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THE GREAT DEBATE
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The tiniest of Lakers will get the opportunity to join Grand Valley State Univer-sity’s commitment to saving the environment now that the Children’s Enrichment Cen-ter on the Allendale Campus has received funds for non-disposable dinnerware.
“I am very happy to have the CEC sharing in this cam-pus initiative,” said Sharalle V. Arnold, director of the Children’s Enrichment Cen-ter. “This partnership will help us improve our sustain-ability efforts and lend itself to some edifying conversa-tions with the young chil-dren and families that we serve.”
The money for the CEC’s project comes from the Sus-tainable Community Rein-vestment Fund, which was created last year.
“The fund provides start-up capital in the form of grants and loans for projects that will add value to the
campus community, such as energy savings or recycling initiatives,” said Bart Bar-tels, project manager for the GVSU Sustainable Commu-nity Development Initiative. “The idea is to funnel cost savings back into the fund and build it up over time.”
Jessica Miranda-Bevier, program assistant for the Children’s Enrichment Cen-ter, put together the applica-tion for the funding and cal-culated that approximately 2,500 pieces of disposable dinnerware were being thrown away each week.
By requesting $507 from the Reinvestment Fund, the CEC would experience a 50- to 66-percent drop in waste production, saving roughly $3,334.32 per year.
In addition to purchas-ing the dishes, they have purchased a cart to help with cleanup.
Bartels said he is very pleased with this project and hopes other departments and organizations in the GVSU
Reinvestment Fund helps Children’s Enrichment Center become more sustainable
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GVL Archive / Eric CoulterGreener generation: Kids enjoy the playground at GVSU’s Children’s Enrichment Center, which is replacing its disposable dinnerware.
Student Senate president Jarrett Martus an-nounced Friday that executive vice president John Way had resigned from the Student Senate cabinet, electing cabinet member Alexandra “Ali” Zimmer to serve in his place.
Zimmer said Way resigned of his own free will feeling that he was not able to devote the amount of time required for his position. Way will continue to serve as a Student Senate cabinet member despite the resignation.
“[Way] has been more than willing to help with the transition, so I think it should be pretty
smooth, ideally,” Zim-mer said. “We’re looking forward to the elections ahead.”
Martus said he has faith in Zimmer’s abilities and has watched her success-fully chair the President’s Ball subcommittee for the past three years.
“It’s the end of the year, so we’ll be wrapping up a lot of things; and I think she’ll be very good at that,” Martus said. “I’m excited to be working with her and to be finishing up a successful rest of the year.”
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Spiral notebooks are a constant compan-ion for college students, who’s grades usually hinge on how well they record
lecture information and charts onto familiar pages. Now, Grand Valley State University senior Ryan Weber and recent GVSU gradu-ate AJ Montgomery hope to transform clut-tered notes and figures with their notebook company, Unruled.
Unlike traditional notebooks, Unruled notebooks have blank, unlined pages, allow-ing students to draw out diagrams, graphs or just day-to-day notes without lines cluttering up the page. The idea for the company came
last year during a late-night study session.“I came back from the library last year
really late at night and (Montgomery) came into my room and asked me if I had any un-lined, white computer paper for something he was working on,” Weber said. “…We got to talking: ‘Let’s just make notebooks like this.’ So we looked around the internet, we looked in all the office stores and no one made it.”
The closest alternative Weber and Mont-gomery found were art pads, which are often a more costly and impractical option.
“Those aren’t very practical for tak-ing notes,” Montgomery said. “It’s thick-er paper plus they fold out vertically and it’s just not really meant for it.”
Students think outside the lines with new companyBy Chelsea Lane GVL Staff Writer
Wednesday night, representatives from the College Democrats, College Republicans, Nouveaux Social-ists and Campus Libertarians will unite for a politi-
cal forum designed to introduce students to a variety of political viewpoints and ideologies while hearing debate on a variety of the nation’s most pressing policy concerns.
The event will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Pere Mar-quette room in the Kirkhof Center. In addition to a panel discus-sion and Q&A, the forum will also offer free pizza and is LIB 100 and US 201 approved.
The political forum will include three representatives from each of the four participating groups answering questions about a number of agreed-upon issues, including the national and local economic recovery, health care, military conflicts and undocu-mented workers. Each group will outline their specific ideologies and platforms, in addition to proposing what steps policy makers should take next on certain issues. Representatives will also cite their favorite U.S. Supreme Court case and favorite amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
“The purpose of this event is to educate GVSU students about the broad spectrum of political ideologies and give them adequate information to make decisions about where they stand political-ly,” said Paul LeBlanc, president of GVSU College Democrats. “We were emphatic that this event should include representatives from political groups other than the two major parties to reflect the diversity of political thought in the nation, around the world and on GVSU’s campus.”
College Republicans chairman Kyle Smith said his group’s opening statement will focus on the federal budget and deficit spending.
“The United States cannot afford to keep borrowing mon-ey like it is,” he said. “Sacrifices must be made, and we are going to have to make some adjustments in our spending hab-its.”
The event is intended to move students to a place where they stand politically and become more involved in the politi-cal process, Smith said.
“Overall, I encourage students to attend this event, as our generation will bear the effects of the current Congress’ bud-gets and spending,” he said. “It is one thing for students to say that they disagree with something that the government
Upcoming student debate includes four political ideologies in
By Chelsea Lane GVL Staff Writer
Courtesy photo / facebook.comPublic policy: Members of the College Republicans pose at a past event. They will debate at the forum Wednesday, along with other political groups.
Courtesy photo / Ryan WeberBusiness: Ryan Weber and AJ Montgomery (left and right) collaborated on the new Unruled notebooks.
