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The site plan for the expansion and renovation of Kleiner Commons was approved by the Grand Valley State University Board of Trustees during its meeting on Friday.

James Moyer, associate vice president for Facilities Planning, said his offices originally brought the plan before the board back in November. At this meeting, the board approved the architect and construction manager, as well as a $7.5 million budget for the proj-

ect. The University General Fund and proceeds from Aramark will both contribute to the funding.

“We have attempted to make the most of university land,” Moyer said.

He proposed a construction site plan that will add 18,000 square feet to the dining facility. A second floor will be added that will include twice as many food venues, 5 percent more seating, additional study space for stu-dents, and room for faculty and administrative support offices.

The project will be a challenge, but Moyer said the expansion should help reduce some of the boredom many students feel with the food currently served at Kleiner.

“The intent with this project is to attack something known as ‘menu fatigue,’” Moyer said. “It’s when students begin to get tired of the food that’s made available to them.”

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Expanding food optionsKleiner renovation plans finalized, will add more seating and study space

Renovation: The Board of Trustees has accepted the plans for expanding Kleiner Commons, with construction beginning this month.

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Next year some newsstands at Grand Valley State University may look a little empty. The Stu-dent Senate’s Finance Committee proposed its 2014-2015 budget plan at Thursday’s meeting, and while some parts of the budget haven’t changed much, others like “USA Today” were cut com-pletely.

“The only real de-crease (in the budget) is ’USA Today,’” said Samantha Conrad, vice president of the finance committee. “We are taking this out because we want to serve a greater number of students with this money. Only 100 students can get a copy and we want to be able to reach more.”

During the 2012-2013 school year, $15,000 was spent on the daily newspaper. The budget was cut to $7,500 in the 2013-2014 budget.

Conrad said there are no cur-rent plans to bring another na-tional newspaper to campus, the justification being that the majority of students have smart phones that they can use to easily find the news.

The Academic and Profession-al Council may also see a cut next year from $27,000 to $20,000.

“(The council) is going down because people aren’t using the money as efficiently as they could be,” Conrad said.

Right now, this is the only council that may see a decrease in funding. The money was redis-tributed for use by other councils such as the service and advocacy budget, which may jump from $35,000 to $50,000. The almost

43 percent increase is the largest boost in the budget.

“There’s been a lot of good service op-portunities, and the clubs have been doing really great things,” Conrad said.

The Presidents’ Ball and the Travel Fund budgets may also be seeing an in-crease. The Travel

Fund, used for student organiza-tions that seek to take trips off campus, had a very high demand last year and ran out of funding by December. It could see an in-crease of $10,000 for a total of $60,000.

The Presidents’ Ball, because of the success of the event, may be receiving an extra $7,000 next year, which would give it a bud-get of $40,000.

The senate budget is written by the finance committee and voted on by the entire Student Senate. However, it is the Student Life Fund Allocation Board that

decides how much funding the senate will receive.

The board was created in Jan-uary 2013 to separate the funding for undergraduate and graduate students.

Student Senate President Ri-cardo Benavidez said that with the allocation board, graduate students receive funding directly from the Student Life Fund rath-er than taking a portion of the funding Student Senate gets.

In addition, Benavidez said if Student Senate or the Gradu-ate Student Association request more money, it won’t directly af-fect the other organization. In-stead, the university will spend more on student life in order to make up the costs.

Having the Student Life Fund Allocation Board helped ease the process of creating the budget in some ways, Conrad said, though it is still a lengthy process to cre-ate the budget.

“I talk to different administra-tors on campus to see how the funds are being allocated around campus, and based off of my knowledge and previous years, I draft the budget,” Conrad said.

She doesn’t make the bud-get entirely on her own though. There are seven other senators on the Finance Committee that help with the planning.

Senator Logan Wyatt chairs the Special Interest Committee

The Executive Committee of the Senate voted Friday to rec-ommend policy changes to the University Academic Senate re-garding Grand Valley State Uni-versity’s affiliate faculty.

At GVSU there are currently 161 affiliate faculty members. However, some have job descrip-tions that more closely resemble tenure track faculty.

“We’ve looked at some of the workloads these people have, and they are almost exactly like full-time faculty,” said Marie McKendall, chair of the Facul-ty Personnel Policy Committee. “We just don’t think that is ap-propriate.”

McKendall listed the Seidman College of Business as an ex-ample. The unit has eight affiliates who are required to teach 12 credit hours per semester and make one intellectual con-tribution per year. Sometimes service at the unit or university level is also required.

“Seidman is the only col-lege that requires affiliates to do scholarship, and it is not neces-sary,” McKendall said. “There’s no reason to require teaching, service and research of an affili-ate, and that’s what we’re doing right now.”

In addition, about 46 percent

of affiliates at GVSU teach at least five different classes. Some teach 400-level and graduate classes. However, current language in the administrative manual suggests that they “teach a limited range of courses.”

“All of that is within our power to stop,” said Provost Gayle Da-vis. “We are very close to mak-ing an ‘untenurable,’ identical job description, and I think it’s dangerous. I would rather us say let’s hire tenure track faculty for the upper division classes and re-search, and keep affiliates in their areas of expertise where many of them are truly wonderful teach-

ers. Let’s not try to blend these two dif-ferent categories.”

The ECS recom-mends that most af-filiate faculty are not expected to partici-pate in curriculum development, uni-versity service or scholarship activity beyond staying cur-rent in their field as a condition of employ-

ment.The goal is to continue to al-

low affiliates to take on service or scholarship roles in place of teaching, but not to require them to do all three.

The ECS also recommends that unit heads be required to write a job description, their

Changes in store for affiliate facultyBudgeting seasonECS recommends redefining faculty requirements

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Thefts have tripled this year at the University Bookstore on Grand Valley State University’s Allendale Campus. So far, there have been 30 reported incidents

of shoplifting since August.Last year, GVSU report-

ed 10 incidents of shoplift-ing at the Allendale UBS. This year, there were 22 re-ported cases during the fall 2013 semester and eight incidents since the begin-

ning of the winter 2014 se-mester. Stolen items range from apparel to small elec-tronics.

Though the number of incidents has increased drastically since last year, there may not be a signifi-

cant change in the amount of people stealing, but rather the amount of peo-ple getting caught in the act, said UBS manager Jer-rod Nickels.

The UBS has been rely-ing more on a surveillance

system in the store, which is often used to catch sus-pects.

“Our primary goal in ad-dressing theft is deterrence rather than apprehension,” Nickels said. “We try to focus on the dual goals of

providing good customer service and preventing shoplifting. However, no matter how much preven-tion we try to ensure, shop-lifting incidents do occur.”

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Kleiner Commons, lo-cated on north campus, is sit-ting in the midst of freshman housing units. Moyer said his offices created the plan in a way that ensures that the renovation does not detract from the surroundings.

“The project is very, very similar to the housing around it,” he said. “It will fit into the neighborhood, itself.”

In addition, the expansion will have sidewalks surround-ing the building for service drives and for students to

have access into the build-ing from multiple directions. Moyer said the plan is to have south, west and east entranc-es, and the east door will have access to the second floor.

He added that his of-fices developed the plan so that certain visual features of the building, such as the plaza to the south, will re-main in place.

“We tried to maintain as much of the good structure as possible with the design, itself,” he said.

Construction is expected to begin later this month and is scheduled to be completed in time for the new school year in August.

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Latino Film Series to feature free movie night in MIPThe Latin American Studies program and Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies will be hosting the Latino Film Series in the Multi-Purpose Room of the Mary Idema Pew Library at 8 p.m. tonight. The 2008 feature film “Sleep Deal-er,” also known as “Traficante de Suenos,” will be played in Spanish with English subtitles. Directed by Alex Rivera, the film won an International Amnesty Award. For more infor-mation, email areastudies@gvsu.edu.

