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GV FRESHMAN HIT BY EIGHTH PITCH IN 2015, A NEW RECORD
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GV HOSTS REGIONAL SCIENCE OLYMPIAD COMPETITION
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variety of chang-es are coming to Grand Valley State Univer-sity’s Allendale
Campus in 2015, including new food and dining options for students.
Deb Rambadt, campus dining marketing director, spoke to the GVSU Student Senate on Thursday, March 26 to outline the coming changes before they hit campus during the spring and fall semesters. She an-nounced that on April 20-23, students have the op-portunity to preview The Marketplace additions.
“You’ll be able to look at it, get some samples, that kind of thing,” she said.
The first major addition will be a new building called The Marketplace, which will be the University Bookstore’s new home. The Marketplace will feature two new campus dining options: a full Star-bucks, opening April 27, and sandwich shop Which Wich?
that will open in the fall.“We’ve gotten a lot of
Facebook and Twitter action about Starbucks,” Rambadt said. “People are excited.”
The food options in the Kirkhof Center will also be expanded in the fall, using the current book-store location’s space on the main level.
Subway, currently on the lower level, will move upstairs with two lines to improve traffic flow. There will also be a Panda Express and an expanded Lobby Shop. The Croutons line will remain on the lower level, accompanied by a new customizable pizza and pasta line.
The expansion in Kirk-hof, along with the other new venues, will better suit the needs of the growing campus population, Ram-badt said.
“Expanding venues in-creases convenience, helps to balance traffic across campus and, overall, enhances dining experiences,” she said.
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tudent Scholars Day offers the opportunity for Grand Valley State Univer-
sity students to showcase their faculty-mentored work and re-search to the Grand Rapids and campus community.
The Office of Undergradu-ate Research and Scholarship will host the 20th annual Stu-dent Scholars Day (SSD) on Wednesday, April 8 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at various locations on the GVSU Allendale Campus.
“Students do incredible work (at GVSU) – it’s amaz-ing what they do,” said Susan Mendoza, director of the Of-fice of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship. “But there’s not always the opportunity to showcase and talk about it. SSD provides an event where you can see multiple disciplines in a short amount of time.”
Poster presentations, oral presentations, discussion and panel sessions, fine arts ex-hibits and performances are the ways students will present their research. Presentations will be at places like the Kirk-hof Center, Henry Hall and the Mary Idema Pew Library.
When SSD first started, it was called Student Research Day. It was formed within the division on math and science, and had roughly 100 presentations.
This year, there will be 361 presentations, exhibits and performances by 531 stu-dents – with the help of 200 faculty mentors.
“It’s much more diverse in discipline than it has been in the past,” Mendoza said. “We have a lot of humanities presentations this year com-ing out of modern languages,
history and classics.”For some faculty mem-
bers, SSD is one of their fa-vorite days because they get the chance to see all of the interesting topics students are interested in, Mendoza said.
“It’s a collaborative effort be-tween the students and the fac-ulty members to prepare these presentations – so it’s very time intensive,” Mendoza said.
For students, conduct-ing research not only looks good for potential graduate schools or employers, but also helps expand their com-munication skills.
“It’s also an opportunity to learn how to present complex information in a meaningful, but appropriate, way for your audience,” Mendoza said. “For example, for some students in the lab sciences, it’s translat-ing the work they’re doing to someone that doesn’t have a background in that area.”
Dallas Rohraff, a sopho-more at GVSU majoring in cell and molecular biology, is an undergraduate research ambassador – a program put on through the Office of Un-dergraduate Research and Scholarship.
She participated in the Stu-dent Summer Scholars pro-gram in 2014. Her research focused on evaluating essential oils for antibiotic activity.
Rohraff admitted that the idea of doing independent re-search was intimidating. But, as the summer progressed, she grew more independent and gained confidence.
“This personal growth has really inspired me to go further in my research career,” Rohraff said. “I am more prepared for many of my future classes and have a tendency to gain a deep-
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ore than 100 students, facul-ty and community members gathered in the Mary Idema Pew Library for the annual Cesar E. Chavez Day in
2014. This year, the event is being held on Tuesday, March 31. It is expected to draw over 234 people in the Cook-DeWitt Cen-ter on the Allendale Campus.
The event will honor the United Farmworkers, the Young Lords, Chavez and other activists who have fought to defend Latinos from being displaced. The event will also focus on the Young Lords in Lincoln Park collection, which is housed in Seidman House special col-lections. Launched by José “Cha-Cha”
Jiménez, founder of the Young Lords Movement, “The Young Lords in Lincoln Park” collection conveys the struggle for fair housing and human rights.
The event will focus on looking at the historical background of the situa-tion and how the displacement of Lati-nos and the poor from prime real estate areas of cities continues today.
“We cannot repeat the same errone-ous policies of Lincoln Park Chicago that destroyed a diverse neighborhood, in-cluding the entire community of the first Puerto Ricans to Chicago,” Jimenez said. “Today, it is affluent and the city makes good money on hiked up taxes for pa-tronage – but it is 95 percent white. We are not evicting the homeless. We are evicting hardworking families who are holding
two or more jobs to survive.”The event will also include a live per-
formance of “Elvira,” a professional play about a Mexican woman and her son who looked for safety at a Chicago church. It will look at immigration rights and the separation of families.
“‘Elvira,’ the play, is important because it is another major concern among many Latino families who continue to be dis-criminated and scapegoated,” Jimenez said. “Many undocumented families continue to be divided and have become victims of laws that are like Jim Crow (laws) – racist. We need immigrant rights reform and we need discussion on the table, not on the back burner.”
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YES WE CAN: Students participate in the Cesar E. Chavez Celebration Silent March around the GVSU campus in 2013. This year, the event takes place on Tuesday in the Cook-DeWitt Center, where students can learn more about Latinos.
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er understanding of the ma-terial.”
Rohraff ’s experience with research made her realize she wants to pursue research as a career.
“Research lets you develop a project of your own and can be a major step in helping you decide what you want to do after graduation,” Rohraff said. “It’s also really fun.”
Additionally, Rohraff ex-pressed her excitement to present on her findings at SSD and learn of what other students are working on.
“For anyone interested in research, I recommend at-tending SSD,” Rohraff said. “You can walk around, see what projects interest you, and you have the opportunity to talk to others conducting research on campus to get more information.”
Through research, stu-
dents develop various re-lationships – whether they come from coworkers, schol-ars or mentors, Rohraff noted.
Student Scholars Day will also include keynote speaker Dr. Brian Fagan, who will discuss his research on how climate change has affected human history.
“A Warming World and Changing Seas: An Archaeolo-gist Looks at Climate Change” will occur on April 8 at 7 p.m. in the Grand River Room at the Kirkhof Center.
“I think the part that cap-tivates folks the most about (Fagan) is the breadth and depth of his work,” Mendoza said. “He’s also someone that makes the information acces-sible. He took his discipline of archaeology and applied it to a topic that folks hadn’t al-ways thought about.”
To see a list and schedule of the presentations, visit www.gvsu.edu/ours/ssd and click on Schedule Builder.
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Additionally, an awards ceremony recognizing local community activists will follow at 4:40 p.m. The awards were chosen by a committee that included Dr. Carlos Rodriguez of University Libraries and Al-lison Montaie of the Office of Multicultural Affairs.
“They, too, are unsung he-roes. Like the unsung heroes from 1960s Lincoln Park, we
wanted to link them to today locally,” Jimenez said. “It is the same protracted struggle here that it was then.”
The film, “Millie and the Lords,” will be shown following the awards cer-emony. The film focuses on Puerto Rican students in New York in the 1960s who joined the Young Lords – a movement where youth challenged govern-ment decisions and looked for ways to address issues of civil rights, racism and
social justice. Some of the issues faced in the movie are gangs, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender bias and domestic violence. This Young Lords movement was part of the Latino Civil Rights Movement, led by Cesar Chavez and others.
GVSU President Thomas J. Haas, Vice President of In-clusion and Equity Jesse Ber-nal and Dean of the Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies Anne Hiske will be in attendance to offer up what
they can on the issues during the event and to observe the student-run event.
“We are students and we have the power to make change, but we can-not make change without discussion,” Jimenez said. “That is why we need this. It is why we promote the Young Lords in Lincoln Park Collection about an entire community that was displaced – we celebrate Cesar Chavez. Si Se Puede.”
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Kleiner Commons, on the north end of campus, was transformed last year with new options and improved seating. This year, phase two of that transforma-tion will be implemented, Rambadt said.