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BRIEFS!New recycling program on Holland campus
A new recycling program on the Meijer campus in Holland at Grand Valley State University meets the university’s triple bottom line of sustainability: economic, environmental and social.
The recycled materials at the South Waverly Road complex are no longer being picked up by a water and recycling disposal service company, but instead being picked up by the Holland Campus Green Team.
So far, recycling efforts have saved more than 2,400 trees.
Student Senate to present Last Lecture
The Student Senate at Grand Valley State University is hosting its annual Last Lecture presentation on March 17 at 6:30 p.m. in the Pere Marquette room in Kirkhof on Allendale campus. The event is free to the public and pizza will be provided.
This semester, the lecture will feature Sheldon Kopperl from the biomedical science department and Danielle DeMuth of the women and gender studies department.
The Last Lecture event is LIB 100 approved. For more information, please contact Natalie Clearly, Student Senate vice president for public relations, at [email protected].
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does; it is another for them to do something about it.”
GVSU student Will Hibler, who will represent the Liber-tarian viewpoint during the debate, said he aims to cover the need for fiscally sustain-able national and local bud-get as well as the protection of free speech in regards to net neutrality legislation and the Patriot Act.
“We have been living be-yond our means for years by implementing one-time bud-get gimmicks at the state level and relying on federal bailout funds to cover the shortfall in our state budget, which must be balanced every year as mandated by our state con-stitution,” Hibler said. “...By participating in this forum, we hope to emphasize the importance of personal and financial liberty, and the abil-ity of individuals and states to set legislation, rather than adopting blanket reforms at the national level.”
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Weber and Montgomery’s initial idea has steadily grown into a promising business. The notebooks are currently sold at both GVSU and West-ern Michigan University. University Bookstore bought an initial order of 250 note-books
“A lot of students in BMS (buy the notebooks) and I think Econ can definitely use them,” Montgomery said. “...I know that professors use the whiteboard and they’re all over the place, so it’s kind of hard if you’re trying to draw arrows and everything else for the flowcharts.”
Each notebook contains 100 durable sheets of pre-per-forated, three-hole punched paper and comes in a wide variety of cover designs, cre-ated by fellow GVSU student, art design major Nate Garcia. The paper itself comes from a Minnesota-based company, but the rest of the manufac-turing process, including
binding and printing, takes place in Grand Rapids.
Although an outside com-pany currently manufactures the notebooks, Weber and Montgomery said they plan on converting to an in-house process. After they receive their next round of orders in the early summer, they hope to begin looking for a ware-house to serve as Unruled’s manufacturing headquarters. The pair have also begun talks with national companies, some ranked in the Fortune 500, about distributing their product to a wider market.
But for the time being, their focus is on maintain-ing the company’s recently-launched website, www.unrulednotebooks.com, and starting a video marketing campaign.
“If it gets busy enough to keep us busy full-time, then it’ll definitely become that,” Weber said. “We probably talk every day about it, but it’s not an everyday job yet.”
community take notice of what the CEC has done in order to trigger more ideas for sustain-able projects.
“The CEC project is exactly what we had in mind when the
Reinvestment Fund was cre-ated,” Bartels said. “The project provides education to children about reducing environmental impact and does so while saving almost $4,000 per year.”
Bartels also pointed out that this project will only take two months to accrue savings and return the loan back to the Re-investment Fund.
But this project is not just a benefit for the environment and the CEC’s budget. Miranda-Bevier said they will be using this project as the first of many opportunities to teach the chil-dren about the benefits of sus-tainability.
“We want to extend that into our classrooms, into our community,” Miranda-Bevier said. “We want to teach them, the children and their families, about recycling, about waste, and about sustainability.”
Although not everyone agrees with such a practice, there are groups of people within social groups, especially among younger generations, that have chosen to take words once used to create social barriers and marginalize said groups and “reclaim” them as terms of endearment among members of the same social status. Some African Americans routinely call each other “niggas,” some women call each other “bitch-es,” and, although it is less widespread, some members of the LGBT community have chosen to reclaim the word “faggot.”
Now, bearing this in mind, could you ever imagine a real-world instance in which a person with a mental disability – like Down syn-drome or autism, just to name a few – would use the word “retard” as a term of endearment for another person with a mental disability?
If your answer is yes, then you have a twisted sense of humor and should probably seek help. If your answer is no (and we so hope it is), then that should be enough to rationalize why there is no legitimate reason for anyone to use this word, ever.
The rationalization of “reclamation” is a shaky one in itself. There are those who believe that using such words devalues the struggle of those who fought against a society that regularly used the degrading slurs from which these words are derived, and there are those who be-lieve using such words desensitizes the impact they have, thus making society less subjected to social friction.
And there are those that don’t care either way.But realizing that a demeaning term like “retard” wouldn’t, or at
least shouldn’t, be suited for reclamation should deter its use.Some would argue that the term is not demeaning because it is gen-
erally not accepted for anyone to call a person with a mental disability “retarded” or a “retard,” but such is not the case. In past uses, some saw it acceptable to refer to a person or thing as “retarded” to draw paral-lels to the dysfunctional or, plainly, things that were stupid. The reason why one would use the term in such a case is because it draws paral-lels to people with mental disabilities, as if to say the only reason that someone would say, do or make something that seems to lack common sense to the broader society is because he or she must have a mental disability. You may not be calling a person with a mental disability a “retard,” but you are comparing other things to such people through a negative connotation.
