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P resident Thomas J. Haas stopped by the Student Senate general assembly meeting Thursday, re-minding senators of the importance of their role
as the collective voice of the student body at Grand Valley State University.
“Thanks for taking on the leadership roles that you have,” Haas told senators. “It’s important to get your voice to influence our policies and the life you have here at GVSU.”
Student Senate plays a vital role in the university com-munity, Haas said, because it represents the diverse popu-lation that makes up the entire student body.
“Diversity is very broad, from traditional students to working adults,” Haas said. “You are all a part of a uni-versity that respects differences in different student com-
President Haas addresses Student Senate
Grand Valley State University has placed 22nd out
of 100 Division II col-leges and universities for
academic performance by student athletes in a
ranking compiled by the National Colle-
giate Scouting As-sociation.
The rank-ings, which are used by p r o s p e c t i v e
athletes look-ing to choose a college, are compiled by av-eraging each col-lege’s ranking in the Learfield Sports Directors’
Cup, the student-athlete graduation rate for each school and the U.S. News & World Report
ranking.“We are at a school
where we strive to suc-ceed academically,”
said Tim Selgo, GVSU’s athletic director. “Overall, our athletes have a nine
percent higher graduation rate than the student body.
Along with that, we have a nine percent higher retention
rate than the student body.”Selgo contributed much of the
success to the coaches GVSU has along with having higher academic standards when recruiting.
“We have outstanding coach-es here at Grand Valley,”
said Selgo, who said most NCAA universities only require a 2.0 GPA
while GVSU is closer to 3.0. “They know their stuff and it
shows in the classroom. It really all
starts with the coaches.”Doug Woods is GVSU’s softball
coach and during his time with the university, his teams have graduated players at a near-perfect rate.
“I know the players do have a high graduation rate,” Woods said. “I have been coaching, this is my twenty-third year, and the girls that have been in the program for four years, we have only had one not graduate so our rates are way up there.”
Following this season, Woods said he has five seniors who have been with the team for four years
and all five plan on graduating at the end of the year.
“I think those people who are playing a sport and going to school, they are pretty motivated,” Woods said. “Their time management skills are good and they are motivated to get it done and that degree is what they want ... We put a big emphasis that the academics are a large part of it and that’s why you are here. Softball is secondary and a lot of our players chose Grand Valley because of our strong academics.”
Following the 2011-2012 sea-son, the softball team had 11 girls named to the All-GLIAC academic team and five named to the National Fastpitch Association all-academic team.
“I check with them all the time, at practice you know?” Woods said. “We talk about it, if they have any problems, they can get a hold of me and we work through it with Damon Arnold at the Academic Resource
Center to help them out.”Woods also realizes that no mat-
ter how much emphasis he puts on studying, it is still their responsibil-ity to keep their grades up.
“My thought is they have to grow up and mature on their own so that is their responsibility to get them to study,” Woods said. “I re-ally can’t force them to do that, they have to do that on their own. But then again, if we have a student that might have a problem in a class, then we get a tutor and get help with that situation.”
Katie Martin (pictured) is a se-
nior designated hitter for the Lakers and has been able to excel both on and off the field, but even she said that it was tough as a freshman.
“I have definitely gotten better,” Martin said. “I was an engineering student but now I’m in business. For me, it was about not knowing how to study. In high school I didn’t have to study but in college it was like, wow. It was about growing and learning how to study and learning how teachers would ask questions on the tests.”
Martin said that not only learning how to study, but finding a better place to study helped her succeed at the uni-versity.
“As a freshman, I was in the dorms and studying was hard,” Martin said. “I now am in an apartment so that helps to have a quiet place to study. It all comes down to transitioning into a better student.”
Selgo and Martin agreed that
TOEING THE LINE GV athletes make the grade on the field, in the classroomWith the presidential election closing in,
several topics are on the minds of young vot-ers, and the least of these is sustainability.
“During recessions and low-growth years, environmental issues get pushed aside by concerns over economic growth and un-employment,” said John Constantelos, pro-fessor of political science at Grand Valley State University. “Even as a non-specialist, I can state with some confidence that sus-tainability is not an important factor in the election.”
In truth, sustainability in the environmen-tal area has facets in three separate areas: government finance, societal function and, as previously stated, the environment.
Subsequently, the most focused-upon area of sustainability in this election is the financial sector.
“When we look at financial sustainabil-ity, there’re really two edges to that: Hav-ing a business sector that’s vibrant and continuing forward and having a govern-ment sector that can fund what it’s promised to the future,” said Paul Isely, pro-fessor and chair of economics at GVSU. “We’re seeing that on the gov-ernment side both (of the candidates) want ... a budget that is sustainable.”
Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) has a plan to create a sustainable budget which involves making the government budget smaller, giv-ing more latitude if something goes wrong in the economy, Isely said. President Barack Obama’s plan would tend to stabilize the budget, making it less likely for something to go wrong in the first place.
“As far as the business side, I think they both have good plans for business,” Isely said. “The difference is the Obama plan tends to be a little more (focused) on the short run - the next five years - whereas the Romney plans tend to be looking beyond that. There’s good arguments for both, so it’s a matter of what your perspective is as an individual.”
In terms of the environment, Obama may have the more proactive plan of building up renewable and alternative energy sources and offering tax-cuts, low interest loans and subsidies for those who use sustainable en-ergy. Romney’s plan to minimize the bud-get would mean taking money away from federally-funded sustainability endeavors,
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We put a big emphasis that the academics are a large part of it and that’s why you are here. Softball is secondary...”
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especially as Romney wants to give more federal funding to the defense pro-gram. The governor’s plan, therefore, would support the free-market model of letting the most efficient method of energy production become the most profitable, and thus the most commonly used. If those methods are sustainable and/or renewable, so much the better.
“It’s a little harder to see exactly where things are going here,” Isely said. “What we see is the Obama administra-tion wanting to extend the tax credits for alternative energy that are in place right now, and we see the Romney plans talking about ‘we should scale these things back.’”
Isely said social sustainabil-ity is likely the most difficult issue related to sustainability in the election, as the candi-dates have two completely different ideas about what is
needed for a sustainable social infrastructure.
The Obama administration would be utilizing ‘income-redistribution’ - that is, helping people who aren’t as well-off and paying for that through people who are well-off to make society more sustain-able. This is done through programs such as Medicaid, Medicare and Welfare. The Romney campaign maintains that the problem with those programs is that the plans in place are not financially stable. Romney supporters argue that if the country continues with those programs, though they sound good, they will result in financial instability. In their minds, the country needs to scale back some of those pro-grams so that they’re still here 20 years from now.
“They both want to have something that’s there to help people who are less well off, and to allow society to … (avoid) social instability in (the) country,” Isely said.
GVSU.EDU | COURTESYOn the road to green: Economics chair Paul Isely felt that with the upcoming election those looking to go green will focus on sustainablity.
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munities. The job of the university is to fulfill promises that GVSU made in its mission statement, and that is what Student Senate does. People want to know there is a future after Grand Valley and we need to demonstrate there is one.”
Haas also opened up the floor for questions, like what impact moving administrative offices downtown might have following the remodling of Zum-berge Library next fall.
“One year of disruption will lead to many years of great stability,” Haas said, saying the impact won’t be too jarring, since he and other members of the senior management team will have perching offices in Allendale.
He said the administration is deter-mining what future projects they will
embark on after the new library and business building are completed based on student needs.
A new lab sciences building for the Allendale Campus is in the planning stages, and other goals include improv-ing the pool in the Fieldhouse and giv-ing more support to the communica-tions and performing arts programs.
“Bricks and sticks are only an en-abler to the education that’s going on here,” Haas said.
Another point of discussion was GVSU’s physicians assistant program, which receives about 380 applications for 48 spots. Haas that he wants to in-crease the program to have 60 spots available.
“We’re guiding towards what’s im-portant to our students and their suc-cess,” Haas said.
Apart from addressing details of the university’s future, Haas discussed his
personal role and experiences at the GVSU. He said his favorite part about his job is his interactions with the stu-dents, including going with the students to football games, plays like “Richard III” and other on-campus activities.