The coffee location will be moved this summer to a separate area and will feature EcoGrounds, a sustainable coffee brand. Kleiner’s current C-Store will be expanded to resemble The Con-nection’s POD store.
There will also be a new gaming cen-ter for students to play video games at their leisure on campus televisions.
Students can always give input on changes to campus dining by filling out a new online survey, which helps cam-pus dining determine which types of food students want. Anyone is welcome to join in campus dining’s food commit-tee meetings, which are held every third Tuesday each month.
“Response to the coming changes has been very positive and we’re excited to launch these new options for the campus
community to enjoy,” Rambadt said.The Student Senate named Ram-
badt Laker of the Year at the Presi-dents’ Ball in February for her work to improve the university.
“I’m so, so grateful for that recogni-tion – not just for myself but for our en-tire department,” Rambadt told the sen-ate. “It meant a great deal.”
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FAMILY HEALTH MATTERS TO HIGHLIGHT
WGVU MANAGER’S FIGHT WITH CANCERWGVU Public Media presented the story of its
General Manager Michael Walenta and his fight with cancer on the next edition of “Family Health Matters.”
Titled “One Family’s Journey,” the program fol-lowed the whole Walenta family in an up-close and personal look at the struggles of cancer.
WGVU TV aired the story at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 29. In addition to this program, WGVU Public Media has created the project “Managing the Journey: Celebrating Life & Hope” in an effort to sup-port families with cancer patients.
For additional information, go to www.wgvu.org.
GV CLASSICS PROFESSOR DRAWS
NATIONAL ATTENTION FOR NEW BOOKA new book by a Grand Valley State University clas-
sics professor is being recognized on a national level for its never-before-published classic Greek texts.
Written by Diane Raynor, “Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works” is being cel-ebrated for its translation of all the works of ancient Greek poet Sappho. Raynor’s book is now the only publication in existence to include three newly dis-covered poems from 2004 and 2014.
The book has been reviewed twice by The New Yorker literary critic Daniel Mendelsohn. The full article can be read at www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/hearing-sappho.
For more information about Raynor’s book, go to gvsu.edu/s/RI.
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GRAND RAPIDS URBAN INSTITUTEThe Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in
Grand Rapids is set to feature the works of two Grand Valley State University students at a special exhibit in addition to pieces from artists recognized on the international level.
Works from GVSU students Kryzsztof Lower and Annie Teall will be featured in the “Terms of Service” exhibition. “Terms of Service” is known to feature art that focuses on identity and individualism in an environment that is being increasingly monitored.
Lower’s work “3 Minutes of Sleep” was created back in 2012 and chronicles a whole night of sleep through a digital print with images of himself sleeping.
The exhibit will run from March 30 to April 17 with an opening reception from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, April 3.
The Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts is located at 2 W. Fulton, Grand Rapids. For more information about Terms of Service, go to termsof-service2015.tumblr.com.
NEW STUDY ON GERALD R. FORD AIRPORTA new study from a Grand Valley State University
economics expert shows that the Gerald R. Ford International Airport is responsible for supplying more than 40,000 jobs in West Michigan.
Airport officials worked with Paul Isely, professor and associate dean of economics in the Seidman College of Business at GVSU, for six months as he accumulated data for his study.
The study shows that the airport is responsible for $3.1 billion in economic output and has cre-ated, on average, 271 jobs every year for the past 25 years. Also, approximately 6,500 households admitted they would not have moved into the area without the existence of the airport.
For more information about the study, contact Paul Isely at (616) 331-7418 or [email protected]
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he Frederik Meijer Foundation recently named Linda Cham-berlain the Endowed Honors Chair in Entre-
preneurship and Innovation at Grand Valley State University.
Chamberlain, who has been a Michigan Accelerator Fund director since 2012, said she feels “honored and privileged to have been selected,” expressing her gratitude to the GVSU Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies and the Honors College for giving her the opportunity.
“I am very eager to start the en-dowed chair position,” Chamberlain said. “There are so many wonderful opportunities for students to engage with the community to support inno-
vation and/or take the leap and think about launching their own business or initiative to implement solutions to problems. I look for-ward to working closely with the Honors Col-lege students and fellow faculty to make great things happen.”
She added that she is excited to work directly with the students and develop her ideas.
“More than any-thing, I would like to work with honors students to help them accomplish their goals and define their vision for their future and the future of the community,” Cham-berlain said. “Their success would be my success in so many ways. I do
have ideas for establishing new hon-ors curriculum for innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as special
projects that demand creative excellence and push us all to be better communicators and collaborators.”
Though Chamber-lain will not start this position until July 1, she said she has already started planning.
“I have been work-ing for the past year to develop a gen ed course offering in Design Thinking, which was approved by GVSU in February,” she said. “I
will be co-instructing, so we are now deep in planning for the class, LIB 323. We encouraged everyone to enroll.”
Jeff Chamberlain, director of the Frederik Meijer Honors College, said the Meijer Foundation was be-hind the decision-making process, but he took part in the committee meetings that discussed and inter-viewed the candidates.
“They specified a person with experience in entrepreneurship, in-novation and leadership more so than strictly academic credentials,” Jeff said. “They wanted someone with practical experience in the field who can help students develop those skills and expertise and connect stu-dents to people in the community who can further help them.”
Jeff, the provost, the dean of the Brooks College of Integrated Learning and another faculty member reviewed dozens of applications and nomina-
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Supporting innovationT
e are celebrating Africa. We’re not falling asleep on Africa. We’re not do-ing homework on Afri-ca. This is a celebration,” said James Williams, a
host at this year’s annual African Stu-dent Council dinner and dance. The Grand Valley State University Kirkhof Center’s Grand River Room was packed with staff, faculty, community members and students for Friday’s event.
This year’s event was titled “Adisa: Cel-ebrating the Pioneers of Africa.” The night began with a performance and poem by Diana Rutaremara and the African Stu-dent Council singers. They sang various African national anthems in various lan-guages. Following the anthems, Morgan Kelley did a dance routine.
Williams then went on to thank every-one for coming and wanted the room to know that the goal was to highlight Africa.
“Africa was built by many different peo-ple from many different countries,” he said. “You start to hear the same names over and over again. We’d like to highlight the un-
sung people who don’t get enough recogni-tion as they should.”
Additionally, Williams sang an impro-vised cover of John Legend’s song “Heaven Only Knows.” Throughout the night, there were nine different presentations on dif-ferent figures in African history. Those presentations covered people such as Musa I of Mali, Tidjane Thiam, Haile Selassie, Margaret Ekpo, Queen Tiye, Yaa As-antewaa, Kwame Nkrumah, Wole Sayinka and Nelson Mandela. Students took the role of these figures and gave the audience an educational, first-person performance.
During the dinner, there was a money drive in order to raise funds for the West Michigan Refugee Educa-tion and Cultural Center, a Grand-Rapids based nonprofit organiza-tion that was founded in 2006 by immi-grants and refugees. According to its web-site, the organization’s mission is to provide comprehensive educational support and youth development services, and foster
cultural knowledge and understanding. They support refugee children and families so they can gain the necessary skills for suc-cessful integration into the community.
After the presentations, fundraising, spontaneous dancing, photo booth pic-
tures and dinner ended, there was a DJ and an open dance floor until 11:30 p.m.
The African and Af-rican American Studies department at GVSU, the Office of Multicultural Af-fairs, the Women’s Center, the Division of Inclusion and Equity, the Cultural Council, the Office of Stu-dent Life, the Little Black Box and DJ Fresh Waves also sponsored the event.
African Student Council is a cultural organization lo-cated on campus that aims to
bring knowledge of Africa to everyone on campus. They do a dinner and dance every semester. People don’t have to be African American in order to join. The organiza-tion meets every Monday at 9 p.m.
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Celebration of cultureAfrican Student Council hosts educational event on continent’s history
Meijer Foundation appoints new entrepreneurship chair
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he annual PRWeek Awards chose Grand Valley State Uni-versity senior Daltyn Little as
Student of the Year from of a field of over 100 competitors for her work on the Toyota Mi-rai campaign.
The PRWeek Awards is an annual event that honors the best campaigns from nonprof-its, education teams, agencies and more. The competition has
been host to large corporations – such as Taco Bell, GoPro and AllState, among others.
This year, all students who chose to compete were tasked with promoting the Toyota Mirai, a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle that has been proven to have a better impact on the environment.
Little said she created her campaign with an educa-tional approach by explain-ing to the average buyer how the vehicle runs.
“As a consumer buying a vehicle that’s supposed to get around safely and inexpensive-
ly, creating trust is especially important,” Little said. “I tried to divide info into small, bite-sized pieces so the average con-sumer could understand.”