Recently we have seen a surging campaign that attempted to get society, especially members of younger generations, to stop using such words. In 2007, the NAACP held a “funeral” for the “N-word” in an at-tempt to call for African Americans to collectively stop using the word, and recently there has been a social movement for people to stop using the word “gay” when referring to things that seem stupid to a person or group (we’ve all seen the Wanda Sykes commercial). But members of the African-American community can decide for themselves how they feel about the “N-word,” and members of the LGBT community can defend themselves against inappropriate references. Maybe it’s time that society collectively follow in the footsteps of organizations like Best Buddies and Grand Valley Disability Advocates in giving voice to the voiceless and defending those who, unfortunately, cannot defend themselves. It’s a bandwagon worth jumping on.
Although there hasn’t been a huge push to end it, society needs to come together under the realization that there is no legitimate or appropriate reason to ever use the word ‘retard.’
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“No. I have mentally impaired family. It’s offensive to me.”
Eric Miller SophomoreFilm and computer scienceWyandotte, Mich.
“Do I believe we should have the freedom of speech to say it? Yes. Do I think it’s morally right to say it? No.”
Malachi Sullivan JuniorPhilosophy Ludington, Mich.
“Definitely not. I don’t think people really know when they say it that it affects other people.”
Katelyn Harris SeniorNursing Traverse City, Mich.
“If someone is using it to belittle and harm someone else, then they should reconsider the use. However, if used properly I see no problem.”
Ian Deering SeniorManagement information systemsBad Axe, Mich.
“No. Whenever people do, I usually say, ‘Don’t use that word.’”
Carly Luke JuniorHealth communicationsSt. Clair Shores, Mich.
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Dear students of GVSU,Many of you are not happy that
Michigan is cutting the availability of Bridge Cards for us students. I, however, think it is one of the best things the government has done in a long time. Beginning in April, only those who have children and are in school, those who are unable to work, or those who are in an unpaid internship or on-the-job training will be eligible. This is how it should have been in the first place because then so many college students would not be dependent on the Bridge cards and they would have found other means to make ends meet.
I’m sure a lot of you are saying “Well, I really need it.” Let me ask you these questions. Do you have a job? Are you able to get a job? How much do you pay for your cell phone bill? Do you need to pay that much? Is having Internet on your phone more important than eating? Did you need those $150 Uggs? Or those $100 Lucky
brand jeans? And to those that it applies to: how do you pay for the alcohol you drink every weekend? Or those drugs you use? There are so many things that you could cut to start saving money for groceries. It may take away “fun” money, but you have to eat somehow. So stop complaining.
To help regulate the use of the Bridge Card, there should be a drug test when you apply for it and every three months to make sure you aren’t using drugs. If you don’t pass the drug test, then you should not be able to get the bridge card. The government should not be expected to pay for your food when you use your own cash to buy drugs. I strongly believe that those who are using illegal substances should not have access to help from the government.
To those who are complaining about getting their Bridge Cards taken away and do not have jobs, are you serious? Go out and get a job! I am from this area and I know
many businesses around here that are very willing to hire college stu-dents and work around schedules. Yes, your precious weekend time might be taken up, but at least you can put food in your cupboards.
And to those who actually need the Bridge Card and do not abuse it, I am deeply sorry and I know it will be hard to make ends meet, but it is possible! You should not be mad at our state government for cutting the card. Instead, you should be upset at all of your peers who abused the card, because it is their irresponsibility that caused the state to do this.
Fellow student, Emily Koeman
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If you are like me, you may have seen flyers around Grand Valley Sate University for tonight’s Life Raft Debate. Sadly, it’s not what you think it is. I know; I was prepared to take the anti-life raft stance, too.
“Let’s make life rafts a thing of the past!”
No, the debate has nothing to do with whether life rafts should be outlawed or not. Instead, the presentation will focus on the validity and impending importance of various majors and academic disciplines.
The premise is this: 2012 is upon us and the world begins to fall apart, just as predicted in the
movie “The Day After Tomorrow.” Because the apocalypse has to end in a massive flood (it’s what Noah would have wanted), you somehow end up with the last life raft. It has room for you and one other person of some educational merit, because you clearly have none.
Disregarding the fact that you are being unbelievably selfish by taking up one of the only two seats left for survival, and also the fact that a third person could have been saved had you not brought X-Box 360 along with you, the whole point of the exercise is to determine which education program is the most valuable.
While it may seem obvious to simply pick a member of the opposite sex (optimistically, an attractive and fertile one) to ensure repopulation, the whole hypothetical
aspect should be once again brought up. Just think to yourself, “This is an imaginary scenario. I should really just relax.”
So the question then becomes, “Which academic discipline should I save?” Your first choice will likely be whatever major you have chosen to pursue, so you bring a professor from your field into your raft while the undeclared students sit by themselves in their boats of indecisiveness, drifting out to a lonely sea.
Choosing your own subject of study may not be the smartest decision, not because accounting and business management aren’t important (Enron showed us that they totally are), but because other fields may be a tad more useful to rebuilding an entire world culture.
Engineering, for example, or creative writing.
It will certainly be a fascinating debate to sit through, watching a wide span of minds at GVSU discuss why their department deserves to be saved.
The best part is that the audience will ultimately decide what field deserves the spot on the hypothetical raft. It will likely be measured by some battle of the bands applause-o-meter, so bring your clapping A-game. And yes, it is totally legit to vote for the professor that hands out candy right before the event. In fact, that’s my strategy.
The event will be held Monday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Cook-DeWitt Center. If you have class, skip it, because it probably won’t be that important when the whole world has flooded. Hypothetically speaking, that is.
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In light of a challenge given by President Thomas J. Haas, this year’s Community Out-reach Week theme is “50 for
50” – 50 volunteer events to cel-ebrate Grand Valley State Uni-versity’s 50th anniversary.
