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The Grand Valley Police Department has received a confession from a Grand Valley State University stu-dent for the vandalism at the Mary Idema Pew Library.

During an interview with police on Tues-day morning, the individual claimed respon-sibility for the five incidents.

“The indi-vidual said he was remorseful for his actions,” said Capt. Bran-don DeHaan, assistant di-rector of the Department of Public Safety. “Once the information was brought forward, he understood the implications of his actions.”

Police released video foot-age of the individual on Mon-day. It was played throughout the day in the Kirkhof Center and the library.

“Police began receiv-ing tips from the student body following the release

of the video,” DeHaan said. “Community members stepped forward in helping to identify this individual. We applaud those that con-tacted police to aid and as-sist this investigation.”

The case is now being re-ferred to the Dean of Stu-dents Office for a violation of student code and will be re-ported to the Ottawa County Prosecutors Of-fice. The uni-versity will be seeking crimi-nal charges for

malicious destruction of property and is still assess-ing the cost of the damages.

“Based on the police de-partment’s investigations, the prosecutor’s office will determine the charges, if any,” DeHaan said.

The student’s name will not be released pending criminal charges. If there is an arraignment the name will become available to the public.

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The individual said he was remorseful for his actions.

Applause filled the Downtown Market in Grand Rapids on Monday as Gov. Rick Snyder announced his intent to run for re-election. Among those cheering in the crowd was the student organization Col-lege Republicans.

The organization members were easily identified by their neon green “I’m with the Nerd” shirts and included about 40

students and recent graduates from Aqui-nas College, Grand Rapids Community College and Grand Valley State Univer-sity. The group volunteered at the event, greeting and directing guests and collect-ing signatures for Snyder’s nomination petition.

Evan Wallace, a member of the group and a freshman at GVSU, said he is hope-ful that Snyder will be re-elected in No-vember.

“One of the bigger issues for college students right now is job prospects after graduating,” Wallace said. “Snyder has been creating thousands of jobs in Michi-gan and is creating opportunities for stu-dents to stay here rather than moving to another state to find work. I think that’s a big incentive for students to vote for him.”

GV project puts a face to faithRavel/Unravel interfaith initiative to encourage GV community to discuss religion

Tale of a nerd: Gov. Rick Snyder addresses a crowd in Grand Rapids as part of his re-election campaign tour. Grand Valley State University’s College Republicans group was in attendance to support his intention to take a second term.

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To celebrate the diver-sity of religious identities on campus, the Kaufman Interfaith Institute and Uni-versity Libraries will bring the national Ravel/Unravel Campaign to Grand Valley State University.

Katie Gordon, the pro-gram manager at GVSU’s Kaufman Interfaith Insti-tute, said the group will hold events March 13 through March 19 in the community and on campus “to promote interfaith understanding.”

This year is the first time Ravel/Unravel will be at GVSU. In 2010, the non-

profit organization Proj-ect Interfaith began film-ing interviews in Nebraska of people discussing their faiths. Today, it has more than 1,000 videos of people from around the country.

“We want to encourage talking about important is-sues of your own religious or spiritual identity,” Gor-don said. “We are making it a more open conversation that people aren’t afraid to talk about.”

Gordon stressed that the project is open to anyone at the university: faculty, staff and students. People of all backgrounds, whether they’re religious or not, are

encouraged to attend.“The goal is to build an

archive of Grand Valley faith or non-faith stories,” Gordon said. “The whole point is to get over stereo-types, put a face to faith and overcome peo-ple’s miscon-ceptions of reli-gious groups.”

Gordon said this campaign is specific to GVSU, but in the future, she hopes to extend it to other universities in the Grand Rapids area.

“Grand Valley is just the beginning,” she said.

Interviewees will be asked four questions about their religious or spiritual identity. GVSU film students will capture their short an-swers on video, edit them and upload them to YouTube. They will also be featured in the

learning alcove located on the first floor of the Mary Idema Pew Library.

Erin Fisher, library pro-

gram manager, is also in-volved in sponsoring the Ravel/Unravel Campaign at GVSU by supporting the production of the videos. Fisher said the main reason the library got involved is because of the learning al-cove, which is meant to be engaging but also intellec-tual.

“We want to foster seren-dipitous learning and dis-covery,” Fisher said. “Our mission is to capture sto-ries from Grand Valley that open your mind. The video platform adds unique value and allows a conversation to live on online.”

Fisher said the project is

important because it invites interaction and allows the audience to become “co-creators” rather than pas-sive consumers of informa-tion. Sharing stories, she said, helps us understand and appreciate religious di-versity on campus.

She added that the ulti-mate goal is to create 100 videos.

The MIP Library and Kaufman Interfaith In-stitute funded the project together, relying on their resources and Project In-terfaith for support. Fisher said there were no financial

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Construction has begun on the “Grand Vil-lage,” a multiphase project set to house Grand Valley State University registered student or-ganizations. The first phase of the project is implementing housing for select GVSU fraternities and sororities.

Out of the five Greek organi-zations already living on campus, three of them (Gamma Phi Beta, Alpha Omicron Pi and Phi Sigma Sigma) will be relocating to the new lot at 5050 Pierce St. adjacent to Copper Beech Townhomes.

“It’s a great opportunity for these groups,” said Kristen Evans, the occupancy and assignments manager of Housing and Health Services. “And the departures (from the Allendale Campus) provides us additional space to ac-commodate the growing demand for upper-class housing on campus.”

The organizations will be joined later by Alpha Sigma Tau, Sigma Kappa and Alpha Sigma Phi. The houses on the Pierce Street lot will be ready for students to move into at the beginning of the fall 2014 semester.

Santiago Gayton, the fraterni-ty and sorority life coordinator, has been working with the Office of Student Life on the task force that has been planning the proj-ect. Gayton said that traditional-ly, housing for registered student organizations is owned by a uni-versity and a resident assistant is present to overlook the students living there. Off-campus housing is generally owned by the organi-zation, itself.

The new model at GVSU is owned by a private developer, Alan Hoffman, and will be leased to organizations.

“It sounds like a subtle difference, but

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It’s a great opportunity for these groups.

Home sweet home: The “Grand Village” will be located on Pierce Street and will provide housing for larger campus organizations, such as fraternities and sororities.

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requirements when they created the cam-paign online.

Todd Fenton, a GVSU senior, is a film and video major and religious studies minor. Fenton works for Fisher at the library, where he curates videos in the learning alcove and produces his own videos. He will be one of the people behind the camera filming the inter-views.

Fenton said other stu-dents can either drop in or sign up for an interview to get involved.

“A person’s faith is para-mount,” Fenton said. “I want people to not be afraid of doing this. It’s a place free of judgment. It’s a platform to ex-press yourself.”

For more information on how to get in-

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Former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan to speak in Lecture SeriesPatrick Miles, Jr., a Grand Rapids native, was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan in 2012. Miles, Jr., will speak tonight about Effective Leadership and Service as part of the Professionals of Color Lecture Series presented by Grand Valley State University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs. The presentation will take place from 4 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. in the Cook-Dewitt Center.

Civil Discourse Night to be held by College Democrats and RepublicansGrand Valley State University’s College Democrats are team-ing up with the GVSU College Republicans for a “Civil Dis-course Night.” The event will be a discussion about health care in the U.S. with an emphasis on the Affordable Care Act. Participants will be able to voice their opinions and ideas, as well as learn more about other’s viewpoints, through an open discussion. The event will be Feb. 17 from 9 p.m. until 10 p.m. in the Kirkhof Center Room 2263.

GV opens surplus store in downtown Grand RapidsGrand Valley State University will open a surplus store in downtown Grand Rapids to give the general public a chance to purchase university inventory no longer in use. The store will have its grand opening on Saturday from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the store, located at 140 Front Street next to GV-SU’s Seidman Center. Items for sale include computers, keyboards, printers, TVs, furniture, clothing and industrial equipment.