Students were required to create a five-page campaign plan, along with two pages of supporting materials, for the first round of the com-petition. Additionally, com-petitors had the option to also produce an educational video with the purpose of ex-plaining fuel cell technology.
“For my video, I worked with a firm, Chop & Hue, with some guys who were graduates from GVSU,” Little said. “The whole point of the video is to show that the Toyota Mirai is reliable and works like a regular car.”
After making it into the top five, Little was required to sub-mit a 100-word essay and make
a phone pitch to PRWeek News Editor Frank Washkuch.
Following her phone pitch, Little was announced as PRWeek Awards Student of the Year and was flown out to New York on March 19 to at-tend the ceremony.
“My award was just a part of other awards for huge firms, so it was an amazing network-ing opportunity,” she said. “Some of the people I met were amazing, and anyone I needed to know to create my career was in that room.”
Despite her success in ad-vertising and public relations, Little actually first intended to be an architecture major.
“I went to Ball State Univer-sity, stayed there for two weeks and I decided architecture wasn’t what I wanted to do,” she said. “I transferred to GVSU
when I was a junior and started working right away for Grand-PR, and now I’m the CEO. It’s crazy to see where you start and where you end.”
Adrienne Wallace, GVSU School of Communications professor, was among a group of graduates and faculty that helped Little work on the cam-paign. Wallace noted that Little’s campaign stuck out among the crowd because of its profession-
alism and comprehensiveness.“I think having a student
be awarded this honor speaks to the value of the type of edu-cation students receive at the School of Communications, the faculty involvement and the state of alumni relations – all which helped her achieve the goal,” Wallace said. “The value of the APR degree at GVSU became higher when Daltyn won this award.”
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What campus dining options would you l ike to see on campus?
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“I wish there were more healthy choices instead of just salad.”
ALEXIS FRANCISCO
YEAR: FreshmanMAJOR: NursingHOMETOWN: V icksburg, Mich.
“I guess like a Chick fil A. We don’t have something like that on campus now.”
CAM RICKARD
YEAR: SophomoreMAJOR: ManagementHOMETOWN: Grand Haven, Mich.
“Maybe a dessert place like a frozen yogurt or ice cream place.”
EMILY DEMOSS
YEAR: FreshmanMAJOR: Athletic TrainingHOMETOWN: Chicago, I l l .
“Pita House, because it sounds good and there is nothing better than Mediterranean food.”
MORRIE CUNNINGHAM
YEAR: SophomoreMAJOR: Computer ScienceHOMETOWN: Grandvi l le , Mich.
“A Tropical Smoothie because they have food too. I feel like they have more options.”
JULIA SNYDER
YEAR: SeniorMAJOR: Allied Health ScienceHOMETOWN: Flushing, Mich.
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any people are aware that Grand Valley State Uni-versity is expanding and adding more campus dining locations. In particular, the
university is creating The Marketplace alongside the new science building, lo-cated across from Padnos Hall of Science. The new facility will house the University Bookstore and will also include two food places: Starbucks and a sandwich shop called Which Wich? In addition, the first level of the Kirkhof Center will feature a Panda Express and an expanded Subway where the bookstore currently resides.
Though these options are a great and necessary addition to an ever-growing campus, it is also necessary to provide healthy food choices for the campus community. With roughly four sandwich shops on campus, sandwiches may seem healthy at first glance – but how much do students know about the real nutritional
value? The smoked turkey panini on The Bistro’s menu comes with not only with freshly baked sourdough bread and pesto, but also 1,278.42 calories, 4,544.11 mil-ligrams of sodium and 74.49 grams of fat.
People who are looking for vegetar-ian and vegan options already experi-ence struggles with finding suitable meal choices with the existing dining locations. Those with gluten-free diets or religious dietary restrictions are also limited in their on-campus dining choices. As campus is growing, not only in enrollment but also in size, the university should make sure to include food choices that satisfy everyone.
Campus dining could implement its practice of utilizing produce from the Sustainable Agriculture Project across all locations on campus. Cur-rently, this practice only takes place in The Connection. Students and oth-ers from the GVSU community work hard to grow these items, so why not
support student efforts and use these products in more dining locations across campus?
The Connection also informs people where their food comes from – we encourage other dining establishments to do the same. Many students follow organic diets. Therefore, knowing where and how the food is produced can help them pick the right dining option. If this information can be provided in one campus dining location, it should be easily implemented in all locales.
While increased dining options at GVSU is exciting for students, the health aspects should also be considered. It is important to have organic, vegetarian and vegan options for those students who follow these diets. More restaurants on campus can be better, but only if students have the chance to eat nutritious meals if they choose.
rand Valley State University requires that all students seek-ing a Bachelor
of Arts degree demonstrate third semester proficiency in a language. There are three ways to fulfill this. Advanced Placement credit for foreign languages from high school can transfer over. Or if you al-ready speak a foreign language, you can take a Language Placement Exam given by the university. The third option would be to enroll in one of
the languages offered. In 2010, GVSU began offering Ameri-can Sign Language (ASL) classes. Last year, an American Sign Language Interpreting (B.S.) program was created as an emphasis option for Allied Health Science majors. It is not part of the modern language department and does not fulfill the Bachelor of Arts language requirement. Why is that?
There are many miscon-ceptions about sign language. Firstly, ASL is only one form of sign language. There are many different types throughout the world such as French, Ger-man, Italian, Icelandic, Danish, Pakistani, Nicaraguan, etc. These sign languages are not just symbols for an associated spoken language. They are self-sufficient languages.
They are more than communication, which is animalistic and distinctive from human language. ASL is infinitely creative, learned in speech communities and can displace time – therefore,
they can’t be deemed merely a means of communication. This would denote a sense of inferiority, which is com-pletely unsupported. Lack of recognition for the validity of this language prompts dis-crimination of its users.
Despite being nonverbal, ASL shares many qualities of spoken language. For one, ASL has parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, adjectives and so on – just like other languages. It has its own grammar system.
It is not just signed English. That is something different known as Signed Exact English (SEE), which is not a unique language. It has morphol-ogy, which is the study of the formation and inflection of words. The syntactical struc-ture seems to resemble Subject Verb Object (SVO). It doesn’t demonstrate traditional pho-nology because it isn’t spoken, but it does use specific hand shapes or signs that must be formed a certain way. Move-ment, space and number of
hands used are some consider-ations in orientation.
Similar to spoken lan-guages, signs do not always have an identifiable association with the word they represent. The signified and the signifier have an arbitrary relationship. Although sometimes the sign makes sense for the word – like the sign for cat, that imitates whiskers. This is true for Eng-lish as well.
The Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center of Gallaudet University cre-ated a list of the varying state legislation regarding ASL. The listed law for Michigan only concerns inclusion as a high school foreign language credit. Alabama, Colorado, Maryland and a handful of other states are paving the way for lin-guistic acceptance in America by recognizing the validity of ASL and offering it as a foreign language at universities. Why hasn’t GVSU followed suit?
ecently, a video went viral and received a lot of backlash be-cause of a com-
ment that a celebrity made
that was interpreted nega-tively. During an interview between Oprah and Raven Sy-moné, Symoné stated that she does not identify with the gay community even though she is currently dating a woman. She also stated that she did not identify with the Afri-can American community. Instead, she chose to identify herself as being an American, who can relate to all cultures.
Oprah warned the actress that she would “get a lot of flak” for not identifying with the African American commu-nity. Immediately after, maybe
even during the airing of the video, Symoné began to receive negative criticism. People were angry because they felt that she was not taking pride in her African ancestry.
Whether or not I agree with Symoné’s statement, I think the most important factor is that she is entitled to believe whatever she wants. Symoné has the right to hold whatever beliefs that she desires, whether people agree with them or not. There are plenty of people who have dif-ferent beliefs, morals and val-ues than I. However, that does
not keep me from believing in what I do. Our differences are what make us individuals and stand out from others. They also make up a huge portion of our identity.
I also agree with Symoné when she stated that she did not want to be labeled. I think that society tries to force labels upon people by making them fit into categories based on the society’s definition of that spe-cific category. Along with these categories comes a group of stereotypes and generalizations that are believed to be true.
I think that Symoné’s
decision to identify with all cultures is an amazing thing. Instead of identifying with one culture and how it is different from others, she is choosing to relate to all of them. I believe that this is something that everyone should do. I believe Americans put too much focus on how these cultures are dif-ferent. Instead of acknowledg-ing these differences, encour-aging people to take pride in their cultures and learning more about each other to be-come a better society, a culture hierarchy is created.
