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People all over the world strug-gle with a common problem: procrastination. Students at
Grand Valley State University are no exception, but before you let that buzzing in your pocket take prior-ity over that midterm coming up, there are ways to not only curb the negative effects of digital overload, and shed some light on to why our gadgets have become such a big is-sue in the first place.
“Some people are more likely to procrastinate, some are less likely and want to get things done,” said Eric Klingensmith, coordinator of crisis services and staff psychologist in the GVSU Counseling Center. “It depends on their learning style, how they manage their anxiety, and how they organize and manage their time. Everyone is going to be a little bit different with that.”
Though individual reasons for distraction come in many shapes and sizes, vastly different from per-son to person, Klingensmith said there are some common threads in the phenomena of procrastination. Anxiety, he said, is one of them.
“When we get overwhelmed by something, we generally tend to put it off, maybe until we have
to and once we get focused on it,” he said. “The bigger the project seems, the more people tend to deflect and do something else.”
Karel Swanson, program coor-dinator for structured learning as-sistance and an academic adviser for pre-major students, said she thinks there are three main rea-sons why students procrastinate.
The first boils down to pres-sure - the fact that some students feel the need to pursue perfec-tion, and perform at a level they just may not be able to achieve. The second is all about perspec-tive. Swanson said some students might have an unrealistic percep-tion of how much time they’ve al-located for a specific task. Finally, just like Klingensmith, Swanson said the third major reason for student procrastination is being overwhelmed, a common diag-nosis for college-aged students.
“(Students) are sometimes just feeling overwhelmed, per-ceiving that they have too much and not knowing where to start, so they just keep putting off start-ing,” Swanson said.
With a 488 million regu-lar users of Facebook’s mo-bile application, as reported by
OVERCOMING
PROCRASTINATION
Volunteering, promoting ser-vice and breaking stereotypes are just some of the activities of Grand Valley State University’s student organization Hunger and Homelessness. The members of the group spend their free time spreading awareness of food short-age and the homeless.
Katelyn Winslow is the cur-rent president of the organization, which was founded in fall 1989 and was one of the first volunteer driven student organizations.
Winslow said the group sparked her interest by its aspect of com-munity service.
“I loved the idea of contribut-ing locally, (having) an impact
that was visible,” she said. Since Winslow took over the
position of president, she said her focus has been building relation-ships within the group while con-tinuing volunteer work through-out the Grand Rapids area.
One unique aspect of the orga-nization is the extensive amount of volunteering done by its members. Hunger and Homelessness mem-bers volunteer every weekend, usually at food banks or homeless organizations, said Winslow, add-ing that each volunteer opportuni-ty is a chance to impact members.
“The food banks, specifically Feeding America and Kids Food Basket, provide a look at how im-mense the problem of food inse-curity is in West Michigan,” Win-
slow said. “Their operations are mind-boggling and rely heavily on volunteers.”
Lauren Branson, the advertis-ing chair for the student organi-zation, said while the club is cen-tered at GVSU, a main goal is to reach further beyond campus.
“We all enjoy being active with the community and we have fun while we are making a difference,” Branson said.
With their volunteer work rang-ing from helping organizations such as the YMCA and Bethany Christian Services, Winslow said volunteering to help the homeless is close to her heart.
“There is a stereotypical home-
GVSU organization promotes volunteering, breaks stereotypesBY KARA HAIgHTGVL STAFF WRITER
HUNgER AND HOMELESSNESS OF gVSU | COURTESYBreaking bread: Students volunteer at the Kids Food Basket as part of the Hunger and Homelessness groups activities to feed the homeless.
Having free and accessi-ble tools available on mobile devices is a convenient way for students at Grand Val-ley State University to check things such as their grades, schedules or student ac-count balance. One service, the Blackboard site, has recently started charging students $1.99 per year for accessing their site through mobile devices.
Sue Ko-rzinek, di-rector of I n f o r m a -tion Tech-nology, said Blackboard started the charge in September 2012.
“Blackboard is the ven-dor that controls all of the costs and marketing of the Blackboard application,” Korzinek said. She added that the decision for Black-board to change its model of access for the mobile ap-plication was due to its con-tract being up.
“Blackboard originally partnered with Sprint and only offered the app for free on just Android phones,” Korzinek said. “Since a lot of people were using these free services, Blackboard didn’t want to give up on creating a new marketing plan.”
She said the mobile app that the company had in the beginning would have cost GVSU $50,000 per year for all students to use it with any cell carrier, and GVSU didn’t have the money to spend on this product.
“We (IT) were having conversations with Black-board all along, especially in the beginning when they wanted to charge GVSU $50,000,” Korzinek said. “We told them that they
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tistics - including the 96 percent of college students reported as users of the so-cial media site - some are pointing at social media as the source of procrastina-tion in college, but not as the sole cause.
“I think it’s one thing to procrastinate with,” Klin-gensmith said. “I don’t think social media or social net-working by itself is better or worse, I just think it’s one more thing that people can procrastinate with.”
There are many tips stu-dents can use to aid them in overcoming this common problem. The Counseling Center offers workshops throughout the semester on anxiety and time man-agement. It also has several pamphlets that students can
use as a resource, including one that offers first-step advice in diagnosing the problem.
As far as curbing that dis-
tracted behavior, there are a number of ways an individu-al can do it on their own, but GVSU’s Counseling Cen-ter also offers workshops throughout the semester on
anxiety and time manage-ment, including pamphlets detailing a step-by-step di-agnosis available for student use that offer wisdom like, “To understand and solve your procrastination prob-lems, you will need to ana-lyze the situations that are most problematic to you,” and more.
Klingensmith said the first thing he does to help students battling with pro-crastination is to figure out what’s at the root of the prob-lem - what’s causing them to procrastinate and why.
For the overwhelming things, he advises students to skip the late-night cram sessions and break the task down into smaller, more manageable pieces that will, he said, give the student a sense of accomplishment.
As for the perfectionists, Swanson said those striv-
ing for infallibility should seek excellence instead of perfection, and learn to be satisfied with doing their best rather than focusing on the negatives.
“Reduce your level of ex-pectations out of yourself, and don’t expect perfection,” she said.
Swanson’s most prevailing piece of advice for tackling procrastination? Just do it.
“We all have things that we procrastinate with, that we prefer to put off, we’re afraid to start or too over-whelmed to start,” Swanson said. “Usually what I tell a student is to just start, be-cause usually once you can have some degree of accom-plishment, you’re able to continue. The problem often with procrastination is get-ting started.”
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“THE SHAPE OF THINGS” SERIES APPROACHES
Grand Valley State University’s Performance Studio Se-ries will feature “The Shape of Things,” a play about a college student who falls into a transformational love with a woman. Performances will be held Feb. 22-23, at 7:30 p.m., and Feb. 23-24, at 2 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center in the Louis Armstrong Theatre. Tickets are $6 in advance, or $7 the day of the show. To purchase tickets ahead of time, contact the box office at the Performing Arts Center at 616-331-2300.
THE FUTURE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION HAS BEEN HOSTING A WEEK TO THANK DONORS
To raise awareness about donors that give to Grand Valley State University. In 2012, 13,326 donors gave to the university. On Thursday, Feb. 21, students are welcome to write thank you messages to donors that contribute to the GVSU community. There will be a table set up in the Kirkhof Center from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. For further information, go to www.gvsu.edu/faa.
WINTER CAREER FAIR ARRIVES The Grand Valley State University Career Fair on Thurs-day, Feb. 21 from 1-5 p.m. at the DeVos Center in Grand Rapids. Over 190 employers will be at the fair, where both employment and internship opportunities will be available. In addition, 50 health care employees will at the fair, of-fering approximately 2,800 jobs. For further information, go to www.gvsu.edu/careerfairs.
