rival.
“Skill can only take you so far,” McKernan said. “We didn’t have the determina-tion tonight. We just couldn’t
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next three minutes to close the cover on any come-back attempt the Lakers might have drummed up.
Kat LaPrairie scored 20 points on 7-of-13 shoot-ing and connected on four 3-pointers to lead the Laker charge, while Crandall con-tributed 18 points and five rebounds in the loss. Lutz, who made her second con-secutive start, finished with 13 points.
“I’m proud of our effort, our ability to control what we could control and that we played fairly consistent — which I’ve been challenging us to do,” Burgess said. “We just didn’t do quite enough to win.”
So close.Like on Saturday after-
noon, when the Lakers re-turned home, where they had outscored opponents by an average of 11.6 points per game, to commence a four-game homestand and defend a 5-0 home record against the No. 18 team in the nation, WSU (16-2, 13-1 GLIAC), and GLIAC leading scorer Shareta Brown.
The Lakers led 33-30 at halftime, although it took several lead changes to get there.
WSU began the game on a 9-2 run. GVSU then scored 12 unanswered points and
extended the run into an 18-11 advantage — its largest of the afternoon.
Every time GVSU stretched the lead, WSU would reel it back in. The game was tied on three dif-ferent occasions before the first half came to a close and a total of six times five min-utes into the second.
“These last two games were all about knowing per-sonnel and I thought we did a nice job of playing to the game plan,” Burgess said. “Against Wayne, we had about a 90-second lapse where we let things get a little hairy and dropped some as-signments, but we bounced back and had every opportu-nity down the stretch to pull out a victory.”
The Lakers were on the doorstep with 15 seconds left as Crandall knocked down a pair of clutch free throws to make it 76-76, but Brown had a chance to make the game-winning shot from the left block seven seconds later, and she did.
Dawson fired from the wing for the tie with one sec-ond left, but the shot came up just short — and so did the Lakers.
But no cigar.“The possession we can
look back on is when we gave up two offensive rebounds with just under a minute to play,” Burgess said. “If we secure one of those, perhaps
it’s a little different dynamic for the finish.”
Crandall scored a career-high 25 points on 8-of-13 shooting, tallied 10 rebounds and recorded three assists in the game. It was her second 20-point game of the season and her second double-dou-ble in four games.
Four other Lakers joined Crandall in double-figures. Steinmetz poured in 14 points, while LaPrairie, Daw-son and Lutz tallied 10 points apiece, but it wasn’t enough. Just close.
“Kayla Dawson is one of the strongest girls on the court at any given time,” Crandall said. “Piper Tucker and Taylor Lutz are giving us some great minutes. Bailey Cairnduff and LaPrairie are pure shooters and can light it up. Jill Steinmetz is coming into her own in the post and we have a deep bench.
“We have all the parts, and when we play the way that we can play, we’re suc-cessful. I feel like we’re close to putting it together consis-tently.”
GVSU (9-9, 7-7 in GLI-AC) will host Ferris State University (6-9, 6-7 GLIAC) at 6:00 p.m. Monday in the Fieldhouse Arena before welcoming Northern Michi-gan University (12-6, 9-5 GLIAC) on Thursday and Michigan Technological University (14-4, 12-2 GLI-AC) on Saturday.
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get any offensive flow going.“We couldn’t get our ex-
ecution on the breakout, and Michigan took it to us.”
GVSU (12-9) has three games left before the start of the ACHA postseason, starting this weekend as the team makes the trip to Il-
linois to take on long-time conference rival Robert Morris University.
The two teams will clash in a somewhat of a “Winter Classic” on Friday as they take part in an outdoor game — the first in GVSU history.
“Those are two big league
games that we need to take care of,” sophomore Kendra Myers said. “We can’t over-look them.”
“We just need to step back and refocus. We know we can beat these teams. Ev-eryone just needs to believe.”
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Sophomore diver Taylor Wiercinski and the Grand Valley State University men’s and women’s diving teams showed off some postseason promise in their final event of the regular season.
Wiercinski set a pair of pool records to highlight GV-SU’s sweep of Hope College in its first ever diving meet, which featured an 11-dive for-mat that is used at the confer-ence and national meets.
GVSU diving coach Steve Burciaga said the event went well even though two visit-ing teams could not make the trip.
“Unfortunately two of the teams had to back out,” Burciaga said. “For Alma, their team has come down with the flu, so they couldn’t come.
“We still had Hope, which brought five div-ers. It was still a good meet because they have some competitive divers, which is nice. They have a pretty good program running over there.”