“The beauty of it is every student and every group we have is different and they are supportive of one an-other,” Haas said. “I look at all we’re doing and I feel truly blessed to be in-teracting with students here and faculty and staff who are so committed to stu-dent success.”
Finally, Haas reminded the senators that the decisions they make as a body affect the entire GVSU community.
“Your work is very important be-cause the decisions you make do affect all the students you represent,” Haas said.
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while GVSU’s athletes are excelling academically, most still do better when the season is going on.
“A lot of our student ath-letes say they actually do better in school when the season is going on,” Selgo said. “They have that set routine that actually helps them.”
That routine, along with learning time management has helped Martin.
“When you are in sea-son, you have to manage your time, if not then you will be behind,” Martin said. “You are doing things some-times six hours a day so managing your time is very impor-tant.”
With the con-tinued success comes the abil-ity to recruit and breed success in the future.
“Success breeds success and because of this, it attracts suc-cessful students to come to Grand Valley,” Selgo said.
“We know and the play-ers coming in know that Grand Valley academics are excellent,” Woods said. “That is one of the reasons they have chosen to come here and we get students that want to work hard at it, study, and get it done.”
With GVSU finishing in second place in the Lear-field Sports Directors’ Cup last year and then the 22nd place finish in the NCSA ranking, the
hope is that players will continue to choose GVSU, not just for its athletics but also for its academics.
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The Ecological Representatives, a group of student volunteers represent-ing each Grand Valley State Univer-sity housing community, have banded together to promote sustainable initia-tives in their living centers. This peer-to-peer educational program began last year in a collaborative effort between students of the Frederik Meijer Hon-ors College and staff from Facilities Services, the Housing and Residence Life Department and the Sustainability Community Development Initiative.
Thus far the Eco-Reps work with their community councils and resident assistants to help educate the campus community on composting. Most of their focus has been on actions that re-duce the waste stream, such as the Re-cycleMania! project and the Pizza Box Project. In the winter 2012 semester alone, Eco-Reps throughout campus composted 7,275 pizza boxes.
New this year, residents in Niemey-er have also implemented a compost-ing program to support the community garden. The contest will run from Jan. 22 through Apr. 2, and its main goal is to increase student and staff awareness of campus recycling and waste mini-mization. All 201 participating schools are required to report measurements on a weekly basis in pounds, and there are prizes: RecycleMania! trophies, awards, and participant certificates.
“The Eco-rep program is a great way for students to get involved and see an immediate impact from their
efforts,” said Bart Bartels, campus sustainability manager. “While the students have made great strides in re-ducing the waste stream, they are now asking, ‘What else can we do?’ And that is exactly what I hoped would hap-pen.”
According to the SCDI website the role of the Eco-Reps is crucial in mak-ing campus sustainability a successful endeavor.
The Sustainability Initiative and the Facilities Department are currently working to expand compost locations
around campus. In addition to compost bins at Kleiner, the Commons, Kirk-hof, The Connection, and Niemeyer Honors College, there are also com-posting bins behind the Van Steeland and Murray housing buildings. Stu-dents should look for orange “SORT” dumpsters outside of Kleiner, Fresh, Kirkhof, and The Connection, and a brown compost bin in the East side of the Niemeyer building.
The Eco-Reps help uphold GV-SU’s seventh value of sustainability, which is to “meet the current needs of
our faculty, staff, and students without compromising the needs and resources of future generations,” according to the GVSU website. Increasing environ-mental stewardship, restoration and renewal is integral to the university’s strategic mission.
For more information on Recyclem-ania!, www.gvsu.edu/sustainability/gvsu-recyclemania-90.htm. For more information on the Pizza Box Project, visit www.gvsu.edu/sustainability/eco-reps-pizza-box-project-294.htm.
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ROBERT MATHEWS | GVLRecycled goods: A GVSU student throws away garbage into the compost bin at an on-campus living center. The new program has been created by ecological representatives and student volunteers to continue to promote on-campus sustainability.
Sustainability promoted in campus living centers
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International student joins Student Senate
At Thursday’s Grand Val-ley State University Student Senate meeting, the sena-tors voted to appoint Raid El-Khawaja to the senate Diver-sity Affairs Committee. He is a Palestinian international student.
At the beginning of the meeting, the senators moved appointing El-Khawaja to the Diversity Affairs Commit-tee higher up in the agenda before President Haas came to speak, which allowed the new senator to take the oath Haas read to serve his office faithfully with the rest of the senators. This is a step to-ward senate’s goal to get a more diverse body this year along with adding graduate students to the body next semester.
Chemical pioneer to speak at Ott-Lecture
Kevin Shokat, an investi-gator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will be giv-ing a lecture and seminar for students on his experience in the development of chem-ical methods for analyzing and investigating cellular pathways.
Shokat has received sev-eral awards, such as the Eli Lilly Award, which is given to the most promising and successful biological chem-ist in the country that is un-der the age of 37. He will be giving a public lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 6 p.m. in the Cook-Dewitt Center, as well as a seminar at 1 p.m. in the Manitou Hall. For more information, call the GVSU Chemistry Department di-rectly at (616) 331-3317.
GVSU in top 20 for animation program
The Animation Career Review recently listed Grand Valley State University in the Top 20 list of the Best Animation Programs in the Midwest.
These particular rank-ings take into consideration university-wide reviews by major surveyors, including the U.S. News Best Colleges and The Princeton Review, as well as other criteria such as curriculum, faculty, or intern-ship opportunities. GVSU ranked number 16. For further information about Grand Valley’s Film and Video Production program in the School of Communications, visit http://gvsu.edu/s/hl.
GV ranked in Princeton Review’s Best Business guide
Grand Valley State Uni-versity’s Seidman College of Business has been named by the Princeton Review at one of the colleges in the Best 296 Business Schools for 2013.
These rankings con-clude their findings by look-ing at surveys of business school students that were performed in the 2011-2012, 2010-11, and 2009-1- aca-demic school years. These rankings are determined by asking students about their business school’s academ-ics, student body, as well as their career plans.the Mani-tou Hall. For more informa-tion, call the GVSU Chem-istry Department directly at (616) 331-3317.
Twenty scholarships created for students
The announcement and acknowledgement of 20 new scholarships for Grand Valley State University stu-dents was celebrated at the annual Scholarship Celebra-tion Dinner on Oct. 8 in the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel. More than 75 donors, as well as students and families at-tended this event.
More than 80 percent of GVSU full-time students de-pend on scholarships to help them out financially, and more than 2,000 GVSU stu-dents receive private schol-arships every year. To obtain more information on schol-arships at GVSU, call Briette Bryant, at (616) 331-6000.
One year after the untime-ly death of Grand Valley State University student Shane Peoples-Welch, students from GVSU and members of the Grand Rapids community gathered together Saturday in Ah-Nab-Awen park to com-memorate their loved ones who have suffered or currently suffer from heart-related ail-ments.
The park, located behind the Gerald R. Ford Presiden-tial Museum, was filled with people braving the cold, pour-ing rain to participate in the American Heart Association’s annual Heart Walk, an event that honors and gives tribute to those who, like Welch, have had to deal with heart condi-tions.
Welch died on Tuesday, Oct. 4 of last year from an enlarged heart, a condition
known as hypertrophic cardi-omyopathy. Hypertrophic car-diomyopathy makes the heart muscle swell, making it much harder for the heart to func-tion, and eventually causing the heart to fail. While play-ing basketball in the campus recreation center that evening, Welch took a break from the game, complaining of chest pains. Not long after, he col-lapsed, became unresponsive, and was pronounced dead on the scene by EMS responders.
His death had a dramatic effect on the campus commu-nity. Welch had been highly active in campus events and sub-communities of the Uni-versity, including the Black Leaders Aspiring for Critical Knowledge, the National So-ciety of Black Engineers, and was co-founder of the GVSU chapter of Minorities in Busi-ness.
As a tribute to Welch, stu-dents from those organiza-tions and others on campus, like the You Beautiful Black Woman organization and GVSU’s NAACP student chapter, came together to host a basketball tournament in his memory. The tournament has actually become a tradition for BLACK, and was deemed an appropriate place to raise awareness about heart issues on campus.
