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About 50 Grand Valley State Uni-versity students participated in a “Rally Against Injustice” Thurs-day evening to honor the people
who have fallen victim to injustice in the U.S. and protest further acts of inequity.
“The motto of today’s rally is, and I quote, ‘An injustice to one is an injustice to all,’” said senior Kayla Jones, president of the
GVSU chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Jones said the rally, which had a multi-racial attendance, was held to show that injustice is not a race issue, but an issue of humanity.
“We’re all ethnicities [and] races so it’s just to show that we came together to talk about injustice because it happens to all of our communities, not [just] black, white, Asian,” she said. “Often times our generation focuses on the surface level
issues of skin color and race, but we are here to indicate that injustices transpire to all ages, races and genders.”
Cecil Johnson, president of the Black Student Union, added that flaws in the American judicial system have allowed injustice to continue.
“The Trayvon Martin case has opened the eyes of all cultures, races and nationalities to the fact that the judicial system continues to fail to protect its people,” Johnson said.
During the rally, students from the
sponsoring organizations held posters bearing the faces of Martin, Emmett Till, Troy Davis, Caylee Anthony and others who, the demonstrators said, have been failed by the American justice system.
The posters read, “I am Emmett Till,” “I am Troy Davis,” and so on, to indicate the students’ identification with the vic-tims of injustice.
Leaders of the rally also issued a peti-
‘AN INJUSTICE TO ONE
IS AN INJUSTICE TO ALL’
Following death of FL teen Travyon Martin, GV NAACP hosts rally against injustice
Although many students at Grand Valley State Uni-versity celebrated Easter on Sunday, the Lenten season isn’t over for everyone. GVSU’s Orthodox Christian Fel-lowship group follows a different religious calendar and will celebrate Easter holidays this upcoming Sunday.
“We follow a different method for calculating Eas-ter,” said Father Steve VanBronkhorst, one of the spiri-tual advisors for the group. “It’s a complicated design in figuring it all out.”
The Orthodox Church refers to Easter as Pascha, which is the Old Testament word for Passover, Van-Bronkhorst said. Their Pascha is not always one week after “Western Easter,” which includes the Catholic and Protestant churches.
“It is calculated every year according to a set of rules,” said Christina Stavros, an advisor for the group. “It’s of-ten different than Western Easter, though.”
The OCF group has between seven and 14 student members, but doesn’t have a lot of interaction with other Christian groups on campus such as Intervarsity and Cru, Stavros said. OCF did work with the other organizations
Easter season continues for some
After more than a year of student petitions, gender-neu-tral housing is an option for Grand Valley State Universi-ty students living on-campus, but according to the GVSU Housing Department, it can’t yet be classified as a success.
Andy Beachnau, direc-tor of Housing and Health Services, said it would take about a year or two to de-termine if gender-neutral housing is successful. The option, announced last fall and being implemented for
the first time for the 2012-13 academic year, allows stu-dents to live with members of the opposite sex if they choose. Students must opt in to gender-neutral housing to be assigned a roommate of the opposite sex.
Anna Fisk, grant coor-dinator at GVSU’s LGBT Resource Center, said she thinks the new housing will benefit all GVSU students, regardless of whether they choose to live in gender-neutral housing.
“We are working towards
Too soon to tellToo early to judge success of GNH at GV, Housing receives no complaints
Grand Valley State Uni-versity undergraduate and graduate students will be recognized for their research work this week at the second annual Graduate Showcase and the 17th-annual Student Scholars Day (SSD).
Jeffrey Potteiger, dean of graduate studies at GVSU, said the Graduate Showcase began last year in an attempt
to demonstrate the outstand-ing projects of graduate stu-dents not only to GVSU and the community, but also to people outside of the com-munity. Last year, the event took place on two different days and was split between the DeVos Center and the Cook-Devos Center, but this year all graduate students will present together.
“When people come to see the graduate showcase they get to see all of the
work done by graduate stu-dents across all programs rather than half,” he said.
This year the Graduate Studies Department has sent out notices to several local organizations and to all local state legislators to ensure a strong community involve-ment. State Rep. Ken Yon-ker and State Rep. Brandon Dillon have confirmed they will be in attendance.
Thirty to 40 participants across the 29 graduate pro-
grams will be presenting re-search in the form of poster presentations at this year’s showcase. Guest speaker James Shiveley will also be addressing the audience about the interaction of teaching and research. Con-cluding the day will be the outstanding poster award ceremony where five gradu-ate students will be selected as winners.
SSD showcases student research at GV
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For them: GVSU students Dylan Dunne, Adriana Gibson, Stephen Mccreary and Tiffany kilts protest for the Rally Against Injustice. The rally, hosted by the NAAcP, sought justice in the killing of Trayvon Martin.
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GVL / Eric CoulterCo-ed: brittany Ruggero and Jacob campbell unload a dishwasher in an apartment. Starting in the fall, students can live with people of the opposite sex on campus. So far, about 20 have signed up.
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Grand Valley State University mascot Louie the Laker made a special trip to the Children’s Enrichment Center’s Easter egg hunt April 4.
More than 20 kids enjoyed playing with Louie and finding eggs hidden around the playground.
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A group of Grand Valley students will compete at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) international conference in Texas in Novem-ber. They qualified after placing at the ASME 2012 Dis-trict B Student Professional Development Conference in Toledo in March.
Student team Steven Quirk, Matthew Freundl and Caitlyn Hurley took second place in the district design competition, where they competed against 15 teams. Jacob Hall and Alexander Hastings took third place in the district design competition, and Kathryn Drouil-lard took third place in the poster competition.
Dale Johnson, a writing major from Hartford, has won the East Central Writing Centers Association Tu-tor of the Year award. In doing so, he beat out writing consultants from other universities in the region.
Johnson, a senior, has worked for three years as a consultant in Grand Valley State University’s Fred Meijer Center for Writing & Michigan Authors. He received his award certificate and $200 prize at the 2012 ECWCA annual conference hosted by Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, in India-napolis, March 30-31. This award recognizes innova-tive approaches to tutoring/consulting, the quality of work with writers, and the articulation of a tutoring/consulting philosophy.