PHOTO EXPLORATION CLUB HOSTS CONTESTThe Photography Exploration Club is holding it’s “1st An-nual Photo Contest” with a deadline for submissions on March 4. Winners will be announced on March 11th. To submit an entry, or for more information on the contest, email the club’s president, Thomas Nichols, at [email protected] or vice president Sadiah Cannon at [email protected]
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needed to come up with a bet-ter marketing plan so that all cellular devices can use it, and that’s what came about with their solution to start charging individual students.”
While the Blackboard site charges students for using the app, Korzinek said GVSU IT doesn’t charge for any of its in-ternal mobile apps, which stu-dents can find at the app store under myGV.
“We continue to develop ap-plications like grades, schedules, campus dining balances, housing assignments and account balance transactions,” Korzinek said.
In addition, a free service that IT offers is the alert notification system, where students can be notified of closures, announce-ments, calendar items, assign-ments and grades.
“IT is always looking for other opportunities to provide free ser-vices to students,” Korzinek said.
Students who don’t want to pay $1.99 per year to access Blackboard can also purchase access for $5.99 for life.
Visit gvsu.edu/emergencycon-tact to sign up for alert notifica-tions of calendar items, assignment, grades and closures via email and text message. [email protected]
less person: An older man, who drinks, wears torn clothing and sleeps under a bridge,” she said. “It is true some homeless people do fit this, but the majority do not.”
Sarah Craven said she joined Hunger and Homelessness for the volunteer op-portunities the organization provided.
Craven said the club brings opportu-nities to GVSU students, but also gives students the opportunity to volunteer with off-campus organizations.
With many locations and organi-zations benefiting from Hunger and Homelessness’ volunteering, Branson said her favorite event involved not only helping out, but learning.
“At Take Hold Church in downtown Grand Rapids, we were given the oppor-tunity to not only feed people, but also sit down and hear their stories,” Bran-son said. “It was a really interesting and eye-opening experience.”
With Hunger and Homelessness clas-sified as a service and advocacy student organization at GVSU, Winslow said many would be surprised at how effec-tive volunteering can be.
“It makes you feel good about your-self, learn new skills, engaging in your community, boost career options and meeting new people,” Winslow said. “And it’s also nice when someone asks you how your weekend was and you can say you volunteered at a food bank.”
From her experience in the organi-zation, Winslow said many wouldn’t
believe how many are affected by homelessness.
“Homelessness is a product of many things, including victims of abuse, mental illness, hard times and the ef-fects of a low wage job,” she said. “You would be surprised how many people around you who are homeless or food insecure, the student in your econom-ics class, a veteran who served in the war, or even the person you sit next to
every week at church.”Hunger and Homelessness meetings
are held every other Monday at 9:15 p.m. in Kirkhof 1142, with the next meeting occurring March 11. For more informa-tion about the Hunger and Homeless-ness organization or to find out about upcoming events, you can ‘like’ their page on Facebook.
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Grand Valley State University’s parking permit design competition, Art2Park, will be accepting student submissions from Feb. 25 through March 1. The student whose sub-mission receives the most votes in the final round will have their design displayed on the 2013-2014 university parking permits, with an added bonus of a free parking per-mit for the entire year.
Though 2013-2014 permit prices have yet to be determined, this year’s parking permit rates totaled at $340 for both fall and winter semesters.
This year, Art2Park is open to all majors, a decision made by program coordinators following low participation in last year’s competition, when only art and communi-cations majors were eligible to enter.
“We’re looking for a variety of different folks to come up with something,” said Capt. Bran-don DeHaan, assistant director of the Grand Valley Police Department. “Again, this is some-thing that will be displayed all next year.”
The competition is headed up by Lisa Garringer, parking systems coordinator for the university, with help from GVSU hospi-tality major and new Art2Park intern Claire Marchesano, who said the competition of-
fers students a chance to see how they mea-sure up against other GVSU artists, as well as help them develop professionally.
“I think it’s a great way to see where (stu-dents) stand against other students and build their portfolio,” she said.
All currently enrolled GVSU students in good academic standing are eligible for en-try, and limited to one design submission that must include a brief personal biography limited to 1,000 characters.
“We’re offering them the opportunity to have their work on every vehicle on cam-pus,” DeHaan said.
With around 15,000 registered parking permits between GVSU’s campuses, the me-dium covers a lot of square footage.
The deadline for submissions in March 1, after which Marchesano will double-check each entry to make sure it fits design require-ments before posting them online for public vote. Voting will open up to any students, fac-ulty or staff members with a valid GVSU email on March 11 and run through March 22.
During the first round of voting, voters will be asked to select their top three, and from those results, narrowed down to a top 10.
Marchesano said the voting process for
Art2Park seeks student submissions, awards top vote free parking permit
Though the Allendale Board of Trustees did not heavily discuss GVSU at its Feb. 11 meeting, the local university has been a point of conversation over the past few months.
“People in town have had a little attitude about Grand Valley,” Township Trustee Matt Murphy said, adding that the main prob-lems tend to be with the housing needs and traffic growth. “They say out of one side of their mouths they have no problem with Grand
Valley students, but they’ll do ev-erything they can to keep Grand Valley students from encroaching on them.”
Murphy said the complaints tend to come from the same few private residents, but he would not provide names.
“I sometimes think its kind of hyper inflated where it seems like there’s a bigger problem than it is,” he said. “Certain individuals make it look like a bigger problem.”
The trustee said one of the cur-rent issues is over the use of a piece of land on 52nd Street and Pierce Street, which has been a matter of
controversy for some time as con-tractors look to develop student housing there.
Murphy said that while resi-dents complain the new complex would increase noise levels and de-crease safety, the land east of 52nd is—and has been—designated for student housing. “People who moved in there knew this when they moved,” he said.
Residents aren’t the only ones campaigning against it, though. Some of the major opponents to additional housing developments have been owners of existing com-plexes who simply don’t want the
competition.“The argument of necessity of
housing has always been an issue,” Murphy said, adding that increased housing might force a decrease in living prices.
GVSU Dean of Students Bart Merkle said the local housing issue is not exactly a university concern.
“We’ve seen a lot of housing de-velopments both on campus in the last 20 years as well as off campus, and what happens off campus is sort of in the hands of private de-velopers who are going to invest
GV an issue of complaint among Allendale residents
Members of the Grand Valley State University Communi-ty Service Learning Center, Student Life Office and the Laker Leadership Program hosted the first half of the Strengths Based Leadership Seminar Tuesday. The seminar is geared toward helping students discover their strengths and learn how to maximize them in their current and future leadership roles.
“Research shows that the best of the best build their lives upon their greatest talents,” said Jordan Irving, an intern for the CSLC and the Laker Leadership Program. “They invest in their talents to improve and increase their performance, and
they manage their weaknesses.”To help participants discover their greatest talents, they
take the Clifton StrengthsFinder test, a 30-minute web-based assessment of normal personality from the perspec-tive of positive psychology. The test reveals a person’s top five strengths out of 34 ‘signature themes,’ which are the most commonly held of the 400 identified personality themes.
Participants won’t get the full effect simply by taking the test, however. The seminar is developed to help define and apply those strengths to the lives of those who take the test.
The seminar involved several activities that helped relate the strengths of each participant to their own life; in one ac-
leadership seminar identifies student strengths
ROBERT MATHEWS | GVLBigger than a house: Allendale Township Supervisor Jerry Alkema sits alongside other township board members at last week’s meeting, where they discussed the area-impact of GVSU.
ARCHIVE | GVLWork of art: Last years’ parking permit was designed by Grand Valley State University student Bo Anderson. Art2Park coordinators hope this year will bring in more students.
