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Earning a victory: Senior Charles Hill leads the football team in the Grand Valley State Univeristy fight song after the Lakers’ victory against rival Saginaw Valley State University on Saturday afternoon at Lubbers Stadium. The Lakers beat the Cardinals 49-34 to make it into the playoffs. The special teams plays made a huge difference for the Lakers.

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Donijo Rob-bins DeJonge announced last Tuesday that she will run for state represen-tative in next year’s election.

DeJonge, who is running as a Republican, is seeking the 76th District House seat, currently occupied by Rep. Winnie Brinks (D-Grand Rapids). If elected, she would step down from her position of profes-sor in the School of Public,

Nonprofit, and Health Ad-ministration at GVSU.

DeJonge served as comp-troller for the city of Grand Rapids from November 2010 through December 2012, and that experi-ence, she thinks, will help her in Lansing to tackle the primary issue for people of the district.

“E du c at i on and jobs,” she

said. “Why ask others what is important to them—ask parents, and they say edu-cation; ask the workers and they say job security, ask the college students and they say

affordable tuition and jobs. I believe that education and jobs—the economy and brain drain; college students leav-ing the state for jobs in other states—are the focus today and will continue to be when I am state representative.”

DeJonge said she believes Michigan’s government fac-es a number of problems, but the biggest issue is the divided opinions of legisla-tors, specifically regarding funding and policy. The government’s habit of us-ing old policies or funding models that no longer apply to the changing economy and tax base is one example.

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BY RYAN JARVINEWS@LANTHORN.COM

Only 14 class days remain in the semester, but before students can begin their caffeine-induced co-

mas to survive exam week, they will be asked to evaluate their professors.

Some students revel in the opportu-nity to get back at a bad professor, some leave thoughtful remarks, and others just skip the evaluations altogether.

“I remember myself as a student, and I would bubble a lot of those to get the hell out of class,” a professor said Friday at the first of three town hall meetings orga-nized to gather input on teacher evaluations.

The meetings are held by the Executive Committee of the Senate in response to an ECS recommendation for a standardized instrument to be adopted by the univer-sity. Currently each college and department can use its own forms and tools for evaluation.

The problem of developing an accu-rate and useful method of evaluating fac-ulty members has been circling through university committees for five years.

“Many faculty might not be aware of this long conversation,” said Karen Gipson, chair of the University Academic Senate. “The problem is that people are being eval-uated by different methods, and then we’re

pretending that we’re all meeting the same standards of excellent teaching.”

Each year, professors undergo peer, self and student evaluations. The last has two purposes, Gipson said. The first is for-mative, meaning feedback is used to help faculty improve teaching. The second is summative, which determines promotion, tenure and teaching awards. The lack of a standardized form makes it difficult for these things to be accurately assessed.

Part of the problem is the forms used to evaluate professors. At the end of the semester, students are worried about upcoming exams. Filling out four or five different evaluations is not often high on their list of priori-ties.

“In my department, our form is five pages long. The thing is just horrendous,” said Tonya Parker, vice chair of UAS. “The response rate should be better, and if

the kids didn’t hate the darn thing as much as I do, I think they would be better.”

Kyle Felker, a member of the Faculty Teaching and Learning Center Advi-sory Committee, agreed and added that the forms range from the competently designed to the grievously bad.

Another problem is students do not un-derstand the importance of the evaluations.

“Good faculty that are doing their jobs well are fearful, in part, because of this quagmire around student eval-uations, and this affects their experi-ence at Grand Valley,” said Kristine Mullendore, professor in the School of Criminal Justice. “And faculty that were hired by mistake persist here be-cause we don’t have good information from the evaluations.”

Rather than thoughtful critiques of teaching methods, some students only remark on the personality of a professor—or even their appearance, Parker said.

“I know that when I first arrived, I didn’t get any information back ex-cept comments on my clothes,” she said. “I couldn’t make that up if I tried. They railed my clothes. How is that effective for me to hear my first semester?”

During the town hall meeting, there was a suggestion to publish the results of student evaluations as an alternative to “Rate My Professors.” Michigan State University currently offers this as an option for students.

Two town hall meetings remain this semester. The first will take place to-morrow from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in DeVos Center, and the second will be from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Dec. 6. in 2263 Kirk-hof Center. The ECS will then review the suggestions made by faculty and send a recommendation to the UAS on how to proceed with the issue.

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Critiquing critiquesUAS seeks to standardize professor evaluations to improve validityBY CARLY SIMPSONCSIMPSON@LANTHORN.COM

Several weeks ago, the Grand Valley State Uni-versity Academic Senate

voted down Student Senate’s resolution to add a fall break to the university calendar.

This decision wasn’t whol-ly supported by all university administrators, though. Fred Antczak, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, wrote to the faculty members in his college suggesting that they give students an unof-ficial “fall breather” next year.

In his letter, Antczak proposed that the faculty plan to give no reading assignments or home-work for the weekend before the drop deadline, which would most likely be Oct. 18 and 19, he said.

“I am not suggesting that you take any time away from class, nor even that you de-crease by an iota the amount of work in the fall course,” Antczak said in his letter. “I’m simply asking you to redistrib-ute it, so that for that weekend across as many courses as possible, there’s no assigned work. I’m asking for a specific weekend because distribut-ing it on different weekends would dilute its effect.”

Ricardo Benavidez, presi-dent of Student Senate, said Antczak’s letter was read in the Student Senate meeting, where it was positively received.

“If we could get enough peo-ple across the university to do it, it would allow the data the uni-versity is looking for,” Benavidez said. “That’s one of the reasons it was voted down, but this would give insight as to how it would work at Grand Valley.”

A fall break would be benefi-cial to many students, Antczak said, especially since the univer-sity is working to improve reten-tion from freshmen to sopho-more year, and these students are not accustomed to going so many weeks without a break.

“At a time when we are par-ticularly worried about fresh-man to sophomore year reten-tion, a break seems even more worth considering,” Antczak said. “…I understand and re-spect the reasons on the other side. I don’t think any of those problems are unsolvable if we really believed it was in the faculties’ and students’ interest. But trying out a fall breather for a few years may reveal more faculty interest already than the

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Student Senate to host Last LectureStudent Senate will host its annual Last Lecture event this Thursday. This year’s speaker is Kathleen Underwood, a Grand Valley State University professor in the Women and Gender Studies Department. The event is inspired by the book by Randy Pausch called “The Last Lecture.” Pausch was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University when he was diag-nosed with pancreatic cancer and decided to do a speech for his students as if it was his last. The Last Lecture will be held in the multipurpose room on the atrium level of the Mary Idema Pew Library from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. LIB 100 and 201 courses approve the event. It is free, catered and open to the public.