At the end of the day,
everyone has the right to believe what they want. They also have the right to choose their identities, even if it doesn’t make sense to others. People shouldn’t attack others who choose to make deci-sions and hold beliefs that are different from their own.
An advantage that Ameri-cans have is the ability to choose who or what one wants to identify themselves as, whether it be a religion, gender or sex. Freedom is a right that separates Americans from all other countries and should never be deprived.
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n Saturday, classrooms and corridors across campus were filled with thousands of younger students looking to
learn in the Grand Valley State Uni-versity community during the re-gional Science Olympiad.
Program Coordinator Margo Dill said the event was presented by GV-SU’s Regional Math and Science Cen-ter (RSMC), which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary.
“Seventy-three middle and high school teams from Kent and Ottawa counties came together for this re-gional Science Olympiad competi-tion,” Dill said. “The tournament went extremely well – with the ex-ception of cold temperatures caus-ing the cancellation of the outdoor Bottle Rockets event with safety concerns about ice formation in the unseasonably frigid conditions.”
The school students showed off their knowledge in many different academic fields, including chemis-try, physics, technology and biology in an attempt to qualify for the state tournament on May 2.
For the 23 different events, stu-dents participated in activities such as constructing bridges, astro-phys-ics, road scholar, rocket launching, robot building and crime solving. To promote a scientific spirit with-in the competition, participants competed in teams and trained for months up until the events.
GVSU freshman Jackie Kamp par-ticipated in Science Olympiad tourna-ments throughout middle school and high school and said that the competi-tions were a deciding factor in her de-cision to come to GVSU.
“Coming to GVSU to compete with my school for a place in the state com-petition really showed me what GVSU was like as a college,” she said. “By the time I enrolled, I felt like I already knew the school. The fact that GVSU held the Science Olympiad events was definitely a factor that helped me de-cide where I wanted to go to college and what I wanted to study.”
Kamp, who hopes to one day earn a place in GVSU’s competitive PA pro-gram, returns to the Science Olym-piad tournaments every year to tutor students from her high school in ac-tivities such as bridge building and the road scholar event.
“Bridge building is a fascinat-ing subject,” she said. “This year, students had to build a bridge from balsa wood that would hold up to 15 kg, but weigh as little as possible. The road scholar event is also interesting – students learn to create all sorts of different road maps and point out latitude and longitude.”
Gary Blok, Plymouth Christian School’s head science coach, has been at many Science Olympiads over the years and recently watched his
students take first place in the 2013 Olympiad junior high competition.
“Giving these students the oppor-tunity to compete in a tournament like this is huge,” he said. “The experiments are much more in-depth than they could ever be in the classroom, and you get to see the kids work so hard for their places. There are kids who are working hours and nights, coming in on a Saturday to get more information for their projects.”
The tournaments have a lasting effect on his participating students, Blok said.
“We see kids come back telling us, ‘I’m where I am today and am moti-vated to do what I am doing because of Science Olympiad,’” he said. “Whether it be engineering, medicine or another
discipline, these kids find out what suits them through this competition.”
Blok agreed that the team exercises helped to promote teamwork among his students and mentioned that the effect of Science Olympiad can be dif-ferent at various schools.
“The competition run at GVSU is very organized,” he said. “The univer-sity does a fantastic job of facilitating students, teachers and parents while maintaining a great learning environ-ment. Even the bigger schools that hold the state competitions are very disorganized in comparison.”
The team building at Plymouth Christian School appeared to pay off, as both of the school teams proceeded to qualify for state. The senior team placed fifth out of six teams to qualify
and the junior team placed seventh out of 11 teams to qualify.
The 2015 winners of the Region 12 tournament were announced at the end of the day: Grand Haven for senior high and Lakeshore Middle School for junior high.
“We could not have achieved this level of tournament success without the generous support of Grand Valley faculty, students and staff,” Dill said. “We would like to thank President Thomas Haas; Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Fred Antczak; Representatives Chris Afen-doulis, Roger Victory and Rob Ver-Heulen and Ottawa County Com-missioner Greg DeJong for sharing their time with us as well.”
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INTERACTIVE ACADEMICS: Middle school students show their Science Olympiad project during the regional competition this past weekend. GVSU hosted 73 middle school and high school teams from Kent and Ottawa counties in hopes to qualify for the state tournament on May 2.
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tions during the fall semester. Of these, Linda stood out.
“We look carefully at the candidates for what they can bring to the community and bring to the design thinking initiative,” Jeff said. “It looked like she would be able to do a more complete job than the other candidates. She continues to be involved at Grand Valley, and we’re excited that she’s go-ing to get started.”
The position is temporary, usually lasting one or two years, but it can be renewed for up to four years, Jeff said.
Bill Holsinger-Robinson was the first person to hold the Endowed Honors Chair posi-tion at GVSU, serving from June 2012 to June 2014. Hols-
inger-Robinson is currently the vice president of The Under-standing Group, an informa-tion architecture firm focused on making complex digital experience clear, concise and intuitive. He is also the lead or-ganizer for TEDxGrandRapids.
He said he was pleased to hear Linda was named the new chair.
“I know Linda, and she will be great at this role,” Holsinger-Robinson said. “Linda has a long history at GVSU and in West Michigan for supporting entrepreneurs and their ecosystem.”
She has worked in the GVSU Technology Commer-cialization Office in the Cen-ter for Scholarly and Creative Excellence, where she helped students and faculty inven-tors who want to market their
ideas. Additionally, she was the CEO of a company that is creating a new diagnostic for detection of tuberculosis.
Prior to this, she did many other things in the area.
“I have worked at GVSU before as executive director of the Center for Entrepreneur-ship and Innovation and led the West Michigan Science and Technology Initiative, a life sci-ences incubator in the Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sci-ences,” Chamberlain said.
The Honors College is hosting a welcome reception for Linda on Wednesday, April 1 from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Students, faculty and staff are invited to attend the event in the Multi-Purpose Room of the Neimeyer Learn-ing and Living Center.
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he Grand Valley State Uni-versity graduation ceremony, GradFest and other events that mark the end of a school year are rife with tradition.
Students know it is important to receive their diplomas but may not have a full un-derstanding of why that piece of paper can help open so many doors.
Diplomas date back to some of the earli-est schools, but were also conferred upon landowners in ancient times by kings and other authority figures. Some military per-sonnel were also given diplomas to signal land grants that were not subject to taxes. Nowadays diplomas take on a different meaning and vary depending on where one lives in the world.
According to the organization Do Something, roughly 20 percent of first-
time college students come from parents who have a high school diploma or less. The United States Department of Edu-cation says high school graduation rates have increased since the 2006-2007 school year. Around 80 percent of students who enter high school now earn a regular or advanced diploma. Dropout rates are on the decline, and a growing number of high school students continue on to two- or four-year degrees.
The reason so many students continue to apply themselves and come out after four or more years with diplomas and de-grees is that they realize how competitive the job market can be. Graduates have a distinct advantage over other candidates. Some companies will not even consider a job candidate who does not possess some college education. Other employers pay
more depending on the level of education the job candidates completed.
According to the United States Depart-ment of Labor, employees with a bachelor’s degree earn about 54 percent more on average than those who attended college but didn’t finish. Workers with advanced degrees (master’s, doctoral, etc.) can aver-age $20,000 to $30,000 more per year than those with bachelor’s degrees, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Some students, however, will insist that failure to have a diploma isn’t a barrier to success. For example, Richard Branson, the billionaire entrepreneur who owns Virgin Group, did not graduate high school. But such people are an aberration. Typically, earning a high school diploma and a bach-elor’s degree is a key ingredient to landing a good job and enjoying professional success.
Why it pays to graduateT
fter graduating, many Grand Valley State Uni-versity students will move to
other areas of the state, country or even the world. Finding the right bank in a new location is often an important thing to think about. Some people may not give much thought to where they do their banking, but much like no two account holders are the same, no two banks are the same either. That reality only highlights the importance men and women must place on find-ing a bank that best suits their particular needs.
Individuals hoping to find
the best bank for their needs may consider a host of factors before deciding just where it is they will be depositing their money in the years to come.
Accessibility: This is many individuals’ biggest prior-ity when it comes to finding a bank. Large banks, such as Bank of America and Fifth Third Bank, tend to have more local branches and ATMs, and such banks tend to be in more regions of the country as well. Men and women who travel for business or even underclass-men who go to school away from home may want to find a bank with a more national presence, as that can make it
easier to deposit and withdraw money. If you don’t travel much and only seem to withdraw money within your commu-nity, then a smaller, local bank, which should be able to offer the same direct deposit services as its larger competitors, may be what you’re looking for. The Lake Michigan Credit Union, located in Allendale, may be the bank for some GVSU stu-dents to use while attending college. To learn more, visit www.lmcu.org/.