Women’s Commission seeks nominations for awardsThe Women’s Commission is currently seeking nominations from students, faculty and staff members for three awards to be presented at the Celebrating Women Awards ceremony on March 27. Nominations are sought for the Maxine Swan-son, Women’s Impact and Unsung Hero awards. The awards are given to honor men and women from the campus com-munity who have made an impact on the lives of women. Nomination forms can be found at www.gvsu.edu/wcom-mission and are due Feb. 14.

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Another member, Catharine Cypher, is a senior at GVSU majoring in legal studies with a political science minor. Planning to graduate in April, Cypher is familiar with the worry and stress caused by thoughts of finding a job.

“I’m sitting here wonder-ing if I’ll need to move to another state,” she said. “I think if Snyder stays in office, the job outlook will be more posi-tive and gradu-ates will have more potential in Michigan.”

During his speech, Snyder touched on the student’s con-cerns.

“There are jobs out there,” he said. “Jobs that are go-ing unfilled. Now we have to make that connection with our young people looking for that new career and line them up with the skills, because we know they’re going to work hard. That’s the kind of thing in my second term I’d love to work on. I’m working on it already. Let’s hit the gas pedal on things like that.”

Outside of the market, however, a different message was being spread. Almost 50 protestors gathered on the sidewalk chanting, “Ricky, Ricky you can’t hide. We can see your greedy side.”

Sean Egan, the president of the Kent-Ionia Labor Coun-cil, was among the picketers.

“We want to make sure Snyder and his fellow Repub-licans know not everyone is happy in Kent County,” Egan said. “West Michigan hasn’t seen any gains from the gov-ernment or our governor.”

Egan was joined by other union members holding signs stating, “middle class, not CEOS.”

Wallace said Snyder’s experi-ence as a CEO is part of what makes him a good governor and candidate, though.

“We need someone with a business back-ground to help grow our busi-nesses in Michi-gan,” Wallace

said. “Snyder’s background as a CEO shows he can effectively run a business. A career politi-cian doesn’t have that kind of experience or knowledge.”

Cypher agreed, saying, “He’s not making just corpo-rate, CEO jobs. He’s focus-ing on the private sector and small businesses too.”

Snyder also made cam-paign stops on Monday at James Group International in Detroit and Two Men and a Truck in Lansing. On Tues-day, he made appearances in Traverse City, Frankenmuth and Oakland Community College in Farmington Hills.

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when you look at models across the nation, it isn’t a common one,” Gayton said.

In future phases of the project, Gayton said Grand Village will likely add a community house and expand to organiza-tions who are outside of Greek life. Those orga-nizations would likely be ones that have larger, long-standing member-ships, such as sports teams who are required to keep a specific amount of students on their rosters.

“We came to sororities and fraternities first be-cause they had that built-in membership,” Gayton said. “They don’t have the ebb and flow that others might have. Some organi-zations might have a very active organization one year and then five mem-bers the next.”

The Grand Village needs larger organiza-tions to lease space be-cause each house consists of 20 to 30 available beds.

Though Gayton said Hoffman has worked with the university to keep pric-ing affordable and com-petitive with other student housing in the area, it will be easier for organizations to maintain the rent if they are consistent from year to year and establish some amount of longevity in the housing units.

“It’s something brand new we’re working with, and it is really exciting because now that we’re doing it, other universi-ties are hearing about it and asking how to get into that model,” Gayton said. “We just had a developer who’s worked closely with the university the whole time and who knows the needs that are out there in the community.”

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To kickoff Black History Month at Grand Valley State University, Donna Brazile, a Veteran Democratic political strategist, tackled the topics of civic engagement

and equality at a lecture on Tuesday.Hosted by the National Association for the Advancement

of Colored People and GVSU’s Women’s Center, Brazile encouraged students to become active, especially when it comes to race equality.

“The principle of civil rights and justice brings us here tonight,” Brazile said. “These are challenges that make us uncomfortable, and so we don’t address them.”

Brazile is the current vice chair of voter registration and participation for the Democratic National Committee and the former interim national chair of the DNC. She is also the former chair of the DNC’s Voting Rights Institute and was named one of the “100 Most Powerful Women” by Washingtonian magazine.

“We don’t just celebrate black history, but American history,” Brazile said. “Because it is a history that we have created together.”

Brazile said students should take this month to find their common history and shared values.

She also told students that the road to justice is for all people, and the word “race” should be taken out of the search for it.

“I want to talk about how to frame the debate,” Brazile said. “We have to understand not just the issues, but the things that structure the issues. We can transform policy and culture and empower individuals.”

Brazile cautioned against apathetic settling and insisted on the necessity of affirmative action, not just viewing the success of one individual and making it stand for the whole.

“That’s bad logic,” she said. “We need examples and anecdotes of our own.”

Brazile reminded students that steps need to be taken, even now in the 21st century, to ensure that the U.S. continues

down a road of equality. She said educational institutions can play a large role in creating social change.

“If a school wants to be inclusive, it will find a way to open its doors to a diverse student population,” Brazile said.

Jo Ann Wassenaar, associate director of the Women’s Center at GVSU, said she believes that the university has worked hard to make sure it is constantly moving forward and keeping its doors open. She said the school has worked to

keep students involved in creating their own rights.“There are many opportunities for students to be engaged

in student activism,” Wassenaar said. “Students need to grab these opportunities by the reigns and charge ahead.”

Brazile also emphasized that idea in one of her final points.“You don’t have to wait to be invited to a seat at the banquet

table,” she said. “You can pull up a folding chair.”

GV begins Black History Month with political strategistStudents told to get involved with civic engagement and equality, ‘grab the reigns and charge ahead’ BY GABRIELLA PATTIGPATTI@LANTHORN.COM

James Moore, the first African American man to graduate from Grand Valley State University in 1967, came back to

campus as a part of the “Pioneering Pathways for Students of Color” event put on by the Division of Inclusion and Equity.

“I hope that (students) have the opportunity to appreciate the rich history of diversity and inclusion that GVSU has had, and I hope they take away the idea that they should try and find ways to create their own pathways and legacies here,” said Sean Huddleston, assistant vice president for strategic implementation in the Inclusion and Equity Division.

Moore graduated from GVSU with a political science major and an intent to go to law school afterwards. These plans changed after he got married and served in the Vietnam War.

Currently, Moore is semi-retired — now working on a part-time basis in the security, parking and transportation department at Spectrum Health — after serving many different places such as the 126th Michigan National Guard Band, the Urban League, Smiths Industries, Grand Rapids Community College, Davenport University, GR Job Corps, Goodwill Industries and Jubilee Jobs.

“GVSU is today much larger,” he said. “In comparison, we started with 226 students, one building and an unpaved parking lot. I

was one of five African American students in that first class of 226.”

Moore still remembers his earliest days on campus.

“My favorite memory from GVSU was the first day on campus when I saw for the first time all 226 members of the Pioneer Class, along with the faculty, staff and our brand new building as we all began this exciting trip to our future,” he said.

Upon reflection of his time at GVSU, he had some advice for current students.

“My advice to the current students would be to seek a career for which there is current demand with prospects for future growth for which you have a passion and the pay will provide you with a good lifestyle,” he said.

The idea for the event stemmed from an award being given out for the first time this year — the Burch, Jacobs and Moore Diversity Teaching Excellence Award. The faculty member who receives the award is “recognized for fostering awareness about diversity issues, promoting cultural competence and helping to advance a campus environment that is welcoming and supportive of differences through his/her teaching,” Huddleston said.

The award is named in Moore’s honor along with two of his other classmates.

“He made history here at Grand Valley,” Huddleston said. “We wanted students to have the opportunity to hear from him and have access to him.”

PIONEERING A LEGACYFirst GV African American graduate returns to share memoriesBY SARAH HILLENBRANDASSOCIATE@LANTHORN.COM

One man’s story reflects the goals of an entire population. Yul Kwon, the first Asian American to win the reality television show “Survivor,” shared his experiences

about growing up and having to deal with stereotypes.Presented by the Asian Student Union, “Beyond

Math Geeks and China Dolls: Overcoming Stereotypes,” focused on Asian Americans trying to finding success in the U.S.