Women’s Center to host holiday boutiqueThe Women’s Center will host a Fair Trade boutique where it will sell items from Global Gifts. Global Gifts is a nonprofit store that works with Fair Trade groups that guarantee the human rights of all employees involved in production of the products. Ten percent of the proceeds will benefit the local nonprofit organization Grand Rapids Opportunities for Wom-en. The boutique will be in the lobby of the Kirkhof Center to-day, tomorrow and Wednesday from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.

HR releases conflict resolution websiteHuman Resources at Grand Valley State University has re-leased a new website that lists resources for faculty and staff members to use for conflict resolution. The Conflict Resolu-tion Process lists a range of tools from mediation services to formal grievance procedures. The site also provides the appropriate person to contact depending on the specific conflict. Twenty-five members of the GVSU faculty and staff have been trained as mediators. For more information visit, www.gvsu.edu/hro/conflict-resolution-process-crp--112.htm.

Philanthropy center reports high charity donations in 2011According to a report by Grand Valley State University’s Johnson Center for Philanthropy, donors in Kent County gave an estimated $624.7 million to philanthropic and char-ity groups in 2011. More than half (57.5 percent) of the money came from individuals, foundations gave 29.5 percent, cor-porations gave 7.2 percent, and bequests made up 5.8 per-cent. Donors gave almost $10 million more in 2011 than in 2010. The increase from 2010 to 2011 was not as high as the nearly $50 million increase from 2009 to 2010, though.

‘Johnny Tsunami’ actor to visit campusBrandon Baker, the actor who played Johnny Kapahala in the 1999 “Johnny Tsunami” movie, will be visiting campus on Thursday to screen his newest film, “The Formula.” Baker and one of the film’s directors, Joe Clarke, will be going on a week-long film screening tour at universities across the midwest. The film is about two engineering students who figure out a mathematical formula to help pick up women with ease. Clarke said he hopes their visit will be a great way to connect with current film students. “This is our first foray in feature-length production, so it’s a great event to show film students what they can do with their degrees,” Clarke said. The event will be held in 174 Lake Superior Hall at 8 p.m. After the film, Baker and Clarke will answer questions from the audience.

she said. “The revenue for roads comes mainly from the gas tax. As we buy cars with bet-ter MPG or simply park the car and take the bus, we consume less gas, which means fewer dollars to fund the roads. We have to find a new model. This is true not just for roads but for

education, revenue sharing and the like.”

As state allocations to higher education have been decreas-ing, and though it might not always be fair, DeJonge said it forces colleges to think in new ways.

“In fact, GVSU is a model that should be applauded by the state,” she said. “We are lean and mean, effective, and we are

the lowest funded in the state. With more money, we could do more, particularly charge lower tuition, but perhaps one way to think of it is that the low funding incentivizes GVSU to think outside the box to deliver a great service—education—while being one of the lowest funded universities.”

She compared GVSU to the Oakland Athletics in the book

“Moneyball: The Art of Win-ning an Unfair Game,” by Mi-chael Lewis.

In the book, the team had the third lowest payroll in the MLB. Because it didn’t have enough money to pay the big-name stars, it needed to find a different way to win. It devel-oped a new model that focused on analyzing specific statistics of players, such as on-base per-

centages, rather than hitting or speed. The A’s ended up setting an American League record of 20 consecutive wins.

“Why?” DeJonge asked. “A new way of thinking.”

As comptroller of Grand Rapids, DeJonge attempted to have the position’s $72,000 sala-ry cut in half, but a citizens pan-el, which determines salaries of the city’s elected officials, reject-

ed her proposal and decreased the salary to $53,200 instead.

DeJonge resigned as comp-troller after voters rejected her proposal to make the job an appointed position rather than an elected one. She said she be-lieved a comptroller appointed by the city manager and ap-proved by the City Commis-sion would de-politicize and professionalize the position.

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senate vote quite represented.”Antczak said he hopes faculty will fit the

break into their course schedules because the effect would be much greater if many faculty take part in it.

“…unlike an official break, the breather invitation is voluntary, so it depends on how it fits into many different professors’ course plans,” he said. “I know I’d have to overcome a certain conservative reflex if invited to try something that meant tweak-ing a syllabus with which my past students had success—unless I knew it was in the students’ interest. And the fall breather won’t work for generating much student data if only a few faculty give it a try.”

Benavidez said that something needs to be changed in order to help the students, and Antczak’s solution might be the best one for the time being to gather more data specific to GVSU and its students.

“The worst thing we could do is to not do anything,” Benavidez said. “This solution is not taking any work away, but just redistrib-uting it. Students need that time to recover

and catch up, and at this point, the fall breath-er is the best option that we have right now.”

The Academic Policies and Standards committee of UAS recommended that Student Senate’s resolution not be passed because of the students’ survey results. The committee said several survey questions were biased, noted inconsistencies between survey questions and the senate resolution, and proposed that the addition of a fall break would negatively affect students’ aca-demic success because of where the make-up days would be placed.

“An additional consideration must be recognized if exams are compressed into four days. Many students could have three or four exams scheduled on the same day. This could curtail academic performance and thereby create greater stress,” the APSC wrote in its recommendation to retain the current academic calendar.

Benavidez said Student Senate isn’t looking into the fall break again at this time, because the senators don’t expect UAS to change its decision until more data has been gathered. If the fall breather idea is a success, Benavidez said senate would re-explore a fall break using the data gained.

Meanwhile, Antczak said he still hopes to see a fall break passed in the future.

“I can speak as someone who’s been teaching fall classes, and I think student work would benefit from it,” he said. “I can tell that faculty are worn down in what one this week called ‘the desperate crawl to Thanksgiving.’ With due respect to my senate colleagues, I think an actual break would be worth at least a pilot—but the same respect makes me realize that we aren’t there, at least not yet, so the fall breather is an attempt of enough culture change to allow us to experiment.”

Antczak added that the student interest should be put above all else and that he hopes faculty will give the breather a try in order to enhance the student learning experience.

“While I appreciate the various interests and inertias involved in planning a calen-dar, I believe in the long run at GVSU, the students’ interest is—and ought to be—the trump interest,” he said. “That’s why the breather is designed eventually to gener-ate some data to support the argument for a break more convincingly. The burden of proof lies on those who want change; here’s a chance to take up that burden.”

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Grand Valley State University’s Student Senate denied the athletic department’s request for $13,200 to pay for some of the student tickets at upcoming GLIAC and NCAA playoff games for soccer, volley-ball and football at its Thursday meeting.

For home playoff games, the athletic department has to charge at least $3 for tickets, even for students. The senate was asked for funding because the athletic depart-ment can’t legally pay for the tickets, itself, but it wants to decrease the amount stu-dents need to pay to encour-age greater attendance.