Capability: Some people prefer to have all of their fi-nancial needs catered to by the same bank. This means a bank that can manage your invest-ments, provide a line of credit and secure home, vehicle or education loans. Larger banks tend to offer the widest array of services, and such banks also may have more advanced technology that makes it easier to manage all of your accounts. Smaller banks may be just as versatile with regard to their ca-pabilities, so don’t judge a book by its cover.
Balances: Banks typically require account holders main-tain a minimum balance on both their checking and savings accounts. If you think it may be difficult for you to maintain a higher balance, find a bank that offers accounts with a low minimum balance so you don’t end up paying penalties just to spend your own money.
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OPENING DOORS: As graduation approaches at the end of April, Grand Valley State Univer-sity students who earn diplomas will be more likely to find a steady and higher-paid job.
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are advertised as “free” tend to come with fees that are listed in the fine print. For example, a “free” checking account may only be free if account holders maintain a minimum balance of $1,000 or more. Should that balance dip below the prede-termined minimum, account holders are then subject to cost-ly fees. Overdraft fees, in which
account holders are charged a substantial fee if they do not have enough money in their ac-counts to cover their purchases, are another potentially costly problem for men and women who are not accustomed to monitoring their balances closely. Before opening an ac-count, learn if there are any fees associated with it, and what’s
the best way to avoid paying those fees, such as using only ATMs affiliated with your bank or purchasing overdraft protec-tion that covers you in the case of an overdraft.
Choosing a bank is an im-portant decision, and identify-ing your needs is a great way to make the best decision possible.
any individuals, such as those get-ting ready to graduate from Grand Valley State University, who find themselves out of work or unsatis-fied by their current profession or
level of experience consider going back to school to pursue an advanced degree or to begin stud-ies in an entirely new field. An advanced degree can help men and women further their careers, while changing careers is often facilitated by a degree in a different course of study. The decision to return to school involves more than a person’s career goals, especially if that person has a fam-ily or other significant financial obligations. The cost of a college education is considerable, but men and women can take steps prior to enrolling to determine if returning to school or continuing their education at graduate school makes finan-cial sense for them.
Where will the money come from?
Determining the cost of graduate school is not easy, as tuition varies greatly depending on a stu-dent’s course of study. Public graduate schools are typically more affordable than private schools, but tuition will be expensive regardless of the univer-sity. Even adults who don’t want to pursue a gradu-ate degree but a new field of study entirely should expect tuition to be substantially higher than it was when they were students years ago.
Adults must decide from where the money for their continued education is going to come. Paying out of your own pocket will require some sacrifices in other areas of your life and could also deplete your personal savings. Financial aid, grants and private loans are other options, and each of these should be thoroughly explored be-fore making a final decision.
Are you eligible for aid?If you are thinking of going back to school,
you may be eligible for financial aid. Older stu-dents returning to school won’t have to worry about their parents’ income disqualifying them from financial aid, and they may even be more eligible for need-based aid when returning to school than they were when they initially en-rolled as young students. Older independent stu-dents may also be allowed to borrow more than younger students who are considered dependent. Rules regarding eligibility for financial aid vary depending on where a person lives. Visit www.fafsa.ed.gov for more information.
Are you able to discuss fi-nancial aid with the univer-sity you plan to attend?
Unlike high school students who apply to mul-tiple colleges, adults going back to school typically value proximity when looking for a college or uni-versity in which to enroll. It’s easy for adults to visit their local college or university’s financial aid of-fice in person to discuss opportunities for grants or scholarships. Financial aid officers can point you in the right direction if you decide to fill out loan applications or help you find any scholarships that might be available to returning students. Fi-nancial aid departments are valuable resources for students of all ages, and gaining a greater under-standing of the grants and scholarships available to you can help you determine if returning to school makes financial sense for you and your family.
How quickly can you repay student loans?
Few students can afford to attend college without borrowing money. While younger stu-dents have a lifetime to repay student loans, older students don’t have that luxury. As a result, older students must determine when they can realisti-cally expect to pay off their loans before they bor-row any money. If loans can be repaid long before retirement, then a return to school might make
financial sense. But men and women who crunch the numbers and realize they will be forced to make loan payments during their retirement years might want to reconsider. A good rule of thumb for adults considering a return to school is to bor-row less the closer you are to retirement.
Will your employer help pay?If you are employed and want to continue
that career, it’s quite possible your employer will
help pay your tuition. Employer-funded tuition programs might earn your employer a tax deduc-tion, so don’t just assume your employer won’t help cover some of the bill for your education. Some employers who help pay their employee’s tuition will ask an employee to commit to the company for a certain number of years after they have earned their degree, while others will only provide assistance to employees who are not training for another career.
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hanks to student loans and other financing op-tions, a Grand Valley State Uni-
versity college education has become much more attainable for a wider array of students. Student loans may make it pos-sible for millions of students to attend college when they oth-erwise could not afford tuition, but such loans also can put bor-rowers in financial hot water if they’re not careful.
Just like any other form of credit, a student loan is usually easy to spend but not as eas-ily repaid. Add to that the fact that most educational loans do not require payment until after graduation, it could seem to a student that he or she is at-tending classes with no strings attached. Some students also use loans to finance their living arrangements and pay for their book, making it easy for loans to add up quickly.
Another potential pitfall of borrowing to finance your edu-cation is the uncertainty many people have with regard to the terms of their loans. Many peo-ple sign on the dotted line of their lending agreements with-out ever reading the fine print, which may dictate repayment terms and interest rates.
But students need not suc-cumb to student loan debt shortly after they don their caps and gowns. The following are a few ways to avoid finan-
cial struggles that stem from student loans.
Learn your loans. Learning the terms of your loan is the first step to avoiding delinquen-cy or default. Take the time to fully understand the type of loan you are receiving as well as when repayment begins and how much your monthly pay-ments will be. Private lenders may back loans, but many stu-dent loans are issued through federal government programs. Each type of loan has its own set of regulations. It’s also im-portant that you understand the details of loan forgiveness and what happens should you miss a payment.
Familiarize yourself with the loan repayment schedule. Every student loan comes with a grace period, or the time be-tween when you graduate and when the first payment must be made. Grace periods typically range between six and nine months for federal loans, while privately issued loans may have a different grace period. If you have yet to secure steady em-ployment when your first pay-ment comes due, contact your lender to see if payments can be deferred a little longer.
Negotiate payment options. Some lenders simply follow a standard formula for deter-mining a repayment schedule, which typically lasts 10 years. If that payment amount or schedule seems unattainable, consider speaking with the
lender about changing your payments. Repaying the loan over a longer period of time will lower your monthly pay-ments but result in you paying more interest over the life of the loan. If you find you have extra money on hand, make larger payments toward the loan and ask that this money be applied to the principal. Paying down the principal can significantly reduce the loan and reduce the interest you’re paying as well.
Choose an employer wisely. According to The Project on Student Debt, some jobs offer loan forgiveness. After 10 years of qualifying payments for peo-ple in government, nonprofit and other public service jobs, loans may be written off. There are additional federal loan for-giveness options available to teachers, nurses, AmeriCorps and Peace Corps volunteers, as well as some state, school and private programs.
Don’t ignore problems. If you are falling behind on your loan payments, take action right away. Doing something is better than doing nothing at all. An inability to repay your stu-dent loan debt can cause prob-lems later in life, so don’t allow the problem to snowball before you do anything about it.
Use campus resources while you can. The GVSU Financial Aid Office is more than willing to help any soon-to-be-grad-uating student with questions regarding repaying loans.
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COLLECTING PENNIES: Grand Valley State University students can alleviate worry about loan debt by talking to the financial aid office and their banks leading up to graduation.
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rand Valley State Univer-sity’s Shakespeare Festival traveling troupe Bard To Go (BTG) is calling all stu-dents with high energy, fo-
cus and passion for theater life. Auditions for the 2015 season begin March 31.
BTG primarily tours Michigan high schools and middle schools as an educa-tional outreach program.
“It is so important to Grand Valley be-cause we become the face of Grand Valley to the schools,” said Alli Metz, BTG direc-tor holding the auditions.
Metz enjoys representing the univer-sity because it connects GVSU to the schools in a positive way.
“There was a show we were perform-ing and the kids were so thrilled to have us there,” Metz said. “The actors really took it to heart that this was a memorable occa-sion those kids would remember.
“You never know when that’s going to be the experience that changes them.”
For auditions, BTG is looking for actors that can do everything, and not just acting, because on tour they will also be working on technical duties or preparing the set.
