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Students pitch ideas, earn money
About 40 people gath-ered Monday to hear stu-dents pitch business models and products at Grand Val-ley State University’s ninth annual Idea Pitch Compe-tition, which is sponsored by the Collegiate Entrepre-neurs’ Organization.
Ideas presented at the competition ranged from a product that would allow moviegoers to better satu-rate their popcorn with but-ter to a smart refrigerator that would allow tech-savvy homeowners to automati-cally sync their refrigerators to their Apple products.
But the win-ning idea came from two me-chanical engineer-ing seniors, earn-ing them a grand total of $1,000.
Jake Dyk-stra and Matt Freundl drew on their experi-ence as welders to develop an idea to cre-ate a piece of technology that would make it easier for welders to see measure-ments needed to do their job well. The technology would be inserted into masks that welders already owned.
“While a welder is work-ing, they can’t easily look at the measurements they need to because of the masks they wear,” Dykstra said. “They often have to stop what they’re working on.”
Freundl, the more in-experienced welder of the pair, was the one who came up with the idea. “I was thinking I wanted to im-prove something I do on a regular basis,” Freundl said.
The duo is planning to use the prize money to com-plete a perfectly working prototype and launch their idea into the marketplace.
Altogether, the competition gave away more than $2,000,
which was furnished by the CEO club.
“We want to spread the message of entrepreneur-ship,” said Michael Kurley, communications officer of CEO. “We want to get stu-dents excited about building new businesses, trying new things and taking risks.”
Contestants were first di-vided into 28 teams consist-ing of one or two students, then had 90 seconds to pres-ent their ideas to a panel of five judges without using props or visual aids.
The teams were then split into two major pools of stu-dents, with five smaller groups within each pool. After the smaller groups presented,
contestants were asked to stay on stage for a ques-tion and answer section with the judges.
“The win-ning idea doesn’t necessarily have to be feasible,” Kurley said. “The main thing is whether or not the presenter has
the ability to get their idea across.”
The judges, who were lo-cal business professionals and entrepreneurs, based their decisions on the over-all persuasiveness, quality and concision of the presen-tations.
After the two pools pre-sented their ideas, judges chose the top six contes-tants, among whom was Jus-tin Herd. Herd received $750 for his second place idea of the “only bowl a college stu-dent would ever need.”
His product was a micro-waveable-safe, single-serv-ing bowl that would more efficiently make ramen, macaroni, spaghetti and other noodle-based foods. On the bottom of the bowl would be holes that, when uncovered, could be used to strain noodles.
Idea Pitch competition encourages creativityBY ERIN [email protected]
MATT FREUNDLGVSU STUDENT
I wanted to improve something I do...
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GVSU seeks to improve reli-gious inclusionAs Grand Valley State University continues to diversify, religious affiliations and opportunities for students to explore, observe and celebrate such faiths become more important on campus.According to the 2011 myGVSU survey, about 67 percent of the 7,300 student re-spondents were affiliated with a Christian denomination.Agnostics, atheists or students affiliated with no denomination made up about 21 percent of respondents, while students who identified with non-Christian reli-gions made up about 10 percent.“Overall, Grand Valley has a great representation of all religious groups; however, our institutional practices are not so inclusive,” said Anthony Clemons, vice president of the Student Senate’s Diversity Affairs Committee. “We are currently very Judeo-Christian in nature. We have plenty of prayer space for those religions, and often our invocations are reminiscent of the Christian Bible, which
tend to not be as inclusive as we would hope.”Clemons is coordinating discussions on the issue of religious inclusion on campus with the senate’s Diversity Affairs Committee and is continuing to research the most efficient ways to help GVSU become more reli-giously and spiritually inclusive. With the research collected and through meetings with university members, Clemons and the committee hope to contribute in a direct manner to the formation of varied religious oppor-tunity.“We are looking at possibly recommend-ing to the university the creation of an Interfaith Institute similar to the Office of Multicultural Affairs and LGBT Re-source Center,” Clemons said. “We are also looking at current prayer space and if it is possible to expand those spaces to be more inclusive and more institution-ally intentional on where those spaces are.”There are currently a number of differ-ent faith-based student organizations on campus. Although GVSU does have many opportunities for students to get
involved with religiously-affiliated orga-nizations, the space to hold such events is hard to come by.“Some of our students seek a quiet place to pray, meditate or reflect,” said Dwight Hamilton, assistant vice presi-dent for Affirmative Action. “Appro-priate space is scarce on campus, so that’s one challenge. Another frequent problem occurs when significant cam-pus events are scheduled on religious holidays. As a public university, we do ask that planners are aware of potential conflicts so that they can be avoided when possible in the spirit of inclu-sion.”The Division of Inclusion and Equity is also a resource for students seeking as-sistance with getting reasonable accom-modations for the everyday observance of their faiths or when activities conflict with classroom obligations.Although the idea of creating an equal-opportunity approach to reli-gion is what GVSU strives for, it is not so much an issue of providing for religions on campus as it is to foster an environment that is inclusive for students to practice their faiths, as
Gaining faith on campusBY HANNAH [email protected]
Fix it: Jonathan Haidt speaks at the Eberhard Center about problems in government.
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A recent survey by Public Policy Polling found that 86 percent of Americans disapprove of
Congress. In fact, voters had a high-er opinion of jury duty, witches and hemorrhoids than their lawmakers in Congress.
“Why does it feel like in America we have run out of road?” said Jona-than Haidt, a social psychologist and professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. “Like we are going off a cliff?”
Haidt said the blame falls on the nationwide polarization between Democrats and Republicans.
“Liberals see conservatives as cruel, callous enablers of corporate exploitation,” Haidt said. “Conversely, social conservatives see liberals as na-ïve bleeding hearts who will trample on fairness and proportionality in or-
der to achieve equality.”More than 300 community mem-
bers gathered Tuesday on Grand Val-ley State University’s Pew Campus to listen to Haidt’s discussion, which was part of the Hauenstein Center’s series, “American Conversations.” The talk was centered on his book, “The Righ-teous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.”
“Our goal is not to turn Demo-crats into Republicans or Republicans into Democrats. That’s not going to happen,” said Gleaves Whitney, di-rector of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies. “But it is to pre-pare a new generation of leaders to deal effectively with diverse ideas and cultures.”
This problem of polarization isn’t limited to Congress, Haidt said. As a nation, Americans have rapidly fol-
Psychologist talks politicsBY CARLY [email protected]
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Innovating inspiration: Junior Kristen King presents her idea to judges at the 2013 Idea Pitch Competition.
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When 125 prospective students from freshmen orientation did not register for classes this fall, Grand Valley State University Associate Vice President Joe
Godwin recognized a financial problem: that is, a loss of about $1.25 million for the university.
“Those entering freshmen bring us some $40 million in tuition revenue, another $30 million in housing revenue, and that’s before we get to all the other stuff they spend money on here,” Godwin said. “It’s not a trivial amount of money.”
This issue inspired the Provost’s Office to conduct a
series of meetings this week to solicit professors’ opinions on enrollment and budget planning. The meetings were driven by a concern for university revenue, which declines proportionally with retention.
“There is a link between enrollment and our ability to plan budgets, and just to try to fit that together a little bit, we get money from primarily two places: one is tuition, which is enrollment times tuition rate, plus state appropriations,” Godwin said. “We’re really dependent on tuition. Over 80 percent of our budget is tuition. The rest is state appropriations.”
Godwin said the number of new students has been increasing while retention has declined. “Retention becomes really important for us for budget purposes,” he said. “We
either need to retain them, or we need to bring in new students to continue (to make up) a significant part of our budget from year to year.”
And retention no longer means “freshmen to sophomores”—it starts with orientation before freshman year.
While the reasons for pre-term withdrawal are unknown, Godwin speculated that students might be discouraged if they are not able to get the classes they need. For this fall semester, lower division courses were, on average, 94 percent full.
Godwin said one problem being monitored is that classes tend to fill before the last few days of orientation, leaving
Retention rates pose financial problemGV administrators seek solutions from professors to encourage students to come back
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GV analyzes religious demographic of students, seeks to expand inclusion
lowed suit. Gone are the days of the centrist; now there are liberals on one side and conservatives on the other.