He said he hopes to build the meet and have more schools involved in the fu-ture. A total of 12 divers competed in the inaugural
event.“Twelve divers was pretty
good for the first time,” he said. “In upcoming years, we’d like to get it up to twice that amount and have 24 or 25 divers competing.”
Freshman Anna Barry and senior Katie Vulpetti both qualified for nationals during the meet. All four Laker women have now booked a trip.
Barry scored 416.25 in the 1-meter and 376.55 in the 3-meter while Vulpetti and freshman Kayla Marquardt also scored in the 400s.
“I did really well today. (The) 1-meter went really well for me,” Barry said. “I set a new personal record and qualified for nationals.”
Wiercinski’s scores of 496.35 and 496.55 in the 1- and 3-meter dive events were good enough to break both of her GVSU Pool re-cords.
“It looks like she’s mak-ing a little run,” Burciaga said of Wiercinski. “She could actually get a little
better, which is scary.”Vulpetti placed third
in the 1-meter dive with a score of 421.90.
Sophomore Ben Cornil-lie led the way for the Laker men by recording a pair of personal bests. He scored 384.75 in the 1-meter and 370.95 in the 3-meter.
“I enjoyed it. It was a pretty cool experi-ence having an invitational here,” Cornillie said. “It’s very good practice for conference and nationals, where it’s really going to be im-portant.”
Sophomores Alex Wong and Jeff Col-lins took second and third in both the 1- and 3-meter dive events for the Lakers.
“This was a good warm up,” Burciaga said. “Having that good competition real-ly helps, too. I thought they did very well.”
The team will have a couple of weeks to practice and prepare for the GLIAC Championships, which are set to begin on Feb. 12 in Geneva, Ohio.
The Grand Valley State Universi-ty men’s Division II club ice hockey team hadn’t left the state for a game in 54 days prior to Friday night.
But if there was any rust, it didn’t show over the weekend.
GVSU (18-7-1) traveled to the Land of Lincoln for a two-game showdown against Southern Il-linois University - Edwardsville and, in the process, carried its momentum from a 4-1 month of January into February with back-to-back victories.
The Lakers played with some pent up frustration after a heart-breaking loss against arch-rival Michigan State University on Jan. 25, and it showed as GVSU shredded SIUE from the start in game one.
The team never trailed with freshman Ryan Morey between the pipes, and its of-fense got things going early by opening up a 2-0 lead before the first period was halfway finished.
“There’s always a tendency to get complacent (after MSU),” cap-tain Nick Heinrich said. “We’re at that point in the season where we have to win every game, and I think all the guys know that.”
The Laker attack intensified, and, by the end of the second,
the route was well underway. The lead continued to balloon and stretched to 7-1 by the end of the second period.
The lead hit the double-dig-it mark late in the third before the game mercifully ended with GVSU on top 10-1.
“We came ready to play the first night, and I don’t know if (SIUE) did,” GVSU head coach Mike Forbes said. “Their goalten-der had an off night, and he came back the second game looking to get some retribution.”
It wasn’t so easy for the Lakers on Saturday.
Both goaltenders put on a stel-lar performance in the encore, and at the end of the first period, shots were 18-15 in GVSU’s favor.
SIUE’s penalty kill stole the show in the second and killed off three Laker power plays in the first half of the period alone. SIUE rode the mo-mentum and broke through with a goal
on a nifty deke courtesy of Cougar forward Jeremy Meletti late in the second period.
“We really didn’t change our game plan much between the last two periods,” junior forward Matt Smartt said. “We finished the game with over 60 shots and we just had to regroup, send guys
to the front of the net and create some havoc.
“We play best when we’re des-perate.”
SIUE quickly witnessed that desperation upon returning to the ice for the third.
GVSU finally found the back of the net and knotted the game at 1-1 just two minutes into the period. The Laker power play fol-lowed suit shortly thereafter, as junior Jake Endicott notched the go-ahead goal on the team’s fourth chance of the evening.
The third and final tally of
the night once again came on the power play. SIUE took a five-minute major for boarding, and GVSU was sure to use the man advantage by lighting the lamp for the 13th time in six periods.
“We need to be one or two to get an automatic bid for the tour-nament,” Smartt said. “Rankings haven’t come out yet, and (we) need to win out to get an auto-matic bid.”
The Cougars made a late push as GVSU took two major penalties to give SIUE a 5-on-3 power play for the rest of the game, but senior
goalie Scott Teifenthal and the defense stood tall. GVSU escaped with a 3-1 win and a gratifying bus ride home.
The team has won six of its last seven games and has lost just three games since Nov. 9.