In its third year, Commu-nity Outreach Week originally stemmed from an alumni desire to build a stronger community through service activities.
‘50 for 50’Community Outreach Week gears up for third year of service
Courtesy photos / Asa LakemanVolunteerism: Groups work on projects during last year’s Community Outreach Week. The Alumni Association and Community Service Learning Center hope the 50 service projects offered throughout the week will draw a large number of volunteers.
By Anya Zentmeyer GVL News Editor
“We realized the students at GVSU had already been doing something similar and it would make sense if we could bring all of the GV community together - students, alumni and employ-ees,” said Asa Lakeman, chair-person of the community out-reach committee.
Lakeman said the idea is to have a local project for every day of the week while also coor-dinating with alumni outside of West Michigan to set up events so it “truly becomes a global phenomenon.”
Community Outreach Week
will run from March 21 to March 26.
Between 2009 and 2010, Lakeman said Community Outreach Week saw a signifi-cant climb in participation, with about 150 volunteers in 2010. He expects that this year num-bers will continue to grow.
“Our main goal is to get to 50 events,” Lakeman said. “When we make that number, I’m sure it will turn out that we had more volunteers than in pre-vious years.”
Joshua Lee, graduate assis-tant with the Community Ser-
vice Learning Center’s Service Initiative, said he thinks Com-munity Outreach Week is a good way to connect students to the West Michigan community.
“Community Outreach Week is not only about serving, though,” Lee said. “It is also im-portant to understand the impact of nonprofit agencies and how volunteers play a vital role in sustaining the viability of West Michigan.”
In addition to nonprofit groups tabling in Kirkhof dur-ing Community Outreach Week, Lee and the rest of the Com-
munity Outreach Week team will bring in a speaker from the Heart of West Michigan United Way on March 23 at 7:15 p.m. in the Pere Marquette room to talk about nonprofit agencies in the West Michigan area and dis-cuss what that means for the fis-cally exhausted state.
Students who wish to coor-dinate a project for Community Outreach Week should submit the project via e-mail to [email protected].
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The Grand Valley State University Swimming and Diving team will send 26 athletes to the 2011 NCAA Division II National Championships in San Antonio, Texas from March 9 to 12. Both teams are coming off of their best-ever finishes at the NCAA Championships in 2010, where each finished ninth.
The men will send Erik Aakesson, Aaron Beebe, Collin DeHaan, Jordan Schrotenboer, Justin Pattermann, Joe Sayre, Raphael Santos, Aaren Marecki, Aaron Marken, Derek Mead, Ben Scheu-rich and Patrick VanDommelen.
The women will send Kelsey Vermeer, Sarah Kosmak, Katelyn Childers, Erin Kin-ney, Marissa Doepker, Carly Bush, Lauren Dorsey, Toni Musto, Karen Verbrugge, Rachel Strom, Jasmine Ramahi, Jennifer Root and Katherine Vulpetti.
SWIMMING & DIVINGHEADS TO NATIONALS
The Grand Valley State University baseball team will depart for Winter Ha-ven, Fla., this week for its annual spring trip. The Lakers (2-1) will play 11 games in a week-long span while floating between Winter Haven, Auburndale and Lakeland. The trip features three double-headers with the Lakers facing Gannon University, West Chester University and Rockhurst University twice apiece. GVSU is off to a 2-1 start after wins against Carson-Newman College and Lynn University last month in a trip to Greenwood, S.C., where the team played in the Lander Baseball Invitational.
MEN’S BASkETBALL
1. Ferris State (16-3, 20-6)2. Findlay (16-3, 23-3) 3. GVSU (14-5, 19-7) 4. Wayne State (14-5, 19-7)5. Hillsdale (14-5, 20-5)6. Michigan Tech. (11-8, 16-10) 7. Lake Superior (9-10, 15-11)8. Saginaw Valley (9-10, 13-13)
WOMEN’S BASkETBALL
1. Michigan Tech. (18-1, 23-2)2. Lake Superior (13-6, 16-9) 3. GVSU (13-6, 20-6)4. Findlay (13-7, 17-9) 5. Ashland (12-7, 17-9)6. Northwood (10-9, 14-11)7. Hillsdale (10-9, 16-9) 8. Tiffin (9-10, 15-11)
It was just another day at the of-fice for the Grand Valley State University women’s track and field team as the Lakers earned
their 12th-consecutive GLIAC in-door championship on Saturday.
The meet was highlighted by nine first-place finishes, a GLIAC Coach of the Year award, a Freshman Field Athlete of the Year award for Kristen Hixson and a conference champion-ship record 238 team points.
“You can tell everyone definite-ly came to compete and wanted to win,” said senior distance runner Shaylee Vanderbaan. “They were go-ing to give everything they had. The 4x400-meter relay team dropped the baton, but managed to come back and finish second. They didn’t give up. I think winning conference gets every-one pumped up for nationals and is
another step along the way.”
On day one, sophomore throw-er Sam Lock-hart improved her mark in the weight throw and claimed one of five first-place finishes for the Lakers. Junior pole vaulter Joce-
lyn Kuksa improved her mark with a vault of 12-11 1/2, and senior Sarah Dugan claimed the 5,000-meter run. Freshman sprinter Brittney Jackson took gold in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.77 seconds, and the dis-tance medley relay team ran an auto-matic-qualifying time of 11 minutes, 39.5 seconds.
“It’s really hard to single out one event group,” said Jerry Baltes, GVSU head coach. “All our events scored quite a few points with nu-merous conference champions. Of
course, you want to run faster and improve your times for the nation-al championships, but you have to score points for the team. All the events did very, very well and helped in the score, the most ever in a GLI-AC championship.”