“Shane loved basketball,” said Khadijah Johnson, presi-dent of YBBW and officer
in the student chapter of the NAACP. “We just want to make sure that it’s a tradition within the organization, and we want to make sure that he’s still remembered through the organization of Black Leaders Aspiring for Critical Knowl-edge.”
The tournament also served to raise money for a scholarship, currently in de-velopment, that these organi-zations are creating in his hon-or. Their current fundraising goal is $1,000. After raising the money, they will finalize a proposal to create the schol-arship, which will be given to a student, regardless of race, that is involved in the commu-nity and makes an impact on campus.
“We’re planning, for when the scholarship is finalized, that we’re going to have a banquet,” said Cecil Johnson, Vice President of the Black Student Union. “We’re plan-
ning for it to be in the Alumni House, (and) hopefully by next semester we’ll have the banquet so that we can allo-cate the money to someone.”
The Heart Walk and bas-ketball tournament also played host to Welch’s family, who said they were thankful to the GVSU students and organiza-tions that helped raise money to fund Welch’s funeral and supported the family during their loss.
“(The scholarship) means a lot,” said Welch’s mother, Rushawnda McCall. “It means that they are remembering Shane, and honoring him and what he stood for.”
Approximately 35 specta-tors and at least three five-per-son teams turned out for the tournament in honor of Welch. Their entry-fee, $1 for specta-tors and $5 for players, went toward funding the scholar-ship in his honor.
Community remembers Shane Peoples-Welch
When alumna Ashley Wallace found out she was pregnant during her senior year at Grand Valley State University, she
was taking 21 credits - that’s six more than required to be considered a full-time student.
“The biggest challenge with being pregnant while also a college student was being tired all the time,” Wal-lace said. “Trying to keep up with my heavy course load
so I could stay on track for graduation in the spring was really hard.”She graduated with a degree in music in April of 2010, and a
couple months later she had her son. Wallace said her family and husband were very supportive during the pregnancy process,
but she still relied on campus services to help.“A service that I did utilize when I was pregnant was
the Counseling Center on campus,” Wallace said. “I spoke with a counselor a few times when I was feel-ing nervous about finishing school.”
As of fall 2012, GVSU is host to more than 900 students who are either pregnant or parents.
The university offers an array of services that help them better cope and balance their lives
with their new responsibilities. Sharalle Arnold, office coordinator
of the Children’s Enrichment Center, said the center provides on-campus childcare for students who have children ages two-and-a-half and older, and that if they are unable to enroll a child because of their age, the center offers consultations to help them secure and serve in-
fants. Arnold added that the center
maintains a steady enrollment and offers programming efforts to stu-
dents regardless of if they are directly using the services or not. Some of these
programs include the development of a Facebook group page where college parents
can share information with each other, as well as a financial aid women’s caring program that helps
make sure student parents receive different benefits,
like child commitment scholarships and nontraditional student scholarships that are housed out of the Women’s Center.
“Even if a student parent doesn’t use our resources, we still try to connect those dots on how we can help them,” Arnold said. “Student parents or pregnant parents can still come by and discuss childcare options that are outside of GVSU, as well as negotiating rates that are feasible and talking to a student about what to expect as they begin their collegiate journey as a parent.”
The center also helps families complete forms, negotiate paper-work and navigate through the process to receive subsidies from the Department of Human Services. There is a committee on cam-pus designed to look at the needs of non-traditional students, spe-cifically college students who are also parents.
Arnold said the no. 1 obstacle to college students who are preg-nant or are raising children is access to affordable quality care.
“Having a childcare center on campus is critical,” Arnold said. “Unmet financial barriers, such as choosing between a child’s care and tuition as well as affordable family housing, are some of the barriers that we try to remove. When we remove these barriers, the more likely it is to see that college student’s success persists.”
The Women’s Center also offers helpful resources to students who are pregnant or are parents.
Derrhonda Scott-Jones, office coordinator of the Women’s Cen-ter, said the center keeps a list of resources to assist students in find-ing extra help, like the Pregnancy Resource Center and Planned Parenthood.
“If a student wants to come in and talk, the staff is more than happy to listen,” Scott-Jones said. “We work closely with the Counseling Center, we can walk the student into the center to see if we can let them in to talk to a counselor.”
In addition, Scott-Jones said the Women’s Center can also refer students to the Housing Department to see what options are avail-able for students, or to refer them to other housing services in the area that are student-parent friendly.
The center also offers different programs that are student-parent geared. Scott-Jones said on Sep. 25, the Women’s Center had a program focused on childcare and in November, there will be a program about college moms and life balance.
“We try to have programs of different topics of interest for stu-dent parents,” Scott-Jones said.
For more information on the services that are available for students who are pregnant or already parents at GVSU, call the Women’s Center at 331-2748 or the Children’s Enrichment Center at (616) 895-7146.
GV offers pregnancy resourcesBY RACHEL CROSSGVL ASSISTANT NEWS
BY ELLIE PHILLIPSGVL STAFF WRITER
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ASHLEY WALLACE I COURTESY
I was getting tired of the repetitive question to which I was giving a con-sistent answer: “actually, I’m going in blind with three roommates for next year.”
Yeah, yeah, a risk, I had already gotten that response quite a few times. And yes, I know that I could make best friends that I never would’ve met otherwise. But it surprised me when I got the blunt question, “You do know the basic roommate rules, right?”
It’s already October, so I’m assuming (key word being “assuming”) that anyone in their right mind
would know these rules. If anything, they should real-ly be called the “Almighty Ruleths of Commoneth Senseth.” Midterm season is upon us, and thoughts that involve looming read-ing assignments and deadly Scantrons are most likely floating in a majority of stu-dents’ heads, taking up the space that would normally be filled with other things; for example, roommate eti-quette. So this is a reminder that you’re still stuck with your roommate for at least two months, if not for the rest of the year.
There are five main rules. I’m sure that you could name countless more, but after talking to a wide range of students, I’ve gathered these five “DON’T DO IT’s.”
Countdowns are fun, so let’s start with number five.
5) Studying is important. When your roomie casually
mentions that he or she has a huge test coming up, don’t choose that exact moment to call up your parents and request for them to bring over your karaoke set. Yes, you’re wonderful at reen-acting Carrie Underwood’s “Before He Cheats,” and the fan is a beautiful touch for your wind machine, but grades are important, so be quiet.
4) Sleeping is important too. No one likes to be rude-ly awakened at odd hours of the night because of the mysterious phone calls that you’re getting, and the age-old excuse of “I couldn’t sleep?” That doesn’t mean that just because you’re like a small nocturnal rac-coon, digging in the fridge with red, beady eyes, you should wake up your room-mate.
3) Don’t borrow things without asking. Umm, duh. If your roommate comes
home to find that you’ve borrowed his or her tooth-brush to clean out your fish tank, there’s a slight possi-bility that you’ll be room-ing with your fish next se-mester. Ask first.
2) Clean up after your-self. No one likes to play the role of mom, especially not in college, so stop us-ing the phrase “no, no, I’ll clean it up, gimme one sec.” It’s been three months, and the noodles have now ce-mented themselves to the bottom of the pan.
1) Lastly, no shower sex. It would seem obvi-ous, right? But every single friend or student that I’ve asked what the number one law of Roommate 101 is has answered with this rule. The shower is a sacred and clean place, one of refuge and solace.
Please don’t ruin that. Ever.
The Almighty Ruleths of Commoneth Senseth
There and their, mixed with a bit of déjà vu
BY STEPHANIE SCHOCHGVL COLUMNIST
When a student walks through the doors of Grand Valley State University for the first
time, they will do so knowing they will have to meet high academic standards throughout their educational career.
At GVSU, the same can be said for the student athletes.
While that may seem obvious, there are countless examples of colleges and universities who have been investigated and found guilty of helping athletes cheat in the classroom to stay eligible on the field.
The most recent example of this was
at North Carolina University. In an inter-nal review that was completed by NCU, there were 54 instances of no-show classes where student-athletes were given grades for fake classes.
Further investigation found that the academic fraud was aided by two depart-ment heads and possibly by advisors at the school.