BY ANYA ZENTMEYERGVL EDITOR IN CHIEF
BY ELLIE PHILLIPSGVL STAFF WRITER
BY LizzY BaLBoaGVL News editor
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MEGAN SINDERSON | GVLFollow the leader: students pay close attention during GVsU’s strengths Based Leadership seminar earlier this week.
SEE LEADERSHIP, A3
I sometimes think its kind of hyper-inflated where it seems like there’s a bigger problem than it is.
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MATT MURPHYTOWNSHIP TRUSTEE ”
Time is a unique resource. It is tricky in that there is no way to ever obtain more of it than we are given, and no way to rid ourselves of it.
While society has applied time-keeping measures to this resource, the conven-tional method being the twenty-four hour day, we
can’t argue with the fact that we hold no control over the influx or outflow of the re-source as a whole. Even ex-tremely rare resources, like precious stones and metals, are not bound by the same restrictions. For this reason, it makes sense that society does whatever it can to max-imally utilize these twenty-four hours.
We expedite everything, and speed and timeliness are never ends but rather means to be improved upon. In our attempts to get more bang for our minute, we have streamlined many endeav-ors that traditionally take
a larger time investment. One such endeavor would be education, as seen in the birth of online degrees and classes.
An online class has po-tential to be just as successful as a traditional one. It can be completed from anywhere, seeing as physical presence in the class proves unnec-essary. Online classes can be beneficial to people with mobility problems, people who travel and other peo-ple with geographical con-straints. Who they are not beneficial for are those who do not have time to take the class, and I would feel com-
fortable making the claim that these time-crunched individuals make up a large portion of online-students.
To the busy person, an online class seems idyllic. After all, that hour or so that would be spent in the classroom a couple times a week is not mandatory, and one is free to complete the class at their own leisure. Logistically, the lack of both class and travel time seem to leave us with extra room in our schedule to complete the course work!
What we busy folk are forgetting; however, is that any education takes a con-
siderable investment of both time and mental capacities. Chances are if you don’t have time to travel to and attend class, you don’t have the time it takes to sit down and appropriately engage and understand the mate-rial. Just in case you aren’t convinced, another down-side for the busy person in an online class is the lack of physical meetings with the instructor. This makes it much easier to misunder-stand assignments or forget about them entirely, and your grade in the class may suffer for it.
In the end, a busy per-
son taking an online class is probably wasting both their money and their precious time (gasp). Online classes should be available as a re-source for students with geographical constraints, mobility problems or a dedi-cation to the subject matter. We can speed up our coffee makers, our Internet and our travel methods without truly affecting the outcome of said pursuits. However, attempting to save time in educational endeavors truly compromises the knowl-edge we have the potential to gain.
OPINIONA4 FEBRUARY 21, 2012
GRAND VALLEY LANTHORN
BY CHRISTINE COLLERANGVL COLUMNIST
So little time, so much to do at the university
“HOW BIG OF A DISTRACTION IS SOCIAL MEDIA IN REGARDS TO STUDENT PRODUCTIVITY?”
“Clearly it’s huge. I’ve been distracted three times while try-ing to think about how big of a question this is.”
DAVID MILLERSophomoreHTMWayland, Mich.
“I think it isn’t that big of a distraction. If I wasn’t on social media, I would just find some-thing else to distract me rather than social media.”
JONATHAN RODOLPHSophomoreFilm and Video ProductionTraverse City, Mich.
“I can say that at least 50 per-cent of the time we are always checking on our social media. In my opinion, it is a major distrac-tion because we tend to waste time on it, instead of being productive.”
VANESSA GARCIAJuniorMath and Secondary EducationChicago, IL
“Social Media is a huge distrac-tion because when you’re doing your homework on the com-puter you probably will check Facebook or Twitter a couple of times.”
JESSICA HEMINGSENFreshmanSpecial EducationGoodrich, Mich.
“Very distracting. I hate to admit it, but I almost always have Facebook or Twitter up when I’m trying to do homework or study.”
KRISTEN KELLEYJuniorPsychologyCheboygan, Mich.
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EDITORIAL
WORK, INTERRUPTEDWith the rise of new media technologies and the increasing pressures of higher ed, students face a whole new frontier of distraction in social media
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Here at Grand Valley State University, we’ve all done it. Whether we want to admit it or
not, it’s safe to say that most students, at some point in their college career, put off studying for a test until the day before or neglected to write a five-page paper until the day of. We’re all guilty of procrastination. In fact, there’s a non-scientific 50 percent chance you’re doing it right now, with each sentence your eyes scan across.
But what makes procrastination so hard to combat?
In an article on the front page of today’s edition of the Lanthorn, Eric Klingensmith, coordinator of crisis services and staff psychologist in GV-SU’s Counseling Center, cited being overwhelmed with the tasks before us as the one of the biggest sources of procrastination (and anxiety) fac-ing students. However, with recent statistics showing the mind-boggling growth of social media and new technologies, especially among young
adults, we can’t help but think maybe all of those updates might be bearing the brunt of the procrastination bur-den. It’s hard to make cyberspace tan-gible, but the statistics detailed in an article posted online by the Huffing-ton Post titled “100 Fascinating Social Media Statistics and Figures from 2012” are a pretty good indication of how consuming these platforms have become in our society.
Each day, 4.7 billion collective minutes are spent on Facebook by 488 million mobile app users, who report-edly check their Facebook pages five or more times each day. There are 575 likes and 81 comments made on the social networking site every second. Every second. In the Twitter sphere, above 175 million Tweets are sent each day. 32 percent of all Internet users are currently using Twitter each day, while Instagram is has surpassed the little blue bird, boasting 80 million users and over five million “vintage” photos uploaded each day.
All of that said, these numbers in-dicate a major shift in how we spend our time. And if what the numbers say is true, that shift is more than likely away from out textbooks and toward the comforting blue glow of the moni-tor.However, we digress. Procrasti-nation was around way before the Internet, way before you could total your friends in hundreds and make a fan page for yourself or your dog or whatever. The tricky part about procrastination is that for the most part, it’s mental. And social media, though it may be another avenue, is far from the cause of the problem. But we recognize that progress moves for-ward in baby steps, so let’s take it slow, GVSU. Our suggestion? Every time you feel like picking up your phone to Tweet about your homework, trying picking up your homework instead. If homework assignments are anything like status updates, research says there will be about 532 assignments posted to Facebook each day.
Concert season is ap-proaching and many of us are going to be faced with some very hard decisions in the near future. Pitchfork or Lollapalooza? SXSW or Coachella? These are just an example of some of the harsh choices I’m left with this year. It should also be noted that single headline concerts pose a bigger threat because of awkward show dates and availability. Fortunately, I’ve thought up a things to consider before you get that deep feeling of regret that comes with missing the show you know you should have went to in
the first place.Time Element - The
difference between a time-less act and a flavor of the week soon to be has-been is usually obvious to the ears. However, knowing which to see depends in their...”expiration date,” sort to speak. Bands break up and not everybody has the resilience of Keith Richards, so the time element when it comes to what show you choose is crucial. If you think this is your favorite aging act’s last go round, spend the extra money, make the trip, do whatever you need to do in order to catch it. The story of mak-ing the trip is much more interesting than that of missing it.
Supporting acts - This aspect of concerts is often overlooked, the opening acts are just as important as the headliners when it
comes to atmosphere and getting your money’s worth. If you’re going for an open-ing act, give the headliner a listen. Leaving early for an unknown headliner only to realize you would have loved them is devastating. Know who’s playing the show. A quick YouTube search should do the trick. If not, dig deeper, you might find something that fits your “discerning” taste.