On day two, four more first-place finishes were captured. Junior throw-er Lauren Buresh hit the automatic mark in the shot put, and senior sprint-er Kayla Vallar won the 400-meter dash in 56.98 seconds. Junior dis-tance runner Chanelle Caldwell cap-tured the 800-meter run, while her fellow distance runner, junior Mon-ica Kinney, won the 3,000-meter run with a time of 9 minutes, 33.21 sec-onds, a Saginaw Valley State Univer-sity Ryder Arena record.
“We definitely take pride, espe-cially in the tradition of winning con-ference, even though it’s not that dif-ficult,” said distance runner Ashley Botham. “Conference is a bigger race, whether it’s super competitive
or not, and helps us to race at a high level. It was great to win because we broke our goal of 226 points, and it sets up well for nationals.”
Baltes was also honored with the GLIAC Coach of the Year award.
“I don’t get too caught up in that stuff,” he said. “It’s a nice honor and I appreciate the vote of confidence from my colleagues. It’s really a trib-ute to the rest of our staff and how much work and time they put into ev-erything.”
Botham said although the team won, the meet was a reminder that the team will have to train hard to clinch a victory at nationals.
“If another team goes out and has an amazing day and we don’t, then we can have our ranking taken from us,” Botham said. “I think the effort that everyone put forth at conference shows we are capable of winning a national championship. We can only control how well we perform.”
Women clinch 12th-straight GLIAC championshipBy Zach SepanikGVL Staff Writer
see LANTHORN.COMto view an online slideshow>>DODGEBALL VS. CMU
GVL Archive / Andrew MillsHonoree: Freshman Kristen Hixson (pictured) received the GLIAC Freshman Field Athlete of the Year award.
Lakers makebuLLdoGs
play dead By Brady FredericksenGVL Senior Reporter
F or the Grand Valley State Univer-sity men’s basketball team, Satur-day’s 82-80 overtime victory over GLIAC rival and No. 21 Ferris State University definitely fit the
parameters for a storybook ending. Sophomore point guard Breland Hogan,
who has averaged only 6.4 points per game this season, put together the best game of his young career, scoring a career-high 27 points, including his buzzer-beating jumper in OT that gave GVSU its biggest win of the season.
“I wasn’t surprised to get the ball. Justin’s good at finding people; I just knew I had to be ready,” said Hogan.
After recently falling from the national and regional rank-ings, Saturday’s game against Ferris State (20-6, 16-5 GLIAC) evolved into much more than an end-of-season rivalry game. It became a must-win for the Lakers (19-7, 14-5 GLIAC).
Hogan’s play throughout the game proved to be the x-factor for the Lakers, who led by as many as 10 points in the first half.
“He obviously had a tremendous game from start all the way to finish, but he has been having good practices here the last couple of weeks, and his tempo and decision making have im-proved,” said GVSU head coach Ric Wesley. “I don’t know that I saw this kind of game, but he really put it all together today.”
After a quick 12-2 start set the pace for the visiting Lakers, the Bulldogs lived up to their national billing, fighting back behind senior All-American Justin Keenan’s 18 points to tie the game at 34 going into the half.
GVSU senior Justin Ringler, the team’s leading scorer, couldn’t find a rhythm Saturday and scored only 7 points on 1-of-11 shooting, but Hogan junior James Thomas (18 points) picked up the slack.
“It’s definitely important, you know, we just have to help get better looks and knock down our open looks we get,” said Storrs, who added five points and four rebounds. “Really, it’s just about being ready and crashing glass, and I felt like we were focused on that all week in practice.”
Down the stretch, Hogan and Thomas continued to keep the Lakers on top. Hogan had a pair of jumpers in the final two min-
utes of regulation that gave GVSU a three-point lead.“I knew (a game like this) was coming sooner or later, so
I just had to pick my spots,” said Hogan, who scored 19 of his 27 points in the second half. “We have a lot of veterans as our main scorers, but it was just a big game for us to get this win.”
Thomas’ foul on Darien Gay sent the Ferris State se-nior to the line with 36 seconds left. Gay made both, cut-ting the lead to one, but Hogan made both free throws with 25 seconds left to put the Laker lead back at three.
The ensuing plays saw both Keenan and Matt De-Hart miss potential game-tying 3-pointers before Gay was bailed out on a Storrs foul during 3-point attempt.
Gay went to the line with 15 seconds left and made all three free throws to tie the game at 80. Ringler took the ball coast to coast in an attempt to win the game for GVSU, but was blocked by Keenan. The teams went back and forth throughout the overtime period as well, with the Lakers leading by as many as five midway through.
With the game tied and 14.8 seconds remaining, GVSU had the ball at midcourt in the hands of Ringler, who took an Alvin Storrs screen toward the basket. As the defense collapsed, Ringler threw the ball back out to Storrs, who swung it to Hogan at the top of the key, where he took a single dribble toward the free throw line before sinking a bank-shot 17-footer at the buzzer to give the Lakers’ the two-point overtime victory.
“I’m just proud of the guys. We’ve had some bumps in the road here as of late, but our guys have continued to hang together,” Wesley said. “Today, when all that was on the line, we just wanted to play well and rise to the challenge, so I’m very happy that they were rewarding.”
The win gives the Lakers a No. 3 seed and momentum going into an important conference tournament beginning on Wednesday. GVSU will open the tournament against No. 6 seed Michigan Technological University at home at 6 p.m.
Hogan’s overtime buzzer beater sinks bulldogs in regular season finale
GVL Archive / Eric CoulterOut of the doghouse: Sophomore forward Nick Carreri jumps to the basket during the 131 Showdown against Ferris State. Saturday’s game against Ferris was a success, with an 82-80 overtime win.