Vietnam veterans share their storiesGrand Valley State University’s Veterans History Project will host the eighth session of the “My Year in Vietnam” pre-sentations tomorrow at 7 p.m. Three Vietnam veterans will share their experiences at the Loosemore auditorium on the Pew Campus. The presentation, Odd Job Men, will have sto-ries from Jim Dykstra, Rex Greenawalt and David Guevara. Admission is free and open to the public.

Arts at Noon Series presents the Perugino String QuartetThe Perugino String Quartet will be playing a free concert for the Grand Valley State University community. The group will play Wednesday at noon in the Cook-Dewitt Center. Members of the quartet are violinists Gregory Maytan and Eric Tanner, violist Barbara Corbato and cellist Stacey Bos-man Tanner. The group will play Mendelssohn Quartet op 80 along with two movements for string quartet by Aaron Copland.

expectations and the pro-cess of reviews for affiliates. Unit heads would also have to provide affiliates written feedback about their per-formance.

In addition to defining an affiliate’s role at the uni-versity, the ECS discussed other discrepancies in the policy.

The Community and Public Service unit does not have voting rights for its af-filiate faculty members. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences only allows voting rights to two of its 20 de-partments: movement sci-ence and anthropology.

“We don’t know why those discrepancies arose, and we’re having a hard time saying which one is correct or better,” McKendall said.

With 99 affiliates, CLAS has the largest number of affiliate faculty members. The unit is also the only one that requires a 15-hour credit load, McKendall said.

The ECS recommends that the deans review the voting rights policy to make sure affiliates are being fair-ly represented.

The policy changes will be sent to the University Academic Senate for fur-ther review at its meeting on Feb. 28. Affiliate faculty policies can be found in chapter 4, section 3 in the administrative manual.

The staff is also on the look-out for suspicious behavior, Nickels said. Staff members have undergone training to detect and verify occurrences of shoplifting.

“Each incident is different, so a lot of our training comes with experience and we tend to learn from each new incident,” he said.

The vast majority of subjects involved in these cases are GVSU students, and those identified are being prosecuted for theft.

“Students need to know that the Grand Valley Police Depart-ment investigates all of these incidents reported, and we have a very high percentage of identi-fying subjects involved in these cases,” said Capt. Brandon De-haan, assistant director of DPS. “This is not a victimless crime, and someone has to pay for this kind of theft.”

The increasing rate of theft is concerning to campus officials, especially since the university has a relatively low rate of crime on campus, DeHaan said.

Depending on the retail value of the stolen items, individu-als can receive various charges ranging from a misdemeanor to a felony.

“Often after we apprehend a shoplifter, he or she will at-tempt to plead that this was the first time and that the decision to steal was a temporary lapse in judgment,” Nickels said. “As shoplifters begin to understand that they have to deal with the court as well as the campus ju-dicial system, they often display regret and ask for leniency.”

Students caught shoplift-ing usually go through both the university judiciary system and the Ottawa County Prosecutor’s Office.

“In my mind, it just isn’t worth the hassle, the stigma or the ex-pense to shoplift and risk being caught,” Nickels said. “I want to encourage students to use com-mon sense. If you resist the temp-tation to steal in the first place, you can save yourself a lot of trouble.”

and said his role was to ensure that a reasonable amount was given to each committee.

“My role as a senator was to make sure that all the funding needs of the university were met and that budgeting was fair and equal between differ-ent councils,” Wyatt said.

The budget will be up for discussion at the next two Student Senate meet-ings, and senators will take a final vote on Feb.

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get less (fund-ing) than what we’re wanting to get, it won’t affect any of the council’s budgets or any of the bud-gets,” she said. “We’ll just take it straight from reserve. Nothing would change if we don’t get the money that we want.”

The reserve fund is the money left over after

funding is distributed to its respective councils. Re-serves are used for “big ticket” items such as the Neil De-Grasse Tyson visit in fall 2013.

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Credit and debit cards are how many people make their purchases, both big and small. Many people would rather swipe a card at the checkout counter than count cash. These cards offer unmatched con-venience and can help keep receipts organized and pur-chases accountable with minimal effort.

But credit cards and debit cards are not perfect. One of the biggest disad-vantages to using cards to make all purchases is the tendency to lose track of your spending. When pay-ing with cash, consumers can visibly see the money leaving their pockets and know when that money has run out. Paying by card is an abstract concept that doesn’t become real until bills are received or bank statements are reviewed.

Although debit and credit cards are frequent-ly used interchangeably,

there are times when one is preferable over the other. Here’s how to decide which card to use.

* Need to build credit? Use a credit card if you are trying to establish a positive credit history. However, you must pay your bill in a time-ly fashion, and it helps to pay the entire balance each and every billing cycle to develop a good credit score.

* Don’t want a large monthly bill? Debit cards withdraw money directly from your account at the moment the transaction occurs. Much like spending with cash, debit cards let users know when they have run out of cash, as cards will be denied if the trans-action is not approved. If you do not want to pay a large bill at the end of the month, debit cards are the better choice.

* Prefer greater securi-ty? Great strides have been made to thwart would-be

identity thieves and keep financial data safe. How-ever, as was evidenced by the major data breach in Target’s payment system in late 2013, when millions of credit and debit card numbers and PIN codes were hacked, no system is entirely foolproof. Credit cards offer added secu-rity because if fraudulent purchases are made, your credit card account will be quickly frozen and you will not be held accountable. When using debit cards, you are spending your own money up front. Fraudu-lent purchases may be fixed over time, but it could leave a deficit in your account until matters are resolved.

* Want to minimize fees? Debit cards do not charge interest or mini-mum charge penalties. There’s no need to worry about being late for a pay-ment and getting charged a fee, and causing your

balance to skyrocket. Gas stations and other retailers that may charge more per purchase for using credit cards will treat debit cards like cash and offer the same discounts.

* Enjoy perks? Credit card companies will sell you their card over anoth-er based on various perks. In addition to competitive interest rates, perks may include being able to accu-mulate travel points, cash-back dollar amounts, ad-vanced ticketing offers for shows and sporting events, discounts and coupons for certain retailers, and many other benefits.

More and more consum-ers are relying largely on credit cards and debit cards to make their purchases. Each type of card has its benefits and disadvantages, so consumers must weigh their options to determine which type of card works best for them.

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Helping hands: Students Kim Sloboda and Chad Mersino sort through greeting cards in the mini mart at the Clark Retirement Community.

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Residents at the Clark Retire-ment Community in Grand Rapids were excited for the grand open-ing of their remodeled mini-mart on Saturday. The restoration work was done courtesy of Grand Valley State University stu-dents volunteering on an overnight trip with the Community Ser-vice Learning Center.

“The Overnight Service Trip seemed like a great opportuni-ty to connect students to this organization and increase aware-ness about the ways that we can and should give back to this popu-lation in our community,” said Jeff Mutch, CSLC coordinator.

Wade Burge, Clark Retirement Community volunteer coordinator, said that without the help of volun-teers, it would have taken residents several weeks to complete the same

tasks. Some of those tasks included building new shelves, stocking shelves in the store with new products that the residents requested, and rearrang-ing the store so it was less cluttered.

“It’s so much more open now,” Burge said. “This gives those residents who can’t go out some new options.

I know they’ll really ap-preciate it.”

The night before volunteering at Clark Retirement Commu-nity, GVSU students got together to deco-rate bags for the Kids’ Food Basket pro-gram, a nonprofit or-ganization that helps hungry children in the Grand Rapids area. The volunteers

then stayed the night at First Park Congregational Church.

“It gives them the opportunity to come together, bond as a group and get to connect at a deeper lev-el,” said Laura Murnen, CSLC co-ordinator of the trip.

In the morning, the group helped the church set up a break-fast for members of the church community. They then spent the afternoon at the retirement com-munity working in the store and delivering Yellow Pages to the doorsteps of the senior citizens.