The Senate Finance Com-mittee originally approved a resolution that would allow enough money to pay for the tickets, at about 15 percent of the senate’s financial reserves, but the resolution was denied by the gen-eral assembly.

The discussion was mixed among senators, with strong opinions stated both in favor of and opposed to the resolution. Those who disapproved said the $3 ticket price wasn’t too expensive.

“If students want to go and are commit-ted to the athletics of the university, they should be willing to go whether it’s $3 or

free,” Executive Vice President Stephanie Ewart said.

On the other hand, some senators thought it would be a great way to pro-mote Student Senate.

“Students will see that we are here to support them,” said Yonathan Mengsteab of the Finance Committee.

L E A D E R S H I P U N I V E R S I TYEwart addressed the sen-

ate not as executive vice president, but as an advocate for the program Leadership University (LU), which is a new way for students to doc-ument the leadership skills they received during their college careers.

According to the page on GVSU’s website, “Leader-ship University is a public fo-rum for students to plan and showcase their development as leaders.”

Ewart said the program works through a mentorship system. Students choose a mentor, who works to reflect, guide, listen, help, educate and inspire them.

LU works with events that students are already participating in. After students at-tend a leadership event, they write a pro-fessional reflection about the experience that is marketable for their portfolio. Stu-

dents then send their reflections to their mentors, who either approve or deny the reflection for the student’s LU webpage.

The LU program is open to all GVSU students, no matter what year. If upper-classmen are interested, they will be able to add all of the leadership events they have already participated in.

O M B U D S, S N E E Z E PAT R O LStudent Senate also passed its resolu-

tion in support of the creation of an om-buds office on campus. The resolution does not ask to create an ombuds office, it only voices Student Senate’s support of the fac-ulty task force, which was organized by the Executive Committee of the Senate, that is working toward the creation of the office.

An ombuds office is a place where stu-dents, faculty and staff members who have felt discrimination or need a dispute re-solved can go to voice their opinions and get advice from a neutral source.

In the next few weeks before winter break, Student Senate will host a tissue box drive in order to equip campus with enough tissue boxes for the upcoming winter season. There will be a bin for tissue boxes in the Student Senate office in the Student Organization Center in the base-ment of the Kirkhof Center. The drive is open to anyone who wants to donate. Tis-sue boxes will be distributed all over cam-pus after the winter break.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson, as-trophysicist and space exploration expert,

sold out Grand Valley State University’s Fieldhouse Arena on Wednesday night to an audience of more than 3,800 people who came to hear Ty-son’s lecture on using the sci-entific process to approach small and large issues.

Tyson is the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natu-ral History in New York, the author of 10 space exploration books, and the host of radio show “StarTalk.” He is also cur-rently remaking Carl Sagan’s TV show “Cosmos.”

Provost Gayle Davis intro-duced Tyson, saying that he was at GVSU to “spread the word to one and all about the value of thinking and science.”

Tyson urged the audience to question what they are told and to think critically.

“You should question stuff you want to be true as well as stuff you don’t want to be true,” he said.

To make his point, Tyson provided several examples of what he called “science il-literacy.” The first was UFO sightings. Many people see lights moving in the sky and automatically call them alien spacecrafts, and then they use human eyewitness accounts as evidence, which Tyson would not consider evidence.

“Eyewitness testimonies are the lowest scientific form possible,” he said. “We don’t even accept it. We need tan-gible evidence that didn’t go through our brains.”

The best form of evidence to prove alien abduction would be to “get yourself abducted, and

grab something off the shelf,” he said. “Anything on their shelf is going to be interesting, and we can test it.”

Tyson said eyewitness testimonies are unreliable and expressed his dislike for their use in claiming proof of UFOs, as well as their use in the justice system.

“Are they human?” he asked. “Yes—which means they are susceptible to the same misinterpretation.

“Our susceptibility of the urge to believe in something is extraordinary.”

Tyson discussed the hu-man urge to think things hap-pen because of the moon and the tendency to believe that a bigger moon means that it is more special than the rest. One such moon he talked about was the supermoon, which oc-curs when a full moon is clos-est to Earth in its orbit, making it appear to be bigger.

“If you are science literate, you will ask how much bigger this moon is than the last big-gest moon,” Tyson said. “A small moon is like a 7-inch pizza. An average size moon is 7.5 inches, a large moon is 8 inches and a super moon is 8.00001 inches.”

Tyson finished his lecture by reading a section of Carl Sagan’s book “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space,” which points out that to the rest of the universe, the Earth is just a small blue dot.

The event was sponsored by student organizations Center for Inquiry, Physics Club and Spotlight Productions. The Office of Student Life, Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Frederik Meijers Honors College and Center for Inquiry Michigan also provided support.

C ampus Dining strives to include vegan items

Margie Munoz, a junior at Grand Valley State University, decided to main-tain a vegan lifestyle—vacant of animal-based product—nine months ago after previously maintaining a vegetarian diet.

Months later, she is con-tinuing to eat vegan on cam-pus, something that may be easier said than done.

“The vegan options on campus are extremely limited,” Munoz said. “Even the veg-etarian options are one meat-less side dish (with cheese) in

a sea of meat. When it comes to snacks in the C-Store, op-tions are very few compared to the amount of snacks total. Also, catering usu-ally does not have vegan options, and I have to ei-ther bring my own food or adapt.”

Veganism is a type of vegetarian diet that excludes meat, eggs, dairy products and all other animal-de-rived ingredients. Many vegans also do not eat foods that are processed us-ing animal products, such as

refined white sugar and some wines. Most vegans also avoid the use of non-food products tested on animals, as well as an-

imal-derived prod-ucts such as leather, fur and wool. Mu-noz adopted the lifestyle due to her observations of animal cruelty.

“The way ani-mals are caged, abused and tor-tured for their whole lives solely for our consump-

tion is absolutely disgusting, whether they are contained for their products or their bodies,

themselves,” Munoz said. “I think that we should be uni-fied as living species, and I am not going to support mass pro-duction food factories.”

GVSU, similar to other campuses across the nation, is continuing to attempt to im-prove dining options for the convenience of students—a difficult concept to master in a short period of time.

“We continually strive to develop popular vegan menu items for our current venues and for our future venues,” said Tom Minor of Campus Din-ing. “In addition, we assure that our brand partners on campus have a robust vegetar-

ian/vegan menu. For example, Argo Tea has several vegetar-ian/vegan items available.”

However, Campus Dining is aware of the requests for more vegan options at GVSU and is attempting to create additional options for stu-dents who choose to main-tain a vegan lifestyle.

“We have vegetarian options at all locations,” Minor said. “In addition, we ask guests to let us know what popular vegan items we can bring forward. For example, last year we added custom stir fry to our meal plan options at the Jump Asian sta-tion at Fuel and added a vegan station at Fresh Food Co.”