HIXON
HOGAN
This weekend, the Grand Valley State University men’s track and field team ran away with its second-straight GLIAC champion-ship, but conference cham-pionship hardware was not the only honor the Lakers brought back to Allendale.
The Lakers handled all nine other teams at the meet,
finishing with 170.5 points, well ahead of second-place Ashland University, which ended the competition with an even 100.
In addition to the con-ference title – the team’s 11th in the past 12 years – and GVSU head coach Jerry Baltes’ Coach of the Year award, distance run-ner Josh Moskalewski took home the GLIAC Fresh-man Track Athlete of the Year award after he won the individual title in the 3,000-meter run.
Moskalewski was well back of the pack more than halfway through the race, but during the last three laps he made a startling comeback.
“He turned a switch on, made a charge and just ran
away with the race,” Baltes said. “So it was real excit-ing, for a freshman to win a conference championship should mean a pretty bright future for him.”
After the races conclud-ed, Moskalewski received his GLIAC Freshman of the Year award – an an-nouncement he said came as a complete surprise.
“No, I was definitely not expecting it,” he said. “When they read it off I actually had to take a dou-ble-take. I was looking at everybody like, ‘Are you serious?’ It was amazing, just a great day.”
Though the Lakers were widely expected to win their second-straight conference title, junior distance run-ner Ryan Toth said that did not take away from the fact that the team is yet again GLIAC champions.
“It’s definitely still a big deal – we don’t take it for granted that we’re going to win every year,” he said. “Ashland is pretty good ev-ery year, and they beat us in outdoor last year so we definitely get pumped up and there’s a lot of energy in the building when we compete.”
As is often the case with both the men’s and wom-en’s track teams, the Lak-ers separated from the pack in the distance events. The team swept the top three in the 5,000-meter run, with Toth coming in first. In the 3,000-meter, two other Lakers finished in the top four with Moskalewski.
The lopsided final score could have been worse had
the Lak-ers had all their a t h l e t e s ava i l ab le during the meet. The team had two pole v a u l t e r s unable to c o m p e t e due to injury, with Bret Myers out with an injured Achilles tendon and senior Quinton Dennis, the 2010 GLIAC outdoor champion-ship title holder, was out with a sprained ankle.
“It wasn’t an easy meet,” Baltes said. “You look at that score and you think it was smooth sailing, but we had a lot of things that didn’t go smooth. Our kids fought through and compet-ed well, and that’s a tribute to them preparing and get-ting the job done.”
The Lakers now look forward to the NCAA In-door National Champion-ships, which will take place in Albuquerque, N.M., on March 11 and 12.
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Men dominate field for second-straight GLIAC championship
By Greg MonahanGVL Sports Editor
MEN’S TRACK
GVL Archive / Andrew MillsGoing for gold: Sophomore runner Zac Oleski competes in a past meet. The Lakers took home a number of individual awards in addition to their big win.
“It’s definitely still a big deal, and we don’t take it for granted that we’re going to win every year.”
-Ryan TothJunior distance
runner
Lakers finished 70.5 points ahead of GLIAC rival Ashland University
MOSKALEWISKI
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Despite mounting a strong second-half comeback, the Grand Valley State University women’s basketball team fell short in its bid for back-to-back late game victories with a 65-62 loss Saturday to Ferris State University in the final game of the regular season
Junior guard Jasmine Padin’s buzzer-beating 3-point shot as time expired was no good, giv-ing the Bulldogs their 13th win of the season. Ferris State led by as much as 11 points and entered the second half with a 36-31 lead.
GVSU owned a 42-27 ad-vantage on the glass and out-scored Ferris State 18-2 in sec-ond-chance points, but junior guard Tricia Principe paced the Bulldog attack with 25 points, including seven 3-pointers.
“You have to be on high alert when (Principe) is out there and recognize where she is, and we did not do a very good job with that all today,” said GVSU head coach Janel Burgess.
GVSU finished the regu-
lar season with a 20-6 overall mark, going 13-6 in GLIAC play. With the loss Saturday, the Lakers earned the No. 3 seed for the GLIAC Tournament.
Sophomore guard Lauren Stodola, who finished with a team-high 13 points against Fer-ris State, said the GLIAC tour-nament will give the Lakers an opportunity to start fresh after Saturday’s loss.
“What it came down to to-day was we couldn’t get defen-sive stops and weren’t playing the defense that we needed to or expect to,” she said. “The (GLI-AC) tournament is a whole new season. We have to have a short memory of this loss and move on while focusing on Monday and Tuesday in practice on our game process.”
The Lakers host Northwood University in the quarterfinal
round on Wednesday night at 8 p.m. The last time the Lakers hosted the Wolves, they were upended in a 63-48 defeat.
“We are really excited for the postseason,” Stodola said. “Our defense is going to be our top priority because in tournament time we’ll have to grind out games and get stops when they count.”
While finishing with 20 wins during the regular season was a significant accomplishment for a young squad, Burgess stressed having a focus on the elimina-tion-style play of the tourna-ment as a crucial element in the team’s postseason success.
“Our regular season is done and everyone will start out 0-0,” she said. “... It doesn’t matter who you will play, but it will be a great opponent.”
Lakers fall to Ferris in regular season finale
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Team finishes with 20-6 regular season record
GVL Archive / Eric CoulterBattling the Bulldogs: Sophomore forward Brittany Taylor shoots past Ferris defense during a previous match. The team lost 65-62 Saturday.