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Grand Valley State University President Thomas J. Haas was one of several area celebrities photographed on “the sofa” as part of a promotional campaign for the Grand Rapids Ballet’s production of “Movemedia.” An Experience Grand Rapids website story gives a nod to Grand Valley’s “impressive artistic achievements.”
The “Movemedia” concert series consists of per-formances by GRBC dancers of contemporary works by six guest choreographers. Shawn T Bible, assistant professor of dance, and Calin Radulescu, affiliate pro-fessor of dance and former GRBC professional dancer, choreographed pieces for the two-concert series held on March 23 and 24 and April 6 and7. Bible’s “Why We Write” was included in the March concert and Radules-cu’s “Reflections” was performed in April. Dale Schri-emer, professor of voice, also performs in a piece set by Patricia Parker, GRBC artistic director, along with pianist James Barnett in the live music for “Rueckert Song.”
Courtesy Photo / News and Information ServicesLearning curve: Nursing students listen to instruction in the Center for Health Sciences. Later this month, doctoral students from the Kirkhof College of Nursing’s first Doctor of Nursing Practice will graduate. The program focuses on practice in addition to research.
Passions will turn into practices when Grand Val-ley State University’s first students graduate from the Doctor of Nursing Practice program this spring.
Linda Scott, professor and associate dean for grad-uate programs in GVSU’s Kirkhof College of Nursing, said a standard Ph.D pro-gram is a research-focused degree, whereas the DNP is a practice-focused degree still using research as evidence. The DNP graduates focus on improving health care in three ways: providing better health, providing better care and providing both of these things at a lower cost.
Jaci Lubbers, a student in the DNP program, works as a pediatric nurse practitioner along the lakeshore.
“I am looking at how primary care can better de-tect and offer services to depressed adolescents,” Lubbers said. “I felt like I personally didn’t have the
tools to be doing a good job in delivering care to them.”
Scott said the basis of all dissertations is to get the students “into the litera-ture and really sort out the evidence, and identify the best evidence” and make a change in practice with it. There is about an 18-year gap between when research is generated and conducted and when it is actually put into place, she said.
Elaine Leigh, an affili-ate clinical faculty member in the Kirkhof College of Nursing, began the program because of her clinical ex-pertise in gastroenterology focusing on Hepatitis C pa-tients.
“I started this program to improve the care for people who have Hepatitis C,” Leigh said. “I mean, part of my reason for going to school was to make a differ-ence.”
Emily Quiney, a nurse practitioner for Spectrum Health, did her dissertation looking at different models providing free care for unin-
sured populations across the country and evaluating the quality of the health cover-age in a clinic on the lake-shore.
“I have a passion for health care as a whole and how can I start to try to make a difference [as much] as possible with patients who are not receiving care that they need to stay healthy throughout their lifespan,” Quiney said.
The DNP students not only hope to improve the health care system, but also strengthen their personal skills.
“I think ultimately what
this program is preparing me to do is to be a better leader in healthcare,” Leigh said.
Quiney said she hopes to become more involved with the executive staff of the hospital department after she graduates, while Lubbers said she wishes to strengthen her skills with partners of education to help fight adolescent depression.
The KCON is getting ready to admit the fourth class that will start next fall. The DNP program was started in the fall of 2009, and there are about 55 doc-toral students right now.
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The undergraduate Stu-dent Scholars Day will con-sist of a combination of oral presentations and a variety of posters from undergradu-ate students.
Graduate assistant and SSD committee member Megan Shannahan said the program has been expand-ing over the years.
“This year we have over 500 students presenting over 300 presentations from a wide range of disciplines,” Shannahan said, adding that the day gives students the chance to expose what they have been working on.
“Research in general can give students the opportu-
nity to gain real world ex-perience and helps them to make connections to class-room work,” she said.
Biomedical sciences major Elizabeth Melching, an SSD participant, said re-search is important to pro-vide a different, more prac-tical aspect of learning.
“It’s one thing to go to a classroom and listen to a lecture, but it is another to get involved hands-on,” Melching said.
Potteiger added that re-search allows students to become better critical think-ers, have a better under-standing of the global issues and be able to think in and out of context.
“We identify a question in a particular field, or so-
cial issue; you collect infor-mation about that question and then you make deci-sions and judgments about how you need to answer that question,” Potteiger said.
He stressed the impor-tance of supporting stu-dent research by attending these events because some students have spent many months or more on their re-search projects.
The Graduate Show-case will run Tuesday from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Loosemore Auditorium. The following day, Stu-dent Scholars Day will run from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Kirkhof Center and the Henry Hall atrium.
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making campus, the cam-pus climate more inclu-sive and accepting for those who identify with LGBT and all students,” Fisk said.
Students can now sign up for the gender-neutral housing option on the GVSU housing applica-tion, which allows them to self-identify as male, fe-male or transgender. The campaign for gender-neu-tral housing began after LGBT students reported large numbers of room-mate conflicts due to their sexual orientation or gen-der identity.
Beachnau said he wants housing at GVSU to be a positive experience for students.
“I think it’s important to be supportive of all stu-dents in their housing op-tions,” he said, adding that about 20 upperclassmen have signed up for gender-neutral housing so far.
Most students selecting the option chose to live in the South Apartments, but Housing will find out in June whether incoming freshmen are also opting
for gender-neutral hous-ing.
Beachnau said almost every state university in Michigan, as well as many universities around the country, have started of-fering the gender-neutral housing option.
“It provides options for students who felt they did not have options,” Beach-nau added.
While he said it is too early to pass judgement on the success of the option, Beachnau said he has not had any formal complaints about the new housing op-tion.
“It is a reflection on students and the support-ive culture at Grand Val-ley,” he said.
Fisk also said she has not heard any complaints about gender-neutral housing.