The stations at Fresh Food Co. also have the abil-ity to customize the menu by omitting non-vegan ingredi-ents as requested.

Though there are a grow-ing number of options ap-pearing on campus, choices remain limited for the 2013 school year, and some of the options that do exist only ac-cept debit dollars.

“If I were a freshmen and a vegan, there is no way I could have had healthy meals while living in the dorms,” Munoz said. “There is defi-nitely work that needs to be done, including vegan educa-tion and awareness.”

Grand Valley State Uni-versity’s student orga-nization Out ‘N’ About

sponsored a presentation Tuesday to “educate and build awareness” as part of Trans-gender Day of Remembrance, which occurs Nov. 20.

Kyle Watson, a 23-year-old from Minnesota, deliv-ered the talk called ” Shifting Misconceptions of Trans-gender and Gender Variant People.” As an openly trans-gender and male-identified speaker, Watson said the presentation was to “honor those affected by transpho-

bia and cissexism,” or the be-lief that transgender people are inferior to others.

“Trans people aren’t less of a person,” Watson said. “We’re all people here.”

Watson said many terms regarding gender can often be misleading, which is why the presentation included definitions and highlighted the difference between sex and gender: sex being a per-son’s DNA and body struc-ture, and gender being cul-tural and social preferences.

He explained that many cultures, such as the Native American “two-spirit com-munity,” have a third gender

option, while America sees gender in two categories: man or woman, boy or girl.

“(There are) different op-portunities presented to dif-ferent people depending on your gender,” Watson said, meaning there are options in between the two a doctor gives a baby at birth. “There is not one way to do it. It is simply a way of being. It’s not anything we can change.”

Watson said these varia-tions fall under the umbrel-la term “transgender,” and Trans, which is also used as a “more inclusive term within our community.”

Watson said the inter-

national Transgender Day of Remembrance started in the 1990s to remember Rita Hester, who was murdered for identifying as transgen-der. Since then, many more people have been killed for being transgender, but Wat-son said it is hard to know who has been victimized, because there is no popula-tion count for people who identify as transgender.

“It shows a real fear and hatred,” he said. “We have this day of remembrance because things like this are happening, and they’re hap-pening today.”

In addition, Watson talk-

ed about the common myths that surround transgen-der people. He emphasized that not everyone wants to change their body through hormones or surgery. He also said transgender people are not just “transitioning to becoming straight,” and they are not confused about their gender identity.

He also mentioned that insurance often will not cover surgery because it is seen as a cosmetic need rather than a medical one, but it is a men-tal health necessity because “how you feel about yourself is the most important thing.”

Watson listed many ways

to support and become allies for transgender people, in-cluding changing derogatory or disrespectful language to more inclusive language. In-stead of using slurs or gen-der-biased statements, Wat-son said people should use gender-neutral language and discourage others from using gendered terms incorrectly.

“Genderless everything would be awesome, but we’re a ways from that, unfortu-nately,” Watson said.

Out ‘N’ About will host a candlelight vigil at the Cook Carillon Clock Tower at 8 p.m. on Nov. 20 for Trans-gender Remembrance Day.

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Admiring the stars: Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and space exploration expert, speaks at Grand Valley State University during Battle of the Valleys week. The Fieldhouse was sold out with people eager to hear Tyson speak and meet him in person.

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Recently, a few of the Lanthorn’s columnists (my-self included) have written about higher education and the dilemmas that, at least in our view, it currently faces. Mostly, our focus has been on topics that concern us students at Grand Valley: we’ve wondered how a liberal education might be consid-ered “useful;” we’ve critiqued

the tendency of many of us students—along with some professors and administra-tors—to treat higher educa-tion as if it were some sort of business transaction; we’ve reflected on the fact that our majors might not appear useful to those outside the university system. Through it all, our attempt has partly been to respond to an is-sue that seems to befuddle everyone concerned with the fate of higher education: how can certain disciplines—par-ticularly the humanities and some of the social sciences—justify themselves in the face not only of tightening budgets but also, it appears, waning public and student

interest? English majors, history majors, philosophy majors—they’ve all got a stake in this.

A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Educa-tion, “Mellon Puts Humanities in Close Touch with Urban Studies,” takes up essentially the same issue. The author, Marc Perry, questions how anyone can demonstrate the relevance of the humanities at a time when “reports and news articles have renewed a sense that they are in crisis?” As a potential answer, Perry dis-cusses a new initiative at some major universities to unite disciplines such as architecture and urban studies with the humanities to come up with a

new way to tackle issues facing major cities today: issues like overcrowding, climate change, and limited housing. The initiative, not only serving a practical use, will give humani-ties professors and students a new way to talk about the rel-evance of their work to society. As an architecture professor at UCLA is quoted in the article, “the relevance of the humani-ties has to have a new rhetoric.”

This initiative seems to address more than just the “relevance” of the humani-ties, though. It may, at least to some extent, provide a new opportunity for people working in the humanities to answer one undying question: how might our work truly

change the lives of others, beyond the realm of the prac-tical or the “useful”?

Students in the humani-ties—say, English majors—might benefit from asking the same question even now, in college. Last week, I mentioned a program run by the philosophy depart-ment—Community Working Classics—in which GVSU stu-dents go out to prisons or Job Corps to teach classes in their disciplines. When I first heard about this program a couple years ago, it seemed that all the students involved had been en-livened by the experience. To them, their course work in col-lege, especially in the humani-ties, took on greater meaning;

their studies had not only a personal use but also a social use that transcended practical-ity or simple utility. They were taking the humanities out into the world and testing their relevance. They asked, “can the humanities actually make someone’s life better?”

It’s likely almost every humanities or social science major has asked a similar question. The best prescrip-tion for that which ails higher education, then, might be for more students—and profes-sors—to hazard a new kind of answer. Perhaps programs like Community Working Classics and the young urban humanities provide the best opportunity to do so.

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Useless humanists part 2: Making the humanities relevant

DO YOU THINK THAT END-OF-THE-SEMESTER PROFESSOR EVALUATIONS ARE SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED BY GVSU DEPARTMENTS?

Yes, I’ve had professors who mention course evaluations and students’ comments actu-ally affect them and help to make the course more effec-tive for students.

YOLANDA HAMILTON SeniorGeology Southfield, Mich.

“Yes, they benefit both the de-partments and students within them.”

NATHAN WILLIS SophomoreCommunications Grand Rapids, Mich.

“The evaluations are likely hardly considered by GVSU departments. I have always thought they were for the pro-fessors to look back on so they could improve their teaching.”

JEREMY SHANE SophomoreGraphic Design Kalamazoo, Mich.

