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Wednesday, October 26, 20115:00 - 6:00 p.m.Student Lounge

Interested in raising money for cancer awareness?

Collect donations from friends, family members, co-workers,and neighbors then attend our fundraising event and help make adifference. Watch as your fellow students, faculty, and staff have their

Go Bald for Cancer Research

Passionately Pink for the Cure

View From a OnlineStudent

Warren CampusHolds Fundraiser

GRCC DiversityLecture Series

Health CareConnection

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ISSUE:

Participate in the Passionately Pink for the Cure

event at Holland Campus

You are invited to join in goingPassionately Pink for the Cure®! It’s a

great way to fight breast cancer.All you need to do is wear pink and

have fun on Wednesday, October

12 and help support the life-saving work of Susan G. Komen for the Cure® bymaking a $5 donation.

Together, we can help fund critical breast cancer research, as well as localeducation, screening and treatment programs that impact people in our

community.You can

make your donation of $5 by stopping bythe StudentServices FrontDesk between now and Tues., Oct. 11 or you can go to the Holland StudentLounge on Wed., Oct. 12 between 10a.m. - 6 p.m.

October 2011 Volume 4, Issue 2

[email protected] Cont. on page 4

Davenport UniversityKalamazoo campus

presents:

“Go Bald for Cancer

Research”

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H e l l o , f e l l o wPanthers. My name isToya Miller and I have been an online studentfor the past two years.

I am s t udy i ngMarketing and willgraduate this December with a degree in BusinessAdministration. WithoutDU offering an online program, this would havenever been possible,since they closed my DUcampus two years ago.

I know there has been

negative talk aboutonline courses, however they are becoming more popular and most major universities offer such programs and have thes a m e a c a d e m i cr e q u i r e m e n t s a straditional programs.

Taking online coursesisn’t for everyone. There

are advantages anddisadvantages . For students who do not livenear a campus, thiswould be an option for them to consider.Another advantage is

c o n v e n i e n c e a n dflexibility. Students cando their homework attheir own pace andwhenever it fits their

schedule.Students can also save

by not having to spendmoney for gas driving toand from campus.E x p e r i e n c e w i t htechnology is another advantage since morecommunication is taking place online.

One disadvantage is

not being able to meetf a c e - t o - f a c e w i t h professors and other students.

Another challengethat some students mayconsider a disadvantageis having to be extremelyo r g a n i z e d a n ddisciplined in terms of their schedule.

O v e r a l l , m yexperience has beengood and I wouldrecommend it to anystudent needing or wanting a non-traditionallearning experience.

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Warren Campus Holds

Fundraiser

The Warren campus has par tnered wi th thLeukemia and LymphomaSociety in support of their "Light the Night Walk 2011". The event was heldon Sept. 24th in Troy, MIand a number of DUstudents, faculty, and staffmembers participated..

For one of theirfundraisers they collected$1 donations for a chanceto be entered to win one of three raffle baskets.

The winners wereSharon Sutliff (AssociateChair-Science), BeverlyB e c k e m ( L i b r a r y

Specialist) and LauraMesser (Nursing Student).

With the help of theLivonia campus, they haveraised over $2,000 to date.

Please contact ChrystalC o l e m a n , C u s t o m e rService Specialist at theWarren campus foradditional information.

Views Froma Student

by Toya Miller

The Joys of On-Line Learning

Save the date ~ DU Homecoming ~ Nov 7-11, 2012Panthers of the Caribbean



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Come out to enjoy the GRCC Diversity LectureSeries, sponsored by Davenport University. This is acompelling series of fascinating speakers with powerful topics related to diversity. Bring your friendsand family and open your mind and eyes to thediversified world of today. All lectures are free andopen to everyone.

All lectures are on Wednesday evenings and startat 7 p.m. at the Fountain Street Church, 24 FountainSt. NE, Grand Rapids, MI.

Sign up in the Student Life office to take the DU

Transport Lecture Bus from the Lettinga CampusWelcome Center. The bus departs at 6:15 p.m. On-campus parking at GRCC $3.00 (with discount pass)

Jeannette Walls - Oct. 26, 2011 Author, Journalist, Columnist

The Glass Castle: Demon

Hunting and Other Life Lessons

Jeannette Walls is author of thememoir, The Glass Castle, whichhas been on the New York Times

best-sellers list for over three years.The book details Walls’ life growing up in extreme poverty and describes the unimaginable obstacles shefaced. From the desert of the Southwest to her parent’s later homelessness in New York City, Walls’

account of an impoverished life is a compellingtestament to what it means to be poor. Jeannette Wallsis also a journalist whose work has appeared in NewYork Magazine, Esquire, USA Today, and MSNBC.

Maziar Bahari - Nov. 9, 2011

Journalist, Filmmaker, Former

Political Prisoner

Then They Came for Me: A

Family’s Story of Love,

Captivity, and SurvivalMaziar Bahari, Iranian-Canadian

journalist was arrested in Tehran on trumped-upcharges of espionage in the aftermath of the contested2009 election. Held in solitary confinement for 118days, enduring physical and psychological torture, he

chronicles his story in Then They Came for Me: AFamily’s Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival.