“I have faith in our campus community that we’re moving toward a more inclusive framing of prominent issues,” Fisk said.
For more informa-tion about gender-neutral housing, visit www.gvsu.edu/housing.
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GVL ArchiveOn display: A student presents his research during a past Student Scholar’s Day. The two-day event, which features GVSU students’ work, will have a Graduate Showcase on Tuesday.
tion for students to sign for the prosecution of George Zimmerman for the killing of Trayvon Martin.
“Were not saying that Zimmerman is guilty or in-nocent or anything,” Jones said. “We’re just saying that due process is a right to all citizens no matter what you look like or how old you are. We want everyone to enjoy their rights and we want our government to protect our rights. So if someone is shot or killed or maimed or a hate crime happens, we want them to just to ‘due process’ their case and not to essentially sweep it un-der the rug. I feel like a lot of times that’s what happens with these case, so the issues go unheard.”
The rally culminated with two keynote speakers, including Rik Stevenson, who discussed other suc-cessful student movements in American history to in-spire GVSU students to act against injustice.
“U.S. students stand as a legacy, and you stand on the shoulders of other students who have seen the role and the impact they can have on social change,” Stevenson said. “As you stand here to-day you must be reminded that you’re not here just to get a better job, but to get an education so that you can participate in social change. You and I have a responsi-bility to take the education that we have and to chal-lenge the systems that are just and unjust.”
Stevenson stressed that the actions of the GVSU
students are not unprec-edented.
“So as we stand here today, I want you to think about the fact that as a stu-dent population you have a connection, a baton has been passed to you from other students who have changed the world in which we live,” he said.
Professor Louis Moore followed with suggestions for ending injustice.
“So how do we start a movement to cure this dis-ease, to eradicate this ill-ness before it affects us?” Moore asked the students. “We can’t fight this by rais-ing funds … the only way we stamp out the illness is through ourselves. We
need to reopen this dialogue about race, class and gender like we’re doing today, and we need to put everything on the table.”
The rally, which took place at the Transforma-tional Link, was sponsored by the BSU, Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity, the NAACP, Associates of Business Communication, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., Black Leaders Aspiring For Critical Knowledge and You Beautiful Black Woman.
“The fight’s not over,” Stevenson said. “You have the ability and the responsi-bility to change the world in which you live.”
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earlier in the year to put on an interfaith panel dis-cussion, where religious leaders from different denominations came and had a discussion about the differences in beliefs and faiths.
VanBronkhorst said the closest Orthodox Church for students to worship at is in Grand Rapids, in which there are Greek, Russian, Antiochian and Romanian Orthodox churches. Dur-ing Holy Week, the week before Pascha, Orthodox churches have services everyday. This includes having matins services, traditionally done in the morning, at night. “Tradi-tionally, the day starts with the setting of the sun the night before, so we cele-brate the matins service in the evening,” VanBronk-horst said.
OCF meets every Tues-day, and plans to attend a Greek Orthodox Church downtown, called Holy Trinity, as a group during Holy Week. Some services that are held during Lent can last for a long time, with participants some-times standing for three to four hours in one service.
“It takes endurance, but you find you can do more
and you are growing closer to Christ,” Stavros said.
The Orthodox Chris-tian Church encourages its members to become vegan, eat less and pray more for the duration of the Lenten season, he added. The money that is not spent on food is then supposed to be given to the poor.
“When we fast, much of the point is social jus-tice,” Stavros said. “What we’re not taking into our bodies, we should be giv-ing to the poor.”
Stavros emphasized that the point of carrying out these practices is not to do them during Lent and then go back to old habits, but to change for the long run.
Students involved in the OCF group learn more about the Orthodox Church traditions and beliefs when they get together as a group every week.
For more information about the organization, visit the OCF page at www.gvsu.edu/studentlife/stuey.
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GVL / Robert MathewsOn paper: Students sign petitions to prosecute George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. GVSU NAACP chapter President Kayla Jones said while the group is not claiming Zimmerman’s guilt or innocence, they want to see due process of the law.
The Masters, the most prestigious golf tourna-ment in the world is over, and wasn’t it spectacular when that one guy won?
His short game was automatic and his drives flew so far they were tracked by the FAA.
OK, it’s obvious I have no idea who won — be-cause this column was written at 11:58 p.m. last Thursday.
Enough about sports though — if you want sports you can flip a few more pages to a part of the Lanthorn they let an illiterate man from Muskegon run. You came here for insightful and oft-correct political com-mentary and that’s what
you shall get. When “that guy” won
The Masters on Sunday, he won it at one of the few clubs this side of elementary school whose official policy is “no girls allowed.” The club has roughly 300 members at any given time. There is no formal application process at the Augusta National Golf Club, and since the club’s founding in 1933 all membership has been by invitation only.
Notable members in-clude Bill Gates and War-ren Buffett, the richest and second-richest men on Earth, respectively, and other not-as-wealthy individuals like Peter Co-ors, who has to make and peddle his own beer just to scrape up the $10,000 annual membership fee.
AGNC admitted its first black member in 1990 amid criticism it had discriminatory policies, and has no intentions to admit a female member.
In a world where
women have rapidly increasing influence and power, the AGNC is one of the last places where modern women aren’t al-lowed the same rights and privileges as men.
What makes it okay to bar women from joining the country’s most presti-gious golf club?
Would it be okay to bar non-whites from a private club? Or maybe just homosexuals with bad haircuts?
Allowing a club to legally bar women puts the U.S. in a league with Saudi Arabia and other backward countries that openly treat women as second-class citizens. While nobody would confuse the U.S. for a Middle Eastern religious dictatorship, the principle is the same: that it’s okay to deny women equal treatment, even when we strive for equality elsewhere, when really, it isn’t.
Well, the great ex-periment is over. Starting yesterday, I can swear again. Nothing screams “Easter” quite like drop-ping a few F-bombs. Yes, when I said I was giving up curse words for Lent, I was serious. (Would I ever lie to you?)