“Yes, I do. I have had the same professor for two se-mesters but different classes and observed how she really took our suggestions into consideration.”

CHRISTINA SARKISSIAN JuniorBiomedical Science & SpanishSterling Heights, Mich.

“I think that they are taken se-riously by GVSU departments. Professors talk about their evaluations in class and are adament about their students completing them.”

KEVIN FORSTER JuniorPsychology & Secondary Math Ed. Hartland, Mich.

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As Grand Valley State University’s Academic Senate works to improve methods for faculty evaluations, it’s important to note that there is inefficiency on both sides of surveys. Perhaps the questions and method of delivery need to become more uni-form, but altering the evaluation, itself, will only solve half of the problems with professor assessments.

After all, there’s no point in fretting over evaluation measurements and standards if no results—or at least no accurate results—are collected in the end. And useable results won’t be col-lected until students begin to take the surveys seriously. And students won’t take them seriously until they know that departments take their answers seriously.

It’s often difficult to tell what good comes of submitting honest evalua-tions. Of course, no student expects immediate action to be taken, but when a professor is consistently said to be terrible over the course of a few years and evaluations presumably

reflect the student consensus, such feedback should prompt dismissal.

The continued employment of famously bad professors has discouraged many students from taking the time to seriously critique their professors; surely nothing will come of the feedback.

To be fair, we’re sure the university has based some firing decisions on student evaluations. However, there is an outrageous number of bad instruc-tors who have survived for too long at GVSU.

Administrators, if you want honest feedback, show us that you’re doing something with the information we’re providing. Otherwise, it’s not worth our time.

Now, students, here’s our earnest plea to you: take the time to critique your instructors.

Too many of you enjoy the art of ranting. You’ll talk and talk about how the instructor is incomprehensible, lazy, indifferent about your success. You’ll spend more time cursing the existence of the faculty member than

studying for your exams (which, by the way, might be more of a factor in your poor grade than the professor’s lecturing style).

But too few of you will take the time to lodge official complaints that might actually result in change. A couple of student minutes could be the difference between keeping a terrible professor on track for tenure and let-ting him or her go.

We all know that there are certain professors who should simply find a new career path. For whatever reason, we leave the course $1,000 poorer and academically unfulfilled. Yet these pro-fessors remain in their departments year after year, wasting more and more tuition dollars and producing incom-petent employees.

The poor teaching methods of these professors need to be brought to light. It’s not enough to post a bitter Facebook status or even a tirade on Ratemyprofessor.com. It’s the official documents that count. So take five minutes and spread the truth.

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A META-CRITIQUEWhile university governing bodies look to improve the method of faculty assessment, we think there are other problems with evaluations that deserve equal attention.

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I recently had a conver-sation with a friend about college students in general and why social aspects like dating and friendships are so hard to come by. And even if students do obtain those advantages, they nor-mally don’t last long.

Most people describe college as a place to “start all over again,” and this brings up an opportunity for people in high school to either develop their social skills or change their entire façade. Some might not even bother with it at all.

The point is, students feel the need to be accepted in a col-lege setting that has a high expectation of the kind of person everyone should be.

When we want to make friends in college, we have to put on our best face and show off mostly just the good parts of who we are because God forbid some-one might actually like the bad parts as well. So, we put up a subtle veil of vanity and hope that others will take notice and that relationships will blossom.

Friendships don’t happen to us the way kids make friends, which is purely based on a common interest of just having fun and has nothing to do with per-sonalities, appearances or otherwise. When we make friends, we might not admit or notice it, but we do take note of all those aspects. Why we talk to the people

we like and don’t for the people we don’t like is purely artificial and mostly based on what the other person can bring to the table.

If you think about it and scroll through your con-tacts, you will notice the people who you’re never interested in talking to un-less something important happens. We have been so conceited in associat-ing ourselves with only the most interesting people that we allow other poten-tially awesome people not to be in our most intimate moments. I’ve been guilty of doing this, myself, but it’s the social hierarchy that we’ve been conformed to that makes us this way.

Dating represents the most conceited versions of our persona because it’s all about finding someone that matches our own liking. We have to like them enough

to give them a chance to be a small part in our lives, and when things don’t feel the same anymore, we cast them aside because we’re not satisfied enough.

Everybody is selfish in their own way; even if you claim to be the nicest per-son out there, there’s en ele-ment of selfishness to you. When we look at a photo, we always look for ourselves first and often times don’t like the way we look. If everything from technology to civilization were taken away from us, we would still be the most conceited beings in the world because we have to learn to look out for No. 1.

Maybe there will be a time when there is noth-ing left to gain from social interactions and people can just live among each other for nothing else than to just be.

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Instead of letting old clothes pile up, Grand Valley Television is of-

fering students another option. This year, students will not have to worry about what to do with their old clothing and winter jackets, because GVTV is holding its second annual clothing drive.

“Last year, we could barely fit all of (the do-nated clothes) into two cars,” said Jamie Bartko-wicz, the station manager of the student-run sta-

tion. “We couldn’t see out the back window.”

The clothing drive is ac-cepting clothing of all types and styles. The women’s and children’s clothing will be donated to the Young Women’s Christian Asso-ciation (YWCA), an orga-nization that offers sup-port to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Men’s clothing will be do-nated to Guiding Light Mis-sion, which provides servic-es to the homeless and helps men get re-engaged into so-ciety after facing hardships. Both of these organizations

are located in the Grand Rapids area.

“It’s helping a great cause,” said Jaret Grisamer, GVTV’s public relations manager. “Western Michi-gan is one of the coldest places in Michigan, and it’s hard to come by a good coat or just clothes to keep you warm. So it’s going to a great cause, and it’s helping every type of person: men, women, and children.”

GVTV’s clothing drive is accepting more than just clothing.

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Professor Roger Gilles and his wife, Sue Stauf-facher, a children’s

book writer, spoke Saturday before Grand Valley State University students on the importance of locally grown food and a plant-based diet.

Their presentation was part of VegOut, an event hosted by the Grand Val-ley Humane Society and the Grand Valley Nutrition Club to raise awareness about sus-tainable living.

“We’re at a point in his-tory when the farmer can grow and pick something in the morning, and we can cook and eat it that evening,” Stauffacher said.

Some people find the transition from animal-based living to plant-based living a difficult thing, and the couple is working to make that pro-cess easier.

“People hold their di-etary habits with religious

fervor,” Gilles said. “The two most common reasons we hear about why people eat meat are ‘I’m used to it’ and ‘it tastes good,’ as opposed to all the reasons we’re presenting today.”

These reasons include sustainable living, im-proved health, environmen-tal and animal protection, and mindful consumption. Mindful consumption is the concept of only using what is needed instead of consuming things without considering the consequences.