“They don’t talk to each other. They don’t know each other,” Haidt said. “Ameri-cans used to live near peo-ple who were politically different from one another, but not so much anymore. Now we have the separate regions of the country—the red and the blue. You take this really complicated machine and you open this plug and say no more mo-tor oil, no more lubricant, no more personal relation-ships. All the oil drains out; the machine seizes up, and that’s where we are.”
The solution, Haidt and Whitney agreed, is to start at the local level.
“Maybe we begin to cultivate our own garden,” Whitney said. “Let’s start with common ground in our families, in our neigh-borhoods and in our com-munities. Maybe we can achieve real results because we have so much in com-mon when we look at peo-ple near to us. I think we can find, in our own sphere of influence, the opportuni-ty to exercise the principle of compromise.”
Haidt grew up in a lib-eral town, went to a liberal university and is now an academic, which is often considered one of the most liberal professions.
“I never really encoun-tered conservative ideas until I just took a book off the shelf at the age of 40,” he said. “Conserva-tism, as I was growing up, was sort of this bad thing that bad people did. Now that I’ve really tried to un-derstand all sides, I think, ‘Why on earth wasn’t I told about this in high school? Why don’t we have teach-ers who come in front of the class, who are different from each other, but re-spect each other and even joke about it? Wouldn’t that take some of the poison out of it? Wouldn’t that make it seem like it was okay to talk about this stuff without hat-ing each other?’”
The answer is yes, Haidt said, and changes need to be made now.
“The present situation is not something that hap-pened in the last couple of years,” he said. “It’s gotten a lot worse, but it’s been building for a long time. What’s happening to us is a set of complicated pro-cesses that have been play-ing out over about three to five decades. Some of it we can’t reverse, but some of it we can.”
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KCON professor uses virtual reality for studyAn associate professor from Grand Valley State University’s Kirkhof College of Nursing is studying how people with Al-zheimer’s disease find their way to a destination. Rebecca Davis and her team are using a virtual reality simulation of a retirement home, a computer program designed by the Uni-versity of Michigan Virtual 3D Lab. Subjects in the study put on glasses and move a joystick to guide their way through a long hallway. The glasses track where the eyes look so that Davis can collect data on whether colorful cues on the wall are helpful during navigation. Research is being done with the help of a $316,000 grant Davis earned from the National Institutes of Health.
Lecture honors student leadershipRegistration is now open for Grand Valley State University’s biannual Venderbush Leadership Lecture, which will be host-ed at 2 p.m. on Nov. 4 in the Pere Marquette room of the Kirk-hof Center. GVSU alumnus Selma Tucker will be the keynote speaker for the event that will honor student leaders. The Student Organization Center will present its Immediate Im-pact Award, and members of Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honorary will also be recognized. Students can register to attend by Nov. 1 at gvsu.edu/leadership.
GVSU marching band, campus recreation create exercise programThis past summer, fitness technicians from Grand Valley State University’s Campus Recreation began working with section leaders of the GVSU marching band to create new warm-up exercises to prevent injuries to band members. Student fitness experts were given one section of the band to work with to create routines for that specific section. Ex-ercise routines were created based on the number of people in each section, the weight of the instruments and how they are carried, as well as past stretching/exercising efforts. John Martin, marching band director, said that the routines have already made improvements in the way band mem-bers prepare for practice and games.
KCON student uses dissertation to lower high-risk pregnancies in Muskegon areaGrand Valley State University nursing student Cindy Betterly is leading a project to help decrease the number of low birth weight and preterm babies in the Muskegon area. As part of her dissertation, Betterly works with the Muskegon Area Pregnancy Pathways program to find ways to increase the health literacy of women who participate in the program. Betterly helps the clients better understand what health care resources are available and how to use them. She also uses a tool called “Ask Me 3,” that encourages patients to come up with at least three questions to ask their health care pro-vider about before the appointment. Betterly believes that increasing knowledge will help lower the amount of high-risk pregnancies in the area.
The third place winners, Autumn Modena and Jenna Petersen, received $500 for their idea presentation of Refutea—a tea shop that would work with local agen-cies to employ refugees from other countries who cur-rently live in Grand Rapids.
“We hope to reduce, if not completely relieve, the refugees’ dependence on the government,” Modena said.
Also making the final
six was Alex Wells, who presented a bike storage system that would be eas-ier and less clunky than current sys-tems.
“It would allow people to move their bike off the ground and out of the way without having to lift it themselves,” Wells said.
Participants are welcome to present a separate idea in
future Idea Pitch Competi-tions, but they may not pitch the same idea twice.
P r e s i d e n t of CEO Miles Smith encour-aged partici-pants to pur-sue their ideas even if they did not win the competi-tion.
“You never know what could happen,” he said.
IDEACONTINUED FROM A1
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...get students excited about building new businesses...
Under pressure: Judge Zoe Charmichael asks the participants questions about their proposals at the Idea Pitch Competition, where students presented their inventions.
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E ngineering students at Grand Valley State University passionate about the art and science of brewing beer have
created an outlet for their interests with the new student organization Humulus Lupu-lus: Brewing Science and Technology Club.
Though the club isn’t allowed to brew on campus, members meet bimonthly to have discussions about the science behind brewing beer.
“The club was established to explore the science of brewing and the technology in-volved both on a fundamental and detailed level,” said Joe Gibson, co-founder and president of Humulus Lupulus.
According to the group’s OrgSync page, the club will discuss a number of topics throughout the semester, includ-ing recipe design, how to maintain and sanitize equipment, bottling and keg-ging, beer styles, home-brewer garden-ing, hop strains, grain production and yeast culturing.
The name of the organization is unique, but Gibson said it’s perfect for a club about brewing.
“Humulus Lupulus is the scientific name for the plant commonly known as hops,” he said, which is a plant used in the beer brewing process. “Thus, we thought it was appropriate to use as our club name.”
Gibson and another GVSU engineering
student, Jesse Millwood, came up with the idea to create the brew club after realizing that they knew how to brew beer, but not the chemistry behind it.
“You could give us a stout and we could taste it and say, ‘Is this a stout?’” Millwood said. “But we didn’t know why it was a stout from a deeper brewing perspective.”
Though Humulus Lupulus is not a beer drinking or beer producing club, members must still be over 21 to join. The group is currently more than 15 members strong, including students and a few faculty mem-bers who attended the first meeting.
With the help of GVSU faculty mem-bers Todd Carlson and Richard Lord, both from the chemistry department, the club is able to discuss in depth the science that goes into brewing.
“We have been fortunate enough to have Dr. Lord and Dr. Carlson express interest, attend our first meeting and help out a lot with the content of the meetings and future ideas,” Millwood said.
The club is planning to take trips to tour some of the many different breweries in the West Michigan area to learn from practitioners in the field. In addition to the two GVSU faculty members, Gibson said the group also plans to have more experts attend and speak at the weekly meetings.
“This semester, we are hosting John Stewart and Bryan Bastow of Perrin Brew-ery, who are talking on many subjects
A ccording to the Bu-reau of Labor Statis-tics website, careers
in student affairs are expect-ed to grow 19 percent from 2010 to 2020 because of in-creased enrollment in those programs coupled with a growing need for adminis-
trators in higher education.At Grand Valley State
University, Lindsay Greyer-biehl, a graduate assistant in the Dean of Students Of-fice, is in her second-year in the College Student Affairs Leadership program.
“The CSAL curriculum prepares students for pro-fessional positions in insti-
tutions of higher education in a variety of areas, such as admissions, housing, stu-dent life, academic advising, recreation, financial aid, mi-nority affairs, careers servic-es and international affairs,” Greyerbiehl said.
The student affairs pro-gram is a 42-credit master’s degree in education with an
emphasis in College Student Affairs Leadership. Students are required to complete re-search, a thesis and disserta-tion, two practicums, and an internship to graduate.
Aaron Haight, direc-tor of Judicial and Special Programs at GVSU’s Dean of Students Office, coordi-nates the CSAL graduate
assistant program. She said the program was created in the early 1990s to help pre-pare students who are go-ing into student affairs for higher education, and she added that the “program has grown a lot over the years”—with about 60 stu-dents currently enrolled.
Haight said the job mar-
ket looks good for students graduating with the degree, as 90 percent of last year’s graduates were employed in a CSAL career somewhere across the nation.
“In this economy, people see more of an interest of go-ing into higher education,” Haight said.
New student organization talks brewing at GV
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Interconnected: Allendale Township Supervisor Jerry Alkema speaks during a previous township meeting. Grand Valley State University students will have more food options in the community with a new Tim Hortons and Taco Bell.