More than 50 students, staff and community members attended the event on Tuesday, which is a part of the “Professionals of Color” lecture series hosted by the Office of Multicultural Affairs.

“It is important that we understand the cultural differences of the world, as members of the Grand Valley community, so that we can make everyone feel comfortable and welcome,” said Kate Harmon, a faculty member in attendance.

Kwon, the winner of the racially controversial 2006 season of the CBS reality show “Survivor: Cook Islands,” shared his personal experiences with racial persecution, which he said is something many Asian Americans face.

“I decided that I was going to be on the show to take off the stereotypes of Asian Americans and help people to be informed of racial differences and labels,” Kwon said.

Growing up, Kwon was tormented because of biases directed at the Asian population and was exposed to the

extremities of ignorance displayed through physical bullying and verbal abuse. He suffered from social anxiety, sweating and panic attacks that made it hard for him to become involved and invested in his own growth, he said.

“I knew that if I didn’t start changing, I would never be happy and I would never be truly proud of myself,” Kwon said. “It was a change that helped form my lifestyle.”

Kwon spoke on the racial ignorance he faced during the interview process for the show. He revealed that out of all of the contestants asked to interview for the show, he was the only one asked to wear a suit and glasses, an appearance often associated with “Asian nerds.”

“These kinds of experiences show just how uninformed a community can be,” Kwon said. “It also gives an opportunity to help inform.”

Kwon hosted a PBS special, “America Revealed,” where he took an introspective look into the inner workings of America. He also currently serves as a correspondent for CNN and lectures at many universities telling his story.

“Everyone has the ability to grow beyond expectations and make a difference outside of just your ethnicity,” Kwon said.

The next lecture in the series will be hosted by the Seidman College of Business. “Effective Leadership and Service” will take place today from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Cook-Dewitt Center. It will feature Patrick Miles, Jr., attorney for the Western District of Michigan in 2012.

Asian Americans: more than math geeks‘Survivor’ winner shares personal experiences facing Asian stereotypesBY HANNAH LENTZHLENTZ@LANTHORN.COM

Moving forward: Yul Kwon, former contestant on the show “Survivor,” speaks at GVSU’s Allendale Campus.

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Pronouns: a type of speech which stands for a noun (e.g. person, place, thing, situation, idea, etc.) referenced earlier in a given context.

Some examples? I, me, we, us, you, she, he, her, him, it, they, and them. There are other kinds which have more complicated functions, too. This, which, who, all, everyone, myself, their, the list

goes on.We use these words all the

time; in fact, I have already used four in this sentence, now five.

If we did not have these words, our language would bloated, unaesthetic, and inefficient. We would always be stuck naming particular things, the proper nouns of people, places, and groups. I have used the word “we” already three times in this paragraph, but to whom am I referring? English speakers? The human race? All sentient, language-capable life forms within 100,000 light years?

Now, I’m a language geek, so questions of these sort are fascinating to me. But despite the great utility of pronouns, I think they cause us a heck

of a lot of trouble, regard-less of our level of interest in language.

Let’s start with gender—many people do not feel comfortable forcing their gender identity into one side of the male/female binary. In these cases, they may feel uncomfortable ascrib-ing themselves third person singular pronouns like “he,” “she,” “her,” and “him,” which push the speaker to make a black and white decision about their own identity. In speech, the pronoun “they” is often used to avoid such dichotomies, but still some grammar snobs argue that its function as a third person singular pronoun causes too ambiguity (though I disagree). Others movements have

invented pronouns of their own to ameliorate this prob-lem (e.g. “ze,” “hir,” “co,” etc.) Better yet, some European languages have added official gender-neutral pronouns to their language (e.g. the Swed-ish pronoun “hen”).

So, gender identity high-lights one major problem with our pronoun system. The fol-lowing problems I have been noticing have less to do with the system itself and more to do with “us” (or more specifi-cally, English speakers in my local community).

Sometimes, pronouns let us cite facts without doing our research. Because “You know what “they”always say, right?”

Pronouns also allow us to bash on a group of people without consideration for

individual complexity. I see this happen a lot with institu-tions of power. We blame administrations, “the man,” the government, corporations, and society at large without considerations for the many complex, human individuals who make up the group by using pronouns like “they” in an accusatory tone.

I’m doing this very thing to you all right now. The whole article, and in many of my columns, I address something that “we” should do or “we” should not do. I wrote earlier, “We blame administrations.” But who is actually out there in the real world doing this? You may assume that this belief is based on my careful observations of the world, but what if it isn’t? What if I

formed this belief by watching two people sitting on the bus using pronouns as I described above? How can you be cer-tain I have evidence if I use a general pronoun like “we”?

Perhaps analyzing this too far gets us into tricky waters, but it’s a phenomenon “we” have to be careful about.

The main point here? It’s frightening to clump a bunch of individuals together into words like “they” and “we” without really considering who “they” are and how one formed their opinion of “them.” We are never going to rid ourselves of pronouns—and we probably shouldn’t—but we have to be careful when addressing the abstract, looming theys of the world, or one day, they might bite back.

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The danger of pronouns (when they, we, and he/she all are out to get you)

WHERE DO YOU THINK PROMOTION OF INTERFAITH AND RELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING SHOULD RANK ON GVSU’S PRIORITY LIST?

“Yes, because for students with faith, religious events of-fered on campus make living out their faith easier. Futhermore it connects students with others that believe in the same views.”

BRAD SPICER SophomoreAccounting and Finance Mason, Mich.

“I think GVSU should promote understanding between people of different faiths.”

LUKE MCMANUS SophomoreAccounting Hudsonville, Mich.

“I think every student has the right to rank religious under-standing individually. GVSU isa public university that should respect all students views and beliefs. Therefore GVSU should not ‘rank’ promotion of interfaith.”

CLARE BANONIS SophomoreAlied Health Sciences Paw Paw, Mich.

“In my opinion, the promotion of interfaith is not a high prior-ity. Since Grand Valley is such a diverse campus, I wouldn’t rank this very high because of different personal interests.”

BRIANA RODRIGUEZ SophomoreAdvertising & Public Relations Holly, Mich.

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Grand Valley State University has made large strides in the last few years when it comes to

encouraging religious coexistence. In 2012, the university helped host Grand Rapids’ Year of Interfaith Understand-ing. Additionally, the Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies debuted its religious studies major and minor in 2012, and the program has since added new courses to get at issues of interfaith conflict, such as this year’s Diversity and Dialogue in an Age of Religious Conflict class.

GVSU should be commended for its newest program: the national Ravel/Un-ravel Campaign. In March, the Kaufman Interfaith Institute and University Libraries will bring the campaign to campus to promote interfaith under-standing. The goal is to create 100 videos that ask questions to interviewees about their faith in order to overcome religious stereotypes and “put a face to faith.”

It seems that these sorts of initiatives couldn’t have come at a better time. Last month, Pew Research Center released a report noting that worldwide social hostilities regarding religion reached a six-year high in 2012.

Pew found that from 2007 to 2012, countries in which women were

harassed for their religious garb more than quadrupled from 7 percent to 32 percent. Countries in which religious minorities experienced abuse almost doubled from 24 percent in 2007 to 47 percent in 2012. And 39 percent of countries in 2012 (more than double of 2007’s 18 percent) played host to violence or threat of violence in an effort to force people to conform to religious norms.

Compared to 45 percent in 2007, about 74 percent of the global popula-tion in 2012 lived in areas of the world where social hostilities regarding religion were measured to be “high” or “very high.”

The anecdotes behind these numbers are perhaps more convincing of the need for worldwide interfaith understand-ing. Google “religious violence” today and it will dig up news stories of Nigeria and the Central African Republic. Next week, we might hear more about Iran or Israel/Palestine or any one of the other regions that has been ranked high on the to-do lists of religious peacemakers around the world.