Another idea the couple is trying to emphasize is for people to avoid label-ing themselves as “vegan” or “vegetarian,” terms that can sometimes put other people off and inhibit conversation.

“We ought to be verbs, not nouns,” Gilles said. “I don’t say ‘I’m a vegetarian.’ I say ‘I typically eat plant-based meals.’”

Stauffacher’s half of the presentation focused on how

plant-based meals can still taste good. She described how she makes a variety of typically meat-based meals with tofu, spices and other ingredients that make it nearly impossible to tell by taste that there’s no meat in the recipe. She also described how she’s worked to find a cheese substitute in her life, because cheese is something she loves eating.

“Life really shouldn’t be lived without brie,” she said. Stauffacher has learned how to make cheese from plants, focusing on not only making it taste like regular cheese, but have the texture of cheese, as well.

Apart from the presenta-tion, the VegOut event also included booths for dona-tions, Meatless Mondays, a “save the wolves” petition and the Farm Club.

Zach Dodson, who works at Bartertown Diner in Grand Rapids, came to demonstrate organic food

preparation and promote the diner, which buys local food and serves only vegetarian, vegan and raw meals.

VegOut didn’t stop at pro-moting dietary changes—it promoted changes in life-style, as well.

Michele Fife, yoga thera-pist and founder of Seva Yoga in East Grand Rapids, came to speak and conduct a yoga class. She has been involved with yoga for al-most 20 years, working with troubled youths, cancer sur-vivors, inmates and others all over the world.

Those involved in VegOut said they have high expecta-tions for the event’s future. One of the event organizers, Bryan Smigielski, hopes Veg-Out will grow into a nonprof-it organization.

“It’s about trying to pull in all the holistic and positive approaches to plant-based eating and mindful con-sumption,” he said.

E ach year Grand Valley State University invites a variety of profession-

als, from artists and authors to musicians and playwrights, to speak with students and faculty as part of the Visiting Writers Series. This year, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences celebrates its 10th anniversary of bringing these professionals to campus.

On Nov. 19, the series welcomes playwright Jenni Lamb, a former actress and improviser from Chicago, as the first playwright for the series. Lamb was a semi-finalist for the 2012 O’Neill Playwrights Conference, is a member of the Living Room Playmakers collective, and has worked extensively with theaters like The Gift Theatre and The Wordsmyth Theatre, which make her a perfect choice for the series, Profes-sor Oindrila Mukherjee said.

“I thought it would be in-

teresting for our playwrights, our theater students and our writing students in general,” Mukherjee said. “They learn how to write dialogue and how to present things on stage, and film majors can learn a lot from it as well because there are a lot of similarities between screen writing and playwriting.”

Beginning at 4 p.m. in the Mary Idema Pew Library’s multipurpose room, Lamb will begin with a workshop open to all students. Attendees will learn how to write as well as revise stories, adapt pieces to the stage and better develop dialogue and characters.

Lamb plans to demonstrate by example, discussing her own work and showing a film she created.

“The more people, the more practitioners you can talk to as an emerging writer, as a young aspiring writer, the better it is,” Mukherjee said.

The series coordinators aim to bring in a variety of writ-ers from different heritages,

writing styles and ethnicities who have published or pro-duced work. Through work-ing with writers such as Lamb, Mukherjee said she hopes students learn what it takes to write a good story or play and take what they have learned at GVSU to the next level.

At 7:30 p.m. in the GVSU Cook DeWitt center, Lamb will read some of her work and per-form improv. This interactive lecture will include students in some hands-on learning.

“Some of the students will actually be participating in the improv and the readings with her,” Mukherjee said. “It is go-ing to be more interactive than the other readings because not just the writer will be on stage, but some students will be on stage as well.”

The event is free and open to all students and fac-ulty members.

“It is open to absolutely ev-erybody,” Muhkerjee said. “We really want students from other departments to come.”

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las and lots of shoes,” Bart-kowicz said. “Something that people really don’t real-ize that other people need are toiletries. A lot of home-less shelters severely lack things like that so those are really helpful.”

Toiletries include items like razors, deodorant, toothpaste; even the small shampoos given away at ho-tels can be useful.

“The nice thing is that we go deliver (the clothes) ourselves so we see that it’s going directly towards (people in need),” Grisamer said. “We see it’s being giv-en to people who actually need it.”

The clothing drive isn’t the only service GVTV provides to the local com-munity. In past years, the station has participated in

Operation Salutation, in which it opened up its stu-dio to families of people serving in the military. The station allowed the families to record video messages and send them to their loved ones overseas.

“Every year we try to do something dur-ing the holi-days,” Bartkow-icz said.

The mem-bers of GVTV are also in-volved in Relay for Life and fundraise for that cause throughout the year. Last year during a 24-hour live broadcast, the station raised more than $2,400 for Relay for Life. This year, the sta-

tion is also planning to have a date auction for charity, where leaders from an as-sortment of organizations on campus will be auc-

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ter, which is located in the Kirkhof Center; and one in the Mary Idema Pew Library. There is also a fourth box located in the Steelcase Library at the downtown campus.

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A ccording to the Grand Valley State University organization ReACT!,

one in five women, along with one in 15 men, is assaulted at some point in their lifetime. Through interactive perfor-mances, ReACT! attempts to show students how to re-spond to these types of situ-ations.

“(ReACT!) helps the point that I always try to make, (which) is as disturbing as the large numbers are of people who will be assaulted or expe-rience violence; a lot more of us will be bystanders to these situations,” said Dr. Allison Metz, program director and adviser of the group. “If we can help people figure out the best way to help in these situ-ations, we will end up having a stronger and healthier com-munity.”

ReACT! is a theater troupe that strives to educate GVSU’s community on how to handle situations that involve domes-tic violence, sexual assault and stalking. It’s funded by a federal three-year continua-

tion grant through the fed-eral Violence Against Women Act. The group’s next perfor-mance is Nov. 20 at 9 p.m. in the North West A and B Liv-ing Center on the Allendale Campus.

“Sexual assault for a num-ber of reasons tends to be under reported,” Metz said. “Ever since Grand Valley has gotten (the VAWA) grant and ReACT! has been doing this work, a lot more people have come forward and reported (assaults).”

The grant was first award-ed to GVSU on Oct. 1, 2010.

“Since its inception, Re-ACT! has performed on cam-pus and in the community, including at the Michigan Co-alition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence annual con-ference,” said Theresa Row-land, the program director of the VAWA campus grant.