But I’m not perfect. Throughout the past five weeks, some words have escaped my lips, here’s the tally:
F-word: 3S-word: 5A-word: 3D-word: 1H-word: 2P-word: 2C-word (take it easy, it
rhymes with “trap”): 3Even with all of that, I
would consider my Lent a success. I learned a thing or two about self-control (and about James Madison — thanks, Wikipedia!), but the road to cleaning a dirty mouth was a rocky one.
The first few days
tested my sanity and I’m legitimately surprised I didn’t break down into a mess of twitches and mumbles about ‘Nam.
I’ve heard this is com-mon, though, amongst us cold turkey-ers: Once you decide to give something up, you begin to obsess over it; it’s all your mind thinks about. So for two solid days, my mind was clogged with cursing as if I had developed unrelent-ing mental Tourette’s. I work at a job where I deal with hundreds of custom-ers a day and I’m astound-ed I didn’t cuss one out to prevent my brain from exploding.
But I learned a valuable lesson from it: modera-tion. These past few weeks taught me that I don’t necessarily need to use the F-word as a stalling mechanism when I speak. And it made me realize that everyone could use a little restraint.
See, I’ve always car-ried the belief that swear words aren’t “bad” words. Unfortunately, some people utilize them in a negative way that hurts other people, and suddenly we have bullying or a hate crime or a new Limp Bizkit album.
However, because I understand that there are
those among us that feel uncomfortable around S-words and D-words, I try my hardest not to use them in the wrong contexts. I don’t succeed most of the time, sadly.
We all have those vices, whether it be curs-ing, gossiping or cracking knuckles (my mother said if I keep cracking them, they’ll stay that way), and there are people out there that find these behaviors off-putting. A gut reac-tion could be to say, “Up yours, prude,” but often times it’s bad to go with your gut, depending on the amount of gastrointestinal medication you’re taking.
I don’t expect to live in a world where swear-ing is a thing of the past (like dinosaurs and the Zune) because I’m a real-ist. However, if it bothers other people, I’ll tone it down. And the best part of my Lent experiment (or, shall I say “experi-Lent?”) is that I know I can do it.
Does that make me a better person? No, I’m still pretty awful (see the above pun), but I’m working on becoming a functional member of society.
…And now I can sing along to my favorite N.W.A. songs while I’m working on it.
Enjoy responsibly: a post-Lent look into moderation
BY CHRIS SLATTERYGVL COLUMNIST
When evaluating potential schools, incoming students often have a long checklist of criteria for
determining what makes a good univer-sity — interesting classes, a nice campus, a good reputation, etc. — but one of the most important factors in determining whether a college experience will be good is one few people consider: a responsive administra-tion.
The push for gender-neutral housing, which began in Winter 2010 and continued through this fall, when Housing announced that students could opt to live with mem-bers of the opposite sex, was very much a grassroots effort, and while change came slowly, the important thing is that it came.
After the cause garnered support from the student body, the Resident Housing Associa-tion, various LGBT groups on campus and Student Senate, the housing option — which Andy Beachnau, director of Housing and Residence Life, said was not a consideration for the university in March 2010 — was added.
While only about 20 students have cur-rently signed up for gender-neutral housing, with freshmen selecting housing over the summer, it is commendable that the uni-versity listened to student support for the option and is willing to give it time to grow. Participation in gender-neutral housing may be small — and, even as the option grows, will likely remain a small percentage of
students living on-campus — it provides a much-needed sense of comfort and safety for those using it.
Almost every student, with the exception of a lucky few, has experienced roommate conflicts, but it is only a small minority that have felt threatened or hated because their roommate disagrees with their sexual orientation or gender identity. Your home, whether it be the one you share with your parents or the one you keep while at school, should be a safe haven, not a place where you feel threatened, afraid or like you have to hide an integral part of yourself.
And while, unfortunately, the amount of hatred and intolerance in the world is likely not going away anytime soon, the option
for gender-neutral housing at least alleviates important concerns for the students who have them.
Yes, that number of students is small, but that doesn’t mean they’re not important.
The program still has room to grow, and this first year will likely feature some growing pains, but the Lanthorn gives credit where credit is due — credit to the students who campaigned for more than a year to bring housing at GVSU into the 21st Century and make living on-campus a more inclusive experience for everyone, credit to the administrators who listened to what their students wanted and responded and credit to the students who are taking advantage of the option.
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Club volleyball teams end seasons
On Thursday, the Grand Valley State University men’s volleyball A club (27-28-1) traveled to Kansas City, Mo., for the National Collegiate Vol-leyball Federation Na-tional Championships. The Lakers lost their first match against Cal State University-Long Beach but won against Virginia Tech in two straight sets before falling to Stanford University. On Friday, the Lakers defeated Univer-sity of Texas-Austin but fell to the University of Southern California. On the final day of the tour-nament, the Lakers nar-rowly lost to the United State Naval Academy to close out their season.
Also in attendance was the Grand Valley State University women’s volleyball A club (28-9-4), who won their first two games, against Univer-sity of North Carolina and Santa Clara University, in two straight sets before narrowly falling to Ohio State University. On day two, the Lakers defeated Truman State Univer-sity but fell to both the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Uni-versity of California-Los Angeles. On the final day, the Lakers defeated the University of Oregon but lost to St. Louis Univer-sity to end their season.
STANDINGSG L I A C
SOFTBALL
GLIAC North Standings
Ashland GVSUOhio DominicanHillsdaleFindlaySaginaw Valley Wayne State NorthwoodFerris Lake Superior Lake Erie
BASEBALL
GLIAC North Standings
Wayne State Ashland Saginaw Valley Lake Erie Ohio DominicanGVSUTiffinFindlayNorthwood Hillsdale
M. TENNIS
GLIAC North Standings
NorthwoodFerris Wayne State GVSUTiffinFindlay Michigan TechOhio DominicanLake Superior Lake Erie
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10-39-59-58-57-58-66-95-114-94-12
6-07-15-16-23-43-42-42-50-60-7
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They knew they’d break out of it — it was just a matter of when.