What was reason for the scandal? To keep players eligible so they could com-pete for North Carolina’s sports teams.
Instances like this have hurt the per-ception of student athletes from the high school level through the college level and
into the professional realm. For a lot of athletes, the idea of being the stereotypi-cal “jock,” is not only offensive, it’s un-true. GVSU student softball player, Katie Martin, said at GVSU, the team works to dispel these common misconceptions.
“There is the perception that we are just jocks,” Martin said. “That is an im-age we are trying to break away from. We are more student athletes.”
While that may be the case at other universities, students at GVSU like Martin have the numbers to back it up.
Graduation and retention rates for student athletes are nine percent higher
than the rest of the student body, and 61.4 percent of student athletes have above a 3.0 grade point average.
This is telling of not only the work ethic of our students, but the environ-ment that has been cultivated around them - one that values student athletes as students first, athletes second.
So, while other universities struggle to keep athletes eligible by any way neces-sary, students, faculty and staff at GVSU should be proud to hear that our student athletes are excelling where it matters most: in the classroom.
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“Of course. All students should be held to the same standards.”
KEvIN O’NEILLSenior, international relationsClarkston, Mich.
“Yes, because although they are athletes, they should remember the main reason for school. It is to earn good grades and prepare for their upcoming career.”
JANELLE PRUITTJunior, Chinese studies Farmington Hills, Mich.
“Yes. Student athletes are students in the first place, so they are responsible for reaching with the academic students of the school.”
YUE CHENGraduate student, TESOLChina
“Yes, I think every students academic standards should be the same regardless of their major or what organizations they participate in.”
MARK LYLESenior, business administrationOverland Park, K.S.
“Yes. While student athletes may have busier schedules, choosing to participate in a sport was a decision they made knowing they were going to be a student first.”
JESSICA SEELYSenior, engineering Portage, Mich.
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While many colleges struggle with keeping their athletes on the ball in the classroom, GVSU student athletes are making the grade
A few days ago, I was walking with my friend Alexandria in Meijer. I was jokingly complaining about the fact that I couldn’t find all the products I needed.
I said “I’m going to sue Meijer!” Alex responded “How you gon’ sue Mei-jer Amina, you don’t even speak English.”
Of course, she was jok-ing; but even if she wasn’t, I would be okay with that. You want to know why? Because, usually the same people making jokes are the same people asking me, a foreigner, advising on spelling. I have come to the
conclusion that my accent will forever be there, and it is a signature. At the end of the day, it’s what makes me, me.
When I’m tired and ex-hausted, it’s heavier than ever. When I’m angry or sad, my accent sounds bet-ter than usual.
Everywhere I go, there is always someone there to ask me if I can speak “in an American accent.” Clearly that’s impos-sible. It’s just like asking Americans to stop putting ranch dressing on every-thing - not going to hap-pen. I think English is a pretty easy language to learn, or maybe I am just saying that because where I am from, we’re forced to start learning English in the 5th grade.
As confused as I was at first, I will forever be thank-
ful for my professors. They taught us all the basics and even though when I first got here I thought that everything I learned was useless, I am reminded everyday that it isn’t.
There a lot of young adults, whose native lan-guage is English, who still do not know the dif-ference between “There,” “their” and “they’re.” Some of them are not even able to hold a two-minute conversation in a different language.
I had a great education. One thing that I would say I dislike is when I have to pronounce French words the American way. Words like “armoire”, “déjà vu”, “amateur”, “Detroit”” etc. The list is huge. Some-times, just to see if they fol-low, I trick my friends by pronouncing those words
the French way. Eight times out of 10, they don’t get it, so I compromise.
One of the best feeling in the world, is when I use a really fancy new Eng-lish word without thinking too hard about it. I get all happy inside. I swear, and no one else needs to know, it’s my personal little vic-tory. I have a lot of nega-tive things to say about America and its people. It may seems like I am al-ways complaining and you could ask me “then why are you here if you’re always talking crap?” I would tell you that the thing is that I will always have way more positive things to express. This is why I said “bon-jour” to the United States. I am here … to stay, indeed.
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In a trip organized by the Student Senate, fifth-grade students from Dickinson Elementary got to spend
their Saturday playing games, taking a tour of Grand Valley State University, and hanging out with Louie the Laker.
The day started with games in the Kelly Family Sports Center before the kids went to Lubbers Stadium to meet and play around with some of the foot-ball players. Later in the day, they ate lunch at the Niemeyer Honors College and went on a campus scavenger hunt, with other activities in Honors follow-ing.
“The best part of the day was when one of the students realized that a GV football player had attended Dickin-son,” said Ricardo Benavidez, vice president of the diversity affairs com-mittee. “They then asked if that meant that they, too, could go Grand Valley. The hope in the students’ eyes warmed my heart and inspired us all.”
Senator Darris Sawtelle of the po-litical affairs committee arranged the visit. Sawtelle first got the idea when he visited Dickinson Elementary about a year ago.
“I wanted to do something for them, and that is what inspired the idea,” Sawtelle said.
Benavidez was one of the senator mentors throughout the day.
“Events such as this visit are not what the Senate usually focuses on, but they are some of the best that we host,” Benavidez said, adding that both the elementary students and the college students that helped got a lot out of the experience.
“Getting the student body involved is one of our most important goals, and to do so with such a worthy cause is a great treat,” Benavidez said. “Urg-ing elementary students to further their education is a great cause and one that I am proud to say I was a part of.”
Nick Conley, who was a mentor to the students and is on the public rela-tions committee, said he got a lot out of spending time with the Dickinson students.
“I didn’t expect to feel as good about my day with the kids as I do,” Conley said. “It was a very reward-ing and emotional experience hearing some of the kids say ‘I want to come to Grand Valley for college’ when higher education might not have been in their plans for the future before today.”
After a campus scavenger hunt, the visiting students listened to guest speaker Selma Tucker, a GVSU gradu-ate who now works for the City of Grand Rapids. Tucker spoke about the importance of hard work and dedica-tion to schoolwork.
At the end of the day, Jeff Cham-berlain, director of the Honors College, presented the students with certificates
and promised them Honors College tu-toring throughout their academic year. He also committed to fund at least 50 percent of their book costs if and when they come to GVSU.
Sawtelle said the visit required a lot of coordination with different depart-ments, organizations and committees, and he appreciates the GVSU students, student senators and student athletes who volunteered.
“Without their help and coopera-tion, we could not have made today a reality, and for this I am so very thank-ful,” Sawtelle said.
In all, the visit appeared to be a suc-cess.
“Spending the day with the stu-dents from Dickinson Elementary truly touched my heart,” Benavidez said. “Their resilience and hard work is ad-mirable and deserves to be recognized. I feel that I took as much away from their visit as the students did.
Dickinson Elementary tours GV campusBY SARAH HILLENBRANDGVL STAFF WRITER
DARRIS SAWTELLE | COURTESYGoal setter: Students of Dickinson Elementary pose with members of GVSU’s football team on Lubbers Field. The event, which was put on by Student Senate, allowed the students to visit the campus, play football, and participate in a campus scavenger hunt.
“It’s a very rewarding and emotional experience, hearing some of the kids say ‘I want to go to Grand Valley for college’...”
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In a fashion almost con-trary to his iconic stat-ure, President Thomas J.
Haas did not perch in his of-fice atop Grand Valley State University Thursday and man his virtual office hours alone.
In fact, 13 university figures huddled around a conference table in the base-ment of Zumberge Library on the Allendale CAmpus and contributed to Haas’ responses, which were then dictated to a typist.
While the president framed the bulk of the an-swers, he called upon the expertise of the others in the group to offer perspectives from their departments. Many of the questions re-quired special knowledge of university procedures, like the development of living communities, the require-ments for financial aid and the preservation of student-professor relationships in cost-saving plans. For these posts, Haas collaborated with the others.
Jon Jellema, associate vice president of Academic Affairs, provided input for many academic questions, and when a student perspec-tive was called for, Student Senate President Jack Iott was there to offer his.
“It’s a little bit like a game show,” said Mary Ei-
leen Lyon of GVSU News and Information Services. “Everyone just starts yelling out the answers.”