Much of this violence is the result of dehumanization. People think of one another as less than human because they cannot relate to their worldviews

and thus cannot empathize with their plights.

Religion is an aspect of our culture and socialization that we cannot escape. It permeates all other aspects of our lives, whether we are conscious of it or not. For many, the schism they find too wide to cross when conversing with those of other faiths comes from a lack of basic understanding of the other party’s religious foundations.

It is essential to become more religiously literate if we intend to make legitimate strides in decreasing religious violence and prejudice.

GVSU’s efforts to encourage people to perhaps “rehumanize” each other — to view one another as human, with com-plex and personal religious views, to “put a face to faith” — is just what the world needs to combat this religious violence.

It is so essential to interact with peo-ple of others faiths, to understand them, and to see the humanity and elevated spirituality behind the traditions.

Students can benefit immensely from the experience that GVSU is offer-ing, so we encourage everyone to take advantage of this unique opportunity to have an open discussion about religious beliefs and what they mean to each individual.

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RELIGIOUS LITERACYWe support GVSU’s involvement in the Ravel/Unravel interfaith initiative, and we hope that the Laker community begins to invest more in developing interfaith understanding.

GVL EDITORIAL CARTOON I BY CHRISTY SPIELMAN

Psych majors are going to laugh at me for this. All of them, all at once. With disdain.

My sophomore year, I took some Psych courses for fun. Elective credits were needed, and as someone who not only writes, but places high value on hu-man characters with realistic personalities, I figured study-ing thoughts and behaviors would help me create better characters. It was a wise deci-sion on my part that I don’t regret at all.

Of course, it also made

me rather cynical when it comes to “mental disorders,” because there just seem to be far too many opportunities to get diagnosed with something you might not actually have, meaning you get a catch-all excuse for socially disagree-able behavior and your doctor gets an unwarranted pay-check. Anyway, those classes showed me something I have suffered from for years.

It’s called “Pseudostupid-ity.” For those not in the know, the prefix “pseudo-” means “fake.” Maybe by this point, they’ve already done more research and made that moniker obsolete. I’m Googling around and no, it’s still being used, but some of the terminology and defini-tions seem to have been fine tuned or altered. So what is it?

Basically, it was used to describe… not adolescents themselves, but adolescent behaviors. Because of the hor-mones flooding through kids

going through puberty and the critical development of their brains during this time, teens have a habit of making mountains out of mole-hills. Their minor problems become major, world shaking issues due to being “falsely stupid.” Pseudostupidity gives kids an unhealthy amount of egocentrism, where they honestly believe that everyone around them is focused on everything they say and do—their triumphs, their humilia-tions, all of it.

It’s the feeling I still get to this day where I stumble on the sidewalk and get a rush of adrenaline because “oh geez everyone saw that, I look like a huge klutz now” even though not a single person is paying attention to me. This becomes overwhelming in the gym, where I not only com-pare myself to the woman running a marathon on the treadmill next to me, but ac-tively think she’s judging my

performance and regarding me as an inferior.

I made the distinction up there between adolescents and their behavior because dealing with pseudostupid-ity doesn’t mean you’re an adolescent, it just means you’re engaging in thought patterns and behaviors that you should have left behind already. Maybe we all get this from time to time. You know, do we ever truly grow up? Do we have to? Are we there yet? Inner child?

Actually, I read that pseudostupidity can also describe just straight-up “playing stupid,” where smart people don’t want to seem like nerds or make their peers feel inferior so they pretend to be less intelligent than they really are. In a way, it’s kind of considerate, but to a fault. Caring for others is one thing, but at your own expense? Don’t short yourself, smart people.

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The Grand Valley State University Alumni Asso-ciation held a “Tweet Up” on Feb. 4 to encourage stu-dents, faculty and alumni to make connections and build a professional rapport with entrepreneurs.

With a panel consisting of GVSU alumni turned entre-preneurs, the speakers fielded questions from those in atten-dance and using the hashtag #GVtweetUP on Twitter.

Panelists shared their ca-reer trajectories and experi-ences on what has helped them become successful after graduating. Their common denominator, and message of the night, was innovation.

GVSU alumnus and cur-rent environmentalist con-sultant, Mark Bryson, shared some advice with current Lakers that he has discovered since being out of school.

“Keep your options open,” Bryson said. “You’re study-ing a specific field, but that doesn’t mean you’re stuck to that. It means you are very knowledgeable in that area, but you don’t want to limit yourself to just one kind of career with that knowledge.”

Bryson has used this un-guarded mindset to survey career options that use his degree and skill set in an ar-ray of positions.

“I have a chemistry de-gree, but that doesn’t mean I have to work in a lab,” he said.

Many alumni shared the same sentiments, saying they found that their expe-riences at GVSU prepared them to experiment with different career options.

Felip Ballesteros, an alumnus and now the Mar-keting Director at GR Cur-rent, mentioned how he used his collegiate experi-ence to capitalize on the opportunities that awaited him upon graduating.

“I still don’t know if I did college right,” Ballesteros said. “Going in I had no clue what I was going to major in and I switched like five times. But I took the idea and the concept of what a university does, which is to train you to be an analytical thinker and critical thinker, and to apply that knowledge in whatever we do.”

The event’s keynote speak-er, Mark Holzpach, a Massa-chusetts Institute of Technolo-gy graduate and co-founder of Zebra Images, fielded a ques-tion about the fear of failure.

Holzpach affirmed the importance of following one’s passion and doing what one truly loves — no matter what challenges may await.

“I think failure is when you’re not true to yourself,” he said. “That’s the kind of thing that I think is failure.”

As the speakers preached innovation as a way to suc-ceed professionally, the theme of the night appropri-ately matched the namesake.

Alumni advise to be true to self, keep options open

Senate to change election formatCandidates to collect faculty endorsements for 2014 campaigns

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BY CLAIRE FODELLASSISTANTNEWS@LANTHORN.COM

Grand Valley State Uni-versity’s Student Senate has mapped out a plan for elec-tions this year in the hope of getting a greater number of candidates and voters than in previous years.

“It’s very much a trial and error year for us to see what can change the 3 percent vot-er turnout that we currently have,” Executive President Stephanie Ewart said. “(Also), we kind of get the same types of candidates, so I’d like to broaden that with a multitude of organizations and a multi-tude of colleges.”

Vice President for Senate Resources Danielle Meirow said senators will be helping spread the word about the or-ganization and elections.

“Throughout the next couple weeks, current senators

will be presenting at various student organization’s meet-ings to educate them on the purpose of Student Senate, as well as the election process,” Meirow said.

Some students stray away from joining the senate be-cause they believe that it’s just for political science majors, but that isn’t the case.

“A lot of people have things they want to see changed on campus and they don’t know that this is the place where it’s done,” Ewart said.

Members currently on the senate will not automatically be given a position for the fall 2014 semester and will have to run for re-election if they are interested in serving another term. This means there are a total of 44 senate seats open for election. There is no limit to how many candidates there can be.

“The more students we get to

run, the more people that have a vested interest,” Ewart said.

On Feb. 24, students will be able to pick up application packets in the Student Senate office or on its website.

As usual, the last page of the packet includes space for a pe-tition of 75 student signatures, but Ewart said one change to elections this year is that the packet will also include space for two faculty endorsements.

Students interested in run-ning will have two weeks to pick up a packet, fill it out and get signatures. Packets are due on March 10.

“As long as they’re in good academic standing, then they are put up in the election pro-cess,” Ewart said.

Once students are ap-proved for the election pro-cess, they will be asked to re-turn to the senate office to give more information about their plans if elected. Ewart said that

this process has also changed slightly.

“This year we’re picking three platform questions, which will be really imperative things at the university level,” she said.

Students’ answers to those questions, along with a short biography and a picture, will be posted online for voters to read.

Voting will be from March 23 until March 29. During this time, candidates will be able to campaign to the student body.

As in the past, students will be able to vote online through the Student Senate page on the GVSU website using a black-board login and password.