Struggling offensively thus far this season, the Grand Valley State University baseball team broke out of their offensive slump, tak-ing three of four from then-GLIAC leading Saginaw Valley State Uni-versity this weekend.
“I know a lot of people have been putting the pressure on themselves, but now that we’re starting to hit, we’re all a lot more confident,” said sophomore first basemen Giancar-lo Brugoni. “We kind of knew we we’re going to hit and that kind of takes the pressure off.”
Aside from the Lakers’ (18-10,
8-6 GLIAC) tough-luck 2-0 loss in game one, the team’s offense seems to have found its groove. Led by Brugoni’s two home runs in the fi-nale on Saturday, GVSU gained the 9-6 and 6-4 Saturday sweep of Sag-inaw Valley (12-13, 9-5 GLIAC), in large part due to the way they ended Friday’s set.
With the game knotted at one, se-nior catcher Jared Cowan’s one-out double in the eighth scored senior out-fielder Steve Anderson and gave the Lakers a 3-2 lead. Junior closer Brad Zambron locked things up in bottom of the frame with his seventh save, putting him atop the conference.
“Great testament to our kids and their ability to hang in there and take things one game at a time,” said head coach Steve Lyon. “We hit the ball relatively hard and made them make
plays, that’s part of offense — capi-talizing on other teams mistakes.”
As the season rolls on, the team will be playing more games in a week. Rather than the weekend-only series they’ve played for the majority of the season, the team will be play-ing midweek games as well, meaning more innings for the pitching staff.
“Offensively it’ll be to our advan-tage, the guys have good rhythm and get a lot of at bats,” Lyon said. “Pitch-ing-wise, we’re going to rely on these guys going on three days rest. Our bullpen is going to have to be ready.”
Those pitchers, who Lyon said, one through four, are as good as anyone, put together as strong a weekend as they have this season. Senior Kyle Schepel, who allowed only two runs in the team’s lone loss, paired with fellow seniors
Ryan Garman and Cory Baker and junior Anthony Campanella to lead the charge from the mound.
That offense is still going to have to remain consistent, and with the success the team saw on Saturday, they’re confident even with the schedule thickening.
“It helps a lot, definitely, having no off time really helps our team,” Brugoni said. “I think, (Saturday) especially, we really tried to stay within ourselves, we did the little things.”
Little things are what has helped the Lakers claw their way to within two games of GLIAC-leading Wayne State University. The Lakers will hope to continue their improving play on Tuesday when they host Hillsdale College for a doubleheader.
Finishing strong
Lakers drop opener, take next 3 in series vs. Saginaw ValleyBY BradY FredericksenGVL SPORTS EDITOR
GVL Archive
Snapped: Junior Anthony Campanella (25) sends the ball to first base. The baseball team broke out of its offensive slump this weekend, going 3-4 against Saginaw Valley State University.
Last weekend brought two more GLIAC double-headers to a team that seems to never rest.
On Friday and Saturday, the Grand Valley State Uni-versity softball team hosted rival Saginaw Valley State University for four competi-tive games, two of which were Laker victories. While the team was happy to win two, the Lakers know they have some work to do in practice.
“It was definitely a tale of two games,” said GVSU coach Doug Woods. “We made some crucial errors in a few of the games. We managed to mount a come-back but we dug ourselves too deep of a hole.”
The Lakers (30-8, 13-5 GLIAC) lost the first game of Friday’s double-header, falling 2-1 to the Cardinals (15-15, 8-8 GLIAC) after trailing from the first inning. The Lakers made up for their mistakes in game two by playing a strong offen-sive game, eventually lead-ing them to an 11-0 victory
after only five innings due to the mercy rule. GVSU had six extra-base hits and three home runs.
Junior Kayleigh Bertram led the Laker offense in game two, going was 3-for-3 with a single, a double and a home run — a triple away from hitting for the cycle. Hannah Santora led the Lak-ers in the circle, outpitching the Cardinals during the sec-ond game.
“We had to adjust after game one,” said Santora. “Their pitcher is pretty strong, and we still need to continue to improve our hitting before our next few games.”
On Saturday, the Lakers fell 5-3 to the Cardinals after falling behind in the third in-ning. Once again, the Lakers redeemed themselves in the second game, leading from the third inning, eventually finishing the game with a fi-nal score of 5-3.
“We can always do bet-ter,” said junior designated player Katie Martin, who hit a home run during Sat-urday’s second game. “It is what it is, we’ll keep im-proving and we’ll move on
for the next game.”After 10 games at home,
six of which were victories, the Lakers will return to the road on Tuesday to face off against Northwood University.
While the team admits that they will miss the sup-port of their fans and the home-field advantage, the Lakers are eager to take their skills on the road and show why they are the GLIAC North Division leaders.
However, as always, the Lakers continue to be critical of themselves, knowing that there are always improve-ments that can be made to refine both the offensive and defensive aspects of the team. As Woods said, hit-ting can only take a team so far if the defense isn’t solid, something the Lakers will look to improve on for Tues-day’s games.
“You have to play good defense to be a good team, so we’re really going to have to shore that up,” he said. “We’ve done quite well, but we have a few things to work on.”
Lakers split pair of double-headers
GVL / Bo AndersonMake a run for it: GVSU infielder Kayleigh Bertram attempts to reach first on Saturday. The team split its weekend doubleheaders.
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The composers of “America the Beauti-ful” were most likely
not thinking of the Grand Valley State University men’s and women’s track and field teams, especially when writing “from sea to shining sea,” but with trips to Stanford University, Michigan State University and Duke University, that is exactly how it felt on Friday and Saturday for both squads.
On Friday, the distance team sent three runners to Stanford, Calif., to race against a Division-I field in the 5,000-meter run at the Stanford Invitational.