Haas said the group worked together to do some “wordsmithing” to make sure that the answers were as clear as possible. Even in the fast-paced atmosphere, the construction of respons-es was deliberate and tenta-tive. Every period and every comma was dictated to the typist, and individual words were carefully chosen for concision and accuracy.
While the president typi-cally only has time for one or two-sentence replies, site inactivity allowed him to spend more time on each post this time. His virtual office hours saw fewer visi-tors and questions this fall than it has in the past. A total of 40 people logged into the chat, but only 16 questions were asked and many came from the same users. The president said he usually responds to about 50 or 60 posts, and he has even more to choose from.
Lyon added that there are typically a few questions ready to go when the chat begins, but this event was much slower to start than it had been in past semesters. She attributed the inactiv-ity to midterms, which may have preoccupied many stu-dents, staff and faculty.
While some took advan-tage of Haas’s attention by
voicing their concerns and questions about the future of GVSU, others used the op-portunity to come to know the president on a more per-sonal level.
After all, how often can a student ask “T. Haas” about his favorite memories at GVSU and get an honest answer? (His reception of the nickname “T. Haas” two hours into his presidency was his reply).
Haas even opened up about his personal college
experiences and athletic en-deavors. Again, in a fashion contrary to his powerful po-sition, the president ordered the typist to include a “smi-ley face” at the end of his response.
“It is very special that our president communi-cates so willingly and fre-quently with students,” Iott said. “The focus on students and learning at GV is what makes the GV experience so excellent.”
HAAs signs on for virtuAl office Hours BY LIZZY BALBOAGVL NEWS EDITOR
ARCHIVE | GVLNext question please: President Thomas J. Haas addressed the public’s questions through his virtual office hours with the help of different GVSU leaders and staff members.
questions &answersQ: Do you think it’s possible for us to get more 50 routes on the weekend because it overcrowded in one bus running each way is not going to be able to handle the capacity of students.
A: The question was asked of me last night at a meeting with parents of current Grand Valley students. I’m referring this to the office that handles our relationship with the Rapid. Thanks for asking.
Q: I see you at a majority of the sporting events here at GV. So my question is what was your athletic background?
A: While in college I played basketball and baseball. Later I had the opportunity to coach baseball, women’s basketball and softball at the collegiate level. I am still known to be able to throw in a 3-pointer now and then, but don’t ask me to dunk it. PS Now my contact sport is golf.
Q: What is a favorite memory of yours from college and what is one of your favorite memories of your time here at Grand Valley?
A: My favorite memory of Grand Valley was 2 hours into my job when 210 students gave me my nickname, aka T. Haas. My favorite memory in college was how my roommate helped me out when I was ill and needed his help to keep me on track with my classes.
Q: What is your favorite part of being president of Grand Valley? Are there any little known perks? Just curious!
A: My favorite part of being the president at Grand Valley is without a doubt the students with whom I interact. Whether it be in class, walking on the Allendale campus, in the buildings in Grand Rapids and other locations, I have a great sense of optimism because of the students who have chosen to come here. I think that the Presidents’ Ball that Jack and I will host on the first of February is not only a perk, but another opportunity to interact with our students.
Q: Do you ever miss being in the classroom teaching?
A: No because I stay active in the classroom. Just yesterday I had a chance to lecture in Chem 115 and Chem 241. I always enjoy interacting with our students in and outside of the classroom. My experiences at Grand Valley reinforce my passion for the teaching and learning that goes on at this university. Our students are remarkable.
from President Haas’ virtual office hours
SPORTSB1 OCTOBER 15, 2012
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FOOTBALLGLIAC North Standings
Saginaw ValleyMichigan Tech.HillsdaleGVSUWayne StateNothwoodNorthern Mich.
GLIAC South Standings
AshlandFindlay Ohio DominicanLake ErieTiffinWalshMaloneNotre Dame (OH)
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NorthwoodFerris StateWayne StateHillsdaleAshlandGVSUNorthern Mich.FindlayMaloneOhio DominicanSaginaw ValleyWalshMichigan Tech.TiffinLake Superior St.Lake Erie
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Michigan Tech.Saginaw ValleyGVSUNorthwoodFindlayOhio DominicanFerris StateAshlandTiffinWalshLake ErieNorthern MichiganNotre Dame (OH)Malone
SHORTSS P O R T S
Football news and notes
With Saturday’s upset at Northern Michigan Univer-sity proving to be one of the low points in the Grand Val-ley State University football team’s season, the defense’s struggles weren’t the only things of note.
GVSU coach Matt Mitch-ell noted that injured soph-omore quarterback Isiah Grimes was doubtful for the Lakers’ homecoming game against Northwood Univer-sity this week. The injury is not believed to be season ending, but he could not go against Northern Michigan after suffering the injury in practice on Thursday.
Grimes replacement, redshirt sophomore Bran-don Beitzel, also left the game with an injury. That al-lowed redshirt freshman Jeff O’Brien, seeing his first-ever collegiate action, to play. O’Brien did not throw, but ran eight times for 18 yards. Freshman running back Don-dre Adams also saw his first action, carrying the ball four times for 22 yards.
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It was over when... Northern Michigan quarterback Cody Scepaniak ran for his third score of the day, a 20-yard scam-per putting the Lakers behind 31-10 in the fourth quarter.
Gameball goes to... Kirk Spencer, who provided the only offense for GVSU. With little support from the passing game, the freshman ran for 145 yards on just 13 carries.
Stat of the game... 78. GVSU entered the day averaging 329 yards pass-ing per game. On Saturday, quarterback Brandon Beitzel threw for just 78 yards on Saturday.
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GV Hersey Jackson, 1 yd. run, 10-14
NM Rockne Belmonte, 58 yd. field goal, 10-17
NM Cody Scepaniak, 15 yd. 10-24
NM Cody Scepaniak, 20 yd. run, 10-31
NM Casey Cotta, 30 yd. run, 10-38
PRIMETIMEPERFORMERS
The redshirt freshman was the GVSU offense for much of the day on Saturday. His 145 rushing yards were a career-high and the most since the team’s last trip to the Upper Peninsula two weeks ago against Michigan Tech-nological University. With sophomore Mike Ratay out with an injury and junior Hersey Jackson working back into game shape, Spencer’s play on Saturday proved to be the lone bright spot.
yOuTh in Revolt
Offense:Brandon Beitzel at quarterback, Kirk Spencer at tailback, Connor Gould at center, Jamie Potts and John Kamps at tight end.Defense:Brad Horling
6 players in their first years in the active playing rotation, started for the Lakers in Saturday’s 38-10 loss.
KIRK SPENCERRunning Back
The junior had his best game of the season on Saturday, piling up 11 tackles in the defensive effort. Ware, who ranks third on the defense in total tackles with 50, also forced a fumble in the game. Much maligned, the play of the linebacking core struggled despite Ware, Charles Hill and Brad Horling combining for 29 total tackles.
LUTHER WARELinebacker
Following the first loss of its season, the Grand Valley State University
football team traveled to the Upper Peninsula in hopes of manipulating the success of their last trip two weeks ago — a 51-43 victory over Michigan Technological University.
Turns out, the Lakers (5-2, 4-2 GLIAC) were the ones who were manipulated as lowly Northern Michigan University (2-5, 1-5 GLIAC) routed the Lakers, 38-10, sending them into a two-game losing streak.
Playing without sophomore quarterback Isiah Grimes, out indefinitely with an upper-body injury, the situation forced third string quarterback and redshirt freshman Bran-don Beitzel into the lineup.
In his first collegiate start, Beitzel tossed four intercep-tions, including one in Wild-cat territory on GVSU’s first drive of the second half. The redshirt freshman finished the day 9-of-24 for just 79 yards through the air.
“It wasn’t just on Beitzel or anything like that, it was defi-nitely a team loss,” said senior guard Tim Lelito. “Offense didn’t step up, we only scored ten points which is unheard
Marquette maulingDown to third quarterback, Lakers upset at Northern MichiganBY BRADY FREDERICKSENGVL SPORTS EDITOR
ROBERT MAThEWS | GVLRiding the struggle bus: Junior cornerback Reggie Williams blocks for teammate Erik Thompson against Ferris State University.
of for us, so we just didn’t play together as a whole or a team and that’s what happens — you get beat like that.”