To become a member of the troupe, students must take CTH 400, which is currently offered in the winter semester and gives students the train-ing they need to become ac-tors. The class is split between Metz, who teaches the theater

BY MARY MATTINGLYLAKERLIFE@LANTHORN.COM

T hanksgiving is right around the corner, and while some Americans

may have food and family to look forward to, others are not as lucky. Hunger Is Not A Game, a benefit concert that took place this past Thurs-day in the Kirkhof Center’s Area 51, brought together Grand Valley State University students who are passionate about ending hunger.

“Hunger is Not a Game seeks to capture the excitement surrounding the premiere of the Hunger Games sequel, Catching Fire, to mobilize our generation to fight against hun-ger and the global food crisis,” Caleb Munn, the senior club service chair of Diagon Alley, said before the benefit. “Our concert will feature a variety of local independent singer-song-writers who have agreed to vol-unteer their time and talents to promote our cause.”

The concert was put on by GVSU’s chapter of the Harry Potter Alliance, Diagon Al-ley. The benefit concert’s main

purpose was to function as a food drive. Donations collect-ed included non-perishable items such as sugar, flour and canned goods. Cleaning sup-plies, personal hygiene sup-plies, and donations of money were also accepted. All col-lected items were sent to the GVSU Women’s Center stu-dent food pantry. Among the artists who performed includ-ed Crossbow and a member of Diagon Alley, Patty Pierzchala.

Diagon Valley at GVSU is an organization that is based around the Harry Potter se-ries and other books, and does service work that is con-structed around stories.

“Diagon Valley is GVSU’s Chapter of The Harry Potter Alliance, an organization that has over 300 chapters nation-wide and is a coalition of fan-dom leaders and members who feel passionate about the power of story to inspire and affect so-cial change,” said club member, Aleia Wright. “We use parallels from the Harry Potter books and movies, and also other fan-doms such as Doctor Who and The Hunger Games to fight in-

BY KATELYN MUDDKMUDD@LANTHORN.COM

Y our grandparents lis-tened to radio, your parents watched TV,

and as a member of gen-eration Y, you’re likely a web surfer. However, some stu-dents at Grand Valley State University are working to preserve the art of radio and promote its value among younger Americans.

Whale Radio, the student-run station at GVSU, has been on the airwaves in some ca-pacity for more than a decade.

“Each student brings their own identities to the station,” said Jamel Watson, general manager of Whale Radio. “When they learn how to operate the hard-ware and everything, they can run their own show.”

Many of the time slots are occupied by student DJs who play a variety of music for the station. While the expecta-tion may be that most of the Whale Radio staff are broad-casting majors, many of the student DJs study different disciplines and unite their talents to create a student-run media outlet.

“We went to a meeting and

they explained that starting up a show was really easy; you just get on (the radio) and do your thing,” said Dave Tomzcak of Tight Blowhole with Shane and Dave. “We are roommates and best friends. We just say whatever comes to mind. We feed off each other.”

This sort of openness to-ward musical content also extends to the development of talk shows.

“Usually someone comes in with an idea for a show and then we pair them up with another student or they bring in someone they know,” Watson said. “We de-velop their idea and make it applicable to the radio.”

Whale Radio is a multiple-format Internet radio station broadcasted from GVSU in the Kirkhof Center with between 50 and 60 DJs. The station’s schedule runs every weekday from 8 a.m. to midnight.

“Mondays through Wednesdays we’re on all day usually,” Watson said. “This is the first semester that we’re almost to capacity.”

GVSU has been running its own radio broadcasting service for almost 40 years, and Whale Radio has been a

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equality, illiteracy, and human rights violations.”

Hunger Is Not A Game was Diagon Alley’s own imag-ining of of the first campaign launched by the HPA’s Imag-ine Better Project, which seeks to unite fans to work together toward a certain social justice goal. The organization also put on another food drive last year when the first Hunger Games movie was released. Harry Potter Alliance chapters all over the country have par-ticipated. The success of the food drive last year, prompted the club to do another for the upcoming sequel.

“While we want everyone to have a fun time and enjoy the music, our main goal is to get as many donations as pos-sible,” said Wright. “This can be a really hard time of year for families and the point of this event is to raise as much money and food donations as possible so we can help as many people as possible.”

The concert featured several GVSU groups.

“The concert will feature a couple different musical genres including one of our members, Patty Pierzchala who is actu-ally working on her first album right now,” Wright said before the concert.

“I did a couple of shows with Patty and it’s cool to see her grow and mature,” said student Rosie Cusack, who attended the event Thursday night. “Plus this is for a really good cause”.

Overall, club members were satisfied with the success of the concert.

“The concert went really well,” said Wright. “Everyone who came and played were spectacular and we couldn’t have asked for better talent.”

Donation goals were met, showing that fans can come together and work toward a similar cause.

“We didn’t get a lot of monetary donations, but we received over a hundred food items and a lot of non-food donations such as toiletries and other items for personal care,” said Wright. “Overall, it was a very successful night.”

fixture since 2000.“We were in a tight spot

earlier in the decade,” said Watson, who has worked for Whale Radio since the winter semester of 2011. “But we’ve been able to turn it around with DJs who are excited and enthusiastic about their work.”

Shane O’Donohue and Tomczak developed “Tight Blowhole with Shane and Dave” last winter to play any-thing from pop-punk to indie

music for listeners.“(Dave and I) were walk-

ing through (the main level of) Kirkhof and saw the Whale Radio doing their live broadcast,” O’ Donohue said. “We thought, ‘Man, that would be awesome to do.’ We are huge music lovers and wanted to get the music we like out to the public.”

While the show began as a talk show, it has expanded to include live artist interviews

as well as ticket giveaways through a partnership with the Pyramid Scheme.

“We went from talking about music and playing it to actually doing something,” Tomczak said. “I think it’s gotten more important to use than we thought it would.”

A major strategy of creat-ing new shows is teaching in-terested students how to oper-ate radio equipment in order for their show to function.

“We want to be as close to a professional radio station as possible,” Watson said. “It usually takes two shows for people to get a grasp of how the equipment works.”

Watson said he hopes to see Whale Radio acquire its own radio broadcasting equipment to broadcast on the airwaves as well as on its current Internet site.

For more information, vis-it www.whaleradio.org.

component, and the Women’s Center, which teaches the an-ti-violence content.

“We try to make (perfor-mances) as interactive as pos-sible,” Metz said. “We figure if you use this type of theater, it needs to be a dialogue. If it was going to be simply shar-ing information, we would just do a presentation.”

The actors, who are all paid, meet once or twice weekly for rehearsals. The group either rehearses old programs or create new ones.

“I love the learning com-ponent (of ReACT!),” said Dmitri Westbrook, a graduate student at GVSU and a third-year member of ReACt! “Re-ACT! helps us become better people.”

Performances typically last an hour to an hour and a half and consist of a combination of scenes, activities and dis-cussion. In the past, the group used to visit specific classes and present its programs, but now it has branched out to LIB 100 and 201-approved campus programs.