“The idea behind the overnight service trip is to provide a variety of opportunities to engage in service and address different community needs,” Mutch said. “Service trips like this also allow students to interact with seniors, which can be extremely re-warding for both parties.”

Throughout the year, the CSLC sponsors three overnight service trips, each focusing on a different issue. While any student can go on these trips, the first event was geared toward first-year students. On that particular trip, volunteers worked with Feeding America West Michigan to address issues of food insecurity in the region.

The last trip of the school year will occur on the weekend of March 21. Registration for the event will open later this month.

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Students walking through the doors of the Kirkhof Center at Grand Valley State University were met with a different sight on Friday. The usual group of students walking to class had been replaced by a flash mob.

At first glance, what appeared to many students as a spontaneous dance routine ended up delivering a powerful message.

“I just wanted to know what was going on. Out of nowhere I see a bunch of people just dancing around, so naturally I had to stop and see what was happening,” said GVSU student Domenic Curtis. “I saw a bunch of signs that said things like, ‘consent is sexy’ along with other statistics, and it became clear they were spreading a message about preventing rape and trying to get awareness out there. It was a really cool idea. It definitely got people’s attention.”

What students encountered was West Michigan Rises, an event that gathered community members and organizations together to raise aware-ness about sexual violence.

The campaign is a portion of the global movement called One Billion Rising. It’s a universal call to women survivors of sexual violence to break their silence, share their stories and raise awareness about the prevalence of domestic violence through dance, art and other forms of self-expression.

The West Michigan Rises team was comprised of the Center for Women in Transition, GVSU’s Eyes Wide Open, the Women’s Center, the Kent County Health Department and the YWCA West Central Michigan, among others.

“We want to interrupt business going on as usual to get the word out there,” said Abby Johnson, one of the event’s organizers. “People are here on campus. They’re going to grab a bite to eat, they’re walking to class, and we want to be out there for them to see. We need to be loud. We need to be out there and we need to be fierce in telling people that this happens here. We can’t be quiet. We’re celebrating survivors and celebrating people that are out there trying to make the world a better place.”

After three performances — two

in the Kirkhof Center and another at the Connection — Lesley Coghill, the prevention coordinator at the Center for Women in Transition, was happy to see it finally all come together.

“I think it was really amazing to see the collaboration among all the different sponsors, organizations and students that put it on. It was very suc-cessful because so many community members found it to be so important to be here,” Coghill said. “It felt so good and so empowering to be sur-rounded by everyone in this unity of dancing and calling for action in this same way.”

More than just attracting attention, the dancing was used to capitalize on the effects it has for those watching as well as those participating.

“Dancing is such an uplifting and spiritually celebrating type of move-ment,” said Heather Winia, a move-ment science adjunct. “There’s nega-tivity and there’s violence around the world, but also here on Grand Val-ley’s campus. The more we can bring awareness to it, the more we can talk about it and the more we can help to stop it.”

This week, students at Grand Valley State University will have the chance to thank donors and ask university officials ques-tions about funding. The annual event, GVS(You) Week, will run from Feb. 17 through Feb. 22.

In 2013, about 15,900 stu-dents, faculty, staff, alumni, community members, corpora-tions and foundations donated to GVSU. Private donations to-taled $10.3 million, according to the 2013 Annual Re-port on Giving.

“Grand Valley was founded on philan-thropy in the Grand Rapids community, and that tradition of philanthropy is some-thing I hope to see students carry for-ward into the future,” said Liz Kolberg, co-ordinator of student philanthropy. “It is a great way to help ensure the services and opportunities you enjoy today will be possible for students tomorrow.”

GVS(You) week is sponsored by the Future Alumni Asso-ciation, a chapter of the GVSU Alumni Association.

“The goal of the week is to educate students about where their tuition dollars are going,” said Emma Lazzar, a senior at GVSU and president of the Fu-ture Alumni Association. “Many don’t understand that they aren’t paying for a professor to be here. Tuition goes to the general run-ning of the university, and it doesn’t last the whole year. We have to have private donations.”

According to the 2013-2014 Accountability Report, first-time student annual tuition is $10,454. Revenue from tuition along with net fees made up 51.1 percent of GVSU’s total revenue

in 2013.State appropriations made up

13 percent of the total revenue with $2,588 per student. The remaining revenue came from grants, contracts, self-support-ing enterprises, investment in-come, gifts, capital grants and additions to endowment.

GVSU reported Friday that the endowment fund reached an all-time high of $98.5 million as of Dec. 31, 2013.

Lazzar said GVSU(You) Week isn’t just about monetary dona-

tions, though.“The week shows

students how they can be a part of running our university,” she said. “Students don’t have $5,000 to throw at a building or a proj-ect, but you can give back with your skills that you’ve gained, by volunteering, or by showing support for your fellow students.”

The Future Alumni Associa-tion will have tables set up in the Kirkhof Center on Wednesday for students to sign thank-you cards to donors. A table will be set up for students downtown on Thursday in the atrium of the De-Vos Center.

Each day, members of the as-sociation will be available at the tables from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. for students to ask questions about funding and donors. In addition, the group is hosting a hot chocolate social tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. by the clock tower.

“I really want students to un-derstand the importance of being a Laker for a Lifetime,” Lazzar said. “That doesn’t necessarily mean donating all your money, but to be invested in something bigger than yourself. If Grand Valley gave you something then why not donate a little bit of yourself back to Grand Valley?”

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In a recent New York Times column titled “Professors, We Need You!,” Nicholas Kristof laments the fact that academics seem to have little real effect on the public’s understanding of the most significant issues of our time, such as the recent economic crisis and the chang-ing politics of international relations. Kristof considers this

sad fact ironic for an obvious reason: academics commit their lives to the study of some of the most important areas of human concern, but very rarely attempt to speak or write about their insights in a man-ner intelligible to much of the general public. Kristof, for this reason, calls for more academ-ics and professors to be “public intellectuals,” or people whose ideas have some positive effect on the social conversation.

Kristof ’s point very clearly applies to college campuses, where professors logically ought to speak openly and routinely about issues that af-fect not just them but students, administrators and the public. But commonly this does not

seem to occur. Instead, to the detriment of many students, professors often seem clois-tered in their offices, content to write and speak about their arcane and isolated fields of study without relating their work to anything that goes on at the university and in the wide world.

For these reasons, many students who were in some way involved in recent campus-wide debates—such as those concerning university policies about donors and bias incidents—were heartened and exhilarated by the ways in which their professors gave their input, both in the classroom and in the pages of the Lanthorn. Students

were exhilarated not because professors simply parroted their views (judging from the diversity of opinion in the student body and the faculty, this could never have been so); instead, they were exhilarated because professors, by entering the campus-wide debate, af-firmed both the importance of the issues students raised and the moral and social impera-tive of addressing them with intelligence and equanimity. Not only that, professors exem-plified how to apply scholar-ship and academic knowledge to contribute to debates of immediate importance. This is precisely the variety of “public intellectualism” that Kristof desires for the world.

The main question: how is this call for professors to contribute more often and with greater vigor to campus-wide debates at all necessary for GVSU? The reason, I believe, is that such engagement by professors is not merely beneficial to, but is an essential aspect of, the kind of education GVSU purports to provide. It is a premise of our university that higher education ought to engage social issues at every level—campus-wide, regional, national, international. In fact, GVSU includes in its mission statement the goal of educat-ing students to “shape their societies.” But how can such a practice be taught? Only outside the classroom, only in

the realm where ideas are in all ways weighed, measured and scrutinized by the public can professors model the kind of applied-scholarship that is essential to the very reason for being of the university. This may at times be a painful, even a doomed effort, but it is critical to teaching students how to ap-ply their knowledge to the most pressing issues of their day. In this way, such an education can prove that universities serve a function greater than mere “job preparation” for students: they are, instead, the best means by which students can learn to contribute to public debates that determine, in a very real and immediate sense, the growth and direction of society.