Ewart said the senate is also working to set up polling on OrgSync and in the Kirkhof Center and the Kleiner Com-mons.

For more information visit the Student Senate website at www.gvsu.edu/studentsenate.

Change: Vice President for Political Affairs Andrew Plague congratulates new members to the committee and shares with senate his excitement for the 2014 semester. Student Senate is working to change its election process to get more involvment.

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On Tuesday, the Grand Valley State Univer-sity String Trio made its debut at GVSU. Joined by clarinetist Arthur Campbell, the group show-cased two pieces: one important to the clarinet, and the other educational for string players.

“This is actually coming together from two different projects,” said Pablo Mahave-Veglia, associate professor of cello at GVSU. “We have a faculty-in-residence ensemble that is a string trio, made up of myself, Gregory Maytan (assis-tant professor of violin) and Paul Swantek (affili-ate professor of viola). We all perform regularly as members of the trio, but we don’t perform on campus.”

The GVSU String Trio played the concert with GVSU professor of clarinet Arthur Camp-bell as a part of the Artist-Faculty series. The group presented music it has played before and was well received by the audience. The perfor-mance gave ensemble members a chance to re-visit pieces they have enjoyed playing together before, and it also gave the GVSU String Trio an opportunity to perform for the GVSU commu-nity.

The GVSU String Trio typically represents the department on outreach activities and gives master classes at several area high schools.

“I enjoyed playing all of (the concert). The (Ernő Dohnányi piece) we have never done all

in a row,” Mahave-Veglia said after the concert. “The movements are independent of each other. The one time we did play the whole piece, we were giving explanations in between each move-ment (because) we were giving a master class. It was a fun piece to play through; I hope that showed through in the performance.”

The first piece that was performed, a multi-movement piece called “Serenade for String Trio, Op. 10,” was written by Hungarian com-poser Ernő Dohnányi.

The five-movement piece combined the sty-listically Romantic, Germanic art form with folk music elements — a testament to the composer’s Hungarian heritage. The trio skillfully navigated each movement, reveling in precise, harmonic plucking, communicating tempo changes with one another, and dynamically growing into each phrase. Both Swantek and Maytan smoothly swapped playing the melody on movements such as the second movement, “Romanza: Ada-gio non troppo, quasi andante.”

“I started tearing up during the fourth move-ment of the Dohnányi,” said Liz Boyce, a fresh-man viola performance major. “It was really beautiful. They just really made music.”

The second half of the concert presented “Quartet for Clarinet and Strings, Op. 19, No. 3,” and the trio was joined by Campbell.

“You’ll hear a lot of sunny, happy, positive music, which we hope brings some sun to Feb-

ruary in West Michigan,” Campbell said while introducing the piece.

The ensemble had previously traveled to Ger-many to record the piece in 2013 for Campbell’s CD, “Carl Philipp Stamitz: Quartets for Clari-net.”

Campbell said Stamitz is very important to clarinetists but is not really known to the rest of the musical world. He said it is believed that Mozart heard clarinets for the first time in Mannheim, a famed court orchestra of which Stamitz and his father were a part of.

“Stamitz paved the way for Mozart to write

the music that he did,” Mahave-Veglia said. “At the time, (the clarinet) was not thought to be the kosher solo instrument.”

The group’s rendition was highlighted by Campbell’s smooth virtuosic playing incorpo-rating trills and ornaments with ease. He easily traded the melody with Maytan, who showed off his fluid playing as well.

“This is professional fun…These are pieces we have played all over the world, in Germany and at the (high schools in the area),” Mahave-Veglia said. “With the recital, the students get to see a part of the process.”

They attend each of the women’s and men’s basketball games, belting out the Grand Valley State University fight song and cheering the teams on with a unique type of en-ergy.

The Laker basketball Pep Band is part of the band pro-gram at GVSU and has been providing musical entertain-ment for more than three decades. The band has been directed by John Martin, di-rector of athletic bands, since 2009. Members of the group get to enjoy basketball games with the added benefit of play-ing music with their friends.

“My experience has been incredible,” said band mem-ber Gayle Ebben. “Joining marching band and Pep Band has been without a doubt the highlight of my college ca-reer.”

Before coming to GVSU,

Martin attended the University of Southern Mississippi and was a director at the University of Tennessee. Now he is the as-sistant director of bands and also teaches music education courses.

“The best thing that I love about it without a doubt is the interaction with students,” Martin said. “This school is so student-orientated, and it flows from President Haas all the way down.”

Martin said that although the Pep Band hasn’t grown number-wise since he began directing, its quality has great-ly improved, and he would rank Pep Band with the likes of University of Michigan or Michigan State University.

“Grand Valley may be Divi-sion II in athletics, but they tru-ly run like a Division I school,” he said.

As far as the music that the band plays at each game, Mar-tin lets the basketball team help

select songs, and he arranges or buys the music they suggest. He also tries to keep the band’s program updated each year by taking out old music pieces, looking at what’s new and in-cluding some of the music that the band members like playing.

Martin said the members are quick learners and good enough musicians that the band rehearses only two or three times before the season starts, then right before the games throughout the rest of the season.

Auditions are held each Oc-tober and Martin said the band is looking for more people to join, especially since more bands might be added to the program. Members are paid a stipend once they complete the season.

Isaac Arbogast, who plays saxophone in the band, has been a part of it for three years. Arbogast’s advice for students looking to join is that they

practice well before the audi-tions, which can be competi-tive.

“A member of the Pep Band should be a fan of bas-

ketball and should not be afraid to yell and have fun with cheers and the timeout activities. This is a high-en-ergy group and each member

should reflect that,” he said.For a chance to see the Pep

Band in action, visit the men’s and women’s basketball games this Saturday.

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Laker Pep Band creates loud, spirited atmosphere at every GV home basketball gameBY CENIQUE YELDELLCYELDELL@LANTHORN.COM

BY MARY MATTINGLYARTS@LANTHORN.COM

A student film faces a multitude of difficul-ties. Lack of funding, for instance, can tarnish the film’s overall quality. So when Grand Valley State University students Shae Spencer and Jeffrey Butler conceived the idea for “Tattered Canvas,” which serves to fulfill Butler’s senior thesis and Spencer’s honors senior project, they knew what they were in for.

Through a contact at Campus Partners, a company that helps to promote a variety of ser-vices, the seniors have discovered an opportunity to kickstart their film. A Kickstarter film is one that is in need of donations and outside funding in order to be produced. Once the idea of “Tat-tered Canvas” pieced together, Butler began to contact various Kickstarter programs and pro-moters — a method he said is not uncommon for student filmmakers.

“Kickstarter is something a lot of film stu-dents do to get funding for (their film projects),” Butler said. “I emailed them (Command Part-

ners) and asked them what we could do (or) if they could help us in any way. (An employee of the company) called me and was really interested in our project...they said they could help us out if we sent out our Kickstarter to potential inves-tors.”

About $180 of a desired $3,500 has already been donated to the duo’s project. The donations will help with the purchasing of needed equip-ment, feeding the crew and, perhaps most im-portantly, paying the actors, Spencer said.

The film is about a homeless art professor who writhes in guilt over his deceased family af-ter finding a Jackson Pollock painting. The paint-ing not only reminds the professor of his loss, but it also symbolizes his life.

It began as an abnormally long short-film at 45 pages, but after several rewrites and feedback, the final script is 17 to 18 pages long.

Filming is set to begin the end of February or the beginning of March. Local Grand Rapids venues such as J. Gardella’s Tavern and The Bull’s Head Tavern will be featured in the film, and the

pair hopes to secure the Grand Rapids Art Mu-seum as another setting.

The Kickstarter promotion overall has been a learning experience for Butler and Spencer.

“The biggest thing is, you’re always working at it; you’re always emailing people, trying to find people to donate,” Butler said. “You get a lot of no’s, but there is always that one yes from some-one who really wants to help out a student.”