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Allendale Township has several new and soon-to-come businesses to appeal to the Grand Valley State University community. With these and other proj-ects being planned and c o n s t r u c t e d , students will have increased options to choose from near campus for goods, ser-vices and enter-tainment.
“(GVSU) af-fects the busi-ness climate, how businesses put their num-bers together, and their ability to market services and goods,” said Jerry Alkema, Allendale Township supervisor.
Alkema said that among the businesses taking ad-vantage of the dense cam-pus community are a Tim Hortons, which recently came to the area, and a Taco Bell that will also be opened soon. Other proj-ects in Allendale Township include an animal hospital and the construction of new housing near campus.
For the foreseeable fu-ture, Alkema said he is working on plans with Otta-
wa County Parks and Recre-ation to create walking trails along the Grand River.
“We are always looking to explore new things,” he said.
While plenty of con-crete changes are occur-ring in the township, new laws or ordinances that could affect GVSU stu-
dents have not been passed in a long time, Alkema said. However, the township con-tinues to offer g o v e r n m e n t services that may benefit those rooted in the area, in-cluding pass-port applica-
tions and voter registration at the township hall.
Overall, the GVSU community and Allendale Township are deeply con-nected to one another, Al-kema said, adding that the community is bouncing back from the economic recession and is recovering with the help of demand created by GVSU students for goods and services near campus.
“Allendale and Grand Valley have a great rela-tionship, and I’m looking forward to it continuing,” he said.
Allendale adds Tim Hortons, Taco Bell to menuBY SARAH [email protected]
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including barrel aging, and Doug Dorda from Siciliano’s, who will be talking about sani-tation,” Gibson said. “We will also be hosting a speaker to talk on ciders for our last meeting.”
Another goal of the club is to familiarize members with basic concepts of the Cicerone Certification Program. Accord-ing to the website, the recently created program offers individu-als international certification of expertise in beer storage, styles, pairings with food and much more. Members of the club be-coming certified will have the ability to successfully compete in brewing competitions and even pursue it on a professional level.
Meetings for the club take place every other Thursday at 7 p.m., alternating between the Al-lendale Campus and the Pew Cam-pus. The group will meet today in 330 Kennedy Hall of Engineering on the Pew Campus, and in two weeks, it will be in 106 Padnos Hall of Science.
Students interested in learning about the club or the technology behind brew-ing beer can find more information by searching “brew” on OrgSync.
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T hey’re all awfully different from each other, I thought, looking
around. The Distinguished Alumni-in-Residence were gathered at the Alumni House for a luncheon, during which they would share how their experiences at GVSU prepared them for success in their fields. Some of them were pursuing careers in art or music, while others had gone into management or teaching, and they ranged in age from a little older than me to a little younger than my dad. But despite getting degrees in diverse areas of study—there were representatives from Chemistry to Philosophy, Studio Art to Physical
Education—the alumni had all followed similar practices while students at GVSU. Those five best practices were:
1.Apply for undergraduate research projects. Many of the alumni had been recipients of the Student Summer Scholars (S3) grant, which provides a stipend for students to pursue individual research with a faculty mentor during the summer. This is a way to achieve something noteworthy in your field of study, and it translates really well into future accomplishments. For example, Matthew Breen, the alumni from the AWRI, did his S3 project on gear selectivity of fish in fyke nets. He was then published and has since become a project leader for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.
2.Travel abroad. According to Craig Reynolds, the alumni from the Philosophy Department, traveling abroad (especially studying abroad) allows you to appreciate the culture of your home country while providing the understanding that your culture may not know everything. See the Padnos International Center if you’re interested in studying abroad.
3.Apply for scholarships and awards in your department. Go to your major’s website and click on the “Scholarships” tab. This will provide a list of department or community scholarships that you can apply for. Also be on the lookout for competitions that you can participate in. Hunter Eberly, the current Principal Trumpet
for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, won first place in multiple competitions while majoring in Music at GVSU.
4.Be involved in groups associated with your major. Honors societies, mentoring groups, and clubs provide ways for you to get to know your classmates and develop personal relationships with them (so you no longer refer to them as “that guy who sits in front of me with the earring”). They also keep you honest. If you’re in a major that requires production (like the arts or Writing), groups like these can offer inspiration and accountability to keep you on track.
5.Connect with faculty outside of the classroom. Out
of all of the commonalities between the alumni, this was the strongest. Ty Ham (Classics) spoke movingly about the unfailing supportive and nurturing environment that GVSU promotes for students. Jordan Moon (Physical Education) wanted students to know that professors are real people and their titles shouldn’t dissuade us from approaching them during office hours with questions. Hannah Rodgers (History, Anthropology) took it one step further; she said she often invited professors out to lunch or coffee. Most students react to that notion with something like horror. Professors seem to think it’s a great idea.
The Distinguished Alumni-in-Residence event
demonstrated that it’s not so much the major you choose that determines whether or not you’ll be successful. Instead, success is indicated by what you choose to do with that major while you’re at GVSU. Now, I don’t mean that you can’t be successful just by attending class, or that following these five practices will guarantee success. They’re not, after all, a checklist. But they do two things. First, they provide you with the kind of life experiences and relationships that prepare you for the future. Second, the people that have the self-dedication and skill to be successful at the five practices usually have the internal drive to find achievement in the larger world as well.
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The five best practices for success in your major
WHAT COULD GVSU DO TO IMPROVE THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE AND, AS A RESULT, BOOST ITS RETENTION RATE FROM YEAR TO YEAR?
“GVSU could expand their programs, so there is a bigger variety of students that apply.”
LILLIAN DUBOIS NursingFreshman Fenton, Mich.
“In order to improve the Laker experience GVSU should allow the usage of debit dollars in the student store.”
BRYCE PALMITER EngineeringFreshman Grand Ledge, Mich.
“If we had a larger variety of food to choose from, I think more students would attend GVSU.”
PAUL JOSEPHSON Mechanical EngineeringFreshman Whitehall, Mich.
“Bring back the wrecking ball.”
BRIAN NORDSTROM UndecidedFreshman West Bloomfield, Mich.
“They could have more food choices.”
EMILY MCINTOSH NursingFreshman Fenton, Mich.
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A s seen in the front page article, Grand Valley State University held meetings this week to
solicit professors’ opinions and keep them up to speed about current reten-tion problems, which surprisingly start as early as orientation week. As accurately deduced, registration is a huge frustration among potential stu-dents and surely contributes to their decision to leave.
While the professors contributed insightful solutions to the registration problem, we at the Lanthorn thought the administration might find it useful to hear solutions from students who recently survived orientation.
Sure, we’re not exactly the demo-graphic you need to hear from; after all, we’re still here. We chose to stay at GVSU after orientation, but our strug-gles were comparably discouraging.
First, we must affirm that many of the propositions and concerns raised about registration were en-tirely accurate.
When prospective freshmen attend GVSU’s summer orientation, they’re given a packet of information list-ing requirements for their specific
major and GVSU’s general education program. The fresh students—who are transitioning from a structured high school schedule to a more vary-ing college schedule—often see the completion of specific classes to be of great urgency, especially when depart-ments lay out a suggested (or, as many perceive, imperative) timeline.
To prevent those frustrations, we have a few suggestions:
First, take away some of the prerequisites, because in some cases, their necessity is questionable. For students who were really looking forward to graduating in three years and needed to knock out a very stringent chain of interdependent prerequisites, the inability to register for just one class could force them to graduate a semester later. Prospec-tive students who see their four-year plan decimated before their college careers even start will certainly be discouraged to continue with GVSU.
Second, don’t require discussions for every science class. They’re not always helpful, and they’re often the one piece of the puzzle that won’t fit into the schedule. Along those same
lines, allow more labs to be taken during separate semesters, rather than concurrently with the lecture.
Third, don’t “cap” classes below the fire limit. Many students sit on myBanner all summer waiting for a seat to open, and it’s always aggra-vating to find that the “full” class occupies 80 percent of the room.
Finally, if you want to think like a student, use www.ratemyprofes-sor.com as a guide. Some students manipulate their entire schedule to avoid or secure a certain professor based on recommendations on this website—even if the classes they end up with are at terrible times. Armed with this information, per-haps one solution to consider is giv-ing less desirable professors better times, while the better professors get the 8 a.m. slots. Then, students face a more enticing decision, and not everyone’s fighting for the best professor at the best time of day only to end up with the worst pro-fessor at the crack of dawn.