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Encouraging opinions when professors speak up

DO YOU THINK THEFT IS A PROBLEM AMONG STUDENTS AT GVSU?

“Compared to other universi-ties I don’t think so. Theft is something that occurs in any area, but GVSU doesn’t seem like a hot spot for that sort of activity”

GAVINO AQUILAR JuniorBiomedical Sciences Richland, Mich.

“I’m from the suburbs in Chi-cago and I would say Grand Valley does not have a theft problem. Where I live, a lot more stuff gets stolen even outside Chicago.”

MICHAEL CHRISTENSEN FreshmanComputer Science Elmhurst, Ill.

“Probably, but I haven’t seen it. I can leave my laptop to save my table at Fresh, and it’s always there.”

ZACH ELLSWORTH SeniorSupply Chain Management Hartland, Mich.

“I would assume that at all campuses there is a certain level of theft that goes on, but at GVSU I feel that there is very little theft in comparison.”

PAYTON NOTHDURFT FreshmanNursing Berkley, Mich.

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The University Bookstore has reported 30 instances of shoplift-ing since August 2013, with stolen items ranging from apparel to small electronics. This number is up from from last year, with only 10 instances reported.

Echoing the words of UBS man-ager Jerrod Nickels in Hannah Lentz’s article “GVPD worried about growing trend,” the Lanthorn wants to encour-age students to use common sense and obey the law. We are no longer 4 year olds eating dirt. We are soon to be graduates entering the real world. Grow up, and realize that your actions have repercussions.

As children, we are taught to hold our parents’ hands when we cross the road. We are told to wipe our noses, wash our hands and share our toys. Don’t dress up the dog and definitely don’t color on the walls. Finally, don’t take what is not yours.

After at least 18 years of this, so-ciety considers us adults. Adults who

understand the rules and regulations of the world we live in. We gradu-ate high school and we move on to college. We pay our bills, go to work and try to keep the fridge filled with food. So we’re adults right? Well, not quite yet. Being an adult goes hand in hand with being mature. Being mature means having respect for yourself and your peers.

So where does shoplifting fit into the picture of adulthood? It doesn’t. Students need to take responsibility for their actions.

Students also need to take responsi-bility for their own possessions. Theft isn’t limited to the bookstore. It hap-pens in dorms, the library and in class. Lock your doors, don’t leave things unattended and be aware of your sur-roundings.

However, the fact that individuals on our campus need to be reminded of the lessons they were taught while they were still debating whether Play-Doh was a good snack food is

unacceptable. All of the members of the GVSU community work hard to ensure that each and every student has the best possible circumstances surrounding them so that they may succeed in their education.

Having to focus attention on petty and such insignificant matters like shoplifting takes energy away from the important things - like making sure that the people actually mature enough to call themselves college students are excelling.

The Grand Valley State University campus should be a place where stu-dents and other community mem-bers feel safe to express their views and grow as individuals. Growing as individual adults - not immature children that can’t keep their hands to themselves when they see things that are not their own. That’s what being an adult comes down to. Claim responsi-bility for your actions, and know that your actions have consequences that reach further than your pockets.

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GROWING UPTheft on campus brings up the question of how to conduct oneself on campus. We would like to encourage students to remember the lessons they were taught as kids.

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A while back—say, around Thanksgiving or so—I was doing some of that heady, introspective thinking I tend to do when life’s stresses put me in danger of a meltdown. And I started counting my bless-ings, so to speak. I had a ma-jor epiphany that completely shifted the gears of the way I look at everything: it’s not that bad. Simple as that.

What do I mean? I’ll use the process of negation to show you: I don’t have a crippling disability, disease, disorder or anything that can’t be easily treated. So I get some allergy attacks every now and then, where I use an entire box of tissues

in one go. It could be worse.I don’t have a kid to take

care of, or a parent, or a rela-tive, or anyone else depend-ing on me for anything. I may not necessarily be self-sufficient, but I’ve got no dependants. I don’t have a girlfriend, so it’s not like she’s distracting me from finishing my final semester here.

I’ve got no one hound-ing me about my money. Yet. I’ll be having to pay off student loans, but those are straightforward—it’s not like I’ve got five or more credit cards sucking me dry. Gas may be expensive, but $20 is enough for about a week of back-and-forth between GV and my apartment.

This sort of thinking picked me up for a while, but recently I pushed myself a bit too hard at the gym and to make things worse, the only thing I’d eaten that day was a pack of zebra cakes. Bad, bad idea. It depressed me for about a day, and I really beat myself

up. I mean seriously, telling myself things like “no won-der you’re so out of shape you disgusting wuss,” things that I would backhand other people for if they said them to me.

But then I remembered this past realization of mine: it’s not that bad. I just had an off-day. I learned a lesson the hard way: you need real food if you’re going to be active, not processed deli-cious frosted cream-filled garbage. I’m slowly starting to get off of my own back about my physique and ap-pearance, reminding myself that I’m not a Sim who can lift weights for four hours straight and get buff within a day or two, that I’m a work-in-progress and that every workout gets me closer to what I want. I’ve just got to learn my limits. I’m nowhere near achieving the physical fitness goals I’m aiming for. But at least I have something to strive for!

What do I want you to take away from this thing

you just read? Think about all the annoyances, the er-rands, and the little things in your life. Then compare them to the big things—the major issues. Do you really need a bunch of little annoy-ances nipping away at your heels while you try to deal with the monstrous things? Look around you, at other people—at the problems in their lives they choose to share with you. Are your problems really that bad compared to theirs?

I asked myself that, and the answer was “no.” I don’t have ulcerative colitis or VD or a newborn baby or a weight problem or an never-pleased-with-my-work boss or piles of bills to pay or gray hair or a “breaks down every other day” car… There’s a whole world of bad things out there that are not a part of my life, and with that knowledge in mind I can grab a second cup of coffee and think “it’s not that bad.”

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Go abroad: Judy Torres, who has been volunteering for the Peace Corps since 2006, shares her experiences with a group of Grand Valley State University students. Torres spent two years in the Dominican Republic and told students about her experiences. While joining can be very rewarding, the speakers said there are difficulties to be faced too.

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To many, it seems like a thing out of another time, a glory belonging to a genera-tion not our own. The Peace Corps to most of us was, and still is, an outlet for ambi-tious and altruistic college students to get away and en-joy a romanticized vision of encounters in lands far away from home.

From a time more famil-iar for the Apollo moon land-ings and the Great Society, it’s difficult to find a place for an organization grown out of 1960s space-age opti-mism in the sober reality that is our twenty-first century. But maybe that was the best thing that the Peace Corps representatives contributed to their Feb. 11 visit to Grand Valley State University: its re-framing of a Kennedy-era

ideal into a relevant cause in the face of modern-day skep-ticism.

“The Peace Corps is not for everyone,” said Judy Tor-res, a Peace Corps volunteer since 2006. “It is a very extreme experience, but it’s also a very positive one.”

Torres, a Chicago native, spent two years in the Domini-can Republic, participating in civic develop-ment and lead-ership.

Mark Bryson, a 2009 grad-uate of GVSU, spent time in Jamaica helping develop wa-ter filtration systems.

“A lot of it is going to be you being resourceful,” he said. “There’s no one that’s

going to be telling you what to do, but in order to be ef-fective you have to make yourself useful to your com-munity.”

The speakers did not sug-ar-coat the expe-rience, making clear that the 27-month com-mitment to the Peace Corps is not to be taken lightly.

“It’s a 24-hour job,” Torres said. “You’re living and working in the same com-munity, and it’s

hard to be on point all of the time. But it’s one of those things that calls to your own personality. We try and look for people who are self-start-ers, because there isn’t going to be anyone looking over

your shoulder. It’s going to be on you and your community. That’s why we try and look for people with those strong leadership skills.”