Senior distance run-ner Anthony Witt finished 13th in section three with a provisional time of 14 minutes, 11.20 seconds. For the women, graduate student Rachel Patterson finished 13th in section one at 15:54.35, while fellow grad student Betsy Graney crossed the finish line in 15:56.68, good for first place in section two.
“Between the competi-tion and the weather, it was a perfect scenario to run fast,” said GVSU men’s and women’s assistant coach Nick Polk, who traveled to Stanford with the distance group. “It is one of the top three meets in the whole country. They ran very good times and to be able to do that this early in the season is a really big deal.”
On Saturday, the vault-ing crew traveled to Michi-gan State University to compete in the Spartan In-vitational. Also, the throw-ers, sprinters, jumpers and hurdlers traveled to Dur-ham, N.C., to compete in the Duke Invitational.
At the unscored meet in East Lansing, Mich., soph-omore Kristen Hixson led the Laker women, vaulting to a height of 13 feet. For the GV men, junior Rapha-el Gelo led the way as he cleared 16 feet.
“The warmer the weath-er, the better it is for pole vaulting,” Hixson said. “We had a wide arrange of competition. It is always good to go against Divi-sion I schools. Going to big meets like this early on will prepare us for con-ference and nationals so we will be ready for those challenges.”
Down in Durham, N.C., the Lakers were led by second-place finishes by the 4 x 100-meter and 4 x 400-meter relay teams on both the men’s and wom-en’s side.
The men’s 4 x 100 team of senior Xavier Parnell, freshmen Brent VanEnk and Jesse Schwartz and sophomore Nathaniel Hammersmith finished in 41.79, while the 4 x 400 team of Hammersmith, freshman Daniel Pung and sophomores Mohamed Mohamed and Logan Hoff-man finished in 3:18.27.
Parnell also collected two individual fourth-place finishes in the 200-meter dash (21.77 seconds) and the 100-meter dash (10.81 seconds). Also, redshirt freshman Trent Chappell tied for third in the high jump, clearing 2.15 meters,
while junior Andrew Gor-ley finished second in the hammer throw with a toss of 58.07 meters.
The women’s 4 x 100 team of freshmen Carly Scott, Michaela Lewis and Brittney Banister and sophomore Brittney Jackson finished in 47.23, while the 4 x 400 team of seniors Chanelle Caldwell and Adrienne Chandler and sophomores Aileen Lemanski and Leiah Hess finished in 3:48.36.
Two individuals found their way to the top as sophomore Kalena Frank-lin finished first in 100-me-ter hurdles in 14.30 and junior Liz Murphy won the hammer throw with a toss of 56.32 meters.
“There was a lot of re-ally good competition,” Murphy said. “We have never been to such a huge university like Duke be-fore. It is definitely differ-ent not having our entire team together, but we were still very supportive of one another.”
Next Saturday, the teams pack their bags again, this time heading to Hillsdale University for the Hillsdale Invitational.
Track, field compete from coast to coast
Ups and downs are to be expected for a first-year pro-gram, and that has proven no different for the Grand Val-ley State University wom-en’s lacrosse team (6-6).
GVSU showed its poten-tial in spurts over the week-end, losing to Lake Erie University (6-4) 13-12 on Friday, but the team man-aged to rally back on Satur-day and defeat Tiffin Uni-versity (1-10) 13-12.
“I think we played well at times and we turned it on in the second half,” said head coach Alicia Groveston. “I think we struggled to find our rhythm on Friday and it kind of carried over to the first half of the game Satur-day.”
GVSU trailed Lake Erie 13-8 with 2:22 left in the game. Freshman Victoria
Devine sparked the Lakers attempted comeback, scor-ing all four of her goals in the last two minutes. Devine tallied two assists in the game as well.
Lake Erie held a 31-27 shot advantage, as well as the ground ball margin 19-11. GVSU had a 18-10 draw advantage, but committed 21 turnovers.
“We came out strong, but we kind of got ourselves in a hole yesterday and we didn’t play like a team like we should have,” Devine said. “But then we came back in the second half and we had a lot more confidence on Sat-urday.”
GVSU got back on track to its winning ways on Sat-urday. The Lakers had to come back from a two-goal deficit at the half to defeat Tiffin, 13-12.
Freshman Brooke In-graham led the Lakers with four goals and Devine added three goals of her own.
GVSU dominated the match statistically, holding a 34-20 edge in shots, and a 19-8 advantage in draws controlled.
“I’d say that both games started out slower and not as good as we hoped for,” said freshman Rachel Leibovitz. “We were able to finish bet-ter and bring it together to make some plays in the sec-ond game.”
GVSU’s resiliency and toughness has impressed their coach. The two come-backs over the weekend solidified how resilient this team is.
“We found some fight in our kids,” said Groveston. “They were able to turn it on at times. We do have some fight and we can put our-selves in situations to win.”
GVSU is 12 games into their inaugural 17-game sea-son, and overall, the Lakers are pleased with the progress they have been able to make thus far this season.
“We’re very happy with what we have seen as a col-lective whole,” Groveston said. “The start of the pro-cess from two years ago to now, has really come a long way. The biggest challenge for us now is to get them to mentally understand that they’re better than a first year program. We need to show people we have the capabil-ity of winning big games. I think next week will be a big opportunity for us to turn things around and really start moving forward again. We took a few steps back this weekend, but I think we are still working forward.
GVSU will next be in ac-tion when they host Indiana Technological University on Wednesday at 6 p.m.
Spring SplitLacrosse splits weekend games
GVL ArchiveAbove and beyond: Senior Jocelyn Kuksa clears the pole vault in a past meet. The track and field teams divided this weekend, representing GV in California, North Carolina and Michigan.
GVL ArchiveDown the middle: Freshman Ali Dixon (11) fights to move up the field in a past match. The lacrosse team lost its first game to Lake Erie on Friday before its Saturday victory against Tiffin.
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A fter a six-match winning streak, the Grand Valley State
University men’s tennis team suffered a close, heart-breaking loss to Wayne State University midday Friday at Ramblewood Tennis Club.