That beating came on both sides of the ball. Beitzel’s struggles were apparent, in part because Grimes injury
was suffered during Thurs-day’s practice, leaving the sophomore just a few practices to get acclimated.
“It’s a tough situation to throw Brandon in without real-ly any reps at all, and we didn’t play as well as we needed to on the other side of the ball, either,” said GVSU head coach Matt Mitchell, who noted that Grimes is doubtful for this week’s game. “If you look at Brandon’s stat line and place blame … we got off to a slow start on the defensive side of the ball and we should never put our offense in that position.”
Continuing its struggles, the defense allowed the GLIAC’s lowest scoring of-fense to put up 38 points and 462 yards of total offense — numbers it struggled to reach in their past two games com-bined.
Even without starting
tailback Prince Young, the Lakers could not slow the Northern Michigan offense; one that showed some of the same choice-option and veer-option looks that Ferris State University did last week.
Senior quarterback Cody Scepaniak, replacing fresh-man Ryan Morley, ran for 128 yards and threw for 218 yards, while backup tailback Casey Cotta ran for 130 yards . GVSU has allowed 100-yard rushers in six of seven games, including a pair for the sec-ond-straight week.
“Defensively, given the circumstances of what hap-pened on the offensive side of the ball, we didn’t play well enough to win,” said Mitch-ell. “Too many missed tackles, you know, just too many yards rushing up the middle.”
It was the other freshman on the GVSU offense, tailback Kirk Spencer, who carried the
Lakers’ struggling offense on the ground. He ran for 133 yards in the first half and fin-ished with a game-high 145 yards on the ground, while junior Hersey Jackson added a second-quarter touchdown run in his first action of the season.
Despite the loss, Lelito and the Lakers are looking beyond Saturday’s game. With a new-ly revived sense of urgency, the team will return home this week to take on Northwood University for homecoming.
“Absolutely, there’s defi-nitely a sense of urgency now. This week, we’ve got to come in ready to work, and get pre-pared every single day,” Lelito said. “We still have things to fight for. To me, this isn’t rock bottom right now, I mean, we’re still in this, we’re still fighting to make our spot for the playoffs.”
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GV Marco Iaderosa, 37 yd field goal. 3-7
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SPORTSB2 OCTOBER 15, 2012 Grand Valley Lanthorn
Before Friday, when the University of Findlay snapped their undefeated streak and shutout streak, it had been a long time since the Grand Val-ley State University women’s soccer team tasted defeat.
On Friday night, after tak-ing a 21st-minute lead from a Kayla Addison goal, the Lak-ers went into halftime in the same manner they have almost all season — with the lead. A less familiar feeling, however, was the attack that Findlay mounted right after the inter-mission. Immediately after halftime, GVSU conceded its first goal since Memorial Day to Findlay’s Emily Beddoes, who evened the score at one.
Less than ten minutes later, Findlay found the net again, putting the Lakers behind for the first time all season.
“We played a pretty good first half,” said head coach Dave DiIanni. “But the ball
was in the air most of the sec-ond half, and that’s not our game. Anytime you give up a goal in the first minute of a half and give up another one about five minutes later, that’s not a good way to have success.”
The two teams each traded goals in the last ten minutes, with another from Beddoes and a Maria Brown strike for the Lakers. But it wasn’t enough, and GVSU received its first loss of the season.
“It made us realize that we have to work for everything we have,” said sophomore de-fender Juane Odendaal. “We can’t go out there and know that we’re going to win. We know that people don’t like us and we have a lot of competi-tion.”
Coach DiIanni wasn’t sure how his team would react after their first loss of the season.
“We wanted to make sure that one game didn’t define our season,” DiIanni said. “The mindset was to be resil-ient. We wanted to have a little more of a fighter’s mentality, a stronger mentality. We had to ask for a renewed kind of commitment by the whole team to be good teammates and commit to finishing the year as good as we can.”
On Sunday against Tiffin, the team reacted like any pe-rennial Final Four and national powerhouse would.
Motivated by Friday’s defeat, GVSU outshot Tiffin
39-2 and dominated a Tiffin team that is sitting in the mid-dle of the GLIAC standings.
“Any worry I had disap-peared,” DiIanni said. “After I saw our team leader rally the troops, they showed a renewed commitment to one another.”
After Friday’s loss, senior forward Ashley Botts made her return to the score-sheet on Sunday, netting a goal in the sixth minute to put the Lakers back in the driver’s seat.
“I haven’t been scoring the opportunities presented to me in the last couple of games,” Botts said. “So to be able to put a couple away today not only gives me confidence but hopefully also reassures the team’s faith in me.”
Botts completed the scor-ing in the 34th minute, giv-ing the Lakers a 2-0 lead and some breathing room in order to cruise to victory in the sec-ond half.
The 2-0 victory could very well put the Lakers back on track for the rest of the sea-son.
“Coming out here today and getting a win was the best feeling ever,” Odendaal said. “Our mentality was a lot better today than it was on Friday.”
The team will return home this weekend to face GLIAC-undefeated Michigan Tech on Friday at 7 p.m. and Northern Michigan University on Sun-day at 1 p.m.
Lakers overcome first loss, split weekend games
The fifth installment of the GLIAC-GLVC cross-over tournament was a thing of beauty for the Grand Val-ley State University volley-ball team as they came away with a perfect 3-0 record, only losing one set in total, on Friday and Saturday in Aurora, Ill.
“We wanted to make sure since we have such a young team that they had a solid understanding of where ev-erybody was sitting, seed-wise, and the opportunity that was ahead of us,” said GVSU head coach Deanne Scanlon. “That was one of the things we focused on, them not going in blind say-ing, ‘We have three match-es, but we don’t know who these teams are.’ All three teams had very different styles.”
The Lakers (16-4, 6-3 GLIAC) pushed its win streak to seven games with the three victories and have now swept five of its last seven matches.
In the Friday afternoon match, GVSU faced Mis-souri University of Science and Technology, a team they beat in five sets on Sept. 1 at the Western Oregon Classic. This time around, after los-ing the first set, the Lakers turned things around to take it in four sets (17-25, 25-23, 25-21, 28-26), snapping the
Miners’ nine-match winning streak.
Sophomore outside hit-ter Abby Aiken, senior middle blocker Eno Umoh and freshman outside hitter Betsy Ronda combined for 49 of GVSU’s 61 kills, as Aiken led the way with 19. Umoh had a very prolific outing, committing no er-rors in 22 attempts and hit-ting at a .682 mark.
Sophomore setter Clair Ruhenkamp also had a big time performance, deliver-ing 52 assists and 13 digs
Throughout the match, GVSU continually found it-self behind, but clawed back each time their back was against the wall.
Down 19-17 in the sec-ond set, Umoh came up with a kill and then an attack er-ror by Missouri S&T tied the score. A couple points later, tied at 23, Ronda delivered with a blast of her own and another error by the Miners capped off the Laker come-back. They would carry the momentum into the third set, starting off on a 9-0 run, all with sophomore libero Christina Canepa serving.
“If we get down a set, when we move on to the next set we just know it has to be better. We try to stay calm,” Ruhenkamp said. “It is a turning point for us. It shows that we are resilient and even if we get put in a tough situation, we are still going to come back and
fight hard and give it all we got.”
In their night matchup, the Lakers took out Bellarm-ine University in straight sets, 25-17, 25-16 and 25-21.
Ruhenkamp delivered 34 assists, six digs, three block assists and a kill, while Canepa led the team with 13 digs.
To cap off the road trip, the Lakers defeated William Jewell College on Saturday, 25-22, 25-20, and 25-19.
“Everyone was extremely excited about our 3-0 week-end,” Umoh said. “Coach has been stressing about how important the crossover is to us and how we needed to win these games. We all went in knowing what we had to do to get it done. Just seeing our execution and how we played was very ex-citing.”