Stage presence - A good studio album doesn’t always mean a good live show. Once again, do your homework. Some music just doesn’t translate well in a live setting, especially one person acts. Ask around. Look up a couple show re-views or a live performance. You have the resources, use them. Nothing ruins a good album more than seeing it performed horribly live.
Venue - Venue is just
as important as the three above elements and can make or break a show. Small venues work well with certain acts. However, the promoters for these shows usually oversell for the size of the venue. Make sure you consider this before you end up like me, snuggling up the sweaty guy who saw fit to take his shirt off in the crowded confines of Pontiac’s Pike Room (true story, worst show ever).
Crowd - Just because you like an artist doesn’t mean you’ll like the other people that enjoy the same artist. Understand the fan base of the act you want to see before going to a show. Nothing makes you reconsider your music taste like being surrounded by screaming teenage girls for three hours.
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Art2Park was modeled after Grand Rapids’ ArtPrize competition, the winner of which is decided through a series of public votes.
Voting for the top 10 Art2Park submissions will
be open March 25 through March 29, and the winner will be announced by April 1.
“Just the fact that Grand Valley is a university for students, and why not have as many components to the school made by students as possible?” Marchesano said.
To submit a piece of art-work to the Art2Park com-petition, or for more specifics on design criteria, require-ments and eligibility, visit gvsu.edu/gvpd/art2park.
Deciding between two great helping careers? Information Session Thursday, Feb. 28
Western Michigan University in Grand Rapids invites you to attend an Information Session for those in the fields of social work, human service and education to learn about two of our nationally accredited programs.
Master of Social WorkCounselor Education and Counseling Psychology
5 to 5:30 p.m. MSW registration/refreshments
5:30 to 6:30 p.m. MSW presentation
6 to 6:30 p.m. CECP registration/refreshments
6:30 to 7:30 p.m. CECP presentation
All are welcome to attend one or both sessions.
RSVP online by Thursday, Feb. 28 at www.wmich.edu/grandrapids/infosession
Visit www.wmich.edu/grandrapids/academics for more information about the programs.
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money and develop a housing complex,” Merkle said. “We’ve certainly worked with the off-campus land-lords consistently over the years and try to have good relationships with them and encourage them to treat our students well and that sort of thing. I think now we’re at a point where some in the community feel that there’s enough housing and there are people who are concerned.”
The May 7 election ballot
will address property issues in the township and could result in more off-campus student housing.
“I definitely think it would help a lot to get Grand Val-ley students involved in the election and things like that,” Murphy said. “It would make a difference if the people it really affects show up.”
While housing is a large concern, it is certainly not the only one.
“Complaints have been ex-pressed against GVSU at past meetings due to the univer-sity’s unwillingness to fund
sidewalks,” said Township Su-pervisor Jerry Alkema.
Murphy added that GVSU has been “adamant” about not wanting to install sidewalks on the golf course side of the street.
“The east side of 48th is along the golf course and that’s not a place that people would walk even if there was sidewalk there,” Merkle said. “I think we’ve always sort of assumed that the property owners along 48th or the township would do something with sidewalks on the west side.”
A project is in the works to expand 48th Avenue into a boulevard some time in
the next few years, and Mur-phy said the sidewalk issue may be addressed amid that construction.
Despite the perceived negative attitude of town-ship residents toward GVSU, Alkema said the university/township relationship has been cooperative.
“We have a great working relationship with everyone on the campus, (and we’re) finding a way to interrelate,” he said.
Merkle agreed that the relationship is not adverse.
“People often sort of sug-gest that there’s not a good
relationship between the uni-versity and the community,” Merkle said. “I think as the university has grown and as Allendale has grown, the Al-lendale community has been good for the university and the university has certainly been good for the Allendale community, and our goal is to continue to have a good relationship with the local community. That doesn’t mean everyone in the local community likes the univer-sity, but I think we’ve always tried to be a good citizen.”
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tivity they were given scenarios, and asked which of two actions they would take in that scenario, and then relate that to their top five strengths.
Another activity involved writing their name with their dominant hand in five different ways, and then repeating the process with their non-dominant hand. This exercise helped demonstrate why successful people build on their strengths: they’re more comfortable and capable when they use them, instead of their weaknesses.
Another major element of the seminar helped put the strengths in perspective of ways in which they might not be helpful—a potential barrier to their success.
“A barrier label is a term for when a talent is mistakenly devalued or dismissed as a weakness...the dark side of it,” said Sarah Wojnicki, a gradu-ate assistant for Student Life within the leadership programs.
This part of the seminar helped identify pos-sible barrier labels for the top strengths of each participant, and made the participants aware of those potential drawbacks, but also of the poten-tial benefits of their strengths as well.
‘Competition,’ for example, is a strength that could negatively impact relationships with others if the individual who is competitive turns too many things into a competition that really shouldn’t be one. ‘Belief ’ is a strength that could make some-one come across as stubborn, and someone with the strength of ‘harmony’ may be seen as a peo-
ple-pleaser. These strengths don’t just have dark sides—they have good sides too, and those are the elements the seminar focuses upon.
The seminar was geared toward students, but the StrengthsFinder assessment has been used to train faculty and student workers at GVSU and throughout North America. It has been used by more than five million people on more than 600 campuses on the continent.
Those who have taken the StrengthsFinder as-sessment are welcome to attend the second part of the seminar Feb. 26 from 1-3 p.m. in Kirkhof Center, room 1142.
For more information, visit www.gvsu.edu/leadership/strengths-based-leadership-seminar-retreat-83.htm.
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M. BasketBallThursday @Saginaw Valley 6 p.m.Saturday vs. Wayne State1 p.m.
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MIlestone Watch: katIe MartIn
The No. 24 Grand Val-ley State University softball team may be keeping an eye on the record books this sea-son, as senior infielder Ka-tie Martin is closing in on a number of milestones. Mar-tin’s stellar career is high-lighted by her ability to pro-duce offensively (39 home runs, 50 doubles, 138 runs). She needs only eight home runs, three doubles and 26 runs to become the school record holder in each of the respective categories. The right-handed batter from Ann Arbor, Mich. already holds the school record for career batting average with a mark of .431. She set a pair of single season records in 2011 for hits (87) and total bases (167), earning her an NFCA First Team All-American se-lection. The Lakers will begin their season on the road this weekend against Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, Mo.
thornton naMed GlIac athlete
Grand Valley State Uni-versity freshman Darien Thornton of the men’s in-door track and field team has been named the GLIAC Men’s Field Athlete of the Week after his record-break-ing performance in the GVSU Tune-Up. Thornton broke an 11-year-old school record when he placed first in the weight throw with a mark of 20.15 meters, the second best throw in all of NCAA Division II this sea-son. He also placed third in the shot put with a distance of 16.32 meters. The No. 5 Lakers will compete in the GLIAC Championships at the Kelly Family Sports Arena on Saturday at 10 a.m. and Sun-day at 8 a.m.
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Over a year ago, sophomore Grand Valley State University la-crosse player Victoria Devine heard
about a unique opportunity from her father, Christopher.
He read in the newspaper that people were trying out for the Irish Women’s National lacrosse team, he told Victoria, which sparked her in-
terest in potentially trying out.“He told me about it and I was go-
ing to go last year, but I decided to get a year of college lacrosse in and try out this past October,” Devine said.
In the first year of the GVSU la-crosse program, Devine would go onto be named to the Division II All-Independent team after tallying 37 goals and six assists and lead the team with 43 points.
“She’s a very smart player,” said head coach Alicia Groveston. “She has a very high lacrosse IQ. She’s able to see the play as it develops. She’s really grown into our system and become much more confident in her own personal abilities and the abilities of her teammates. She’s kind of the complete package.”
After getting a year of college la-crosse under her belt, Devine decid-ed to tryout for the Irish Women’s National lacrosse team. She traveled to Dublin, Ireland in October and stayed there for a weekend while the tryouts commenced.