Head coach John Black
said his team was more up-set to lose by a single point, 5-4, than to have their win-ning streak come to an end.
“We played very well and unfortunately, we just could not grasp that fifth point to see us to a win,” Black said.
The top three singles flights in order for the Lak-ers — Andrew Darrell, Benny Delgado-Rochas and
Marc Roesslein — picked up points in their singles’ victories. Darrell and Roess-lein paired up in doubles and took GVSU’s fourth point of the match.
Roesslein said he was satisfied with how a change in pairings from a few weeks earlier has impacted him and Darrell in the doubles-side of the match.
“We have a very good harmony and that’s been clear in our recent wins,” Roesslein said.
Darrell agrees and said that the duo has been a very strong, consistent point of pride in the past few match-es.
“We have been much bet-ter in recent matches and we play off each other extreme-ly well,” Darrell said.
Roesslein said the team couldn’t grasp points from the lower-flighted matches in both singles and doubles to see the Lakers on to vic-tory.
“The other matches were very close and could have really gone either way,” Roesslein said. “We need to brush off the loss quickly with our last two matches upcoming.”
The Lakers hit the court against Lewis University, the No. 5 team in the Mid-west region, on Monday at Jenison High School. Then on Thursday, Ferris State University comes to Allen-dale for the Lakers’ final regular season match of the season.
“We’ll have a local tour-nament after that to get scrimmage matches in be-fore the conference tourna-ment,” Black said. “It will be very likely that we’ll face Wayne State again and we’ll be looking forward to hav-ing another shot at them af-ter Friday.”
Roesslein said his team is ready for the upcoming GLIAC Tournament at the end of the season, but will really look to gain a higher seed to avoid undefeated
Northwood University in the first round.
“We are hot at the mo-ment and playing well so hopefully we’ll get that number two spot,” Roess-lein said. “However, it won’t matter in the end who we end up playing first in the tournament. We all know we have to really step up when the time comes and if we do that, it won’t matter who we play.”
Darrell said the team still has a shot at a national tour-nament bid, especially if the team does well in the GLI-AC Tournament.
“Hopefully we’ll reach the finals and I think if we do that, we should get an in-vitation to Nationals,” Dar-rell said.
Close loss disappoints men’s tennis, ends winning streakGVL / Anna Schwallier
One point short: Junior Mike Bambini volleys a ball across the net during practice for the men’s tennis team. The team fell 5-4 to Wayne State University on Friday, ending its six-game winning streak.
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laker lifeB4 MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2012Grand Valley Lanthorn
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Andrea “Buster” Schneider was diagnosed with Glioblastoma, an aggressive, malignant brain tu-mor at a very young age; however, despite her daily battles, she was always the light of anyone’s day.
“I can still remember her laugh and how she would sing along with Mariah Carey and could hit the highest of notes,” said Kate Piccard, a Grand Valley State Uni-versity student, of her cousin, who passed away nearly 12 years ago at
the untimely age of 12. Now a stylist at Strands Hair
Salon in Grandville, Mich., Pic-card was recently approached by fellow GVSU student Emma Linne, who is also a member of Stars for Make-A-Wish, to par-ticipate in a fundraiser to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation and Locks of Love.
“The Make-A-Wish Foundation wanted to grant Buster a wish,” Piccard said. “After some funny ideas and thinking it through, Buster chose to get a large Sony projection television. She wanted something that she could share with her three other sisters and parents. It was just the way she was, to think about other people as well as herself. I remember think-ing it was the biggest television I had ever seen.”
When Linne came to Piccard, she was more than happy to help.
“It was a very easy yes for me,” she said. “I have never forgotten (the wish granted to Buster), but I
have never been able to give back or show appreciation. This was a great opportunity and I jumped at the chance to be involved.”
Piccard and two other stylists from the Grandville salon will be donating their time and their talent to the Hair-Cut-a-Thon.
Participants with long enough hair are encouraged to donate their hair to Locks of Love for a free cut, and the group is accepting do-nations for regular cuts.
This Hair Cut-a-thon will be taking place Monday from noon to 4 p.m. in the upstairs landing of Kirkhof. Walk-ins are welcome, but appointments can be made by email through Linne at [email protected].
Britta Cicansky, student and Stars for Make-A-Wish member, came up with the idea last semes-ter.
“I am in Make A Wish and was thinking how Locks of Love has the same basic giving element and the same type of people in
those situations,” Cicansky said. “I thought we could combine the two.”
Fellow group member Adri-enne Daniel immediately signed on board with Cicansky’s idea.
“Especially when you are in college, living on campus, getting your hair cut gets forgotten during a hectic semester,” Daniel said. “It is harder for underclassmen to know where to go and get a hair-cut, find transportation and even just afford the cost of a haircut.”
In addition to the convenience for students, this event also adds exposure for the salon, the GVSU organization and the organizations they are donating to.
“I think it’s so amazing when people give their hair to Locks of Love and other foundations simi-lar, many of us take our hair for granted, when someone loses their hair it is a large change, if we could make it any easier we should rise to the occasion,” Cicansky said.
Group to give hair, grant wishes in KirkhofStars of Make-A-Wish, Strands salon hold Hair Cut-a-Thon to benefit Locks of Love and Make-A-Wish Foundation
Courtesy Photo / Andy ConstantinoNot all who wander are lost: Members of the backpacking club take in the sights on a past trip. The club, which welcomes members of all levels of experience, has hiked in West Virginia, New Mexico, North Carolina and along portions of the Appalachian Trail. In addition to their big trips, the group hikes in Michigan destinations and does clean-up work along the ravines off-campus.
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A s the world becomes more intertwined via technology, there are still
those who yearn to wander. These wanderers include
members of Grand Valley State University’s backpacking club, which promotes exploration and reconnecting with nature. For some, it has been a life-long de-sire just waiting to be expounded upon. As for the current treasur-er, freshman Caitlin Shanna-han, the program has helped with her transition into university life and more impor-tantly, pushed her to follow through with an interest in camping.