These are just a few of the ways to improve our registration experience.
EDITORIAL
A HUMBLE PROPOSALGVSU’s right to assume that there are problems with registration. We have solutions.
GVL EDITORIAL CARTOON I By MARELGUIJ BRIONES
A strange tension between objectiv-ity and subjectiv-
ity haunts the study of science. Though scientific knowledge often gets a bad reputation for being pre-sented as distant, sterile, or inaccessible, the fact of the matter is: we, as human beings, are intimately con-nected with the findings of science, which describe who were are, how we came to be, and how we fit in with the world around us.
In antiquity, scientists were often philosophers who detailed their observa-tions of the natural world
by embracing personal subjectivity and poetic language. In the modern era, scientists became objective specialists, and for good reason; this move toward specialization and objectivity occurred because many hands make light work. Under this theory, if each scientist becomes an expert of a specialized cog in the machine of scientific inquiry, understanding the whole clock becomes a heck of a lot easier. Before I chose to pursue writing, I wanted to study science, but after job-shadowing a micro-bacteriologist who spent his days testing semen samples for STIs like Chlamydia and Gonorrhea, I felt distanced from the study of science. I couldn’t be a specialized cog in this machine. I ached to see the whole clock, not just isolated mechanical bits.
I argue not that scientists should embrace subjectiv-ity in their experimental work, but that we, as human
beings and active learners, should not forgo our own spiritual exploration of sci-ence and the self.
When you read a scien-tific textbook, it’s easy to view the colorful diagram of DNA in a vacuum of white space, but this small double helix is governing your body as you read this column. Evolution isn’t merely some-thing that happened long ago, to our hominoid ances-tors, but rather is something that is happening right now, a process that affects how we came to be, who we are now, and what our children’s children will look like, act like. Atoms aren’t just little clusters floating in space, either; they literally compose you. As one of my good friends quipped: “It’s crazy that the atoms at the end of my key don’t just fly apart when I touch them to the atoms in my car door.”
There are atoms buzzing around in your face right now.
I write this to you all because Grand Valley has an incredibly high number of science majors. If you’re a science person, I’m sure you’re rationally aware that your face is made of atoms, but what I encourage is an irrational exploration of sci-ence, an introspection into your emotional connection to their world and its beauty and complexity.
A word I love which perfectly encapsulates this visceral connection to the universe is the Japanese word “yugen,” which means something like, “an aware-ness of the universe which triggers a response too deep and powerful for words.”
Learning about sci-ence often leaves me with a resounding feeling of yugen. This only goes to show that if you can break down the walls which separate you from your subject matter, scientific inquiry can truly be a spiritual enterprise.
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“One thing that could help free up both space and people is to make sure our curriculum is lined up right,” Godwin said. He encouraged departments to evaluate their curriculum requirements—consider eliminating unnecessary labs, discussions and even courses—and cut down the time required for each course, which would make it easier for students to schedule multiple courses.
The Provost’s Office also advised departments to rework their curriculum guides to be less structured; this means that students wouldn’t feel pressured to get into certain classes for their freshman year, but
could instead wait until later in their college career. The implementation of this solution could be as simple as rewriting the suggested student schedule for each major to be year-to-year rather than s e m e s t e r - t o -semester.
L o o s e n i n g the restrictions, though, led to discussions about the importance of p r e r e q u i s i t e s , w h i c h d e p a r t m e n t s are also encouraged to evaluate.
Some professors at the meeting proposed hybrid courses—which allow some portions to be taken
online and others in the classroom—as a solution to clear up scheduling problems. Others suggested taking away program
“e m p h a s e s ” or de-emphas iz ing double majors or minors to take away the stress of s c h e d u l i n g everything.
In the end, Godwin said it’s the students who pay the price for their
inability to register for—and ultimately complete—their required courses, and this factor “makes it a little easier for them to bail out.”
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The Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy has
invited Grand Valley State University students to submit abstracts for the chance to be selected for a 10-minute presentation on animal sentience at the upcoming Science of Animal Thinking and Emotion Conference to be held in Washington, D.C. next March.
Students whose abstracts are chosen will be given free admittance into the conference, as well as a $250 stipend.
“As the bedrock of ethics, sentience deserves a more prominent place in our legislative and corporate d e c i s i o n -making,” said Rebecca Basu of the Humane S o c i e t y ’ s I n t e r n a t i o n a l D e p a r t m e n t . “The conference will allow students to explore recent research and findings in animal thinking and emotions.”
Student presentations may cover many topics, including animal cognition and emotion, awareness, language and pleasure, as well as the influence of sentience on research and policy, the marketing of sentience and the intersection of sentience studies.
“I would absolutely love to go to this because I am just very interested in animal cognition and any investigation that may result in showing people that animals think and feel just as much as we do,” said Erin Shelly, a student at GVSU.
“So perhaps people will stop using the excuse that they don’t as a reason to exploit them.”
Humane treatment and care of animals was made into law through the Animal Welfare Act, which was passed in 1966. Over the years, the act has been amended to ensure that humane treatment is enforced. However, the process of achieving an entirely ethical system of animal treatment is ongoing.
“Advancement in animal welfare, animal behavior and veterinary medicine drives us to constantly challenge the current approaches, and to improve the way animals are treated,” said Namiko
Ota-Noveskey, animal behavior specialist for the Humane Society of West Michigan. “Confe rences like this allow the opportunity to discuss current research topics and their potential i m p l i c a t i o n s , as well as raise
awareness.”The conference itself,
beyond just the contest, is also important to GVSU and its surrounding community.
“I think this is an important topic, especially with regard toward factory farming and non-medical animal testing,” said Jennifer Pope, the adviser for the Humane Society of Grand Valley. “Research into animal cognition could lead to some changes about the laws regarding these issues and could make animals’ lives better.”
The HSGV works to raise awareness about the
treatment of animals in the U.S. and the world, and they do it through several means, beginning at the local level.
“The HSGV already does some things on campus,” Pope said. “Meatless Mondays, for example, the VegFest next month, and Compassion Events to educate about cruelty-free products to raise awareness about treatment of animals in factory farms, the circus and in these testing facilities.”
Ota-Noveskey said creating an animal-friendly world is part of the Humane Society’s mission. HSWM contributes to these conferences and their cause by providing education on humane treatment of animals to local schools, as well as offering classes and seminars based on current scientific data.They also work to promote animal welfare and education through various programs that can be replicated by animal shelters and even entire communities.
“(This conference) is a good opportunity to discuss the recent scientific discoveries in animal cognition and emotions, so that the results can be utilized to benefit the lives of certain animals,” Ota-Noveskey said. “Scientific studies and findings are valuable, but they must be available for real-life applications. Hopefully, a conference such as this provides opportunities for individuals from various fields and backgrounds to meet and collaborate for further improvement in the animal-related fields.”
Students interested in submitting abstracts for the conference must do so by Dec. 1.
For more information on the contest and conference, visit www.humanesociety.org/
Animal cognition conference seeks student submissions
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To promote student affairs, Greyerbiehl and two other graduate assistants at the Dean of Students Office are coordinating two main events as part of National Careers in Student Affairs Month. The first is a student affairs pre-sentation, which will occur tomorrow from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in 2263 Kirkhof Center.
“(This event will) explore different careers in student affairs, what to look for in a graduate program, and how to find a program and gradu-ate assistantship,” Greyerbiehl said. The event will also host a panel of current graduate students who will share their experiences and answer ques-tions.
The other event is the Michigan College Personnel Association NextGen Confer-
ence on Sunday, which is “in-tended for students who may be interested in exploring careers in higher education,” Greyerbiehl said.
The day-long event will take place from noon to 6 p.m. in the Eberhard Center on the Pew Campus.
“Students will have the opportunity to meet long-time profes-sionals in the field, obtain understanding to different types of gradu-ate programs, gain insight to what we do and so much more,” she said.
Greyerbiehl said these events largely cater to people interested in student affairs or who have been nominated
by a faculty or staff member. However, all students are wel-come to attend as the events are held to raise awareness about the student affairs pro-
gram and the career opportunities avail-able for students.
“It is rare that stu-dents enter college knowing they want to pursue a career in student affairs,” Greyerbiehl said. “Students should at-tend to learn about an amazing career opportunity where they can impact and
engage students on a daily ba-sis through a multitude of av-enues. Having a career in stu-dent affairs is demanding but also extremely rewarding.”