As a correspondent for Newsweek, Bahari is anexpert on Iran yet also embraces a wide range of subjects as a filmmaker, from Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, to Iraqi child prisoners and AIDS inSouth Africa.

Jeff Johnson - Feb. 15, 2012

Author, Journalist, Social Activist

Everything I’m Not Made Me

Everything I AmJeff Johnson is renowned both forhis conversations with world

figures in the political, business and entertainmentarenas and his grass-roots work seeking to inspire thenext generation of leaders. Johnson is a trailblazingsocial entrepreneur and authentic voice for change.

Sometimes called the “conscience voice” of BET

Networks, Johnson looks for ways to merge theworlds of politics and popular culture, through broad- based communication, including as a contributor to

the Tom Joyner Morning Show. He is the author ofEverything I’m Not Made Me Everything I Am.

Naomi Wolf - Mar. 14, 2012 Author, Social Critic, Politica

Activist

Beyond Victimization: The

Beauty Myth RevisitedAuthor of seven books, including

the New York Times best seller The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf focuses on gender equality, pervasive

inequities in society and politics, the defense of libertyin America and internationally, and body image.She is the co-founder of the Woodhull Institute for

Ethical Leadership, which teaches ethics andempowerment to young women leaders. In Give MeLiberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries,Wolf argues that breathtaking changes take placewhen ordinary citizens engage in the democraticsystem the way the founders intended, through civicengagement.

Participate in the DU Transport Lecture Series at

Grand Rapids Community College

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heads shaved by local beauticians in support of those who lose their hair to cancer.

Don’t want to go bald

but still want to help?Donate money to thecause! There will be adonation bucket at theevent. Our goal is toraise $500.

All funds raised will be donated to Gilda’s

Club of Grand Rapids.100% of the money donated stays in the local area.

Come out and show your support!!Want more information? Contact Rita

Smallcombe, Student Life Assistant, Kalamazoocampus at [email protected]

For more information about Gilda’s Clubcheck out their website at: www.gildasclubgr.org/index.html.

The DU Spirit Storewill also be at theHolland campus onWednesday, October 12

from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. inthe Student Loungeselling breast cancer awareness items, DUapparel, gifts, alumniitems, bags and totes,drink ware and muchmore!

Davenport employeesreceive an additional20% off regular pricedmerchandise!

Don’t forget to wear pink on Wednesday,

October 12.

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Learn more about Student Government at

studentlife.davenport.edu or email

[email protected]

Panther Press Staff Editor in Chief - Rita Smallcombe (Kalamazoo)Executive Editor – Mike Anderson (Grand Rapids Lettinga)Photographer - Michael Croff (Grand Rapids Lettinga)Contributors - Michael DelMonico (Grand Rapids Lettinga)Charles Taylor (Battle Creek), Toya Mill (Online)Staff Advisor - Natalie Wagner

STUDENT CONTRIBUTORS WANTED! EmailRita at [email protected] for additionalinfo or to submit your story. All campuses welcome!

Go Passionately Pink Cont.

Kalamazoo Campus cont.

Are you someone whodoesn’t need a lot of sleep tosurvive throughout the day?Have you ever, like me,thought that something wasseriously wrong because of this? Believe me if you arelike this, we are not alone.

We are a part of an elitegroup of 1% to 3% of the population that has beenlabeled “short sleepers”.

We are night owls andearly risers at the same time.We don’t need a lot of caffeine (even though someof us may indulge more thanwe should), and we areenerge t i c , op t imis t i c ,outgoing, and ambitious.

Only a handful of smallstudies have looked at shortsleepers because we are hardto find.

A few studies havesuggested that some shorts leepers might havehypomania, which is a mildform of mania with racingthoughts and few inhibitions.

A human geneticist bythe name of Ying-Hui Fu atthe University of California-San Francisco was part of a

r e s e a r c h t e a m t h a tdiscovered a gene variation,hDEC2, in a pair of shortsleepers in 2009.

Genetic analysis spottedone gene variation commonto them both. The scientists

were able to replicate thegene variation in a strain of mice and found that the miceneeded less sleep than usual,too. Not only are thecircadian (natural) rhythmsdifferent in short sleepersthan from most people, soare their moods and their metabolism.

Short sleepers tend to bethinner than average andthey also seem to have ahigh tolerance for physical pain and psychologicsetbacks.

Benjamin Frankl in ,Thomas Jefferson andLeonardo da Vinci were too busy to sleep much, whichmay have classified them asshort sleepers.

Winston Churchill andThomas Edison came close but they were also fond otaking naps, which maydisqualify them as true shortsleepers.

So the next time you

realize that it’s 11pm andyou feel like you are ready

to rule the world, don’t be soquick to jump into bed andtry to catch some Zzzzz’s.

The extra time spentawake may be normal for you. And who knows, youmight end up doingsomething to change theworld.

by Charles Taylor, MA

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