The perfect weekend has the Lakers stringing to-gether some consistency, something Scanlon says is that next step toward GVSU becoming an elite team.
“We knew we could play at a high level and do some really exciting things but we weren’t really doing that early on a consistent basis,” Scanlon said. “We still have a lot of areas we can get bet-ter in, but I feel like we are playing more consistent vol-leyball for longer periods of time.”
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ERIC COULTER | GVLMatch Point: Freshman Stephanie Camper sets the ball during a match against Lake Erie. The Lakers completed the three-match tournament with a perfect record to improve to 16-4 and were lead by solid hitting from senior Eno Umoh, sophomore Abby Aiken and freshman Betsy Ronda.
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ERIC COULTER | GVLDefensive stops: Taylor Ward (25) and Taylor Callen (12) steal the ball during a recent game.
ERIC COULTER | GVLFast out the gate: Casey McMillan dribbes the ball up the field past the defense. McMillan is an East Kentwood native who has three goals and three assists in her first season at GVSU.
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While the Grand Valley State Uni-versity women’s
lacrosse season may still be months away, the Lakers managed to gain valuable experience in the GVSU Laker Classic.
GVSU hosted Daven-port University, Marquette University, Indiana Techno-logical University, and the University of Detroit Mercy which gave each team a chance to get early season competition against other schools.
The Lakers dropped their first two decisions of the day, losing to Marquette 9-8 and Davenport 11-4.
“There were some ups and downs,” said head coach Alicia Groveston. “A great thing is that we play a spring sport so the fall is the time to make mistakes and not play at our full po-tential. We’re still figuring out what our full potential is. We started off well, but our second game was not as great as I’d liked it to have been, but we finished on a high note so I’m happy with
where we ended up.”GVSU recovered from a
rough second match to se-cure their first victory of the day against Indiana Tech, winning 18-6. The Lakers got out to a quick start, lead-ing 11-3 at halftime.
“It’s a moral victory as well as an actual victory,” Groveston said. “There was some really good things. We moved the ball well and played some good defense when we actually got settled into seven v seven.”
The GVSU Laker Classic was the third time this year that the Lakers were able to compete against other schools this fall. GVSU has two more fall tune ups be-fore their spring season be-gins March.
“It gives us time to pre-pare for our real season and it gives us time to practice things and fine tune every-thing for the spring,” said redshirt sophomore Sarah Lowe. “We have a tough spring season this year so it really helps that we have these weekends.”
GVSU has been using these tune ups as a way to integrate the freshman into the program. The freshmen
have been gaining valuable playing time at the colle-giate level and are getting acclimated to the rest of the team.
“They’re really important because they give us time to build relationships with our new freshman before we go into our spring season,” said redshirt sophomore Ashley Stoltenberg. “We need to work on our communica-tion a little more and work on our transitions down the field.”
GVSU opens their regu-lar season on March 4th in Worcester, Mass. against Assumption College. Until then, the Lakers will look to continue to improve the ros-ter in the fall for the spring season.
“We got a lot of kids to play,” Groveston said. “It was a great success in the last one. Everyone got in and everyone got significant time which didn’t necessar-ily happen in the first two games. More importantly, everyone got experience playing at the collegiate level and that’s exactly what we need.”
Preseason PrePerationGV lacrosse gains experience at Laker ClassicBY BRYCE DEROUINGVL STAFF WRITER
L A C R O S S E
With foul weather out-side, the Grand Valley State University women’s tennis team went inside at Ram-blewood Tennis Club to finish up their weekend of matches, defeating Ashland University 6-3 on Sunday.
Senior Morgan Carney led the Lakers with a 6-3, 6-4 win in singles and an 8-3 win in doubles with partner, junior Niki Shipman. Ship-man won her singles match as her opponent retired with an injury. Freshman Calire Cooper also gave a very strong performance in a 6-2, 6-4 win.
After this weekend’s promising results, coach John Black said that he thinks the team is ready to make a run in the GLIAC tournament.
“We played very well this weekend,” Black said. “I think that they’re very well prepared to play next weekend and then again at the GLIAC tournament.”
GVSU is 10-2 overall and 9-2 in conference play this year, dropping matches to Wayne State and North-wood. They will have an-other chance to avenge those losses in the GLIAC tournament.
“We’ll most likely finish up number three in confer-ence play so we’ll probably be matched up with Wayne State again,” Black said.
The Lakers have match-es at Hillsdale and Findlay this Friday, before they en-ter tournament play the fol-lowing week. Shipman says the team is prepared to play but the matches coming up are a good way to get ready for the tournament.
“Everyone has been step-ping up their game since the beginning of the season and having as many matches as we had this weekend gets you match ready,” Shipman said.
Shipman has a tough tune-up this weekend at Hillsdale, as she’ll be
matched up against senior Brittany Parks, currently fourth in GLIAC No. 1 sin-gles play with seven wins.
“I have a game-plan for this weekened already,” Shipman said. “She’s a very good player who can make adjustments and she’s defi-nitely one of the best in the GLIAC so it’ll be a good
measure of where I’m at.”Senior Katelyn Schaffer,
who dropped a tough dou-bles match 8-5 on Sunday, said the team is focused as they enter the homestretch of the season.
“Today, we just weren’t closing like we normally do but I think that looking at the team’s play I think we are ready for the GLIAC tournament, we’re get-ting better every day,” said Schaffer.
Schaffer and partner Lexi Rice battled through diversity but couldn’t pull out the win against a tough Ashland duo.
“For the most part that (doubles) match was evenly contested it was just that Ashland was a little bit bet-ter but I think we’re where we need to be,” Black said.
Black said that the most important things will be to get the team healthy and rested before tournament play.
“What’s really been hurt-ing us isn’t our play,” Black said. ”We’ve had a few peo-ple get sick and there have been a few injuries kind of
holding us back.”Schaffer said no matter
what happens this year go-ing forward, her experience on the team has been an awesome experience.
“I really don’t have the words to explain how I feel,” she said. ”It’s been five years for me because I red-shirted and I guess I re-
ally can’t believe its coming to an end.”
The Lakers will split up the team and travel to play both Hillsdale and the Uni-versity of Findlay on Friday Oct. 19.
Climate CoolLakers find doubles success during weekend tournament
BO ANDERSON | GVLGame, set and match: Freshman Claire Cooper sends the ball back across the net earlier this season.
ARCHIVE | GVLWarming up: Sophomore midfielder Brooke Ingraham races down the field in a match last season.
T E N N I S
We played very well this weekend. I think that they’re very well prepared to play next weekend and then again at the GLIAC tournament.”
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BEHIND EVERY SMILE
BEHIND EVERY SMILE BEHIND EVERY SMILEBEHIND EVERY SMILE
Mental Health Awareness week works to educate, help students with depression
W ith events geared at pro-moting mental heath and preventing youth
suicide, Oct. 8-12 marked Mental Health Awareness week at Grand Valley State University. Hosted by Delta Sigma Phi and Alpha Micron Pi, this was the first time GVSU organizations dedicated and entire week to the cause.
“We created this week-long Mental Health Awareness Week because our two organizations have both been personally affected by mental health issues,” said By-ran Beran, programming chair for Delta Sigma Phi. “And we wanted to do our part on GVSU’s campus to promote mental health and pre-vent youth suicides.”
Depression in young people is a serious concern, and one that is not uncommon. Often, students in high school or younger develop suicidal thoughts or deep depression as a consequence of a loved ones death or poor family situation.
Ashley Smith, GVSU junior and Alpha Omicron Pi member, devel-oped depression as a high school freshman. Like many who struggle
with these issues, Smith kept her problems to herself for some time, but they didn’t go away.
“I was a firm believer that coun-seling wasn’t helpful,” Smith said.
Once she started counsel-ing, she discovered she had been wrong. With help from friends and family, her depression got better. Here at GVSU, Smith’s depression has become less severe and easier to cope with.
“I have a support system here I didn’t have before,” Smith said.
Mental Health Week started off with the organizations hosting tables in the Kirkhof Center of-fering information about the free resources students have available on campus through the Counseling Center.