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W ith a bag full of props and stu-dents dressed for the oc-
casion, the Rocky Horror Picture Show will become much more than just an-other movie night at Grand Valley State University.
On Oct. 30, Spotlight Pro-ductions will turn the Grand River Room in the Kirkhof Center into an interactive Rocky Horror experience.
“Those who are Rocky Horror fans can watch the movie in the comfort of their own home, so we needed to think of a way to get them to experience Rocky Horror at Grand Valley,” said Ashley Grzywacz, Spotlight’s events and traditions chair. “Doing so, we started the interactive show alongside a costume
contest that the fans thor-oughly enjoy.”
The event will give stu-dents a chance to meet oth-ers who are interested in the same type of things they are. Students are able to relax and have fun with the interactive parts of the movie, said Alex-is Fryatt, an events and tradi-tions committee member.
“We have been doing in-teractive showings for a few years now, and it allows the students to get involved,” Grzywacz said.
Everyone in attendance is given a bag full of props along with a prop “How-To” list, so those new to the Rocky Horror scene know how and when to use the props.
Spotlight Productions has worked with other organiza-tions in the past, but this year it is putting on the event solo.
More than just a movieRocky Horror Picture Show has an interactive twistBY CHANON [email protected]
To mark the first year on its own, the or-ganization has decided to try to make the atmosphere of the event more “Hallow-eeny,” Grzywacz said.
“The Rocky Horror Picture Show does fall perfectly into the Halloween season,” Fryatt said. “Some Halloween decora-tions will be used to set the atmo-sphere, and the prizes for the costume contest are Halloween-themed.”
On average, 250 to 300 people usually participate in the event each year.
“I, myself, have never seen the show, and I am looking forward to this event and learning about the truly unique experience that the show provides,” Fryatt said.
There will be popcorn, prizes, confetti and an opportunity to get
“rained on”—without giving too much away for newcomers, Gryzwacz said. “This show is a tradition. I see the same people re-turn every year. It’s more than just a movie, but (it’s) an experience you can’t get anywhere else.”
The movie starts at 9 p.m. More information can be found on the GVSU website under events.
A fter seeing McFad-den’s Irish Saloon’s St. Patrick’s Day street
party, Irish on Ionia, grow from 1,000 people in atten-dance its first year to 14,000 by its third, BarFly Ventures has decided to bring a simi-lar festival to Grand Rapids for Halloween.
Event coordinator Shane Philipsen has taken some of the most popular aspects of Irish on Ionia and added in a costume contest and an Electronic Dance Music lineup to create the first-ever Halloween on Ionia.
“We’re known for throw-ing awesome parties down-town in the street. We have been very successful,” Phil-ipsen said. “A lot of people like to be partying outside un-der the stars.”
A l t h ou g h the St. Pat-rick’s Day street party has always incorporated live bands, he said it was the realization of how much people en-joyed the DJ that came on in between each set that made them decide on an EDM lineup for this festival.
“We had more people get into the street and dance and party when the DJ was on rather than the bands that we pay big money for,” Philipsen said. “People are just really receptive to that kind of party music and we decided, ‘OK, we’re going to skip the whole band type
deal and go with a good DJ program.’ It seems to be like the winner.”
The lineup includes An-thony Attalla, Kalendar, Mixin’ Marc and Alex Peace, along with several other lo-cal and regional artists.
A lot of money was put into setting up the produc-tion side of the festival, Philipsen said.
“The staging, as well as the props and the setup of the stage, as well as all of the lights and the sound, are top notch,” he said. “I think people are just go-ing to be blown away. We’re going to exceed a lot of ex-pectations when it comes to the productions.”
In addition to that, a total of $6,000 will be given away for the costume contest.
From 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., one winner will be called every hour on the hour, each receiv-ing $1,000. At the end of the night, the five winners will take the stage and one will be awarded an
additional $1,000.Registration to compete
will take place from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. People at the fes-tival will be able to vote at various stations or by down-loading the mobile app.
“It’s a popularity contest,” Philipsen said. “It’s a free-for-all and it’s all based on crowd vote, so no panel of judges, you know, judging who has the best costume. We’re allowing the people at the festival to make that call.”
Although people who purchased general admission tickets were originally sup-posed to be allowed in at 2 p.m., Philipsen has decided to make the V.I.P. party at noon open to all ticket holders.
“I was giving away 1,000 wrist bands for Marc and Adam Peace, but these guys are so huge that I’m going to allow anyone that has purchased a ticket into the festival starting at noon,” he said. “For the pre-party, we’ve got a lot more room than we thought we would, so we’re able to fit a lot more people.”
The first 300 people in line at noon will get a free 22-ounce mug that can be filled up for $3 to $5.
To keep up with the ever-changing Michigan weath-er, the festival will have heated tents to keep people sheltered. There will also be food, water and other non-alcoholic beverages to keep people hydrated through-out the day.
“There’s nothing we can’t offer that’s not going to be the same in a bar. I think people are sick of the bar scene on Halloween, they’re looking for some-thing different and they want to get out of their house or Halloween party.This is something differ-ent,” Philipsen said.
Halloween on Ionia will take place on Oct. 26 from noon until midnight on Io-nia Street between Weston Street and Oakes Street.
Tickets can be purchased for $10 in advance or at the gate for $15. For more in-formation, visit www.hal-loweenonionia.com.
First Halloween on Ionia brings ‘Irish on Ionia’ style fair to GR Fall Arts brings well known poets to GVBY KARI [email protected]
“An Evening of Poetry and Con-versation with
Christian Wiman and Pat-tiann Rogers” will take place Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. in the Eberhard Center on Grand Valley State Univer-sity’s Pew Campus.
Patricia Clark, the fac-ulty adviser and coordi-nator for the event, has been involved in the Fall Arts Cel-ebration poetry event since its start more than 10 years ago. She handpicks the poets based on her own in-terests, as well as the interests of students and faculty.
All the poets involved have been at the top of their field.
“I thought (Wiman and Rogers) would be interest-ing together. Their subject matter and styles are simi-
lar,” Clark said. “To my knowledge, they haven’t read together before, and it’s kind of fun to put two people together.”
Wiman, a former edi-tor of the Poetry Magazine published by the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, is now at Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music as a senior lecturer in religion and lit-
erature.Rogers has
published 12 novels and has received nu-merous awards, including two National Edu-cation Associa-tion grants, a G u g g e n h e i m fellowship and a 2005 Liter-ary Award in
Poetry from the Lannan Foundation.
Chris Haven, associate professor of writing at GVSU, said he considers himself a part of their fan base.
“Both of these poets tackle the big questions through the lens of every-
day miracles,” Haven said. “I would call them both poets of longing, but even when the questions are left unanswered, we’re left with a sense of transcen-dence—of wonder at the world. I expect the reading to be both challenging and inspiring.”
As a continuation of the Fall Arts Celebration, a reception and book sign-ing will follow the reading. The event will be free and open to the public, and Clark expects more than just poetry students to ap-preciate the night.
“I mean, if you think of music as an analogy, each poet has a different tune,” Clark said. “It’s funny when you open yourself up and hear something different, like music, you may surprise yourself and like something you didn’t think you would. People come because their teach-ers say they have to, and they think, ‘Oh my God, how long am I going to have to stay?’ and they end up liking it.”
A celebration of poetryBY ALEXANDRIA [email protected]
O f Stephen King’s “Night Shift”—a compilation of 20 horror stories,
“Children of the Corn” became a fan favorite and later a feature-length film.
Joel Schindlbeck has taken the twisted tale and adapted it to the stage for this year’s Stark Turn Play-ers’ Halloween Horror Mu-sical Parody. “Children of the Corny, The Musical” will premiere at The Dog Story Theater on Oct. 24.
The tale follows a cou-ple on the verge of divorce escaping to California, but as they drive through the outskirts of Nebraska, they accidentally hit a young boy. After an attempt to hide the body in the adult-free Nebraskan town, the couple is thrown into the horror of King’s mind.
“It keeps the exact plot line,” Schindlbeck said. “We just change all of the dialogue, we vamp up the characters so they are ex-tremely cartoonish (ver-sions) of the original char-acters, and we take the tense situations or events in the movie and we par-ody them by turning them
into either a musical num-ber or into a crazy chase scene or just let the ridicu-lousness come out through the dialogue itself.”