When Devine heard she made the team, it didn’t come as a total surprise to her, but she still re-mained ecstatic.
“I was excited,” Devine said. “There wasn’t a lot of people at try-outs, so I didn’t really think I was not gonna make it, but it was really exciting. It’s just a really nice honor to have to play for my heritage and I think it’s a really nice way to see how I’ve improved over the years.”
Devine and her teammates will take part in the World Lacrosse Championship this summer in Os-
hawa, Ontario. She is one of two Americans on the team. Devin was eligible to try out for the Irish squad since she is a dual citizen because her grandmother was born in Ireland.
“I think it’s a huge honor for her,” Groveston said. “We’re so unbeliev-ably excited for her. This is some-thing she took on herself. She went to Ireland and obviously played her hardest and made an impact over there. We’re just so pumped for her to see where she can go with this and what it’ll do. The opportunity she gets to play on an international level is so cool.”
For Devine, her first year at GVSU convinced her that she was good enough to tryout. Her confi-dence continued to grow through-out the season.
“Grand Valley helped me a lot,” Devine said. “My coach definitely helped me prepare for my tryouts. I definitely wasn’t confident last year to tryout. Playing through practices and games really helped me build enough confidence to tryout.”
Devine has also helped the new GVSU lacrosse program gain early traction and attract recognition in its infant stages.
“For our program, obviously, it’s name recognition,” Groveston said. “We have someone that plays in the World Cup that goes to Grand Valley State, which is unbelievable to myself and our coaching staff. We’re just re-ally proud of who she’s become. As she’s grown, so has our program.”
Devine to compete with Irish team for lacrosse World Championships
All season long, Wayne State University has been the cream of the crop at the top of the men’s basketball GLIAC North standings.
With two wins this week-end, Grand Valley State Uni-versity men’s basketball can take major strides in chang-ing that.
GVSU (16-7, 13-6 GLI-AC) currently sits in a tie for second in the GLIAC North along with Michigan Tech University and Ferris State University. All three teams currently sit at 13-6 in the GLIAC and trail Wayne State (15-6, 14-4 GLIAC).
The Lakers will host Wayne State on Sat-urday at 1
p.m., where the Lakers are 11-1 on their home court. But before GVSU can set their sights on Wayne State, they have to take care of their rivals Saginaw Valley State University (11-11, 9-10 GLIAC) on Thursday.
“Coming down to the end of the season, every game is magnified,” said head coach Ric Wesley. “Saginaw Valley is a team that has seemed to really have found their way here recently. They’re a tough team to matchup with. They’re small, skilled, fast and playing with a lot of confidence right now.”
Saginaw Valley State has won their last three games, in-cluding victories over Michi-gan Tech and Wayne State.
GVSU defeated Saginaw V a l - ley State 78-62 in a n earlier contest
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Freshman Ricardo Carbajal led the Lakers with 20 points and six rebounds in a game where GVSU was in total control right from the start, heading into halftime with a 37-23 advantage.
In their first matchup where Wayne State defeated GVSU 62-56, rebounding made the difference. The Lakers were out-rebounded 41-27, including 11-3 on of-fensive rebounds.
“We have to rebound bet-ter,” Wesley said. “I thought their rebounding absolutely killed us at their place. Even when we did a good job de-fensively and made them miss, we weren’t able to fin-ish the plays by securing the rebound. We got to block out better and pursue the ball better.”
The road trip to Saginaw Valley State will be the last road game for GVSU this season. The Lakers will then return home to face Wayne State on Saturday and Ferris State next Saturday to wrap up their regular season.
“I can’t wait to play Wayne,” said senior Tyrone Lee. “It’s a great opportunity for us. We’re really excited to have the chance to play them again and this time at home. It’s a great opportunity, but we’re looking at Saginaw and want to take it one game at a time.”
For the GVSU women (17-6, 13-6 GLIAC), they hope the 60-57 comeback victory against Northwood University will spur the team down the final stretch of their season. In a game that saw the Lakers down 12 points late in the game, GVSU responded by scor-ing the next 12 points in the game to draw even.
“The mentality that we
had to have throughout the entire the game, especially the last nine minutes, showed a lot of grit, determination and a lot of never give up mentality,” said head coach Janel Burgess. “I think that game was a huge momentum builder for us as we do head down these final games.”
Similar to the men, the GVSU women had no prob-lems with Saginaw Valley State
in their first meeting, handling the Cardinals 74-48.
The Laker women sit at third in the GLIAC, and trail Wayne State (17-5, 15-3). Like the men, they too hope to avenge an earlier 72-59 season loss to the Warriors.
“If we play like we’re ca-pable of, then no one can beat us,” said senior Briauna Taylor. “We just got to get it done.”
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DOUG WITTE | COURTESYGoing abroad: GVSU sophomore Victoria Devine will be playing for her home country when she competes for the Irish lacrosse World Championships.
ROBERT MATHEWS | GVLFinal countdown: Senior Tyrone Lee celebrates a basket during a recent game. The Lakers will play Saginaw and Wayne State.
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Senior Kayla Addison made a career of running past defenders.
During her four years as a starting for-ward on the GVSU women’s soccer team, Addison contributed to an 84-3-13 record and helped to bring home two national championships. She finished her run with the Lakers fourth in career goals (58), fourth in career points (142), fourth in ca-reer game-winning goals (16) and eighth in assists (26). With little left to accomplish on the pitch, Addison had no choice but to take her running to the track.
“It was my first sport. I ran it for like 10 years and then I just stopped to do college soccer,” Addison said. “Then the opportu-nity came for me to do it again so I thought it’d be a good idea to get back into it.”
A graduate of Detroit Country Day High School, Addison hadn’t competed in track since high school.
“Soccer, my arms kind of flail everywhere and I’m tenser,” Addison said. “But here they want me to have my arms straight and more relaxed and not so tense.”
Competing in the 60-meter, 200-meter and the occasional 4x400, Addison has seen improvement in every meet. Last week in the GVSU Tune-up, her strides culminated in two event victories and two NCAA Division II provisional qualifying marks which will extend her season into the GLIAC champi-onships to be held this Saturday and Sunday
at the Kelly Family Sport Center. Finishing third in the 60-meter dash
prelims, Addison out-leaned talented sophomore teammates Michaela Lewis and Brittney Banister by a few thousandths of a second in the finals with a time of 7.73 sec-onds, a personal best. She followed up the winning performance with another person-al best in the 200-meter dash, her preferred race, with a time of 25.09.
“There’s stuff that’s a little different from learning when I was younger,” Addison said. “Coach is actually a little surprised because it only took me like a month to actually look like a track runner and not like a soccer player anymore.”
Having some prior experience has cer-tainly helped the transition, but as fast as Addison has been, she’s only just begun to realize her full potential as a track athlete.
“As far as just running, she has a great stride, great gait, good power – that’s been
natural for her,” said GVSU head track and field coach Jerry Baltes. “She’s been away from the starting blocks for quite some time, so that’s something she’s getting better at ev-ery time she steps in them. That’s a huge deal
in the 60 and the 100, so if she can keep fine-tuning that aspect, she’ll drop a lot of time over the next few weeks and months.”
For more than just her speed, Addison has been a welcome addition to the team that had an already deep female sprint squad.
“She was always one of the fastest girls on the soccer field and she’s definitely a good addition to the team,” said sprints, hurdles and relay coach Keith Roberts. “She works hard, she’s a great kid. She’s helping us now, but I think in the long run she’s really going to be a huge impact to the team’s success.”
With a year of school left to complete in the College of Education, Addison’s future as a student athlete after this year is unknown.