By Derek WolffGVL Assistant Sports Editor
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lakerlifeGrand Valley Lanthorn
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B4Your life at Grand Valley
SPREAD THE WORDTO END THE WORD
It isn’t always voluntary. It isn’t something you think about. By now, it may be burned into your vocabulary. The word “retard” has been ad-opted by popular culture as synonymous with words such as dumb or
stupid, but the “r-word” can also be harmful.Best Buddies, an international organization that ad-
vocates for people with intellectual disabilities, has helped gain equal opportunities and understanding for an estimated 250,000 people each year.
The Grand Valley State University Best Buddies chapter, along with the Grand Valley Disability Ad-vocates and Alpha Sigma Alpha, will sponsor the “Spread the Word to End the Word” campaign on the GVSU campus beginning March 14. The event is in-tended to raise discussions about the negative reper-cussions of the “r-word” and begin to remove it from everyday language.
“Painful stereotypes dehumanize people with intel-lectual disabilities, usually in a fleeting casual way,” said Laura Berry, president of the GVSU Best Bud-dies chapter. “When a person with an intellectual dis-ability overhears or sees movies like ‘Tropic Thunder’ depicting a ‘retard’ in a comical way, it hurts to their core.”
Hollywood films, including “Tropic Thunder,” “Anger Management” and “The Hangover,” have all made references to the term, each one used as an in-sult or derogatory remark. Advocacy groups went af-ter “Tropic Thunder” for its use of the word.
“The ‘r-word’ is very similar to the ‘n-word,’” Berry said. “The deroga-tory effects of the ‘n-word’ were at one time cuffed off, and the word was used casually. It was not until a group of people stood up for themselves that the word became shameful to use.”
In 2004, the Special Olympics International Board of Directors lobbied to have the medical term “mental retardation” changed to “intellectual dis-
abilities” and subsequently launched a website in 2008 to advocate for the removal of the terminology from common usage.
Two college students continued the advocacy campaign with Spread the Word, which started March of 2009 at Notre Dame University. Since then, almost all of the 1,500 Best Buddies chapters have sponsored a similar event. Currently, more than 150,000 people have made an online pledge to the website www.r-word.org to stop using the word, and they urge others
to do the same.During the event on campus, students are en-
couraged to sign the large banner the campaigners will have on their table in the Kirkhof Center, to wear buttons pledging their support to stop using the word and to encourage friends and family to do the same.
“The best thing students can do is talk to their friends about the harmful effects and create a na-tional conversation that has the power to change every person’s mindset,” Berry said.
The main event of the week will feature speak-ers from Grand Valley Disability Services, the Special Olympics and Best Buddies to rally sup-port for their cause. The discussion will take place at 9 p.m. on March 17 in the Pere Marquette Room of Kirkhof Center.
While some are quick to say that they do not use the word in the company of those with mental dis-abilities, the “r-word” can still be harmful to those who know someone with one.
“You never know who has a brother or a friend with a disability,” said Karen Hain, a GVSU stu-dent.
While the word may seem harmless, Berry said the word does emotional harm to “the most vulnerable population in our society.”
“The ‘r-word’ is used against such a vulnerable population that they need our help to spread the word to end the word,” she said.
Campus groups advocate for end of the ‘r-word’By Marc MaycroftGVL Staff Writer
“Painful stereotypes dehumanize people with intellectual disabilities, usually in a fleeting, casual way.”
-Laura BerryGVSU Best Buddies president
Actions speak louder than words, and kind acts and good deeds are spreading across Grand Valley State University through the Pay it Forward campaign.
Sponsored by the Health and Wellness Center and the Children’s Enrichment Center, the Pay it Forward Campaign began Feb. 14 and will run through spring break.
Fifty original cardholders were selected from GVSU faculty and staff to initiate the campaign, and 50 additional cards were given to randomly selected students during the Leadership Summit. These individuals started the campaign by doing a good deed to another member of the GVSU community.
“We tied the project to GVSU’s 50th Anniversary by using 50 original card holders,” said senior Rachel Siebert, an intern at the Health and Wellness Center. “It’s really nice for students because it’s always good to extend your hand to help one another. It gives GVSU a great sense of community.”
The campaign also ties to the core values of the university.
“(It) asks us to honor our Laker unity and reach out and help one another, knowing that it is for the greater good of our community,” said Sharalle Arnold, director of the Children’s Enrichment Center.
The Pay it Forward concept has traveled
around the world. A local news broadcast that covered the campaign in Grand Rapids provided the inspiration for the GVSU campaign.
“I thought it might be a wonderful idea to engage our faculty, staff and students as we were close to wrapping up the Dr. Martin Luther King celebration, which invites us to consider action steps needed to build a unified community,” Arnold said.
Health and Wellness coordinator Lindsey DesArmo said studies have shown good deeds can also affect people’s moods in positive ways.
“I think this is a great campaign to highlight all of the good deeds GVSU students, faculty and staff are doing everyday,” she added. “Not only is it an opportunity to share your stories of something that someone did for you or how you ‘paid it forward,’ it gives others ideas to do something good for someone else.”
GV pays it forwardBy Samantha ArnoldGVL Staff Writer
GVL / text taken from www.r-word.org
GVL / Nicole LamsonCulture of kindness: Malachi Sullivan holds a door open for Kyle Walton while he takes out recycling. The Pay it Forward campaign at Grand Valley began Feb. 14 to spread random acts of kindness across campus.
“(It) asks us to honor Laker unity and reach out and help one another...”
-Sharalle ArnoldDirector of Children’s
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• Most people think of Abra-ham Lincoln as an iconic presi-dent and the Great Emancipa-tor, but many don’t realize that he also was an inventor. He was issued patent No. 6,469 for an inflatable device he designed to help buoy river-going vessels over shoals.