“I’m especially looking for hard workers, team-orientated and a willing-ness to learn,” Metz said.
Senior Chad Rodgers took on the challenge of BTG last year and learned a lot about adjusting his performances to many different crowds.
“You can’t treat a bunch of high school students the way you treat a
bunch of elementary students; it just doesn’t work,” Rodgers said.
BTG gave Rodgers confidence in not just his abilities as an actor, but also work-ing close with a tight-knit group of ex-tremely talented actors.
“Since BTG is written by GVSU for GVSU, as the first actors to perform the play, we got to help create the major aspects of it,” Rodgers said.
Those involved – such Karen Lib-man, director of BTG last year – are supportive of artistic freedom among the cast members.
“It’s not very often you get the op-portunity to tour a production you’re in, but BTG is structured to make that a reality,” Rodgers said. “We all grew
closer, laughed harder and acted better as a result of that trip.”
The troupe is set to provide the full the-ater experience for those who are involved.
“It’s the perfect mixture of Shake-speare and modern language that gives people a full understanding to the con-text that’s going on,” Rodgers said.
Actors interested in the BTG auditions have to sign up at the Louis Armstrong Theatre Box Office for a time. Prepara-tions for the audition include reading 16 lines of Shakespeare and a minute-long contemporary monologue.
Auditions will occur on March 31 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. and callbacks will take place on April 1. For more information, contact Jack Lane at [email protected].
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nly four Grand Valley State University students have ever been accepted to the prestigious Bang on a Can music festival at the
Massachusetts Museum of Contempo-rary Art (Mass MoCA) in North Ad-ams, Mass. The honor, however, comes with a big price tag.
Wade Selkirk, a Holland native and GVSU student, auditioned for the festi-val with a mixture of percussion instru-ments and received his acceptance letter in March. In order to attend the festival, Selkirk began the GoFundMe account “Help Send Wade to Bang on a Can” to raise $2,900 for travel, room and board.
“Hopefully I’ll meet a bunch of mu-sicians and make a lot of connections,” Selkirk said. “Some of the best musicians will be teaching us, and you can even play with them.”
The three-week festival provides at-tendees with the opportunity to hear, learn from and play with some of the most significant musicians within the contemporary music scene.
“I really like collaborating and get-ting along with other musicians,” Sel-kirk said. “I like creating something new and putting something together that you would not expect.”
Selkirk is a percussion performance major at GVSU and has been playing percussion for the past 15 years. Since then, he has played with jazz group Super Sounds as well as a funk group named Tessa Perez and the Hats.
While at GVSU, Selkirk has per-formed with the GVSU New Music En-semble under the direction of music and dance professor Bill Ryan.
“Wade is a very talented perform-er, highly dedicated to his craft and a very hard worker,” Ryan said. “He gets along with everyone.”
Students from all over the world are
accepted to Bang on a Can, and the ap-plication process is very competitive.
“Most of the students are graduate students or recently graduated from graduate programs,” Ryan said. “As an undergraduate student, Wade is in some elite company.”
Ryan inspired Selkirk to apply for the festival, and he was also inspired by guest musicians at GVSU such as composer David Lang. Lang will be a faculty mem-ber at the festival this year.
Selkirk said Ryan has been one of his most influential teachers and is the one who introduced him to the possibility of applying to the festival.
The young musician plans to con-tinue his music career following his time at GVSU.
“I would like to continue with con-temporary chamber music and would like to teach privately,” Selkirk said.
Bang on a Can runs from July 13 to Aug. 2. Selkirk and the others in atten-dance will live in accommodations pro-vided by Mass MoCA during the entirety of the festival.
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EARL SWEATSHIRTEarl Sweatshirt, who is known for his indepen-
dent hip-hop work and for being part of the group OFTWGKTA, will perform in Grand Rapids on March 31. The 7 p.m. performance at the Intersection is open to all ages. Earl Sweatshirt has been featured in magazines such as “Spin” and “Billboard,” per-formed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and, in 2010, broke the top 25 for best album by Complex. Vince Staples and Remy Banks will also perform. Tickets are $25 in advance and $28 the day of the show. For more information, visit http://sectionlive.com/event/earl-sweatshirt/.
CULTURAL MOVIE NIGHTIn order to spread awareness about women
in different cultures, the Delta Tau Lambda sorority is holding a cultural movie night. “In the time of the Butterflies” is based on a true story about the struggle of three sisters who lost their lives due to their part in an under-ground plan to overthrow the government in the Dominican Republic during the 1960s. The event is free and open to the public. The screening will begin promptly at 9:30 p.m. in Room 2259 of the Grand Valley State University Kirkhof Center on March 31. For more information, contact Kayla Mayhue at [email protected].
“BRO-CODE”In 2011, the documentary “Bro-Code” was
produced to examine how society influences boys to become sexist men. Following the film, Trey Sumner will open the floor for a discussion regarding how those in attendance feel about the topic. The discussion will go in depth about the dangerous influence of masculinity in today’s culture that can snowball into sexual assault cases. The screening takes place on March 31 and begins at 7 p.m. in Room 102 of Lake Huron Hall at Grand Valley State University. The event is free. For more information, contact Alyssa Phillips at [email protected].
MÉLODIESFaculty, staff, students and special guests will
perform a variety of music and poetry numbers on April 2 for Mélodies – An Evening of French Song, Music and Poetry. The French section of the Grand Valley State University Modern Languages and Literature department is hosting the event. Mélodies begins at 7 p.m. in the GVSU Cook-DeWitt Center and is LIB 100 and 201 approved. For more information, contact GVSU professor Isabelle Cata at [email protected].
FISHLADDER EXHIBITIONThe work of many Grand Valley State University
students now graces the walls of the Red Wall Gallery in Lake Ontario Hall. Photographs, illustra-tions and excerpts from students’ literary pieces will be on display until mid-April. The exhibit “Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing” shows just some of the pieces from the student-run journal at GVSU. The journal highlights the work of many stu-dents and is in its 12th year of publication. For more information, visit www.gvsu.edu/artgallery or call the art gallery at (616) 331-2563.
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or starting pitcher Zach Ander-son, it takes a well-worked routine to endure the elements of north-ern baseball.
“You try not to think about it,” An-derson said. “Before the game really starts, you try to stay away from the elements and in the dugout by the heater the whole time.”
The junior right-hander seemingly used the 19 mph winds to his advantage on Sunday as host Grand Valley State cruised to an 11-1 vic-tory over Saginaw Valley State in game three of the weather-shortened weekend.
“Zach Anderson threw a really good game, gave us a chance to win,” said GVSU coach Jamie Detil-lion. “Couple mistakes here and there, but we’re learning; I think we’re getting better.
“We just need to roll with this and establish some consistency as a team. On cold days like this, it’s tough to hit, but we still need to grind it out as a team and find ways to get on base. And when we do get a good pitch to hit, we’ve got to take advantage of it.”
Anderson (W, 2-1) didn’t give SVSU much to hit in his fourth start, scattering just three hits
and one run across 6.1 innings while striking out, and beaming, four.
He started to adjust after the fourth HBP.“A couple of those curveballs, I was trying to get
a little too cute with them,” he said. “I tried to start them at the batter and then break them in for a called strike, but I ended up leaving them up and not really snapping them off so they kind of floated and just hit them.
“That’s when I started going to that slider...”
GVSU, which split with SVSU on Saturday with a 5-1 loss and a 5-0 win, brought plenty of offense to the seven-inning tilt. The Lakers roughed up SVSU pitching to the tune of 12 hits, scoring three runs in the first, one in the third, three in the fourth and four in the fifth.
Seven Lakers came through with at least one hit, and the top of the or-der; Mike Nadratowski, Jesse Abel and Kevin Zak; went a combined 7-for-10 on the day with five RBIs and five runs scored.
“We’re starting to make some progress,” said Nadratowski, who finished 2-for-3 with two RBIs, two doubles and three runs. “Today we looked good. We drove the ball, but with a big
lead it’s easy to get complacent. I’d like to see us as a team, no matter what the score is -- up five, down five -- continue to have good at-bats and not give in just because we’re up big.”
The 11-run performance was nothing like game one on Saturday when the Lakers couldn’t
find an answer for SVSU sopho-more ace Scott Sency. Sency gave up just five hits across six scoreless innings, moving to 3-0 on the year while GVSU’s Aaron Jensen took his first loss, falling to 3-1.
GVSU starter Patrick Kelly stole the show in the nine-inning night-cap, however, surrendering eight hits and no runs in 7.2 innings. Relievers Tyler Lozen and Matt Williams se-cured the shutout from there.