“She’s someone that I think has a huge upside,” Baltes said. “If she does stick with it over the course of the next year, in her fifth year of school, I think she could do some great things down the road for us.”
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The Grand Valley State University rowing club wel-comed back one of its own af-ter Robbie DeWeerd returned from serving in the Middle East.
The team embraced the return of DeWeerd, a senior from Holland, Mich., this season after he spent more than nine months in Af-ghanistan working as a cor-rections officer with the U.S. Naval Academy.
GVSU head coach John Bancheri said he’s thrilled to have one of his top row-ers back.
“He’s going to make the team better,” Bancheri said. “Robbie brings an aura of positive energy that effects everyone. It was a big loss when he left. He was a team captain and one of our top guys physically.”
DeWeerd still found a way to be a leader despite being stationed halfway across the world.
He not only located a row-ing machine while overseas, but also found time on his day off to voluntarily keep up with the team’s workouts and submit his scores on a weekly basis.
“Everyone on this team has incredible dedication,” Bancheri said. “But it’s truly amazing to do the training voluntary while you’re 6,000 miles away. Every coach has
their favorite players, and they’re usually the ones who w 23% ill do whatever it takes to make the program better.”
His level of commitment and dedication inspired his teammates and they made sure his story received its due recognition.
GVSU’s top boat entered the San Diego Crew Classic without a name, so they de-
cided to honor their absent teammate by etching DeW-eerd’s name on the front of the bow with electrical tape.
“ESPN U was covering the event and they knew about Robbie,” Bancheri said. “They were really pumping us up.”
GVSU’s top boat went on to take first place in the Men’s Collegiate Varsity “A” Ameri-
can Specialty Health Cal Cup, perhaps because of DeWeerd’s ability to lead by example.
As the start of the 2013 campaign approaches, the criminal justice major says he is just happy to be home.
“It feels good to be back,” he said. “I’m mostly excited just to get back out there and compete. The (Occoquan Sprints) will be my first time back on the water racing in quite some time.”
His competitive nature and his will to win make him a major asset to the crew.
Marco Benedetti, De-Weerd’s former teammate, said this competitiveness goes hand-in-hand with his ability to lead.
“Robbie is a motivator and at the same time one of the most competitive guys on the team,” Benedetti said. “There is a lot to look for-ward to this spring if he’s in the top boat.”
With their captain back in the picture, the crew is ready to get their season started.
The Laker Navy will spend their spring break in Oak Ridge, Tenn. from March 1-10, then compete in the Occoquan Sprints, which will take place in Washington D.C. from April 6-7. After that, they will head to the 18th Annual Lubbers Cup Regatta in Spring Lake, Mich. on April 13.
DeWeerd returns from Afghanistan to lead GV rowing
dual threatAddison finds success on the track after a successful soccer career
ARCHIVE | GVLTwo-sport athlete: After four successful years on GVSU’s soccer team, Kayla Addison has joined the track team as a sprinter. She will be competing in the 60-meter, 200-meter, and occasionally the 4x400. Addison already placed first in the 60-meter dash at 7.73 seconds.
TYLER SELLMER | COURTESYReady to roll: Senior Robbie DeWeerd has returned to help guide GVSU’s rowing team.
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There are few things in life that are last-ing, a truth that seasoned Grand Valley State University men’s Division II club hockey coach Mike Forbes is well aware of.
“I’ve always told the guys and continue to preach there is nothing in sports that is permanent,” Forbes said. “Your win/loss re-cord is one thing, but just because you’re go-ing well one day doesn’t mean that’s going to continue. Things always change.”
For Chad and Brad Wilhelm, the two lead-ing goal scorers for the Lakers this season, being brothers is one of the rare constants.
Chad, the eldest Wilhelm and a junior, and Brad, a sophomore, grew up in Carmel, Ind. playing hockey together in the back-yard. Surprisingly, this season was only their second ever playing together. The dividends produced from the pairing so far have been tantalizing.
No. 22 Brad Wilhelm leads the team in goals (23), points (48) and is second in as-sists (25). Chad Wilhelm, No. 17, is second to Brad in goals scored (22), sixth in assists (15) and fourth in total points (37). That’s 45 goals (26.3 percent of the team’s total), 40 as-sists (16.6 percent) and 85 points (20.63 per-cent) contributed by the Wilhelm family.
The Lakers boast a record of 24-5-3 on the season and have secured a berth in the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHL) Division II championship slated to
begin March 15. The Wilhelm brothers have played a major role in the team’s winning equation and have made their impact felt in more than just the stat sheets.
“I would say Brad, although he’s a leader in scoring, he’s not a vocal leader in the locker room,” Forbes said. “Chad on the other hand is a lot more vocal. We look to different people and their leadership capac-ity and both of those guys lead, not only in point getting, but they are also a posi-tive influence in the locker room. That goes without saying.”
In most sports, being offensively pro-ficient can be used as an excuse to neglect defense. Forbes and the Wilhelm brothers understand that in hockey, one can’t be had without the other.
“We ask that all of our guys are respon-sible defensively and they’ve bought into that,” Forbes said. “Sometimes when you have somebody that’s gifted offensively, the biggest challenge you have is to get them to cutback and work in your own zone, and that hasn’t been an issue with either of the Wilhelm brothers.”
They may share a name, but both Chad and Brad’s playing styles are distinctly their own.
“Chad’s got a really good shot, he can put it on net really well,” Brad said. “I’m much more of a passer, much more of a finesse player. I think together we bring a lot of speed and athletic ability.”
The roles between the brothers are also uniquely established.
“I mean, of course big brother’s always going to stand up (for) little brother,” Chad
said. “Whenever I see him get hit, I’m the first one to yell at the refs. We always try to help each other out. That’s a big part of being brothers, right?”
To balance point disparity and to main-tain balance, Chad and Brad generally skate on separate lines with players that best com-pliment their individual skill-sets. They have enjoyed using their competitive efforts as teammates for a change, instead of against each other, and could continue do so for at least another year.
For their chemistry, talents and the broth-erhood they put on display, coach Forbes couldn’t be more pleased.
“We’re lucky to have them,” Forbes said. “They’ve been consistent offensive perform-ers the last two years and they’ve both elevat-ed their game this year. We’re also fortunate in that we have that kind of camaraderie not only with those brothers, but with other guys in the room. We’ve got a pretty tight-knit group.”
Brotherly loveWilhelm brothers set the tone for GV hockey
After completing a season with a class that included six graduating seniors, who were the centerpiece for two national championships (2009, 2010) and four final four ap-pearances (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012), the Grand Valley State women’s soccer program hopes their newest class can build a similar legacy.
GVSU’s 2013 recruiting class includes eight newcomers, featur-ing four all-state athletes.
“This class has been on campus together numerous times,” said head coach David Dilanni. “They seem like a tight knit group. All of these girls truly love the game. That’s re-ally the key to being successful.”
Unlike in years past, every athlete in the 2013 class prepped
in the state of Michigan. This has subsequently resulted in several of the incoming freshmen having al-ready played together throughout high school.
“We have had all Michigan kids I think two classes in a row now,” said assistant coach Erica Demers. “It’s reassuring to know that these kids have already created a bond with each other before they even
step foot on campus.”Clare Carlson and Marti Cor-
by played together at Forest Hills Central High School, while Alexis Mencotti, Emily Bush and Gabbie Guibord played together at North-ville High School. Many of the girls have also played club soccer together for the past four years.
“Playing together in club and high school can be a good and also a bad thing,” Dilanni said. “The chemistry is already there, so there’s an easiness with the transi-tion, but that could also be a bad thing because you don’t want them to get too relaxed.”
GVSU had to deal with the task of replacing the NCAA Divi-sion II all-time shutout leader and three-time All-American Chel-sea Parise. To lighten the blow of Parise’s departure, Dilani and the Laker coaching staff have brought in Jessie Bultsma, goalkeeper from Grand Rapids Christian High School.