But the theme of the dis-cussion never ventured far from the central point of the people that prospects would be helping by joining the Peace Corps.

“It’s really great to be in these communities for the two years and develop these friendships and relation-ships,” Torres said. “On your first day, everyone will know who you are; you’ll be a local celebrity.”

The speakers stressed that the benefit of the organiza-tion is immense, both to the volunteer and the communi-ties in which they are placed.

“Quite honestly, it’s some-thing you cannot forget,” Torres said. “It carries on

with you. It lets you know what kind of person you re-ally are.”

And it’s that focus on self-cultivation fused with vol-unteerism that has allowed Peace Corps participants to appreciate how positively the program has affected them. The living conditions can be hard for Americans who are used to a life of leisure and luxury, but after being in the Peace Corps, that mentality can change.

“Being without really opens your eyes to what you take for granted,” Torres said. “But when it’s over, you want to do it again.”

One thing that the speak-ers made clear in their ad-dresses was the significance of finding the job that best fit volunteers’ talents and passion. With a nine- to 12-month waiting period in

the application process, find-ing that experience is one of the most important things before embarking on the 27-month undertaking.

“What really matters is that what you do is some-thing that you enjoy,” Torres said. “If there is something in your communities that you can do to get experi-ence, try that first. Get expe-rience in the thing that you want to do and see if you even like it.”

The Peace Corps offers volunteer opportunities in seven different categories, including health, agriculture, youth development, educa-tion and teaching English as a foreign language.

For more information on how to get involved or to start the application process, visit the Peace Corps website at www.peacecorps.gov.

BY BEN GLICKBGLICK@LANTHORN.COM

Gaining perspective Peace Corps representatives speak about opportunities for volunteering abroad

Grocery shopping doesn’t seem like a challenging task, but when trying to success-fully shop for the healthiest options, it’s helpful to have guidance.

The Grand Valley State University Nutrition Club is holding a “Shopping Mat-ters” event on Feb. 17 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Stan-dale Meijer.

This is the first time the Nutrition Club is hosting this event. Before now, the YMCA has been hosting “Shopping Matters” grocery tours around the Grand Rapids area.

“We brought it to GVSU to give students and faculty the chance to learn how to shop for healthier foods,” said President Sarah Craven.

At the event, the Nutri-tion Club members will give a tour of the grocery store and will also provide educational tips on how to properly read a food label. These tips will equip attend-ees with the knowledge they need when looking at ingre-dients.

For example, they will be taught how to avoid foods that contain high fructose corn syrup. The members will also give advice on how to choose between brands in order to make the healthiest choice.

“Try to eat five cups of fruits and vegetables a day,” Craven said. “I definitely be-lieve in getting back to the basics and fueling your body with whole foods.”

Trevor Birdwell, affiliate marketer for Vemma Nutri-tion Co., said that a healthy diet and therefore healthy grocery shop-ping should be a key factor is ev-eryone’s life.

“ G r o c e r y shopping forces us to see ex-actly what we are putting into our bodies,” Birdwell said. “Buying food in advance also sets you up for success. It pro-vides structure to your eat-ing habits so instead of im-pulse eating, you can plan what goes into your body at a scheduled time, which helps regulate your metab-olism.”

The Nutrition Club al-ways tries to fulfill their mission statement, and the “Shopping Matters” event is helping them do that. The club will be hosting a second “Shopping Matters” event on March 17 at the same location and time. Students and faculty who are interested can contact

the Fitness and Wellness Center if they wish to sign up to attend.

“The purpose of this organization is to com-bat the negative outcomes that poor food choices can bring; whether they are so-cial, environmental, eco-nomic or physical,” Craven

said, quoting the club’s mis-sion statement. “We will work toward this goal with education and service on campus as well as in the sur-rounding com-munity.”

C r a v e n founded the club last semes-ter because she

felt that there were many health-conscious students at GVSU who were inter-ested in learning about nutrition. Every other Thursday, the members of the Nutrition Club meet in MAK A1117 to discuss nu-trition, socialize and snack. They welcome new mem-bers to join them.

“The organization serves as a place for people with an interest in nutri-tion to gather and exchange ideas,” Craven said. “Espe-cially ideas that can lead to a healthier lifestyle.”

Figuring out which fork to use, how to butter a din-ner roll or even whose hand to shake and when can be tricky skills to pick up on. For that reason, the Grand Valley State University Ca-reer Center is hosting an etiquette dinner Feb. 19 for all students to learn the ins-and-outs of etiquette for those important meals at conferences or business dinners.

The dinner will not only offer students the opportu-nity to learn what fork to use, which glass is theirs, and the difference between Con-tinental and American din-ing style, but it will also teach the history be-hind etiquette and general mannerisms and will help them practice networking skills.

“All of these skills will be essential as a student begins looking for intern-ships or jobs,” said Eliza-beth Clark, a graduate as-sistant at the Career Center. “The skills you gain from the dinner are more related

around dinner settings but are transferrable to any set-ting where etiquette would be handy.”

The dinner starts with check-in, followed by a short orientation. Once dinner starts, attendees will get tips for job inter-views, business lunches or dinners and general prac-tices that will prove to be useful to students in the future.

“The dinner teaches a lot more than just din-ner,” said Audra Hartges,

president of GVSU’s chapter of the Public Relations Stu-dent Society of America. “You learn about bread, but-ter, forks and plates, but you also learn a lot of everyday etiquette tips that you never

would have thought would actually apply to real life.”

The etiquette dinner is put on every semester and it is recommended that any student attend, no matter what their major or area of study, but especially those who are in the process of looking for jobs or intern-ships. There are about 100 tickets available for this

semester’s event, and tick-ets usually sell out quickly. The dinner is $5 per stu-dent, but attendees are re-funded once they check-in at the event.

“I would definitely rec-ommend it to any and all students. It’s a great oppor-tunity, and the food served is great, which is a definite plus,” Hartges said. “I’m re-ally glad I went to the din-ner because it has helped me in situations where others didn’t know what to do; I actually used what I learned.”

Clark agreed that the dinner provides students useful skills for the future.

“The Career Center rec-ognizes the importance of etiquette and networking when applying and inter-viewing for a position or an internship,” Clark said. “We want students to feel comfortable and confident in their skills. This dinner is a really great and very fun opportunity for stu-dents to learn and practice both of these in a practice-oriented environment.”

For more information, visit www.gvsu.edu/events. Tickets for this event are available at the 2020 desk for $5 per student. The dinner starts at 6 p.m. and takes place in the Alumni House.

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The towel-draped starting lineup erupted from the bench as walk-on senior forward Joe Gurzick delivered the first bucket of his career

-- and the final blow of a 23-point thumping.Gurzick and the Grand Valley State University

men’s basketball team bounced back from their worst loss of the season on Saturday by pummeling Northwood University 94-71 at home to move back into a fifth-place tie in the overall conference standings.

“It was awesome,” said the first-year player from Richmond, Mich. “I wasn’t really thinking about it. I was just in the moment.”

GVSU was scoring at will all night long.

Fifth-year senior point guard Rob Woodson showed a complete disregard for the Northwood press and orchestrated the offense to the tune of 13 points, a career-high nine assists, five rebounds, zero turnovers and a steal.

Woodson’s nine helpers were the most by a Laker since 2006.

“He’s been phenomenal in the last few games,” Gurzick said. “He’s just been playing strong, taking it to the rack and really carrying our team.”

Woodson, who scored a career-high 24 points in the team’s 89-69 loss to No. 20 Lake Superior State University on Thursday, has dished 28 dimes and just six turnovers in his last five games. His 4.0 assists per contest now rank as the sixth highest in

the conference.The Timberwolves simply had no answer for

his up-tempo offense. Five Lakers scored in double figures, and seven finished with more than seven points.