When he was in his early 20s, GVSU profes-sor Frank Boring learned the dos and don’ts of selling a film. After raising the money for his films “Fei Hu: The Story of the Flying Tigers” and “Nightmare in New Guinea,” Boring said he thinks he has perfected the art of selling a film.

“The difficulty is the same as any sale, whether it is a car, a house or anything else,” he said. “The difference with a car and a house, is you look at the car, you drive it and you say ‘I like it, I want to buy it. Can I afford it?’ It is the same with a house, ‘Can I afford it?’ But, when you’re selling a film, you’re selling the confidence that you’ll actually finish it and it will actually be seen by somebody.”

The light at the end of the tunnel for Spencer and Butler is still far down the tracks for the film. The pair will continue to promote their film with a teaser trailer, contact donors and, following its GVSU premiere, submit it to local and national film festivals.

“I know what I have done wrong already and I know what I can do better next time, so it has been a really big eye opener for me about get-ting funding for films,” Butler said. “There is this negative connotation, especially in the film and video program, about how to get this unrealistic goal of funding your film, your first feature film...no one is going to hand you the money on a silver platter. You have to go out and work for it.”

“Tattered Canvas” is set to release later this year. Butler and Spencer are looking for not only donors but other GVSU students who would like to be involved in the production of the film either behind the scenes or as an actor.

For more information, visit www.command-partners.com and www.kickstarter.com/proj-ects/1953338892/tattered-canvas.

Heartstrings: The Faculty String Trio performs with special guest, Arthur Campbell, professor of clarinet at Grand Valley State University. The Trio made its campus debut Tuesday.

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Five Lakers nab fall GLIAC awards

Five Grand Valley State University student ath-letes earned GLIAC Fall 2013 Commissioner’s Awards for having suc-cessful fall seasons in the playing field and in the classroom.

Three of the athletes were national champions, as women’s cross country runners Jessica Janecke and Courtney Brewis were selected along with women’s soccer player Tayler Ward. Men’s cross country runners Spencer Pageau and Alan Peter-son were also chosen.

Nominees must be ei-ther be a junior or senior, have a cumulative GPA of 3.5, and must be either a starter or a key reserve. The conference selects six male and six female athletes.

GV teams set for Northern Michigan

The Grand Valley State University basketball teams will look to stay hot from the beyond the arc tonight when they welcome Northern Michi-gan University for a dou-ble header at the Field-house Arena.

The GVSU women were impressive in their 67-50 victory over Ferris State University on Mon-day night when they shot 10-of-20 from long range. They are 6-1 at home this season and hold a 16-4 record against NMU since 2005.

Dani Crandall, the team’s only senior, leads with 11.5 points, 5.8 re-bounds and 3.2 assists per game this season.

The Laker men also shot well in their 86-62 win over FSU by shoot-ing 7-of-13 from 3-point. Eight players scored more than five points in the win.

The team defeated NMU 64-41 on Jan. 16.

The women’s game is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. while the men’s teams will tip off at 8 p.m.

GV adds three to GVSN Radio Network

Grand Valley State University Athletics an-nounced Monday the ad-dition of three new radio affiliates to the GVSU Football radio network.

GVSU football games will now be heard on ra-dio stations in Newaygo, Oceana, Mecosta, Mont-calm, Osceola and Lake counties after the Grand Valley Sports Network partnered with a Big Rap-ids radio network.

The new stations are WBRN-AM 1460 and WBRN-FM 107.7 of Big Rapids and WBRN-FM 95.1 of Reed City.

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Junior guard Ryan Sabin shot lights out from the start at the Fieldhouse Arena on Monday

night — then the “Blackout” quickly turned into a blow out just minutes into the game.

Sabin scored all 21 of his points in the first half as the Grand Valley

State University men’s basketball team responded to an overtime loss on Saturday by routing Ferris State University 86-62.

“He was on fire,” head coach Ric Wesley said. “He was tremendous. We’re seeing that on a much more regular basis so it doesn’t really surprise us. It’s nothing that we’ve never seen before.”

The native of Byron Center, Mich., singlehandedly outscored FSU 12-4 early on as the Lakers raced out to a 17-4 lead less than six minutes into the game.

He shot 5-of-7 from beyond the arc and 4-of-4 from the free-throw line in the opening stanza, and he also tacked on six rebounds and four assists before it was all said it done.

He and his teammates were more than ready to play against their rival, which had entered the game on an eight-game losing streak.

“I don’t like Ferris,” he said. “My teammates did a phenomenal job passing the ball. All the credit to them, I just catch it and shoot it —

Laker men torch rival Ferris State in ‘Blackout’ gameGV cruises in 24-point win after Sabin buries five first-half threesBY JAY BUSHENSPORTS@LANTHORN.COM

Taking the lead: Grand Valley State University junior Bryan Bollin plows through Ferris State University player Josh Fleming on his way down the court. The Lakers defeated Ferris 86-62 in the Fieldhouse Arena on Monday night, with a blackout theme for the game.

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‘Omne trium perfectum’ is a latin phrase that suggests every set of three is not only complete, but more satisfying than other numbers of things — that everything that comes in threes is perfect.

The Grand Valley State University women’s basketball team wasn’t perfect in a 67-50 Monday night victory against arch-rival Ferris State University, but perhaps the game proved the Romans were onto something.

GVSU’s defense played in accordance to the game’s promotional billing as a “Blackout” and allowed a season-low 50 points.

“One of our biggest truths this season has been when our defense is working for us, then our offense is working for us,” senior Dani Crandall said. “We got a great performance from everybody that was involved in the game, and I think we played our best 40 minutes as a team, top to bottom, that we have this entire season.”

FSU was limited to three 3-pointers on the night in 12 attempts and shot 19-for-54 (35.2 percent) from the field.

GVSU’s offense tallied a collective 16 assists and shot 10-for-20 from 3-point in the game, including six treys in the second half. Three Lakers — freshman guard Taylor Lutz, junior point guard Meryl Cripe and Crandall — each logged 30 minutes or more and combined to dish out 14 assists.

“It’s nice to make shots, but it’s also nice that as we approach the

end of the season, that we know each other well enough to know who’s hot at the right time,” Cripe said. “Kat (LaPrairie) was hot and she knocked down some huge shots. Jill (Steinmetz) hit a couple and she’s been consistently doing that, which is awesome for our team, and when we find those shooters, they’re shooting the ball with great confidence.”

While the lady Lakers remind themselves regularly that Rome was not built in a day, they might also reflect upon what could be their most complete victory of the season and the rule and role of “three” in it.

“There’s a lot of great emotions that go with that rivalry game, and I thought we brought our best effort to it,” head coach Janel Burgess said. “We’ve been striving to put together a full 40 minutes as a team, and this was the closest we’ve come all year to doing just that, which means we’re getting better.”

In three games leading up to Monday’s showdown, GVSU went 0-3 starting with a 73-64 defeat at Northwood University, then a 91-79 defeat at Saginaw Valley State University, followed by a 78-76 last-second loss against Wayne State University.

It was fitting, then, that GVSU put a stop to the three-game skid in the first of three games to be played this week between Feb. 3 and Feb. 8 with a 3-pointer.

LaPrairie scored 12 points on 4-for-8 shooting from 3-point and helped the Lakers out to a 7-2 lead by sinking two triples within the first six minutes and 30 seconds of play.

FSU responded with a 9-2 run to capture the third lead change of the

game, but it would be its last.Steinmetz, a sophomore center

for GVSU, struck from the 3-point to put the Lakers up for good shortly thereafter.

“We had some great ball movement, which allowed us to find open teammates and make each other look and feel better by creating open opportunities,” Burgess said.

The Lakers carried a three-point lead into the locker rooms up 25-22 but connected on back-to-back 3-pointers from LaPrairie and Lutz just 38 seconds into the second half to give GVSU a 31-25 advantage.

More than three minutes later, sophomore guard Bailey Cairnduff, Steinmetz and freshman forward Piper Tucker scored three more 3-pointers in succession — each in the span of one minute — to extend the Laker lead to 42-33.