“If you look back on it, Parise had to follow an outstanding goal-keeper as well,” Demers said. “Of course, no one is going to be able to do the things that Chelsea did right away, but we have a couple more-than-capable girls at that position. It should be interesting to see who makes the biggest im-provements throughout the spring and summer.”
Making the transition from high school to college athletics can be hard for some. Hopefully for GVSU, the chemistry built be-
tween some of the incoming fresh-men during high school will trans-fer over when they first walk on the field as Lakers in August.
“The familiarity that every-one in this class already has with each other is something that we have not had in my tenure here at Grand Valley,” Dilanni said. “The chemistry that they have built in those years playing with each other should help the transition in the fall.”
Erika Bradfield (Rockford, Mich.) and Michelle Foote (Low-ell, Mich.) round out the recruiting class for GVSU. The current roster of Lakers anticipates their arrival.
“We graduated a great class,” said freshman Katie Klunder. “We are really excited to see this incoming class join us this upcoming fall.”
Soccer inks eight new recruits for 2013
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BY tate BaKer GVL staff writer
Bo aNDerSoN | GVLteam leader: sophomore Brad wilhelm advances the puck up the ice. wilhelm leads the Lakers with 23 goals and 25 assists on the season. wilhelm’s brother Chad has 22 goals on the year.
arCHIVe | GVLMichigan grown: Head coach David Dilanni has aimed to recruit within the state of Michigan to help continue the Lakers success. the recruits for the coming year will include four all-state athletes and eight total athletes.
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Ensemble Caprice specializes in inter-preting Baroque music.
Renowned by The New York Times as “a group that encourages listeners to rehear the world,” the Montreal-based Ensemble Caprice will be making their Grand Valley State University debut Feb. 27 as a part of the Arts at Noon series.
“Players put the soul into the music,” said Matthias Maute, one of the group’s artistic directors, who also plays Baroque flute and recorder. “These are pieces that need salt and pepper.”
Gregory Crowell, a GVSU associate pro-fessor of music, specializes in Baroque mu-sic and is familiar with the group’s work.
“Ensemble Caprice is made up of some of the top performers of this music in the world,” Crowell said. “The recorder player Matthias Maute is considered one of the most exciting and virtuosic performers on the instrument in modern times.”
Crowell said the GVSU performance is a
good way for students to be introduced to Baroque culture.
“Students who attend the performance by Ensemble Caprice at GVSU will be de-lighted by the energy and excitement of their playing, and will sense that this mu-sic, which some might describe as old, still has deep cultural relevance today,” Crowell said. “The ensemble will really bring this music to life.”
Their program, “Salsa Baroque,” features compositions that combine European po-lyphony and Latin American traditional music, which includes pieces by Bolivian composer Juan de Araujou and sonatas by Pietro Locatelli and Andrea Falconieri.
“Many classical players take the score as it is and reconstruct something as close as possible to what it might have been,” Maute said. “With Baroque music, the score serves as the framework. We add our own orna-mentation and elaboration.”
Scores dating from the Baroque era of approximately 1600-1750 feature many shorthand notation symbols in the bass
line, called “basso continuo.” These symbols provide musicians of chord-playing instru-ments with the harmonic structure, but do not specifically instruct in chord spacing, voice doubling or part leading.
“It is an artistic decision made on the spot,” Maute said.
As one of the artistic directors, Maute arranges pieces for their performances. In keeping with Baroque instrumentation, he tailors certain scores to include Baroque instruments, such as the recorders and Ba-roque flutes that play in the ensemble.
“I arrange whatever we need for our in-struments,” Maute said. “(The players) add their own ornamentation. We are always finding ways to make the music sound new to ourselves.”
The group released a two-disc CD last September, on which they explore the works of J.S. Bach and Dmitri Shostakovich. Shos-takovich, a composer active during the 20th century, wrote a lot of music inspired by Bach, and in recognizing this, Maute ar-ranged several of Shostakovich’s preludes
and one fugue to be played by a Baroque orchestra.
“It was an exciting dialogue between two composers who never met each other,” Maute said. “(Shostakovich’s) music perfect-ly matches the phrasings of (Bach’s) music.”
The concert programs, put together by Maute and artistic director Sophie Larivière depend upon the group’s touring sched-ule. While the ensemble frequently tours throughout Canada and the U.S., they are also regularly invited to perform in music festivals across Europe.
Next year, they will tour Germany with 22 musicians. Traveling influences a lot of their musical choices for practical reasons.
“You can’t take a harpsichord with you,” Maute said. “The Baroque guitar, for exam-ple, travels better.”
While the program accounts for travel-ing, it also encompasses a representative, ar-tistic idea that features a theme interpreted by the music they perform.
“There is nothing we’re not doing,” Maute said. “We try to cover as much musical field as possible.”
Because of the Baroque scores, every per-formance by Ensemble Caprice is something new. Maute said that they are constantly faced with a challenge of coming up with creative ideas.
“Something must happen between the beginning and end of the performance that I am a different person at the end,” Maute said. “The audience embarks on that same journey. Music is more than entertainment. It must be a journey with one’s self.”
After their GVSU performance, the en-semble will be performing in Grand Rapids at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on March 3 at 5 p.m. The concert, “La Follia,” explores the influences of the Romani people, or “Gyp-sies,” in Baroque music.
“I particularly admire the way Ensemble Caprice delves into the rich cultural influ-ences on this music,” Crowell said. “Influ-ences that give the music another level of expressivity and excitement.”
The GVSU performance is free and be-gins at noon in the Cook-DeWitt Center. For more information on Ensemble Caprice, go to www.ensemblecaprice.com.
Ensemble Caprice rethinks Baroque music for modern times
after applying for a di-recting position with the Performance
Studio Series, Grand Valley State University senior, Jason Flannery, wanted to choose a script that had meaning.
“I had been tossing around a lot of scripts and the one I initially applied for was a lot more con-troversial, actually… But I was really just searching for something I felt I could relate to,” Flannery said. “And going over everything I could find, this seemed like a script that wasn’t just something I was pulling out of my repertoire.”
He ended up with “The Shape of Things,” a play by Neil LaBute, which focuses on themes of love, intimacy and the lengths people will go to for them both. The somewhat controversial script is marketed toward “mature audiences only” for scenes about sex and the use of adult language.
Senior Macey Madias plays Evelyn Ann Thomp-son, an art student who catches the eye of Adam Sorenson, played by GVSU freshman Justin Mackey, and leads him down a twist-ing path of love.
Because the script is so blunt, Madias said it’s very easy to relate to.
“(LaBute) doesn’t sugar coat anything, its very real,” Madias said. “It’s swearing and sex and more swearing, and that’s how people are everyday.”
WORKING OVERTIMEWith the exception of
GVSU theatre professor, Roger Ellis who is doubling as the play’s faculty advi-sor, along with a few col-laborations with the Louis Armstrong Theatre staff, the
performance has been com-pletely student-produced and directed. Although Flannery has acted in sev-eral PS Series shows, and has directed smaller one-act plays, he found out quickly just how much work actual-ly goes into putting together a full-production.
“I had general sense of the process, but one thing about pretty much anything involving theatre, you real-ly can’t have a good sense of it until you actually do it,” he said.
His process started last semester with choosing the script and buying the royal-ties, which didn’t take a lot of his time. But since Janu-ary, the cast has been re-hearsing almost everyday for several hours to pull the show together.
“It started off kind of choppy,” Mackey said. “We started off trying to find rehearsal space, actually because there were other shows going on, so it was a little tough to find some places to actually sit down and go through the script. But once we got rolling it was really easy and we were able to flow through things and working with each oth-er just became a lot easier. And now tech week is here and its like we’ve been ready for a while.”