Amanda Heeran, a GVSU stu-dent who plays Sarah in the parody musi-cal, said it is the close atmo-sphere and me-ticulous detail that bring the show to life.
“It is a fun theater com-pany and a fun theater experi-ence,” Heeran said. “Be-cause it is in the Dog Story Theater, it is very small, so it’s more intimate than, say, if it was at the Civic or Cir-cle. That is an aspect that I think a lot of our age group appreciates.”
The Dog Story Theater allows each of the audience members to see the show close up, so the audience will see all the details in the production.
Each member of the cast not only plays his or her role in the musical but also helped design all of the set pieces and cos-tumes, Schindlbeck said. Apart from the physical
elements, they have also added in bits of character to the show.
“I really enjoy the cre-ative touches,” Heeran said. “Each of the cast members
are coming up with different funny things to interject throughout the play, like just a certain timing that people use or voices or in-tonations. It is little things like that that just make it that much (more
funny).”The cast invites the
community to come to a midnight showing of “Children of the Corny, The Musical” on Oct. 25 or to the “spooktacular” cos-tume party on Oct. 26.
“I just wanted to cre-ate another opportunity to celebrate the holiday,” Schindlbeck said. “I think that this is a fun way to celebrate the holiday, but you are still participating in something that can be kind of scary.”
Tickets are $12. For more information, visit www.starkturnplayers.org.
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On Saturday, the Grand Valley State University football team will
attempt to do something it hasn’t done yet this year: win on the road.
GVSU’s (5-2, 3-2 GLIAC) record at Lubbers Stadium is 5-0, but away from Allendale, the Lakers have yet to win, posting an 0-2 record.
Head coach Matt Mitchell is looking at everything to get his team out of this road funk, so before GVSU takes the field against Northwood University (2-5, 1-4 GLIAC), the Lakers will already have undergone numerous adjustments.
Not adjustments in the traditional sense of x’s and o’s, but instead, switching up the players’ normal routines.
“As crazy as this may sound, we travel with two buses, and offense has always been on the first bus and the defense on the second bus, and we might change that this week,” Mitchell said. “We’re going to do a couple things in practice a little bit different this week too. I think you have to keep things fresh for your players and change some things up.”
GVSU uses two practice fields to prepare for its opponents. The defense is usually on the far field, and the offense is on the other. However, on Tuesday, Mitchell had the offense and defense switch fields in preparation for Northwood.
Mitchell is also looking at modifying the preparation schedule, all the way down to the team’s arrival time in Northwood.
“We’re going to leave a little earlier and get to the hotel a little earlier so the guys can settle in and get relaxed,” he said. “We’re going to have a little bit more of an up-tempo walk-through to get guys active on Friday afternoon, more than we have in the past. Especially the road trip to Ohio Dominican, just too much sitting on the bus—too much eating and lack of activity.”
While GVSU will make modifications to its off-the-field schedule, the Lakers will look to continue to have success on the field in the rushing game.
After a disappointing game by the offensive line against Ferris State University, the offense responded by recording 309 rushing yards in a shortened
48-17 win over Northern Michigan University.
“I feel like we had the right approach at practice all week,” senior center Matt Armstrong said about the team’s success against Northern Michigan. “We worked on little things, technique things. When we got to the game, we were ready for everything they threw at us, and the running backs did their job, as well.”
The Lakers will have another opportunity to score a big day on the ground. Northwood sports one of the GLIAC’s worst run defenses, which allows 216 rushing yards per contest to its opponents.
Who will lead the GVSU offense against Northwood still remains in question.
After not throwing all of last week, junior quarterback
Heath Parling (shoulder) threw on Tuesday, and Mitchell said the coaches would evaluate his progress to make sure he didn’t have any setbacks before the team made a decision about Saturday’s starter.
If Parling isn’t able to go, it will be junior Isiah Grimes who will get the call.
“I think we all feel pretty comfortable with either guy in there,” junior running back Michael Ratay said. “We know that they’ll be able to do the job just as well if Heath’s in or Isiah’s in. It doesn’t really (matter) too much to us. We have confidence in both guys.”
As with every other game, the key for the GVSU defense will be its ability to stop the run. For
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SWIM & DIVEFriday at Hillsdale/Calvin 5 p.m.Saturday at Ashland 2 p.m.
W. SOCCERFriday at Michigan Tech 7 p.m.Sunday at Northern Michigan 12 p.m.
VOLLEYBALLFriday - Truman State 3:30 p.m.Saturday - Missouri-St. Louis 11 a.m.
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Aiken named GLIAC North Player of the Week
Grand Valley State Uni-versity junior outside hitter Abby Aiken of the No. 17 women’s volleyball team has been named the GLIAC North Division Player of the Week after an impres-sive weekend at Field-house Arena.
Aiken led the way over the weekend in a pair of home sweeps over Wayne State University and the University of Findlay. She tallied 18 kills over the War-riors and nine over the Oil-ers. She has recorded 38 in her last three matches and ranks fifth in the GLIAC in total kills with 236.
The team has won 14 of its last 15 matches.
It will compete in the GLIAC/GLVC Crossover this weekend in a trio of matches against No. 15 Truman State University on Friday at 3:30 p.m. and the University of Missouri-St. Louis on Saturday at 11 a.m. before taking on the University of Southern In-diana at 5 p.m.
Club soccer ties Michigan, advances to regionals
The Grand Valley State University men’s club soc-cer team tied the Univer-sity of Michigan at home on Saturday in a 1-1 draw.
GVSU (12-1-2, 7-0-1 MASC) advances to the re-gional tournament which invites the top three teams from each division. Michi-gan and Michigan State University round out the top three teams from the MASC Central.
The Lakers will square off against the top team in the MASC Eastern Division, Ohio State University, to start the regional tournament on Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Lawrence Soccer Complex in Indianapolis, Ind.
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Changing habits: Isiah Grimes hands the ball off to Hersey Jackson. The team will play away from Grand Valley State Univeristy, hoping to win on the road for the first time this season.
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Third time’s the charm?BY BRYCE [email protected]
I tore my ACL this past April and had surgery in May.
Fast forward to June, and for one of my first feature stories on the football team, I naturally decided to check in on junior quarterback Heath Parling’s progress
and his preparation for the 2013 season.Parling was coming off of ACL surgery, as well,
and was preparing for a quarterback battle with friend and roommate, Isiah Grimes.
When the usual interview questions for the story were over, I let him know I tore my ACL as well.
You know those random acts of kindness from strangers that you never expect, but when they happen, they can make your day?
After I told him I was going through the same thing, he asked me how I did it, how my rehab was going, and we basically just traded stories for a minute or two. From that point on, it’s been easy to cheer for him.
Okay, you’re probably saying to yourself, “What’s the big deal here? Dude just asked you how you were doing. Nothing to see here, moving on.”
Look, I would never wish tearing an ACL upon anyone and I’ve met some crappy people in my life. For me, my rehab took a little longer and I wasn’t making as much progress as I had wanted. I wanted to come back quicker than Adrian Peterson. Looking back, I now realize how dumb that was.
The worst part for Parling and I was the fact we were used to being active, and physically, being able to do whatever we wanted. You go from being able to run—and in Heath’s case, play Division II football—to barely being able to lift your leg off the ground.
That’s not even taking into account the numerous rehab exercises you have to do each day and the pain in your knee that at times, can be excruciating.
By August, I was behind in my rehab and sitting in my house all summer. And with no golf or anything, my frustration levels were at an all-time high. That’s why Parling’s simple gesture to ask about my rehab and me, meant a lot.
When he was named starter for the season
opener against Azusa Pacific University, it was nice to see just because you don’t like to see someone lose his job due to injury, and because I could relate to how much Parling had to go through to get back to himself.
Since then, Parling hasn’t been able to catch a break. He suffered a rhomboid tear in his back shoulder muscle in the Azusa Pacific game, and went onto miss the next three games.
Parling returned against Michigan Tech University, where he completed 19 of 24 passes for 264 yards and four touchdowns in a 49-3 GVSU win. He then started against Ferris State University, only to suffer another shoulder injury, which would force him out of the following game against Northern Michigan University.
Looking at his history, it would be easy to make the assumption that he’s injury prone, but that would be the lazy approach of looking at it.
Torn ACL’s are completely random. Take a look at Adrian Peterson, and you’re going to tell me that guy is prone to injury?