Then, at the three-minute mark,

Lutz completed a three-point play the hard way by sinking both a contested layup and the ensuing free throw before passing the ball through the lane from her knees, Curly Neal style, to assist freshman forward Kayla Dawson in completing her own old-fashioned three-point play.

Dawson’s free throw put GVSU up 61-43, and the Lakers went on to lead by as many as 19 points before the final whistle blew.

It was the Lakers’ third victory in a row against the Bulldogs.

“Our consistency was much better on both ends of the court,” Burgess said. “We took care of the ball, used tempo to our advantage both when we had open transition opportunities and, more importantly, when we needed to pull it back a little bit to make sure we got the offensive sets

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Grand Valley State University head football coach Matt Mitchell announced Wednesday the signing of 22 players who will be joining his team in the fall of 2014.

More than two-thirds of the student-athletes are from the state of Michigan.

“We always start in Michigan,” Mitchell said. “We look to try to identify prospects in the state and work out from there. Fifteen guys were from

Michigan-based schools, and that’s no coincidence.”

The other seven recruits were from Indiana (4), Illinois (1), Kentucky (1) and Tennessee (1).

GVSU finished its 2013 campaign as the No. 3 team in the final American Football Conference Association poll after finishing with a 12-3 record. The team has finished in the top four 10 times since 2001.

The recruiting class consists of seven linemen,

three defensive backs and three special teams players, two running backs, two tight ends, two wide receivers, two linebackers, and a fullback.

“We were looking for quality over quantity,” he said. “They’re going to be a great fit for us.”

GVSU advanced to the NCAA Division II semifinals in the fall for the eighth time since 2001, but fell to Northwest Missouri State University 27-13.

The Lakers have finished

with 12 or more wins eight times in the last 13 years.

“The majority of these guys will be redshirted and will grow and develop as athletes, students and people who will look to make an impact at Grand Valley,” he said.

The program capped off the 2013 season as the all-time winningest college football team in the nation with a 350-126-3 record (.7338204), better than the University of Notre Dame and the University of Michigan.

GVSU will kick off its 2014 campaign at Azusa Pacific University on Sept. 6.

“We’re excited, we’ve got a great group of guys coming back,” he said.

The Lakers will then have a chance to avenge a pair of 2013 losses in back-to-back games against Ohio Dominican University and Ferris State University. The teams combined to score 111 points in two games against GVSU last season.

GV football team adds 22 in 2014 recruitingFootball recruits new players looking for ‘quality over quantity,’ many from MichiganBY JAY BUSHENSPORTS@LANTHORN.COM

Right on target: Grand Valley State University junior Meryl Cripe (12) dribbles the ball down the court during a recent game.

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Five Lakers nab fall GLIAC awardsFive Grand Valley State University student athletes earned GLIAC Fall 2013 Commissioner’s Awards for having success-ful fall seasons in the playing field and in the classroom.Three of the athletes were national champions, as women’s cross country runners Jessica Janecke and Courtney Brewis were selected along with women’s soccer player Tayler Ward. Men’s cross country runners Spencer Pageau and Alan Peterson were also chosen.Nominees must be either be a junior or senior, have a cumulative GPA of 3.5, and must be either a starter or a key reserve. The conference selects six male and six female athletes.

GVSU teams set for Northern MichiganThe Grand Valley State University basketball teams will look to stay hot from the beyond the arc tonight when they welcome Northern Michigan University for a double header at the Fieldhouse Arena.The GVSU women were impressive in their 67-50 victory over Ferris State University on Monday night when they shot 10-of-20 from long range. They are 6-1 at home this season and hold a 16-4 record against NMU since 2005.Dani Crandall, the team’s only senior, leads with 11.5 points, 5.8 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game this season.The Laker men also shot well in their 86-62 win over FSU by shooting 7-of-13 from 3-point. Eight players scored more than five points in the win.The team defeated NMU 64-41 on Jan. 16.The women’s game is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. while the men’s teams will tip off at 8 p.m.

GVSU adds three to GVSN Radio NetworkGrand Valley State University Athletics announced Monday the addition of three new radio affiliates to the GVSU Foot-ball radio network.GVSU football games will now be heard on radio stations in Newaygo, Oceana, Mecosta, Montcalm, Osceola and Lake counties after the Grand Valley Sports Network partnered with a Big Rapids radio network.The new stations are WBRN-AM 1460 and WBRN-FM 107.7 of Big Rapids and WBRN-FM 95.1 of Reed City.

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they found me in good positions. I had to work for a couple, but I was just feeling it.”

Fifth-year senior point guard Rob Woodson orchestrated an up-tempo offense that seemed to be scoring at will all game long. He finished with 11 points, a game-high six assists and five rebounds, while freshman forward Trevin Alexander chipped in with nine points and a game-high seven boards.

GVSU, which was donning all-black uniforms, led by as many as points 21 points in the first, and its defense had a lot to do with it.

Woodson and sophomore forward Ricky Carbajal led the way as the Lakers forced 15 first-half turnovers and converted them into 20 points. The team finished with 11 steals.

Carbajal, who was serenaded with a birthday song from the GVSU band while shooting free throws in the second half,

finished with 10 points, five boards and five fouls.

“That was pretty funny,” the 21-year-old said. “I tried not to laugh at the free-throw line, but thankfully I made the shots.”

It was a relaxed environment at the Fieldhouse in the one-sided affair, and the Lakers used it to their advantage by playing loose on their way to 39 second-half points. Eight players chipped in with more than five points.

GVSU held onto its fifth-place spot in the overall conference standings with the victory.

“It was a good bounce-back game for us,” Wesley said. “It was good that we were able to come right back and play. Saturday was such a disappointing loss so it was nice to move on and get right back out there.”

The team will tip off against Northern Michigan University tonight at 8 p.m. before finishing its four-game homestand against Michigan Technological University on Saturday at 3 p.m.

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we wanted.”Dawson paced GVSU with 14 points and a

game-high 10 rebounds to record the second double-double of her collegiate career. It was also the fourth double-double by a Laker since Jan. 24.

Lutz added 11 points on 4-of-6 shooting and dished out four assists, Cripe paced GVSU with six assists to go along with eight points, and Crandall added six rebounds and four assists to go with three points.

“We just have to keep pushing for more,” Burgess said. “This was a good game for us in many respects, but we can still be more consistent. We can still play a better 40 minutes of basketball, and that’s what we’ll

look to do in our next two upcoming games.”GVSU (10-9, 8-7 GLIAC) is now 6-1

at home and will host Northern Michigan University (12-7, 9-6 GLIAC) Thursday and Michigan Technological University (15-4, 13-2 GLIAC) Saturday to round out the week.

The Lakers lost to NMU 81-66 and to MTU 76-54 in their trip to the Upper Peninsula in December.

“It’s an opportunity, not for revenge, but for redemption,” Crandall said. “Any team in the GLIAC is capable of beating any other team in the GLIAC by almost any margin on any given night — that’s been proven this season, but the way we’ve been playing the last couple games, if we keep this ball rolling, then I think the next couple games and the rest of the season will take care of itself as far as wins and losses go.”

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Prepare to step aside, legendary Lakers of long range, this sharpshooter is making his way up the ranks in a hurry.

Grand Valley State University shooting guard Ryan Sabin is proving to be an elite scorer in his junior season and is currently two 3-pointers away from cracking the top-10 list of career triples made in GVSU history with 129.

Head coach Ric Wesley said Sabin is the type of player to build a team around.

“As a coach, you wish you had a whole team of him,” Wesley said. “He’s a great kid, he’s a phenomenal student and he comes from a great family. He puts in the time in the offseason, he’s in the gym constantly, he takes great care of his body, he gets his rest, his diet is good — he gives himself every opportunity to be successful.”

Sabin is on pace to finish with the second-most 3-pointers in school history, and that pace appears to be trending upward.