“He’s making great decisions with the ball,” head coach Ric Wesley said. “He’s picking his spots, knows when to score and knows when to dish. He’s been in a pretty good place all season but he’s certainly played even better here as of late.”

Junior guard Ryan Sabin and sophomore forward Ricky Carbajal both scored a team-high 14 points, and also played well defensively with

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Lacrosse team begins 2014 season 1-1 It’s been an up-and-down start for the Grand Valley State University women’s lacrosse team two games into its spring campaign.

GVSU was challenged in its season opener at No. 14 Lindenwood University on Friday and was ultimately downed 16-10 after being outscored 7-3 in the second half. Four Lakers supplied two goals apiece in the loss.

The team bounced back in a big way on Sunday, however, as four players had hat tricks in a 21-4 win over McKendree University.

The Lakers will return to action for their home opener against Adelphi University on Friday at 7 p.m.

Lakers repeat as scholar team of year The NCAA Division II Cross Country Champion women of Grand Valley State University have been named the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division II Scholar Team of the Year for the second consecutive season.

GVSU was the highest-finishing team at the NCAAs to earn All-Academic Team honors. Teams must have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher and score at a regional meet to be eligible for the award.

Adams State University took home the honor on the men’s side while its women’s team finished as the runner-up with 91 points.

The Laker women had a winning score of 54 points (3.32 cumulative GPA), and all five of their scoring run-ners earned All-American plaudits. Senior Courtney Brewis and sophomores Jessica Janecke and Jordan Chester also earned All-Academic honors individu-ally.

The team has won the award three times in the past four seasons along with a trio of national titles.

GVSU names new co-defensive coordi-nator Grand Valley State University head football coach Matt Mitchell recently announced the hiring of Jim Louis as the new linebacker coach/co-defensive coordi-nator for the Lakers.

Louis will lead the de-fense along with secondary coach/co-defensive coordi-nator Nick Postma.

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Strong defense: Sophomore Darren Kapustka guards Laker territory, helping GVSU rise in overall conference standings. The Lakers are now tied in fifth with Northwood and Hillsdale.

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Senior guard Dani Crandall stole the show as the Grand Valley State University women’s basketball team defeated Northwood

University 76-67 in an overtime thriller performed Saturday evening on the Fieldhouse floor; she scored the first and last points of the game and played in 43 minutes of the 45-minute affair.

Enthralling as the game was, the curtain-to-call performance wasn’t just for effect; every minute and every act mattered. Although not every act was conscious and none of the performance was forced.

“I honestly never know how much I score until the next day,” she said. “I knew the game was close, but I didn’t realize it was as close as it was the entire time. I thought we were up six or seven points for the majority of the game because we were clicking so well.

“I just played. We were just playing. We let the game come to us, I let the game come to me and in the last few minutes and overtime -- I don’t know, I just played and it worked.”

Crandall has exceeded 20 points five times now this season and has recorded three double-doubles, but when she compiled a career-high 36 points on 11-of-19 shooting from the field and 13-of-16 shooting from the free-throw line to post the highest Laker point total since February 2005, every point and every one of her 10 rebounds meant something.

Her electric output encapsulated a victory that was not only efficient, but also economic. No frivolous free throws. No directionless drives to the lane. A display that was both direct in execution

and enigmatic in effect.“Dani is playing tremendously consistent, the

team’s playing consistent, we’re getting the ball to the right people at the right times and executing down the stretch,” head coach Janel Burgess said. “We knew what was riding on this game and we have a young group of competitors that understood it -- they weren’t pressured or pressing

to do anything special --they just knew we had to be consistent with what we’ve been doing, which is play good defense and fight through challenges as they present themselves.

“With 10 minutes to go, I told myself as I was pacing the sidelines that this game was going to

Inspiring senior thrills Fieldhouse Arena in OTCrandall’s 36-point night carries GVSU past Northwood, highest Laker total since Feb. 2005BY PETE BARROWSASSISTANTSPORTS@LANTHORN.COM

Hands up: Grand Valley State University junior Meryl Cripe (12) and freshman Piper Tucker (11) defend a Northwood player. The Lakers won 76-67 in an overtime game in the Fieldhouse on Saturday.

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The second-to-last event of the regular season certainly lived up to its name for the Grand Valley

State University men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams.

The No. 2 Laker women and No. 5 Laker men felt right at home at the GVSU Big Meet on Friday and Saturday at the Kelly Family Sports Center, and combined to set four school records individually--to go with four automatic qualifying marks in addition to 47 provisional marks.

“This particular meet had a really big feel for us, much like the GLIAC and national meets,” said senior Kalena Franklin. “We came prepared and focused, which is what we really are focusing on at this point in the season.”

The Laker women had a field day on Friday by racking up 21 provisional marks.

Senior Kristen Hixson once again set the school record in the pole vault by clearing a height of 4.30 meters -- eight inches higher than any other competitor in all of the NCAA Division II this year.

“She continues to prove why she’s one of the best at what she does,” head coach Jerry Baltes said. “There’s no off day for her. I know she is going to continue to work to keep improving on her marks.”

Franklin also proved why she’s one of the top athletes in the country by taking home two event victories in the 60-meter hurdles and 200-meter dash.

She crossed the finish line in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.33 seconds, then followed up that performance with a school-record time of 24.32 seconds in the 200-meter dash.

“I really feel like I had it going from the start of the day,” she said. “Our collective team focus showed up in not only my event but many others on our team as well.”

The 60-meter hurdles record was also broken on the men’s side, as sophomore Sean Wells had a ridiculous performance with a time

of 7.98 seconds – the first time a Laker has ever finished the event in less than eight seconds. Sophomore Ethan Barnes notched another school record for GVSU by crossing the finish line in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:49.05.

“I really didn’t even notice how fast I came in at,” Barnes said. “It was a really competitive field for the 800, I just stayed with it the entire race and came out with a considerable time.”

The performance earned him an automatic qualifying mark and a spot in the NCAA Division II National Championship meet.

He would finish second behind Ashland

University’s Drew Windle, who set a Big Meet and Kelly Family Sports Center record with an impressive time of 1:46.52.

“Barnes really had a big day for himself,” Baltes said. “It’s always a great thing to see records broken, we had more of a few of them this

weekend. Momentum is built off of performances such as this one.”

The ever-consistent men’s and women’s 4x400 relay teams also had a good showing, as both squads managed to hit provisional marks.

Seniors Nathan Hammersmith, Logan Hoffman and Mohamed Mohamed teamed up with freshman TJ Barnett to cross the finish line with a time of 3:13.18 while the women’s team of Franklin, senior Andrea Kober, junior Brittney Banister and sophomore Brittany Terry clocked in at 3:46.10.

The two-day meet was scored in the invite events as well as the distance medley relay, and the Lakers were victorious on both the men’s and women’s side.

The GVSU women cruised to 106.5 first-place points while the men’s team accumulated 66 points to edge Eastern Illinois University, which had 62.5.

The Lakers will be back in action in the GVSU Tune-Up this weekend -- their final meet before championship season begins with the conference meet on March 2.

Lakers notch four school records at Big MeetGV track and field garners 47 provisional marks overall, both teams win at home meetBY TATE BAKERTBAKER@LANTHORN.COM

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come down to which team can execute down the stretch -- and we executed well on both ends.”

GVSU (13-10, 11-8) broke a three-way tie for seventh place with Northwood and Hillsdale College to move into sole possession of sixth place in the GLIAC standings with one last home game yet to be played this season -- a 6 p.m. matchup on Thursday against Saginaw Valley State University.

The Lakers have just three regular season games left on the schedule. Playoff implications will be on the line, and every win gleamed from here to the GLIAC Tournament will hold significance.

“We needed this win, and we wanted this win more than any other win this season,” Crandall said. “I know I had however many points, but we played like a team the entire time, you could tell how much we wanted it, and that’s really what got us that victory.”