“I’d always been interested in camping, but I’d never actually done a backpack-ing trip,” Shan-nahan said. “I was pretty much sold after that.”
Aside from trips, the group promotes and helps carry out cleaning up the area, particularly the ravines off campus.
Joe Napolitan, president of the group, firmly believes that showing pictures helps students decide to join.
“In all reality as far as getting away for a weekend or spring
break, it’s probably the cheap-est option available,” Napolitan said.
Although there are not many trips left for the year, students are encouraged to still join and experience what it is like to go backpacking. Membership dues are $20, and all other expenses are divided amongst members on a trip-by-trip basis. Equip-ment is provided if students do not have his or her own.
There is a trip planned for the Porcupine Mountains in the Upper Peninsula the weekend of April 13. To be added to the group in time, signing up as a member and the trip are re-quired.
For those who want to get a head start and practice before joining the group, hiking around the ravines and learning how to use a topographic map are sug-gested.
“It’s a pretty decent simula-tion as to what you might be doing,” Shannahan said.
N a v i g a t i o n courses are also set up in the ravines al-lowing students to follow checkpoints around and learn how to use a com-pass more thor-oughly.
The group will be heading off to Isle Royale, Mich., at the end of the year.
“We need to do fundraising and
volunteer hours to secure a po-sition on that trip,” Napolitan said.
Part of this will come from the bake sale being held this week.
GVSU’s Backpacking Club meets every Thursday at 9 p.m. in Manitou Hall Room 123.
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GV’s ‘wanderers’ appreciate wilderness, promote environmentalism
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“I’d always been interested in camping, but I’d never actually done a backpacking trip. I was pretty much sold after that.”
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Over summer vacation, some students at Grand Val-ley State University will bum around, consuming Red Vines and blue raspberry Slurpees, while others will work at sum-mer camps, breaking up fights between wiry sixth graders and bathing in tea tree oil to cure poison ivy. But unique to GVSU’s Nathan Tokarek’s plans is a 4,000-mile bike across the US with an organi-zation called Bike and Build, making frequent stops along the way to aid in the building of affordable housing.
Affordable housing is de-fined as spending 30 percent or less of your income on a place to live. The average four-person family in the U.S. with one working parent cannot afford the cost of a new two-bedroom apartment, increas-ing the need for organizations like Habitat for Humanity to step in and create houses that people can own at a reason-able price.
Bike and Build has several routes to choose from, starting in places like Virginia Beach, Va., or Providence, R.I., and ending in Canon Beach, Ore. and Half Moon Bay, Calif. Bikers will set out together,
bike a while, stop a while and repeat until the journey is complete.
Along the way, participants will be graciously put up by supporting churches, families and organizations and not left on sides of highways in tents or ditches, nor will they be actually riding in RVs sipping on juice boxes and eating Fig Newtons. This is the real deal, a rare and matchless oppor-tunity to introduce people to biking, volunteering and the concept of affordable housing, while allowing them to see America in a new way.
“I want experience,” said Tokarek, a junior clinical exer-cise science major from Grand Rapids. “Adventure. Most of all I want that good feeling you get from helping those who need it and by raising awareness for this issue we’re facing in America. I love bik-ing and this is a great outlet for me to give back through that passion”.
Bikers between the ages of 18 and 25 must raise $4,500 prior to the trip, which will all be directly handed over to Habitat for Humanity, and log a sweaty 500 miles on the ex-act bike they will be using for the trek across country. In ad-dition, they must give nearly 11 hours of “sweat equity,” or
volunteer time, toward an or-ganization like Habitat before they can embark on the voy-age. Physical shape does not matter, though essays and an application are required, and training information is distrib-uted to help prepare the bikers for the 70 or so miles they will cross each day.
“I want to interest other Grand Valley students, who would like to do it but don’t even know about it, in par-ticipating,” Tokarek said. “I’m the only person from Michi-gan going.”
Tokarek will be leaving May 17 and returning Aug. 3, pedaling from balmy Jackson-ville, Fla., to sunny Monterey, Calif.
If you feel inclined to do-nate to Tokarek’s cause, keep a keen eye out: he just may be seen stationary biking for funds in the next month some-where on campus, perhaps un-der the Blue Bridge.
If you want more informa-tion on Tokarek, contact him directly at [email protected] or visit www.bikeand-build.org/rider/6152 to view his biker biography.
For more info on the Bike and Build cause, go to www.bikeandbuild.org/cms/.
GV student devotes summer to cross-country “Bike and Build”
GVL / Eric CoulterEvery beam in place: The final beam for the Mary Idema Pew Learning and Information Commons (pictured) will be available for students to sign on Thursday at 4 p.m. before it is raised into place.
Courtesy Photo / Nathan TokarekOn the road: Nathan Tokarek (pictured), a GVSU junior, will be biking across the U.S. this summer to raise money for Habitat for Humanity. Tokarek is the only Michigander participating in Bike and Build.
LEAVE YOUR MARK
Students invited to sign final beam, watch completion of steel erection of new Pew library
Whether students at Grand Valley State University will be able to see the finished product of the Mary Pew
Idema Library or not, they still have a chance to leave their mark on the building.
GVSU students are invited to sign the final beam completing the steel erection of the Mary
Idema Pew library on Thursday at 4 p.m. near the construction site.
This event will allow students to show their gratitude for more than 1,400 private donors, as well as students, alumni, faculty and staff who have given support to the project. At the event, students will also be able to watch as the beam is placed, weather permitting.
Kate Pew Wolters, former chair and current trustee of GVSU’s Board of Trustees, will at-
tend the event for the building that has been named after her mother. Also in attendance will be GVSU President Thomas J. Haas and the Student Senate President Natalie Cleary.
Light refreshments will be provided and the GVSU marching band will also perform.
Visit www.gvsu.edu/library/newbuilding to see floor plans and to take a virtual tour of the library.
BY Rachel MelkeGVL LAkeR LIfe eDITOR
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