For Detillion, the 2-1 weekend is a chance to build some momentum as GVSU (12-8, 4-3 GLIAC) moves for-ward in conference play.
“The more we practice outside and the more batting practice we take, our talent’s going to play at some point,” Detillion said. “The big thing is consistency, just preparing every day and letting each day be a building block versus a new starting point.”
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Game four (nine innings) postponed until Tuesday at 3 p.m.
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espite having nearly three weeks off be-tween its Florida trip and its first home game, the Grand Valley State
softball team is showing no signs of rust offensively.
GVSU came out swinging in its
home debut on Thursday, mercying Aquinas with a 9-0 victory in game one. Junior Chelsea Horvath and freshman Kaylie Rhynard both fin-ished 3-for-3 at the plate, while fresh-man Teagan Shomin found success in a different manner. Shomin was hit by her seventh pitch of the year, which tied the GVSU school single-season record held by three different players.
Game two of the doubleheader
didn’t go as well.Aquinas had the bases loaded trail-
ing 3-1 with two outs in the fifth when Brooke Senkbeil doubled to right cen-ter, clearing the bases. Senkbeil was thrown out at third on the play to end the inning, but the damage was done. Aquinas had all the runs it needed to hang on for the 5-4 victory.
Sophomore Jenna Lenza was able to blast two homers over the left field
fence in game two, however, which were her first two of the season.
“After Florida I knew there were some things I had to work on,” Lenza said. “So I’ve been practicing those little things these past weeks and it’s paying off for me right now. For me hitting is such a reflection of confidence and once you start hitting, it’s contagious.
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GV captures first home win, first GLIAC win during busy four-day stretch
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STAYING STRONG: The Grand Valley State women’s softball team beat Aquinas during Thursday’s first home softball game. The Lakers came out strong in their first home game, winning with a score of 9-0. The team will play again at its home field on Tuesday against rival Wayne State.
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WOMEN’S TENNIS TEAM ROLLS INDIANA WESLEYAN
The Grand Valley State women’s tennis team continued its strong play in 2015 with an unortho-dox 5-0 sweep against Indiana Wesleyan on Friday at Ramblewood Tennis & Health Club in Grandville, Mich.
GVSU romped through doubles play, as no pair-ing surrendered more than three points in a match. Just two singles matches were scored in the truncated competi-tion, but both of those went to the Lakers, as well. Freshman Abby Per-kins (6-0, 6-4) won in the No. 4 slot, while Patter-son (6-0, 6-0) easily took the victory at No. 5.
GVSU (20-6), ranked 41st in the Intercol-legiate Tennis Associa-tion rankings and third in the Midwest before the match, plays next against Indiana (PA) on Saturday.
LAKERS IMPROVE TO 4-1 IN GLIAC PLAY
A trip up north couldn’t shake the Grand Valley State men’s tennis team from its winning ways.
GVSU (11-4, 4-1 GLIAC) squared off against Lake Superior State on Sat-urday, dominating LSSU by a tally of 9-0, before notching another con-vincing victory at Michi-gan Tech, 8-1.
GVSU swept all three doubles matches at LSSU, the closest of which came in the No. 3 flight, where Jack Hei-niger and Quinn Sylow notched a tiebreaker victory.
One player had to battle through a tie-breaker to earn the win, but the rest of the Lak-ers dispatched of their opponents in just two sets apiece.
It was more of the same on Sunday at Michigan Tech, where the Lakers won two of their three doubles matches while going 5-0 in singles.
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Lake Erie 5-1
Ashland 4-2
Walsh 4-2
Malone 4-2
Tiffin 4-2
GVSU 4-3
Northwood 3-3
Hillsdale 3-3
ODU 2-4
SVSU 2-5
Wayne St. 1-5
Findlay 1-5
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Tiffin 0-0
Walsh 0-0
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Findlay 0-0
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Tiffin 2-0
Ferris St. 2-0
GVSU 2-1
Ashland 2-2
Walsh 1-1
Northwood 1-1
ODU 1-3
Findlay 0-0
Lake Erie 0-0
SVSU 0-0
Hillsdale 0-0
LSSU 0-2
Malone 0-3
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PERSEVERE: Zack Grusell, Grand Valley State lacrosse player, interacts with his team during the weekend loss against St. Thomas and St. Johns. No. 3 St. Thomas defeated the No. 2 Lakers with a score of 12-9 on Friday. The Lakers are hoping to defend their Division II Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association championship, looking to come back from the setback.
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PUSHING THROUGH: Kelsey Dominguez, Grand Valley State softball infielder, gets ready to swing. The Lady Lakers spent three weeks practicing between their Florida trip and the first home game on Thursday.
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evenge is a dish best served cold in the Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association (MCLA) ranks – and defending Divi-sion II champion Grand Val-
ley State found that out the hard way over the weekend.
Flashback to 2014. GVSU ended its post-season run with a pair of victories over St. Thomas and St. John’s on its way to captur-ing its first-ever national crown at Chapman Stadium in Orange, Calif.
Flash forward to 2015: GVSU was tasked with beating those same teams again in its second and third games of the season.
Only it didn’t go as well.After No. 3 St. Thomas handed the No. 2
Lakers a 12-9 defeat on Friday, runner-up St. John’s delivered an 18-10 thumping to
the reigning champs – who fell to 1-2 in the fledgling 2015 campaign.
What does that mean for the Lake Show?Surprisingly, not much.Here’s why:(1) Those were really good teams.GVSU is a targeted team, and it will be all
season. That’s just the nature of winning a na-tional title in any sport on any level. St. Thomas and St. John’s, a pair of perennial powerhouses, were playing with added fire – not just chips on their shoulders. Like entire bags of chips on their shoulders. Factor in the less-than-desirable elements and GVSU’s early season miscues, and it’s not all that astonishing.
(2) It happened last year.A comb through the 2014 schedule sums up
the setback best, in my humble opinion. Why? Because the Lakers lost to the same two teams in succession early last season, and they were GVSU’s only losses of the year. GVSU was out-
scored 27-19 in those 2014 losses. GVSU was outscored 30-18 in those losses over the week-end. No need to gnash the teeth, Laker nation, at least not yet.
(3) Tom Izzo.Not to get off topic, but my
bracket was busted over the week-end. By who? A team that en-tered the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament on a hot streak, Michigan State (I had Lou-isville). What does this have to do with the GVSU men’s lacrosse club? A lot. The Lakers entered the 2014 playoffs on an eight-game win streak – and didn’t lose again. We see time and time again in sports: Teams with momentum are dangerous in the postseason tournament. Not sure why, but it happens a lot.
(4) There’s a happy ending.
GVSU didn’t come back from Chicago empty handed. The Lakers notched a 7-6
victory over No. 6 North Da-kota State on Sunday, effectively bouncing back from the pair of setbacks. I wasn’t at the game, but North Dakota State had to have been chomping at the bit – and GVSU didn’t cave. That shows mental toughness, and mental toughness goes a long way (just ask Izzo). Moreover, who did GVSU bounce back against in 2014? The Bison of North Dakota State, that’s who.
Long story short, the Lakers should be fine with time. This team is loaded with returning talent, and has the people in
place to bring home another MCLA crown in 2015. We’ll call it a hiccup for now, eh?
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“I’m just trying to keep my confi-dence up because that’s how I am go-ing to continue to stay successful.”
The Lakers then took a trip down to Ohio for a doubleheader against Malone on Saturday in Canton. GVSU was able to win a slugfest in game one, 12-9, for its first GLIAC victory in 2015.
Lenza stayed hot, belting her third homer of the season, while pitcher Sara Andrasik pitched 4.2 innings and gave up seven runs (six earned) on five hits with three walks. Sophomore Ellie Balbach filled in for Andrasik, giving up one earned run and no walks in 2.1 innings.
“It was hard to hit with no feeling in my hands,” Balbach said of the condi-tions. “But pitching wasn’t as bad as I expected. Once I got warm my body was okay, and hand warmers were a lifesaver.”
The game-time temperature was about 25 degrees at first pitch not counting the wind chill. Game two was called off.
The Lakers then traveled to North Canton, Ohio, on Sunday to face Walsh in another doubleheader.
The Cavaliers shut out GVSU, 4-0, in game one, but the Lakers bounced back in the nightcap thanks to some late-game heroics from two-sport sophomore Janae Langs. Langs pro-vided a walk-off RBI single in the seventh to break a scoreless tie as the Lakers took home a 1-0 win.
Weather was again a factor, with game-time temperatures ranging be-tween the high 30s and low 40s.