It took an ensemble, not just Crandall in lead, to get the job done. All the parts came together at the right time and the final result was no act.

Freshman forward Piper Tucker, who played the role of an efficacious scorer with 18 points in a come-from-behind 72-63 victory at home against Lake Superior State University on Thursday -- returned Saturday to stifle an 8-0 Northwood run in the first half with back-to-back triples.

“It never happened to me before where I shot like I did Thursday and helped to bring my team back -- it was a little shocking, honestly -- but it was an amazing feeling to get the last two wins the way we did,” Tucker said. “Dani had amazing games, our team is so together and knowing that she’s the leader and we’re behind her every step of the way makes it mean more.”

Crandall matched Tucker against LSSU on Thursday with 18 points and five rebounds of her own, although junior forward Kat LaPrairie, who added 13 points in just 18 minutes and sophomore center Jill Steinmetz, who recorded 10 rebounds to go along with nine points, played equally essential supporting roles.

Freshman guard Taylor Lutz handed out a game-high five assists in the victory and dished out a game-high six assists in 39

minutes of action on Saturday, while fellow freshman forward Kayla Dawson earned her fourth double-double of the season against the Timberwolves with 13 points and 11 boards after a quiet game against LSSU.

“It was a team win from t o p - t o - b o t t o m ,” Crandall said of the Northwood game. “We were finding the people that we needed to find in the moment, playing smart basketball and although a lot of people contributed in ways that aren’t going to show up in the stat sheet or newspaper, we know how important every single person was to that win -- from the coaches to the end of the bench, everyone played a role.”

Following Tucker’s accentuation from downtown, the lead would change hands four more times before the first half closed with the Lakers up 27-25, a lead GVSU managed to maintain until a Northwood layup knotted the score at 31-31 with 15:03 left in the second stanza.

The Lakers countered with three consecutive layups from Crandall, Dawson and junior guard Meryl Cripe, and led 54-50 with 2:44 remaining in regulation before Northwood scored the game’s next five points to go ahead one minute and 20 seconds later.

Crandall turned in a timely layup with 12 seconds remaining in regulation to cut a three-point deficit to one, but a Northwood free throw one second later made it a 60-58 game. GVSU called a timeout as the spotlight was once aimed in the direction of its senior leader.

“We executed well to get a quick bucket and were fortunate that Northwood missed one of the two free throws and after the timeout, no different than the two-minute drill in football, you want the ball in your playmaker’s hands and we knew who the ball had to go to,” Burgess said. “It had to go to Dani and we knew what we needed to do.”

As the script dictated, Crandall drove to the rim, drew a foul and sunk a pair of free throws to tie the game at 60 apiece with two

seconds to go. The crowd erupted, but it wasn’t quite time to take a bow.

She capped the night by scoring eight of GVSU’s 10 points in overtime, including two final free throws to put the win on ice. The Lakers never trailed in the five-minute stanza and held Northwood to 1-of-11 shooting in extra time; to 20-of-69 in the game.

“Dani did a great job of composing herself -- there’s a lot of pressure in those last few seconds -- but everyone rose to the occasion,” Burgess said. “We executed well, got ourselves an opportunity to play into overtime and really took control once we were there.”

The Lakers celebrated briefly with the band as they ran off the court to cheers. It was a bow-worthy moment and a bow-worthy performance, although the Lakers and Crandall declined to take it. Not yet.

GVSU will return to the Fieldhouse Arena for an encore Thursday. It will be Crandall’s senior day, her last game at home as a Laker, and she’ll be recognized at halftime of the men’s game against SVSU along with fellow seniors Rob Woodson and Joe Gurzick.

“I would hope that we can continue to play,” Crandall said. “That we can get what will be my last win on our home court. That we can keep the ball rolling as a team, get into the tournament and go from there.

“I want this season to end on a good note if it has to end sooner than we want it to.”

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Diving in: The GVSU swimming and diving teams jump into the pool at the beginning of a race. Both the men and women’s teams placed second at the GLIAC Championship meet.

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seven combined steals.Carbajal’s steal with 2:33

to play in the first half set up what appeared to be the dagger.

He intercepted a pass at the half-court line, took two right-handed dribbles and fired a bounce pass to a cutting freshman guard Luke Ryskamp who elevated for a two-handed dunk to the delight of more than 1,425.

The Lakers led 47-31 and never looked back.

“It was an up-and-down, free-flowing game,” Wesley said. “When it’s free flowing like that, everyone gets involved, and I thought our big guys were really running the floor well. They got some easy opportunities.”

Freshman forward Trevin Alexander chipped in with 12 points while junior forward Chaz Rollins added 11. The

team’s top-four post players connected on 16-of-19 free-throw attempts.

GVSU also held a 13-0 advantage in fast-break points while its bench outscored Northwood’s reserves 44-16.

“I really feel like our offense is one of the hardest to defend in the c o n f e r e n c e ,” Woodson said. “We don’t just have one or two people. They primarily focus on Sabin and try to limit his scoring but, if you do that, we still have people even off the bench who could be high scorers just like tonight.”

The scoring output was the team’s highest since December 2010 when it scored 101.

The Lakers will have three more regular-season chances to improve their rank in the conference tournament. The trio of remaining opponents has a combined GLIAC record of 20-35.

“If we’re clicking like that I feel like it’s very hard for teams to beat us,” he said. “I

feel like we could beat anyone in the GLIAC. We already beat (LSSU) at home; they’re the number one team, and if we get a good standing in the conference tournament -- we can make a run.”

GVSU will host its final home game of the season against Saginaw Valley State University on Thursday at 8 p.m.

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...our offense is one of the hardest to defend...

The Great Lakes Intercolle-giate Athletic Conference may feature some of the best swim-ming and diving teams in all the NCAA Division II, but for the fourth consecutive season, one program stood above the rest.

The Grand Valley State University men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams finished as the runner-up once again, as the Warriors of Wayne State University won both titles at the four-day GLIAC Cham-pionship meet at the Spire In-stitute Sports Complex in Ge-neva, Ohio.

The No. 8 Warrior men racked up 1,015.5 points to outlast the No. 4 Laker men, who finished with 894.5 points. Meanwhile, the No. 3 women of Wayne State tallied 959 points to beat the No. 9 Laker women, who had 667.

“This was a good meet for us,” GVSU head coach Andy Boyce said. “We had really good relays, and school records were broken left and right. We’re looking forward to na-

tionals now.”Boyce said that senior Kyle

Gunderson was the “swimmer of the meet” for his team, and that Gunderson swam faster than he’s ever gone before.

Gunderson placed second in the 200 yard fly, fourth in the 100 freestyle, and was a mem-ber of the 800 freestyle relay team which placed second.

Sophomore Gianni Ferrero broke GVSU school records in the 100 backstroke (47.76) and the 100 freestyle (44.67). He won the 200 freestyle event by setting a meet re-cord time of 1:36.37.

Ferrero’s class-mate, Patrick Shep-pell, claimed two GLIAC Champi-onships in both the 1000 freestyle (9:24.75) and 1650 freestyle (16:07.00).

The 200 freestyle relay team of seniors Michael Griffith and Erik Aakesson, junior Milan Medo and freshman Danny Abbot set a GLIAC meet re-cord with a time of 1:21.34.

Senior Will Gombos had an

impressive meet, and finished in the top eight in multiple events --setting personal bests in all of them.

“This team overall per-formed very well,” Gombos said. “We had a lot of top-eight performances, a lot of personal bests, a lot of school records.

“Finishing third in the mile was something I’ve never done before, which was special to do in my last race as a GV swim-mer.”

The Laker women were just as successful, and managed to break a number of school records.

Junior Olivia Schultz tallied one of them when she finished third in the 200 free-style with a time of 1:52.51.

Schultz, seniors Danielle Vallier and Caitlyn Madsen teamed up with junior Sarah Roeser to touch the wall in a time of 3:44.39 in the 400 med-ley relay, which also broke a school record.