His season-by-season totals have been increasing each year — from 33 to 44 to 52 — and he still has at least seven more games to play in 2014. He has made .389 percent of his career attempts from 3-point land

“It’s not by accident — he’s the hardest worker on the team,” fifth-year senior point guard Rob Woodson said. “The biggest change this year is him being more aggressive. He could always score, but in the past years he wasn’t as aggressive.

“It’s his opportunity this year, and our team needs him to score. He’s our go-to guy and his confidence is sky high.”

Sabin has certainly been the go-to guy this season, and he’s also been the work horse. His 36.4 minutes per game rank as the second-most in the GLIAC.

The native of Byron Center, Mich. also leads the Lakers in points, field goals attempted, field goals made, 3-pointers

attempted, 3-pointers made and free-throw percentage this season.

“Experience is big,” he said. “After the first year you know what to expect and you know how the conference is. The more you do things, the more comfortable you are. I don’t like to be complacent, I just want to be the best I can be as a player no matter what that is. I don’t believe I’ve hit that yet.”

He has been especially impressive in the team’s last five contests, and has averaged 20.6 points per game during that stretch. He’s also been on fire from beyond the arc by shooting 17-of-38 (.447 percent) in those games.

He has scored 20 or more points six times this season and has scored in double figures 16 times in 19 games.

Woodson, Sabin’s roommate, has witnessed the game-by-game dedication all season long.

“When I go in early to shoot, Sabin’s already there,” he said. “He comes in every day with the right mindset, and he’s just trying to get better and better. I could see him being one of the best in the conference.”

GVSU (14-5, 10-5 GLIAC) will need Sabin to be at his best down the stretch in order to compete for the top spot in the conference. If he continues to improve, he could end up near the top of the record books, as well.

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On a roll: Ryan Sabin goes up for a shot during the Lakers’ game against Wayne State University. Sabin is two 3-pointers away from breaking the top-10 list of shooters.

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Aaron Marken swam just one year at Milan High School

and wasn’t sure what to expect when he tried out for the Grand Valley State University swimming team.

Marken, now a 22-year-old senior, certainly didn’t expect to break four school records and qualify for nationals in all four of his seasons as a Laker.

“That was the crazy thing for me,” he said. “The coaching staff that we have here at Grand Valley is great. I barely made it, and then one semester of coaching later I got way better.”

It didn’t take long for the coaching staff to turn an inexperienced swimmer into one of the fastest breaststrokers in school history.

He progressively got better and better as the years passed and now holds the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke records with times of 54.65 and 2:01.15. He is also a part of the record-holding 200- and 400-yard medley relay teams.

“They’ve done a great job training me and really developing me into something I never expected to be,” he said.

His experience at GVSU is more than just record-breaking performances.

Marken said he cherishes the entire experience and particularly the friendships

that have been created since joining the team.

“The bond you create with them is just something special,” he said. “You spend so much time with them every day, so you definitely build friends by being on the team.”

Head coach Andy Boyce applauded Marken on his ability to improve through the years.

“Each year he has continued to drop time,” Boyce said. “He broke his first record in his sophomore year, then beat it his junior year. We’re

hoping to see if he can break it again his senior year.”

B o y c e said Marken pays extreme attention to detail on his strokes, which really benefits his times in the water.

It’s hard to argue with the results.

“He does a phenomenal kick in the breaststroke,” Boyce said. “He’s very focused on what he needs to do in his technique.”

Assistant coach Justin Vasquez said work outside of practice has given Marken an advantage.

“His swimming IQ is definitely a strength considering he’s only been swimming for five years,” Vasquez said. “He’s been watching a lot of video of some of the best breaststrokers in the country.

“We expect him to be one of the best breaststrokers in the nation.”

Marken’s primary focus is on the GLIAC Championships, which are scheduled to take place next week, but he will also be competing at the NCAA Division II National Championships in March.

He finished 15th at nationals in 2013 in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 55.63 and 20th in the 200-yard by touching in 2:03.25.

He also swam a leg on the 200-yard medley team, which placed seventh with a time of 1:28.82, and on the 400-yard team, which finished in ninth place with a time of 3:18.33.

“We’re hopeful he can get into the top eight this year,” Boyce said. “It’s an extremely deep field at nationals. We’re really excited to see what he can do.”

Marken said this year’s squad has the potential to do some great things in the postseason — especially in the GLIAC Championships.

He said he hopes to win his individual events in the breaststroke at the conference meet after placing second in both the 100- and 200-yard events a year ago.

“The senior class has never won the conference meet before,” he said. “As a team, we’re really focused on winning conference.”

The medley relay teams are expected to be the favorites again this season after placing first in both the 200- and 400-medley relays in 2013.

The GLIAC Championships are set to begin on Feb. 12 in Geneva, Ohio.

‘Try-out’ makes his mark for GVNovice morphs into record-breaking breaststroker for LakersBY LUCAS RAINSLRAINS@LANTHORN.COM

Tendo Lukwago of the Grand Valley State University men’s track

and field team has big plans before he graduates in April.

Lukwago, a senior leader and current triple jump record holder at GVSU, said he believes that his team’s odds of capturing an NCAA Division II National Championship are just as good as any team’s in the country.

“My proudest moment at Grand Valley will be the National Championship that we won in 2014,” he said. “The fact that every guy on our team is at practice each and every day with the mentality to do whatever it takes to accomplish our goals is what’s driving this team.”

His chances of winning at the individual level don’t look bad, either.

He said he looks to improve on his school record numbers in the triple jump, which may be good enough for a conference championship or two.

“Tendo is a very talented kid,” head coach Jerry Baltes said. “He adjusted to the learning curve extremely well. It’s his versatility that pushes him to the next level. We are all expecting great things for him this year.”

Lukwago’s work ethic developed well before he put on a Laker uniform.

He tore his hamstring in his senior season at Harrison High School in Farmington Hills, Mich., which was a big setback for the long jumper.

“It was difficult for me to bounce back from,” he said. “It not only deeply impacted my high school career but also the beginning of my career here at Grand Valley. I just kept believing in myself; I have to credit that and the tremendous effort from my coaches for where

I am today.”Lukwago jumped onto

the scene his freshman year with a fifth-place finish in the long jump at the GLIAC Indoor Championships. He also notched an eighth-place finish in the triple jump, as well, despite working through an injury-riddled season.

It didn’t take long for athletes and coaches to recognize his versatility.

“When Tendo came in as a freshman, he really fit the mold well for what we want our jumpers to be able to do physically,” assistant coach Steve Jones said. “He has been as consistent as it gets from the time he got here.”

Lukwago eventually soared to new heights in his sophomore season with a trio of top-five finishes at the GLIAC Championships. He captured a fifth-place finish in the long jump in the indoor season with a jump of 6.72 meters and followed that up in the spring at the GLIAC Outdoor Championships.

He placed second with a long jump of 7.07 meters and fifth in the triple jump by clearing 14.25 meters.

“It was one of my earlier goals to hit 14 meters in triple jump,” he said. “Once I accomplished that, it gave me confidence to keep on improving and to keep reaching new lengths. I really have to attribute that to the coaches. They breed success on a consistent basis.”

Lukwago cemented his name in the Laker record books in his junior season when he set both school records in the triple jump by clearing distances of 14.79 meters (indoor record) and 14.56 meters (outdoor record).

However, one of his primary goals before graduation is preparing the underclassmen to break his records in the next few years.

“I want the freshmen, sophomores, to learn from what I have been able to do at Grand Valley,” he said. “If someone is able to beat my records soon after I have graduated, then I know that I have accomplished what I set out to do, which is not only make myself a better athlete, but also the guys around me better as well.”

Lukwago triple jumps into Laker record booksSenior hopes for Division II track and field title in 2014 after strong finishes in 2013BY TATE BAKERTBAKER@LANTHORN.COM

Shifting dirt: Senior jumper Tendo Lukwago lands in the sand during an outdoor meet last season. Lukwago has consistently placed high in his previous three seasons in the long jump and the triple jump, and he said he hopes this season to be able to lead his underclassmen teammates to greater success.

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