With Parling’s shoulder, head coach Matt Mitchell thinks the rhomboid tear was due to Parling being competitive and attempting to win
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A pair of former Grand Valley State University
basketball players are learning to adapt to an unfamiliar style of play while living in an unfamiliar country.
After signing with professional teams in Latvia earlier this month, Tyrone Lee and Alex Stelfox are hoping to make names for themselves in a country where the majority of people don’t speak English.
“It’s real different, especially the language,” Lee said. “It takes a while to get used to. I really miss the food, family and friends and I just miss speaking English. I miss people
being able to understand me because right now I have to use a lot of hand gestures ... it’s hard to communicate.”
The Detroit native was recently recovering from an ankle injury, but had earned his way onto Jurmula Fenniks, a team located in Jurmula, Latvia, which is near the coast of the Baltic Sea.
He was a two-year player for GVSU after transferring from Oakland Community College and was named to the GLIAC All-Defensive Team following the 2012 and 2013 seasons.
“He had a tremendous senior year and he was a real team leader for us,” head coach Ric Wesley said. “I’m proud of the growth and development both as
a person and as a player. He got his degree last year and was able to find an opportunity overseas.”
Lee said he misses playing in front of his peers in the student section at Fieldhouse Arena. He said the fans of Jurmula Fenniks could be described as “older guys who are just basketball fans” who are known to bet on the outcome of games.
While the 6-foot-8-inch forward is still adjusting to a different brand of basketball, it’s safe to assume he’s still a crowd pleaser.
“It’s a lot different on the court,” he said. “There are a lot of different rules and the playing style is a lot
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different but I will have to adjust. I’m more of a 1-on-1 player, but here it’s a lot more about the team. I have to pick my punches by scoring off the pick and roll, but they love seeing dunks. A lot of guys can’t dunk here so the fans love that.”
His goal is to work his way through the various levels of European leagues and onto an NBA team. For now, though, he is trying to work through the isolated feeling caused by the language barrier.
Stelfox can relate.“Finding an area that has
wi-fi is like waking up on Christmas morning,” she wrote via email. “It’s very tough. I miss just being able to read English signs or communicating with people knowing they speak English. Finding my way through town is very difficult.”
Stelfox signed with Liepaja Papirs after leaving the German-based TG Sandhausen, after “moving up” to find a better organization
that competed against better competition.
A four-year fixture for the Lakers, the 6-foot-2-inch center from Bowie, Md. was the 2010 GLIAC Freshman of the Year and finished her career with the fourth-most blocked shots in school history (120).
In Latvia, however, Stelfox
is being paid to produce at the other end of the court.
“I’m the American player, so they expect me to do the majority of the scoring,” she wrote. “They pay me to help them win games. You have to bring your best effort each and every game, or you’ll get cut.”
Northwood, that starts with trying to contain Michigan State University transfer running back Glenn Winston, who averages 95.3 yards a game—eighth best in the GLIAC.
“Offensively, Glenn Winston has been running very physical and very hard,” Mitchell said. “If you look at Northwood, there’s been a change in their philosophy as the season’s gone on. At the beginning of the year, they were just
throwing the ball, trying to go up-tempo. They’re slowing the game down and running the ball more, so we have to stop the run.”
Each of the season’s four remaining games is vital if GVSU wants to avoid missing the playoffs for its third consecutive season.
The late-season playoff push starts Saturday with Northwood.
“If we execute and do what we need to do, we have enough talent on this football team to win this game and any other game on our schedule,” Mitchell said.
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A quick start off the blocks does not guarantee a race just as one meet does not ensure a season.
Although, after impressive showings against Division I opponent Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the Grand Valley State University men and women swim teams have opened their respective 2013-14 seasons out ahead on the gun.
“We’ve never beaten Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and our men took them down this past weekend by a pretty decent point differential,” GVSU head coach Andy Boyce said. “Our women weren’t quite as quick as theirs, but we swam better than ever, and our times were excellent for this time of the year.”
The GVSU men, who placed 11th at nationals last season, won the road non-conference season opener 183.5-114.5 and took 12 of 16 events. Sophomore Gianni Ferrero won three events (100-meter backstroke, 500-meter freestyle, 200-meter individual medley), while
juniors Sven Kardol (200-meter fly, 200-meter backstroke) and Milan Medo (200-meter freestyle, 200-meter breaststroke) each won two.
“On the men’s side, we’re looking at Gianni Ferrero, Milan Medo and Michael Griffith, but then also Danny Abbott and Tristan Comerford, a couple of freshman who have started off strong, to contribute consistently,” Boyce said.
The lady Lakers, who placed fourteenth at nationals last year, fell 191-112 to Wisconsin-Milwaukee but won three events and finished second in nine. Sophomore Taylor Wiercinski took both the one- and three-meter diving board events, and sophomore Sarah Roeser won the 50-meter freestyle.
“On the women’s side, we’re looking for big things from Danielle Vellier and Caitlyn Madsen, as well as Emily Gallagher and Meghan Falconer, who have started off well as freshmen,” Boyce said.
After disappointing narrow and controversial second place finishes to Wayne State University at last year’s conference GLIAC meet, both the GVSU men and women are eager for redemption.
“I want to beat Wayne,” junior Emily Eaton said when asked about her primary goals for the season. “Last year was definitely a tough season for us. We were pretty much rebuilding the team and so this year, we’re coming in with a lot of confidence on both sides. That confidence is growing in each swim we see each other do, and we’re pushing each other hard. Just working hard to keep the momentum going.”
Both GVSU men and women teams will also keep their eyes set further down their lanes toward the other end of the pool and season. After qualifying as many as 28 student-athletes for nationals in past seasons, GVSU could send upwards of 20 once again in 2014.
“We always push ourselves, and we look for teams that can push back,” Boyce said. “This
year, in addition to Wisconsin-Milwaukee, we’ll swim against Michigan State and Ball State, and we hope to be challenged. That’s what makes us better.”
In racing, proper pacing is every bit as essential as a quick start, and GVSU will take the season stroke-by-stroke. The Lakers intend to race well in conference meets against Wayne and Ashland, Division I meets against Michigan State and Ball State, and at a mid-year three-day invitational at Calvin College leading up to conference final and national meets to ensure their cumulative success.
“We believe in racing, in both practices and meets,” Boyce said. “We try to race as much as possible so that we can get that race setting and learn how to race throughout the year. We’re excited to see where we are by the Calvin Invitational, and when it comes time to swim in conference and national championships, we’ll hopefully be ready.”
Added rest for bigger meets should also play a role in achieving lower times, making the quick marks of this early season by the Lakers all the more impressive.
“I’m not sure where the guys on the team were last year at this point, but we’re doing real well right now, especially considering how we swam against Wisconsin-Milwaukee,” Abbott said. “We’ll kick our butts for a while, and when the time comes to rest up and taper, we’ll see where we’re at. If our times aren’t exactly where we want them to be by the Calvin Invitational, there’ll still be a good amount of time left to work hard and get them down for conference and national meets.”
GVSU will race Friday at Calvin College, where the men will race Calvin and the women will race Hillsdale College, before making the trek to race at Ashland on Saturday.
“There will be a lot of swimming this weekend, and it’ll be a good test for us to see how our kids respond to the travel and to a Friday and Saturday meet in the same week,” Boyce said. “Taylor Wiercinski qualified for nationals the first meet out, and we’re hoping that sets a tone. We’re off to a great start, and we’re excited to see what the team can do. We’ve been working hard in practice and if they keep that up, the rewards of fast times and great dives will follow. “
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Staying ahead: Grand Valley State Univeristy’s Milan Medo competes in the Men’s Breaststroke event. The Laker swim teams started the season strong, claiming a victory against Wisconsin-Milwaukee—a team they’ve never beaten before this year.
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the starting job and overcompensating for his lack of lower body strength on his throws. On his latest injury, Mitchell attributes it to Parling getting his shoulder driven into the ground repeatedly, on a night when the GVSU offensive line played its worst game of the season and failed to protect its quarterback.
“Sometimes in football, you get players who are ‘softer,’ or seem to find the training room more than others,” Mitchell said. “Heath Parling is not
that person at all.”Now, Parling’s status is up in the air as GVSU
travels to Northwood on Saturday.You could look at it as he got hurt and missed
an extended period of time, or you could look at it as he was injured in two games, but managed to tough it out and finish both contests while battling injury.