The Lakers have three more games — all at home — before the start of the ACHA Division II playoffs. Central Michigan Uni-versity will pay Georgetown Ice Arena a visit on Feb. 8. before Ohio State University comes to town for a two-game set from Feb. 14 to 15.
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Anticipation: JD Duckworth (11) and Corbin Rainey (27) prepare for the puck to drop during a recent game. Over the weekend, the Lakers defeated Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville in a two-game series.
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Wiercinski sets two records in Last Chance Dive meet
Hang time: A diver springs off the board during a recent meet in the Grand Valley State University pool. The Lakers had a successful Last Chance Dive meet, as sophomore Taylor Wiercinski set two pool records and others qualified for nationals.
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Whistle-happy officiat-ing, stout defenses and un-inspired offenses appeared to dictate the game. The teams combined to commit 49 per-sonal fouls, and there seemed to be more loose-ball scrums than jump shots made.
Sabin, Carbajal and fifth-year senior Rob Woodson were the only Lakers to score in the first half. WSU didn’t exactly steal the show with its offense, but it held a 22-20 advantage at the break.
The second half seeming-ly yielded more loose balls, jump balls, fouls called and, to the eventual chagrin of the fans in attendance, even more free-throw attempts.
The Warriors shot 25-of-35 from the charity stripe, which was key down the stretch because the Lakers connected on just 15-of-26.
The 13.7 percent edge may have been the differ-ence in the game.
“We didn’t make free throws,” Wesley said. “It was a close game, we had some free throws and we kept making one of two, one of two, one of two. We didn’t take advantage of the free throws that we got.”
It was particularly a fac-tor in overtime when WSU scored 12 of its 17 points from the foul line.
Things went from bad to worse for the Lakers when a
foul was called right in front of the GVSU bench. Wesley pleaded his case, but was given a technical foul with 2:53 to play in the five-min-ute overtime.
Wesley owned it after the game.
“It’s just a really tough loss when you give effort and you battle and you fall short — I’m disappointed,” he said. “I’m disappointed in myself for getting the tech-nical, the first technical I’ve had this year. It didn’t help our cause. In a close game, all of those things matter.”
It was a head-scratching loss for the Lakers, especial-ly considering how well they played on Thursday night at Saginaw Valley State Uni-versity. GVSU never trailed and scored a season high in the 88-76 victory.
Sabin led the way with 20 points and was one of five Lakers to score in double figures. Freshman forward Trevin Alexander also had a big night with his first ca-reer double-double.
The team figures to strive for a more balanced scoring attack tonight in a rivalry game against the Bulldogs of Ferris State University.
“They don’t like us, we don’t like them,” Carbajal said. “It’s always a tough game. The records don’t matter. It’s going to be a rough, physical game, and hopefully we can bounce back and win that one.”
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through end of July. ContactChelsea at 231-855-6275 or
[email protected] ifinterested!
Meadows Crossing Apart-ments is the place to be.
Take the tour at Mead-owsCrossing.Net to find out
why.
One subleaser needed for aStyle A Townhouse in Mead-ows starting the 2014-2015leasing year (July 30, 2014 -July 24, 2015). Includes: freewater and sewer, free highspeed internet, free cable,and personalbathroom. Rent $459 utili-ties (per month)[email protected]
Internships
Are you interested in a paidinternship in sunny Florida or
California? Apply now atdisneycollegeprogram.com!
Open to all majors.
West Michigan Center forArts and Technology
Job Title: Graphic Design In-tern
Location: Grand Rapids, MISearch Job ID: 12680
Apply By: February 13, 2014For more information visit
www.gvsu.edu/lakerjobs
Youth for UnderstandingUSA
Job Title: Youth ForUnderstanding USA Intern
Location: Muskegon/GrandRapids, MI
Search Job ID: 12054Apply By: April 30, 2014
For more information visitwww.gvsu.edu/lakerjobs
National Heritage AcademiesJob Title: People Services
File Room Associate (Intern)Location: Grand Rapids, MI
Search Job ID: 12756Apply By: February 15, 2014
For more information visitwww.gvsu.edu/lakerjobs
General MotorsJob Title: Information
Technology - Intern 2014Location: Detroit, MI
Salary: PaidSearch Job ID: 11983
Apply By: February 7, 2014For more information visit
www.gvsu.edu/lakerjobs
Miscellaneous
15% Student Discount: LB’sLounge is offering a 15%
discount every Monday on allfood for students, faculty and
staff members with a validID. Located in downtown
Grand Rapids inside of LouisBenton Steakhouse. Stop in
or call (616) 454-7455.
MARKETPLACE FREE CLASSIFIEDS FOR STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF some restrictions apply
FOR COMMERCIAL RATES CALL 616-331-2460
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