Working with all stu-dents was a different ex-perience for the cast, but Madias said it gave them a chance to get to know themselves and their char-acters better.
“It’s been a different ex-perience, definitely,” she said. “We’ve definitely had a lot more creative freedom to really recreate ourselves as our characters.”
Mackey said working with Flannery, as a student director has helped every-
one become closer and bet-ter collaborate.
“With students, they
know exactly how to tackle another student because
they’re, you know, they’re students themselves,” Mack-ey said. “It’s really kind of just, kind of collaborating with friends more than, like a director instructing you to do something. Its more of a give-and-take, like you’ll make suggestions to your director and then they can help you out and they’ll tell you if what you think is right or if you have some good ideas. Its kind of I guess, easier to relate to a student director and to really kind of connect with them and do what they want you to do because in a way your ex-actly like them. Or hoping to be like them, anyway.”
HIGH HOPESFlannery hopes that au-
diences will at least get a laugh out of their perfor-mance, even if they don’t like the script.
“Hopefully they can expect to see something meaningful and realistic,” Flannery said. “The plot it-self might be a scootch out there… They’ll be surprised by what they see. If anything I can guarantee that they’ll be able to laugh.”
Mackey said the show will most likely be met with mixed reviews, but he’s not worried about it.
“I know it’s hopefully go-ing to cause some questions, raise some serious questions and some concerns, you know there might be some people who don’t agree with some of the things in the
script,” he said. “It will be really interesting to see how people view the content of the show and the script be-cause it can be, uh a little bit questionable, but I’m confi-dent the audiences will like it. I’m sure they will.”
“The Shape of Things” opens Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Louis Armstrong Theatre, with following performances Feb. 23 at 2 and 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 24 at 2 p.m. Tickets can be pur-chased by calling the Box Office at (616) 331-2300 and are $6 in advance or $7 the day of the show. For more information on the PS Series shows, go to www.gvsu.edu/theatre.
FOR MATURE Students get controversial with Performance Studio Series play
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Stephanie allen | GVLputting in the work: senior Macey Madias and freshman Justin Mackey rehearse for the student run play “the shape of things.” the play is mostly student run with only help from an advisor and revolves around sex and adult language.
rOBert SOrtOn | CoUrtesYall their own: the ensemble Caprice will bring its unique interpretation of Baroque music before they begin to tour Germany with 22 musicians.
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Close your eyes and think of one idea. Let the pen glide across the lined paper. Let your mind un-ravel and just write. The story could be a personal narrative or a magical tale, but the key to writ-ing award-winning fiction like Bill Osborn comes from both of these types of writing.
A world between real life and the imagination is how Osborn, an author and Grand Valley State Univer-sity’s English department chair, describes fiction. And with that magical mixture, he wrote “Seven Tales and Seven Stories,” which re-cently earned him his latest award, the 2013 Unboxed Books Prize in Fiction.
He got the message while sitting in a Washing-ton airport.
“I was in the Seattle air-port and it was midnight...
and there was a message on my phone which said Un-boxed Books wanted to talk,” Osborn said. “And so even the reception of the news, which I didn’t receive offi-cial until I got back to Grand Rapids, felt dislocated – in a word strange.”
Osborn was surprised by the award and “felt almost astonished.”
“Now it is two weeks later, I feel struck by luck,” Osborn said. “But I also see this recognition, sort of in concert with the recognition of other members of the fac-ulty have received, all across the university.”
Completing the 14 sto-ries in “Seven Tales and Seven Stories” took a lot of work, but Osborn enjoyed it. It took him years before submitting the book to Un-boxed Books. He would spend hours each day writ-ing, editing and revising.
Each story draws from el-ements of his life mixed with
an imaginative world. “As ‘Seven Tales and Sev-
en Stories’ suggests a distinc-tion between stories, which show characters in a world that we would recognize as real world,” Osborn said. “Then on the other hand, pieces that call attention (to the) artisan of fiction be-cause they are construction
on elements that could be considered unlikely in the real world.”
Although writing fiction can be a lot of work, Osborn encourages young writers to continue.
“I would advise them to try things that they have seen before in other peo-ple’s writings,” Osborn said.
“Take up ideas that...seem nearly impossible and try to write their way through it.”
His love and interest in fiction drives him forward and keeps him going as a writer, Osborn said.
“One of the things about writing fiction that I like is that it actually lets me enter a different place,” Osborn
said. “It feels like being in a different place where I get to make up some of the rules and see what those rules lead to for a character in the story. It’s like having your feet in two different worlds: the real world and the fic-tive world.”
‘Seven Tales and Seven Stories’ takes home 2013 Unboxed Book Prize in fiction
For five Grand Valley State Uni-versity music students, their Feb. 25 lessons will be a little different than normal class.
The Double Reed Master Class, led by Robert Sorton on oboe and Emily Patronik on bassoon, will be in the Cook-Dewitt Cen-ter from 9-11 a.m., in front of an open audience.
Sorton, an associate professor of music at Ohio State Universi-ty, will teach the three oboe stu-dents, while Patronik, a doctoral student at OSU, teaches two bas-soon students.
“What the class will basically be about is, there’s gonna be cer-tain oboe players and bassoon players that are gonna be present-ing pieces that they’ve worked on and they’re going to be playing it for us,” Sorton said. “And then we’re gonna basically give them
a critique of what’s going on, and so that’ll basically be the way the master class is.”
While Sorton and Patronik will critique the students’ work, they will also give feedback from a pro-fessional point-of-view after the students perform.
“We’ll talk about basic stuff also, not just what they play, but there will be a lot of general in-formation that comes from that, also,” Sorton said. “It’s one of those things where it kind of has a life of its own depending on the level of the students that are playing, the information that they need and things like that. So you know, not every master class is the same, it all depends on the students that are there.”
He hopes that students leave the class with more informa-tion on their pieces and a better understanding of their instru-ments, including issues they
might have had with tonguing or embouchure.
Because anyone can attend the master class, non-music students
will be able to see what it’s like to play an instrument.
“For non-musicians attending the class, it’ll probably be kind of cool for them to just see,” Pa-tronik said. “Like, I mean, they’ll learn some basic things about the instruments. Just kind of hear how they sound, and kind of what if they were interested in playing the instruments, what they’d be getting into when they got a little bit more advanced.”
In addition to the master class, the two will perform along with Sorton’s wife, Bailey, and Stephanie Kunz, a doctorate student at OSU. The “Guest Artist Series: OBO-HIO, The Double Reed Consort” is a free performance Feb. 24 from 2-3:30 p.m., also in the Cook-De-witt Center.
Together, the Sortons co-found-ed OBOHIO in 1990, a double reed consort that features Sorton on oboe, Bailey on oboe d’amore,
Patronik on bassoon and Kunz on English horn.
The group’s unique instru-ment makeup helps set them apart from others and is “what makes us a little more, like, more special in a sense, we use one of the members of the oboe family that people don’t use, which is the oboe d’amore,” Sorton said.
And OBOHIO has worked well together during the more than twenty years.
“It’s been a fun group, we’ve had a great combination of peo-ple that enjoy working together and that’s really a delight,” Bai-ley said. “I mean sometimes you know you get with a group and there’s somebody who you don’t get along with, we’ve never had that problem.”
For more information on the master class or the concert, go to www.gvsu.edu/music
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MATTHiAS MAUTE | COURTESYpitch perfect: Members of the Double Reed Master Class ranging from faculty to students practice before an upcoming performance.
Bo AndERSon | GVLA life of fiction: English department chair Bill Osborn has been awarded the Unboxed Books Prize for his fiction collection.
Professor wins Unboxed Book award for stories
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