The Lakers also came home with an individual record, as Shomin was hit by a pitch again in game one.
GVSU (16-6, 2-1 GLIAC) has Mon-day off, but is back at it again on Tues-day at the GVSU Softball Field against conference foe Wayne State. The games are slated for 3:30 and 5:30 p.m.
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owing is a club sport at Grand Valley State. Funding is lim-ited and the
pool of talent is limited to walk-ons.
That didn’t stop the Laker Navy from racing along-side some of the best pro-grams in the nation over the weekend at the 42nd San Diego Crew Classic. GVSU squared off against NCAA Division I varsity teams like Stanford, Navy, Texas and UC Berkeley at the event, and performed well.
“It’s extremely exciting to see that we can be within a couple boat lengths of top programs from around the country,” said men’s coach John Bancheri. “When the men raced on Saturday and went punch for punch, stroke for stroke with Stan-ford, I was really excited.”
GVSU’s men took third on Saturday, finishing seconds behind Stanford (6:04:00) with a time of 6:06:99. The Laker women fared just as well on the first day of competition, taking fourth (7:12.76) amidst the likes of San Diego, UCLA and Victoria. With the jit-ters of the first day over and
a well of confidence from Saturday’s placings, the men’s and women’s teams took fifth (6:11.35) and sev-enth (7:08.16), respectively, on Sunday in the Copley Cup Invitational.
In their first regatta of the season, or series of rac-es, the Lakers proved they were worthy.
“It was really eye-open-ing and just kind of shows how you rank among other programs,” team captain Lexie Benton said. “It’s the fastest competition we’ll see all year. We can get better and be something more.”
Even before the trip to San Diego, Bancheri knew the team would have good speed this year. He said he noticed during practice and training in Florida that the men would be fast, but that even the men were surprised when they took third on Saturday.
“A lot of our work came in from rowing on the row-ing machines to get faster,” said captain Austin Burris. “In the winter, we mainly worked on our physical shape to train our bodies to row at a high level. The results we get now and for the remainder of the sea-son are showing the work we put in this winter.”
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Inspired Laker Navy hangs with Division I juggernauts in San Diego
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the Grand Valley State track and field teams returned to action in two different states over the weekend.
With 21 of its runners com-peting at the Raleigh Relays in North Carolina, GVSU swept Saginaw Valley State in the an-nual Battle of the Valleys meet on Saturday in Allendale.
The men came away with a 90-56 victory; the women won 95-49.
“A meet like this shows our team has great depth,” said GVSU coach Jerry Baltes. “It’s good for our young kids to get in and race to win races, and have the chance to compete and win if they’re not normal-ly in that position.
“We just have to keep im-proving as a team, get healthier and hopefully get a few nation-al qualifiers each week so when conference comes around we can focus on winning that and get ready for the national championships.”
The men were led by All-American Darien Thorn-
ton, who is picking up right where he left off during the indoor season.
Thornton set the first quali-fying mark of the season for the Lakers in the hammer throw with a mark of 66.69 meters – one meter shy of the GVSU record – and hit a provisional qualifying mark in shot put with a throw of 16.69 meters.
“It was my best season-opening throw, but I have lots of work to do to improve and get better,” Thornton said. “It was a good start but I am not finished yet.”
Thornton’s fellow throw-ers also came up big, as Chris Saikalis won the shot put (17.59 meters), Blake Donson finished first in discus (51.06 meters), Mike Moon took second in the hammer throw (57.19 meters) and third in discus (46.28 meters) and Jay Lechner placed second in dis-cus (46.63 meters).
On the women’s side, GV-SU’s pole vault crew showcased its depth by coming away with all three of the team’s provision-al qualifying marks on the day.
Jamie Roberts, Jennifer Schornak and Alexandra Kitz all hit the mark of 3.65 meters. Roberts was named the win-ner after she was able to clear it on her first attempt. Schornak
finished in second place; Kitz came away in third.
In North Carolina, mean-while, standout Sean Wells and the Lakers were also fo-cused on setting the tone for GVSU’s outdoor season.
Wells was the only GVSU individual champion at the re-lays. He won the 60 meter hur-dles and broke a school record in the 110 meter hurdles with his second-place time of 14.03.
Ethan Barnes had a sec-ond-place finish as well, clocking in at 1:51.17 in the 800 meter dash, while Wuoi Mach took fifth in the 1,500 meter run (3:49.82).
Rebecca Anderson led the way for GVSU’s women by finishing second in the javelin throw (46.51 meters), Alisha Weaver came away with a third-place performance in the high jump (1.60 meters) and Amy Cymerman finished 11th in the 10,000 meter (35:00.94).
The women’s 4x400 meter relay team also came away with a solid performance, finishing sixth.
“We ran very well as a team, especially since it was early and our first meet of the season,” said Michaela Lewis.
GVSU returns to action this weekend at the Eastern Illinois Invitational in Charleston, Ill.
BY ANDY [email protected]
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RUNNING AHEAD: Grand Valley State track and field athlete Joseph Cecil outdistances SVSU during the annual Battle of the Valleys meet. The team races again this weekend.
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The teams had a lot to race for going into this past weekend’s event after learn-ing about the passing of Ban-cheri’s sister earlier in the week. Both teams wore col-orful ribbons in her memory
to show their support.“I was really touched
and moved,” Bancheri said. “They had my back through this and, being part of the team, you push each other at times and support each
other at times. It’s nice to know that you have that kind of support. My family was moved also.”
Bancheri, who had flown out to San Diego on Thurs-day for the teams’ practice,
was unaware they would be wearing the ribbons.
“He puts everything he has into the program and when he gets upset like ev-ery other coach can, it’s be-cause he cares,” Benton said.
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MARCH 30, 2015GRAND VALLEY LANTHORN
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s the snow whipped across the field, the Grand Valley State wom-en’s lacrosse team did the same against Fort Lewis offensively.
GVSU controlled the game on both sides of the ball against the Sky-hawks on Thursday, claiming its first home win of the season, 16-5, on a chilly night in Allendale.
The difference in play for the Lakers since Tuesday’s loss to No. 3 Lindenwood was night and day.
The offense, which managed to start a run-ning clock with just over eight minutes left to play, never stopped attacking, and the defense came up with big plays all night.
GVSU finished with more shots on goal (26-14), ground balls (30-21) and draw
controls (13-10).“I wasn’t too happy with how
we played in the first half,” said GVSU coach Alicia Groveston. “We did some good things, just not often enough. They worked hard in the second half and it made the difference.”
The difference between halves showed, as the team scored 10 of its goals in the second stanza.
Sophomore midfielder Eri-ka Neumen continued her red-hot streak offensively, netting six goals to go with an assist, three draw controls and two ground balls. It was her third game with five or more goals this season, and the seventh time she’s led the Lakers in both goals and points.
The offense looked much more fluid than it did against Lindenwood, as 12 Lakers tallied at least a point in the victory. Midfielders Brooke Ingraham and Rachel Leibovitz supplied two goals and an assist apiece, while fellow midfielder Kira Dosenberry came through with two goals and six caused turnovers. Ryan Skomial and Sar-ah Lowe combined for five assists.
“We emphasized in practice to work with each other and take our time when shooting,”,” Leibovitz said. “We took the op-portunities to finish, faking out opponents and taking the shot only if it was there.”
Neumen said the one-day turnaround started with the coaches, who weren’t happy with Tuesday’s performance. The focus was
taking chances to the net, and that’s exactly what GVSU did offensively. The team scored a handful of its 15 goals on crisp feeds in front of the net or 1-on-2 opportunities.
The defense proved to be just as strong, as the Lakers limited Fort Lewis to just 17 total shots – and just five in the second half.
“We communicated a lot more on and off the ball,” said sophomore goalie Sarah Zwilsky, who made nine saves. “We didn’t harp on mistakes and saw each other more when we cleared.”
The Lakers (4-4, 0-0 GLIAC) will not play in Allendale again until April 12, when they start a four-game homestand against GLIAC foe McKendree. GVSU will compete in four road games in the mean-time at Wheeling Jesuit (April 1), Alder-son Broaddus (April 2), Walsh (April 4) and Ursuline (April 10).
BY NICK [email protected]
Neumen, Lakers bounce back in Allendale
Sophomore’s seven-point night spurs Laker lacrosse to first home victory
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SECOND WIND: The Grand Valley State women’s lacrosse team faced Fort Lewis, taking away its first home win of the season on Thursday. Following a loss Tuesday, the Lady Lakers concentrated on offense and showed improvements against the Skyhawks with more shots on goal and ground ball recoveries. Their next home game will take place on April 12.
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