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Laker LifeYour life at Grand Valley
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The Crohn’s and Colitis Stu-dent Initiative (CCSI), in part-nership with CCFA, will offer the Grand Valley State Univer-sity community a closer look at a couple of prevalent but often overlooked diseases.
An informational session, “Understanding Inflammatory Bowel Disease: What Every Pa-tient Needs to Know,” will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday in the Pere Marquette Room of Kirkhof Center.
CCSI president Justin Gray said the presentation will pro-vide an opportunity for profes-sors to learn more about the dis-eases and how to offer support to students who have them.
Crohn’s disease and ulcer-ative colitis are chronic diges-tive disorders of the intestines, collectively known as inflam-matory bowel diseases. IBD has no known cause, and symp-toms – persistent diarrhea, ab-dominal pain or cramps, fever and weight loss, blood passing through the rectum and oth-ers – can flare without warn-ing. Medications can alleviate symptoms, but while surgical removal of the colon can cure ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s dis-ease has no cure.
“You can have these two diseases but have no outward signs,” said Gray, who has had Crohn’s disease since age 10. “So this is kind of a way to open the eyes of professors and students here on Grand Valley’s campus to what these diseases are and the problems that they can cause in regards to missing school and class work, tests, leaving to use the bathroom frequently, and things of that nature.”
The lecture will feature Har-old Conrad, pediatric gastroen-terologist at Spectrum Health’s Helen DeVos Children’s Hospi-
tal, who will give a presentation similar to one he gave on cam-pus last year.
He will speak about resourc-es for people with inflamma-tory bowel diseases (IBD) such as Camp Oasis, a camp for chil-dren with Crohn’s and Colitis, and the Take Steps Grand Rap-ids walk, a fundraiser that will take place on May 1.
“On a daily basis, you have to deal with multiple bathroom visits, cramping, headaches, migraine, dehydration,” Gray said. “Food allergies can be a huge problem, like gluten-free, allergic to egg, dairy. There are a lot of food problems, espe-cially with eating on campus and things of that nature.”
Gray said the medications for IBD can suppress the im-mune system and make people more susceptible to other ill-nesses.
“There are chemotherapy agents that can make you re-ally nauseous and sick after you take it,” Gray added.
He also wants to use the event to raise awareness about the student organization, the Crohn’s and Colitis Student Initiative, which currently has about 15 members.
“It helps give you people to relate with,” said sopho-more Ryan Vanravenswaay, a member of CCSI who also has Crohn’s disease.
Although Vanravenswaay said he would be sick in bed or the hospital without medication for his disease, he added the members of CCSI do not seek the pity of classmates or profes-sors.
“Everyone has different challenges,” he said. “We have ours to deal with, and if there is someone else out there who has Crohn’s and who has not gone to our group, it would be good fellowship.”
Info session to tackle Crohn’s and Colitis
Throughout 50 years of transforma-tions, challenges and identity changes, one person has served the campus and lived the adventures since 1968.
Presenter Lynn “Chick” Blue spoke about how Grand Valley State University developed from cornfields and multiple campuses of its early years in the Wednes-day installment of the 50th At Noon Lec-ture Series.
Blue started her work at GVSU 43 years ago in the Registrar’s Office.
“My first job was to know catalogs,” Blue said. “The first catalogs were only 35 pages long, and we offered only 12 cours-es at the beginning. The real trick was to recruit students about what was to come.”
Blue reminisced about simpler days, “Ozzie and Harriet days,” before the era of campus police disciplining students for playing cards in the library. Blue traced her experiences to before Zumberge Li-brary when the books were housed in the “pink farmhouse.”
Blue took part in many transformations
and solutions to make life easier for students. For a peri-od of time known as “the cluster college years,” GVSU was a compilation of five different colleges.
“Every college on campus wanted to be unique, but this opened up issues,”
Blue said. “Things were very complex. Every college had their own registration office and 21 different grading computa-tions with no computers.”
The crowd laughed as it felt her pain, but the issues were serious.
“At that time we were losing enroll-ment numbers,” Blue said. “We were fo-cused on the internal and not the external. Internal offices were pitted against each other, and we were spending all of our time on ourselves versus on our external identity.”
By the 1980s, things for GVSU and Blue started to come together. The divi-sion of the different colleges ended, and common grading and transcripts began.
With the late ‘80s and early ‘90s came the technology that made her job easier than the years of registering students by hand in the Fieldhouse.
“Our office made it a point to go back
and scan and index every one of the 2,345,600 transcripts that we had in our possession,” Blue said.
Today, Blue is the vice provost for Aca-demic Services and IT.
Throughout the slideshow, the audience members were awed by the early states of GVSU and the longevity of the speaker.
“I see GVSU has come a long way and I’m proud to be a part of it,” said Keenan Benning, an Information Technology ma-jor. “I believe that GVSU has many things to still fix, but I see progress.”
From cluster college to state university50th anniversary lecturer gives firsthand account of GV historyBy Marcus J. ReynoldsGVL Staff Writer
By Susie SkowronekGVL Laker Life Editor
Courtesy photo / facebook.comAnswering questions: Members of the Crohn’s and Colitis Student Initiative pose for a group photo. The CCSI will host their event Tuesday.
“We were focused on the internal and not the external. Internal offices were pitted against each other, and we were spending all of our time on ourselves versus on our external identity.”
-Lynn BlueVice provost for Academic
Services and IT
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Courtesy photo / gvsu.eduVintage Valley: A recruitment poster featuring students and faculty advertises the School of General Studies, renamed the TJC in 1969.