Wayne State sweeps for fourth straight yearBY LUCAS RAINSLRAINS@LANTHORN.COM

The same relay team broke another school record in the 400 freestyle relay with a time of 3:27.62, while Vallier eclipsed the 200 freestyle re-cord by clocking in at 1:52.27.

Sophomore Taylor Wiercin-ski placed second in both the 1 and 3 meter diving events to add to her strong season.

Boyce said he was impressed by Roeser’s performance, as she set personal bests and finished in the top eight for the Laker women in seven events.

“Almost everyone had life-

time bests,” she said. “We did amazingly. I’m very, very happy with how our team did.”

Her finishes were high-lighted by the 50 yard freestyle, where her time of 23.65 broke a GVSU school record. She was also a part of three record-breaking relays.

It was the first time the GLIAC Championship meet used a four-day format, which was definitely a challenge to the swimmers.

“It’s different than anything we’ve ever done in the confer-

ence,” Boyce said. “The training has helped with that. We did a great job going faster in the fi-nals than we did in the morn-ing.

“That was great to see, and the team had a lot of fun.”

GVSU is now focused on nationals, as many swimmers await their national-qualifying fates. Other Division II confer-ence meets will help determine who makes it and who doesn’t.

The NCAA Division II Na-tional Championships will be-gin March 11 in the same pool.

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S ix members of the Grand Valley State University men’s club hockey team stood on the ice for a pre-game sendoff on Senior Night at the Georgetown Ice

Arena.Befitting of his jersey number, goaltender Scott

Teifenthal was recognized first, and was awarded ACHA All-American honors.

Tim Marney, Bob Penrod, Chad Wilhelm, CJ Pobur, and Nick Heinrich followed in turn, each skating out the blue line to join one another.

Six seniors for the six positions on the ice, never mind that four were defensemen. Befitting, also, that they should enjoy one last win in their home building.

“These kids have been a part of our great success,” GVSU head coach Mike Forbes said. “We’re very proud to have them on the team and they represent the university very well. Their leadership in the locker room just helps us continue to build and build and build so we have that continuity all the time.”

After a scheduling change, the Lakers welcomed Ferris State University on Saturday in GVSU’s final regular season game.

The Lakers opened the game with the throttle on full as the offense bombarded FSU goalie Ruben Medrano

early and often. Medrano held strong for the first half of the initial period, but the dynamic first line of the Lakers broke through with a goal courtesy of junior forward Brad Wilhelm.

Minutes later, his older brother sniped a target in the back of the net to put GVSU up 2-0.

Seconds later, forward Alex Ostrowski represented the freshman portion of the roster by wristing a laser off the post and in.

The rout was on.The sophomore talent came through next as

forward Nick Schultz knocked home his own rebound to make it 4-0. His classmate, forward Jake Endicott, then gave the Lakers their fifth tally of the night with eight seconds left in the first period.

The relentless attack resumed in the second when Matt Smartt and the Wilhelm brothers combined to give GVSU a commanding 8-0 lead with plenty of time to play.

FSU managed to show some life before the end of the period, and chalked up four of the game’s next five goals to make it a five-goal deficit.

The Lakers quickly slammed the door shut on any comeback attempt in the third period, however, and were once again firing on all cylinders with a methodical third-

period attack before skating away with an 11-5 victory.The 11 goals were spread through all positions and

ages on the team as the Lakers showcased their impressive depth, which led them to a 20-7-1 regular season record.

“It’s what we try to do in building a program,” Forbes said. “You try to build a good class of freshman and you build them through so you’re always turning over and you

don’t decimate your team.”The Lakers appear to have found a way to

play together as one cohesive unit, and closed out the regular season with four consecutive wins to go with victories in nine of their last 10 games.

The team will have a more than a month to gear up for the 2014 ACHA Men’s Division Nationals, which will take place from March 21 through March 25 in Marlborough, Mass.

Forbes said he will take a page out of Herb Brooks’ playbook and run the Lakers through high-intensity drills in practice to make sure the team maintains a game-ready edge.

The team may also make some late-season changes to its schedule to help the cause.

“We’re going to be trying to find another game or two,” Pobur said. “We’ve been talking about amping things in practice and we will have to play hard against each other so we’re in prime shape going into nationals.”

Forbes got a healthy look at the entire Laker roster as all three goaltenders -- Teifenthal, freshman Ryan Morey and sophomore Dom Juncaj -- got a chance between the pipes.

The seniors will certainly be looking to put a cap on their impressive careers with a national title.

“I think it’s kind of cool,” Chad Wilhelm said. “When we brought Teifenthal up to play with the rest of us, we gelled really well.

“It’s just been a great ride and I can’t ask for anything better.”

GV defeats Ferris 11-5 at Senior Night gameLakers cruise to big win over FSU in regular season finale, honor seniorsBY ADAM KNORRAKNORR@LANTHORN.COM

Fighting on: GVSU junior forward Brad Wilhelm attempts to keep control of the puck while holding off a Ferris State University defender. The Lakers defeated FSU 11-5 at their game this weekend.

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A9FEBRUARY 17, 2014GRAND VALLEY LANTHORN SPORTS

A fter opening the spring campaign 2-0 last weekend, the Grand Valley State University men’s tennis team played in the West Michigan Indoor Doubles

Tournament against some of the area’s best schools.The event was originally scheduled to take place at

Orchard Hills in Grand Rapids on Friday and Saturday, but was changed to a one-day event at DeWitt Tennis Center in Holland.

GVSU, Aquinas College, Davenport University, Calvin College, Hope College and Cornerstone University all competed in doubles action.

The Laker men h a d three pairs compete o n Friday, two of which advanced to the finals.

“We did OK,” head c o a c h John Black said. “It was a flighted tournament, b u t because of the n u m b e r of teams, some of our guys ended up playing in a higher flight than they normally play at.”

The Lakers still managed to finish well despite these challenges.

Freshman Billy Heckman and junior Francis Bertrand reached the semifinals in their championship flight after winning 8-2 and 9-7 in the quarterfinals. The duo would eventually fall to the Aquinas pair 8-4.

“Two out of our three flights made the finals,” Heckman said. “There’s still definitely room for improvement; getting adjusted to a couple easy fixes.”

Seniors Ben Esh-Nauta and Andrew Darrell also reached the semifinals in their flight after 8-2 and 8-4 wins. They faced off against Davenport’s varsity flight, but came up short 8-4.

“We were all playing pretty well,” Esh-Nauta said. “I don’t think we’ve reached our top level yet, but we are getting there.”

The final GVSU pair, sophomores Andrew Heuerman and Michael Kaye, won its opening round match against Davenport 8-5, but lost to Hope in the quarterfinals 8-4.

“We did pretty good (on Friday),” Black said. “There’s still quite a bit we need to work on. We need to keep improving and keep moving forward.

“It was good because we got a lot of doubles play this weekend and we were able to work on a few things.”

The team will now shift its focus to conference play, which starts next weekend.

“Everyone in our conference is going to be a touch match,” Black said. “When we have three tough matches in a row, we need to be mentally prepared and can’t take anyone lightly.”

The Laker men seem to have set high goals, and working hard in between matches is the only way they can achieve them.

“Our only focus is wining,” Esh-Nauta said. “That’s really the goal for the season, too. (A conference championship) would be the best possible outcome.”

GVSU is set to play in three conference matches this weekend in Ohio, beginning with Ohio Dominican University on Friday, followed by the University of Findlay on Saturday a matchup with Tiffin University on Sunday.

Lakers show promise in doubles tourneyTwo of three Laker teams advance to semifinalsBY LUCAS RAINSLRAINS@LANTHORN.COM

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Next steps: GVSU Senior forward Chad Wilhelm takes a shot on the net against Ferris State. The Lakers honored the graduating seniors before the game.

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