If I was playing with a guy who’s faced as much adversity as Parling has, and is someone you know who will fight with you till the end—even while playing through injury—that’s someone I wouldn’t mind taking the field with.
Success: Alex Stelfox plays during her tenure at Grand Valley State University. She now plays professional ball abroad.
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T wo different sports. Two different teams. Two different coaches.
Two different tournaments. One common goal.
When the weekend rolls around, the Grand Valley State University cross coun-try teams and women’s ten-nis team will find themselves in different parts of the state, competing against a host of conference foes but shoot-ing for the same prize—a GLIAC championship.
Tuned up after a quick fall season, the Laker cross country teams will trek to the Upper Peninsula where Michigan Technological University is hosting the GLIAC tournament. Al-though the forecast calls for biting cold and a snowy course, GVSU assistant coach Nick Polk said he feels his teams will be ready.
“We’re preparing for cold, rain and snow,” Polk said. “Our athletes are tough and should handle themselves fine. We pride ourselves on being tough in those con-ditions ... It won’t be about personal bests but about go-ing out and competing hard.”
C o m p e t i t i o n — n o t weather—could freeze the Lakers’ hopes of a duo of championship titles in Houghton.
GVSU expects Ashland University, Malone Univer-sity and Ferris State Univer-sity to have successful meets on the men’s side.
The Lakers competed against Ashland and Fer-ris State earlier this season in the MSU Spartan Invi-tational, where the Lakers took first place, followed by
Ashland at fourth and Ferris State at fifth. Malone is rela-tively unknown for the Lak-ers this season, but the Pio-neers have had a successful fall, finishing in first place in three of their four meets.
When the women take to the course this weekend, they will do so behind the talented legs of sophomores Jessica Janecke and Court-ney Brewis and junior Al-lyson Winchester. The trio swept the podium at the Spartan Invitational earlier this year, all finishing within 12 seconds of each other. Ferris State will prove to be a challenge to the women, as well, as the Lady Bulldogs took sixth place overall at the Spartan Invitational.
GVSU head coach Jerry Baltes said he believes both squads have the talent to bring home a GLIAC title as long as they execute the way they have been able to all season.
“We just need to stay fo-cused on what we can con-trol—our effort, attitude and energy,” Baltes said. “We’ve got our kids to be prepared for anything at this point.”
One bridge-crossing and 450 miles away, the GVSU women’s tennis team will be doing all it can to secure a GLIAC championship of its own. With an 8-1 overall vic-tory against Ferris State last week, the Lakers finished the fall season with an 11-3 (10-3 GLIAC) record and a sala-cious desire to finish their season atop the conference.
GVSU will face Walsh University on Friday at the Midland Community Ten-nis Center. The Lakers an-nihilated Walsh earlier this season with a score of 7-2,
but head coach John Black expects to see a reener-gized Cavaliers team come game-time.
“They’ve probably im-proved since last time, but hopefully we have, too,” Black said. “We need to con-tinue our strong play, and hopefully we can play a little better and have stronger re-sults against the three teams that beat us.”
Those three teams—Wayne State University, Northwood University and Tiffin University—all narrowly defeated GVSU in the regular season, winning by a cumulative score of 16-11. Black said he believes that the key to defeating these teams in the rematch lies in the performance of the Laker doubles flights. In 2013, GVSU boasts a 13-1 record after holding a lead in the doubles department.
Senior Lexi Rice, playing both No. 1 singles and dou-bles, headlines the veteran Laker squad, while juniors Niki Shipman and Kelly Trapp will look to continue their undefeated seasons come tournament-time.
While the talent of the Lakers is apparent, the hid-den intangible lies in the ex-perience of the roster. GVSU showcases a lineup of six ju-niors and two seniors, all of whom have competed on the GLIAC championship stage before.
“Hopefully (the experi-ence) will mean we’ll be a bit tougher in close matches,” Black said. “Players have been there and they know the pressure, so hopefully we can handle it better than younger teams.”
As the clouds turned a rosy pink from the ris-
ing sun, 6,000 eager runners shook out their legs, mut-tered prayers under their breath, and tried to exhale all the anxiety that has built up the past few grueling months of training for this very moment.
The clock started, the ner-vous cheers exploded, and the participants of the 2013 Grand Rapids Marathon and Half Marathon began their 26.2- or 13.1-mile journeys.
Among the t-shirts sup-porting various charitable groups, the bright Grand Valley State University em-blem stood out on the backs of a few dedicated GVSU running club members. Ka-tie Whittington, Brian Wig-gins, Brandon Shannon, Josh Spicer and Michelle Croad took the path to the left, revving up for the last third of their half mara-thon while Brandon Yonke, Aaron Moore, Jackson Ly-tle, Justin Davis and Dusty Stienberger braced them-selves as they continued
down the path for the rest of the full marathon course.
As the miles flew by for some and dragged on for others, the Running Club runners refocused on what they were trying to achieve. For some of the athletes, such as Croad, Stienberger and Davis, this was their first half or full marathon, and their biggest focus was finishing—and finishing strong. The more seasoned racers were fighting not only for the sat-isfaction of fin-ishing, but they also had Boston on their minds.
The Boston Marathon is the Olympics of ev-eryday runners. An athlete must meet the qualifying times set by the Boston Athletic Asso-ciation for their age group to be eligible to take part in the Boston Marathon. For the age range of GVRC members, the time needed to qualify for the 2015 Boston Mara-thon is under three hours and 35 minutes (an 8:12 mile
pace) for women and under three hours and five minutes (a 7:03 mile pace) for men.
When the final miles were behind them, nothing but pure determination carried the runners through to the much-anticipated finish line. Club member Jacob Shacht was a spectator at the event and was excited to watch his teammates finish.
“It was cool to see the run-ners at that point in the race be-cause of the look on the runners’ faces,” Shacht said. “They came around the turn, and you could see the agony and hell they had been through mixed
with determination and im-mense drive to finish. It was an interesting and fascinat-ing thing to watch.”
Not only did the GVRC athletes compete, they com-peted well. Finishing fourth overall was Yonke, with a time of 2 hours and 43 min-utes (6:13 mile pace).
“The final three miles I was very fatigued,” Yonke said. “But once I could see the buildings downtown, I knew I was close and I pushed my-self hard to the finish.”
Yonke ran the Grand Rap-ids Marathon this year as the final piece to the Alternatives in Motion High Endurance Award given to athletes who complete the Riverbank 25k, Michigan Titanium 140.6 and the Grand Rapids Mara-thon all in the same year.
“Being something that very few athletes achieve, I wanted to take up the chal-lenge of accomplishing this,” Yonke said. “I would like to use this award as an athletic resume point to hopefully get an athletic sponsor so that I can use running to travel and raise money for causes and charities.”
Yonke also has a senti-mental connection with the Grand Rapids Marathon. It was the first marathon he ever ran, and he was inspired to be back where it all started. That combined with the live-liness of the course was just what he needed to hold onto fourth place.
“This course honestly has the best spectators and volunteers,” Yonke said. “There are people all over the course cheering you on, and you don’t really get much of that in most Michi-gan marathons.”
With a medal hanging around his neck and his head held high with pride, Yonke knew everything he poured into his race was well worth the fight.
“I was so exhausted from the run, but seeing a new (personal record) and a top placement in the race made it worth it,” he said.
Not unlike his teammate, Moore was also running for something bigger than him-self. After the 2013 Boston bombings, Moore decided to compete in his first marathon to show that runners are not afraid of anything.
“I was so angry, and I went for a run,” Moore said. “I contemplated running 26 miles even though I was vastly underprepared for it. I thought better of it and de-cided that I should save that drive and try and qualify for the Boston Marathon.”
And that drive paid off. Moore crossed the finish line with a time of 2:59, after giving everything he had to reach his goal.
“By mile 16, it felt like each mile was three,” Moore said. “I felt more awful than I have felt in a long time, mentally and physically, but I just kept thinking to my-self, as long as I keep going nice and steady, I’ll make it through this.”
Thoughts of pace and form were thrown out as he pushed through the last mile, crossing the finish line strong.
“It didn’t really hit me what I had done until later in that day when I sat down and thought about it and when I tried to walk up stairs,” Moore said.
The GVSU club runners were also successful in the half marathon. It was Croad’s first half marathon, and it was a memorable event.
“My race time was a little slower than my goal time, but just the sense of accomplishment I had from finishing made it all worth it,” Croad said.
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