“We wanted to focus on a dif-ferent organization each day of the week, and really bring more aware-ness to GV’s campus,” said Amber Cullison, philanthropy chair for Alpha Omicron Pi, who worked with Beran to create a schedule of events.
Information tables were set up in Kirkhof starting Monday, Oct. 8, offering different information each day about mental health as well as information about resourc-
es on campus. They also offered different activities for students to participate in.
On Oct. 9, students participated in an activity called Behind Every Smile, where they filled white-boards with words that expressed what they felt on the inside. The
idea was inspired by KnowRe-solve, a non-profit organization that strives to educate about men-tal health and prevent suicide.
“This was a campaign to break-down the barrier that everyone walks around with a smile on their face even when they are facing something much deeper than that, it was to bring awareness that you
CAN talk to others about what is going on in your life,” Beran said.
Cullison put together a video, available on YouTube, of the stu-dents who participated in Behind Every Smile to promote the cam-paign at GVSU.
The founder of KnowResolve,
Dennis Liegghio, also spoke about his own struggle with depression, which started at age 14. Students gathered in the Pere Marquette room to listen and to support one another.
Students were offered the op-portunity to write positive mes-sages on yellow ribbon-cutouts and tack them all up on a banner
in support of Suicide Prevention and Awareness on Wednesday, and were joined by To Write Love On Her Arms on Thursday to conduct a Fear vs. Dream activity. Thurs-day was also National Depression Screening Day.
The week-long event closed on Friday with free Love is Louder pins for students and a banner signing, as well as a free photo booth for students to take pictures holding Love is Louder boards.
“I think overall, this was a great success and I believe that a lot of people got something positive out of the week-long event,” Beran said.
Dealing with intense issues re-garding mental health isn’t easy to do on your own. Events like Men-tal Health Week give students an opportunity to address their prob-lems with the support of others.
“Realize you have a problem - don’t keep it a secret,” Smith said.
If you are dealing with prob-lems relating to depression, loneli-ness, or thoughts of suicide, con-tact the GVSU Counseling Center at (616)-331-3266.
“This was a campaign to break down the barrier that everyone walks around with a smile on their face even when they are facing something much deeper than that.”
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OUT & ABOUTGVSU
What a drag: Dressed in drag, Peaches struts her stuff during the Amateur Drag Show, hosted at Grand Valley State University last week. The show was sponsored by student organization Out n’ About, and it happens annually.
ERIC COULTER | GVLSing out: Grand Valley State University students perform under the Transformational Link last week. The students, though not all music majors at GVSU, formed a celtic band called Cross Bow. Right now, band members said they are just rehearsing, but they have a few gigs lined up in the near future.
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G rand Valley State Univer-sity’s Grand River Room filled with stories from
around the globe as the annual Study Abroad Fair provided stu-dents with information to study abroad.
Students and program coordina-tors from GVSU programs offered in Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe and South America were present, along with students who have completed the programs.
Gabe Schirm is an outreach coordinator for Globalinks Abroad. Schirm helps students work through their concerns to achieve their dreams of studying abroad.
“Inevitably there is a moment that you can hear in their voice, or see in their face, when they light up with excitement because they see that this dream is not only pos-sible but something they are going to get to do,” Schirm said. “That is an incredible moment and ex-
tremely rewarding for me because I know what a life-changing expe-rience is ahead of them.”
Schirm also offered advice to students at his table who were al-ready signed up to go abroad.
“Try the food,” Schirm said. “One of the best ways to get to the soul of a culture and discover a new place is through the kitchen.”
Katrina McEntee, a liberal studies major at GVSU, traveled to South Africa in the summer of 2012 to en-hance her learning experience.
“It made sure I was on the right path here at GV, and that I can make a difference,” McEntee said. “Making a difference doesn’t have to have an Earth-shattering event, it doesn’t even have to make the news to count.”
The students who come back from travels abroad all have memories that will last a lifetime. Brittany Garza, a business man-agement major at GVSU, spent a summer in India to experience a place she thought she would never get another opportunity to visit.
“It has shown me how blessed I
am,” Garza said. “Things that used to seem like major life disasters to me are now small inconveniences now that I’ve realized how fortu-nate I am.”
Garza mentioned that studying abroad offers students the chance to experience cultures completely dif-ferent from that of the United States.
One of the most interesting ex-periences Garza had while abroad in India was crossing the street.
“It seems so simple, but being in a country where road lines are a sug-gestion and cars will stop for a cow before a human was very scary,” Garza said. “I wasn’t comfortable with it the first few times.”
Students who travel abroad often end up creating very mean-ingful connections with the native people of the countries they visit.
McEntee was paired with a native partner, a 12-year-old girl named Xena. Students in her pro-gram were matched with partners to help tutor them with math and English.
“I fell in love with her almost in-stantly,” McEntee said. “She would
write me little notes and I would draw pictures for her.”
McEntee and Xena became very close during her time in Manenburg, South Africa.
“The last day we were together I just held onto her and wept,” McEn-tee said. “She changed me, in the best way a person can be changed.”
Stories and memories like the ones that Garza and McEntee shared are common of students who study
abroad. “Go. Do it now,” McEntee said.
“Do it while you are young and brave and confident.”
Students who missed the Study Abroad Fair can stop by the Pad-nos International Center office in Lake Ontario Hall or go online to www.gvsu.edu/studyabroad for more information.
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KATRINA MCENTEE | COURTESYWell traveled: Above, GVSU student Katrina McEntee stands near a site in South Africa. McEntee, along with other GVSU students, have been given the oppourtuniy to learn outside the traditional classroom. Below, Brittany Garza stands in front of the Taj Mahal in India. For students who choose to study abroad, the overall experience includes diverse foods and the chance to meet new people.
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to GV students
Every October, pink blends in with the warm oranges and yellows of fall to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a cause that millions of Americans stand behind each year.
Colleges Against Cancer is an on-campus organiza-tion that provides Grand Valley State University multiple ways to educate and raise cancer awareness, not only in October, but year round.
Courtney Miller, president of the group, has participated in Relay for Life since she was 9 years old. She relays for many reasons, including her childhood friend who was diagnosed with leukemia and her father who has been in re-mission for 6 years after bat-tling skin cancer.
“Cancer doesn’t care who you are or how important you are or what you do,” Miller
said. “It hits hard.” Team Recruitment Chair
and CAC member, Sarah Roper, also participates for a purpose.
“I joined Colleges Against Cancer as a fresh-man when I visited their table at campus life night,” Roper said. “When I was a sophomore my grandpa was diagnosed with lung cancer. He passed away about a year later so I relay for him.”
Colleges Against Cancer is a partner program with the American Cancer Soci-ety and is a part of the Can-cer Action Network. CAC is split up into four sections: event development, service and survivorship, education advocacy and team Recruit-ment. Members of the event development section put on the games at the CAC events as well as Relay for Life, Service and Survivor-ship members volunteer at Gilda’s Club, and Hopelo-
Colleges Against Cancer focus on raising awarenessBY MegaN BRaXMaieRGVL STAFF WRITER
dge, and a survivor/caregiver banquet the day before Relay for Life begins. Education Advocacy members pro-mote awareness for events and have a tent to provide information to educate the community about all types of cancer, and Team Recruit-ment members put together the teams for Relay, organize team captain meetings, and create Relay mentors.
All four sections of the CAC come together and help Relay for Life to be successful. Miller describes the group as “one big happy family.”
“We love having new people come and we are very willing to help start ev-eryone transition into where we are now,” Miller said. “We’re always there for ev-eryone.”
CAC also promotes the Great American Smoke Out, an initiative to promote lung cancer awareness and the ef-fects of smoking. The group places 25-foot-tall signs all over campus to demonstrate the appropriate space one should stand when smoking next to a building. As part of GASO, CAC gives away “quit kits” for those who are interested in quitting smok-ing and it also provides in-formation on second-hand smoke.
Those who want to par-ticipate in Relay for Life can visit relayforlifegvsu.com for information on how to sign up or donate.
Colleges Against Cancer meets every Wednesday at 9 p.m. in the Thornapple room in the Kirkhof Center. All proceeds for both the t-shirt sales and Relay for Life race will go to the American Can-cer Society.
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