“In terms of assaults and interpersonal violence, the numbers here on Grand Val-ley’s campus mirror national statistics,” Metz said. “We try to make scenes as realistic as possible. We use humor be-cause it helps kind of cut back on a preachy tone and it helps people relax and get into ac-tual, honest discussions.”

Westbrook has encoun-tered a mix of audience re-sponses to performances.

“Some (members) clearly know the different kinds of as-sault,” Westbrook said. “Some are in a gray area, and some people are like, ‘it’s the victim’s fault.’ We get a range of people at different knowledge levels. But through discussion, we all come to a consensus at the end.”

There are currently open-ings in CTH 400 for the win-ter semester of 2014. For more information, contact Allison Metz at metza@gmail.com.

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SHORTSS P O R T S

Baltes tabbed as Men’s Regional Coach of the Year

Grand Valley State Uni-versity head coach Jerry Baltes has been named the USTFCCCA Men’s Midwest Regional Cross Country Coach of the Year for the seventh time in his career.

Baltes has been named a regional coach of the year 13 times overall (men’s or women’s) in his career and continues to improve on the dynasty he has built at GVSU.

The Lakers have domi-nated the Midwest, as the women’s team has won the NCAA Division II Regional Championship for 13 straight seasons, while the men’s team has won each of the last 12.

Both squads will com-pete in the NCAA Division II National Championship on Nov. 23 in Spokane, Wash.

Swim, dive teams named No. 1 teams in poll

The Grand Valley State University men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams have both been listed as the No. 1 in the nation for the first time in school history in the Endless Pools/Colleg-eswimming.com Top 25.

GVSU has been impres-sive as a program to start the season, as the men’s team holds a 5-0 record, while the women’s team is off to a 5-2 start.

Both squads have been challenged with facing a pair of NCAA Division I opponents: the Univer-sity of Wisconsin-Milwau-kee and Michigan State University.

The teams will return to action on Friday in the Doug Coers Invitational at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind.

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Victory: Top left: Erik Thompson (1) runs past Saginaw Valley State’s kickoff coverage on his way to a 76-yard kickoff return touchdown. Top right: Heath Parling (12) attempts a pass while being rushed. Bottom: The Laker team gathers to prepare for the next game play. GVSU defeated SVSU 49-34.

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Stiff winds raked across mud soaked turf Sunday as the Grand Valley State Univer-

sity women’s soccer team defeated Rockhurst University 5-0 in the second round of the NCAA Tour-nament Midwest Regional.

It was just business as usual for the Lakers, who have had to con-tend with the elements as often as any opponent this season.

“The weather, it’s something we just deal with,” sophomore defend-er Katy Woolley said. “We make a big deal out of playing the way we know how to play and then make

adjustments as necessary as we go along.”

Playing into the wind, freshman forward Erika Bradfield rebounded a shot by junior midfielder Char-lie Socia and drew the first blood of the game in the sixth minute of the match. Up 1-0, the Lakers only managed to outshoot Rockhurst 5-4 in the first half and did not score again until the second.

“We were a little bit lucky to not have given up a goal in the first half, and at halftime, we talked about how we need to be better in those situations,” GVSU coach Dave Di-lanni said. “We stressed that we

Business as usualSoccer secures shutout to move on in tourneyBY PETE BARROWSPBARROWS@LANTHORN.COM

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Offense and defense usually receive the most attention, but it was special teams unit that proved to be the difference in the 2013 Battle

of the Valleys.The Grand Valley State University football team

(9-2, 7-2 GLIAC) benefited from a kickoff return touchdown and a blocked punt to blow open the game and secure its first playoff berth since 2010 in a 49-34 win over rival No. 15 Saginaw Valley State University (9-2, 9-1 GLIAC).

After GVSU opened the second half with a touch-down-scoring drive, SVSU responded with its own touchdown drive, which set the stage for GVSU senior safety Erik Thompson to make his mark on the game.

Thompson caught the kickoff at his own 24, found a seam, and outran the Cardi-nals’ coverage team on his way to a 76-yard touchdown return.

On the next possession of the game, GV-SU’s defense forced SVSU to punt—a play that never did work out for the Cardinals. Sophomore Alton Voss came free, blocked the punt, and recovered the ball for GVSU.

“The two special teams plays were huge,” GVSU head coach Matt Mitchell said. “The kickoff return for a touchdown—we didn’t have to get out there on offense, and then blocking the punt, we had something we saw on tape and we got aggressive and Alton Voss recovered that one.”

Sophomore running back Kirk Spencer (broken hand) returned for the first time since Oct. 12 and touched the ball one time in the game. It was only one touch, but he made the most of it.

On the ensuing play after the punt, junior quarterback Heath Parling pitched the ball out to his right to Spencer, who scampered 24 yards for the touchdown, which gave GVSU a 42-27 lead.

“Kirk still has that broken hand, and he still has a cast on it,” Mitchell said. “He can take a handoff in one direction, but not the other. We know in a certain way he can take a sweep in one direction. We had that planned, but that’s the only way he can

go. He couldn’t go the other way.”SVSU’s quarterback Jonathon Jennings came in as

one of the GLIAC’s top quarterbacks statistically, and he had another strong game as he completed 26 of 46 passes for 306 yards passing and an interception. He also ran for 121 yards on 17 carries and scored three touchdowns on the ground.

“Jonathon Jennings is a really good football player,” Mitchell said. “He hurt us with his feet a lot in the first half. Obviously we gave up 34 points, but I still feel like our defense won the game for us in the second half.”

As good as Jennings was, it was Parling and soph-omore tight end Jamie Potts who shined the bright-

est on an overcast day.Parling completed 14 of 26 passes

for 274 yards passing, four touchdowns and an interception. Five of Parling’s completions went to Potts, who had 112 yards receiving and two touchdowns.

“Potts is getting better and better every week,” Parling said. “We thought he could be a good go-to receiver for us, and he’s turning into that, and thankfully he is cause we needed him today.”

Whether it was a jump ball in the end zone or a one-handed grab on the sideline, Potts’ 6-foot-3, 225-pound frame proved to be too much for the undersized SVSU

cornerbacks.“I thought I had the easy part because Heath was put-

ting it on me where I needed it to be,” Potts said. “I had a little bit of a size advantage, so you know, it wasn’t too hard. It was a good job between us.”

Five guys tallied double-digit tackles for GVSU—includ-ing sophomore Jordan Kaufman, who led the Lakers with 16 stops, which is a game-high by a Laker this season. Matt Mosley (14), Deonte’ Hurst (13), Luther Ware (11) and Isiah Dunning (11) were the other leading tacklers for GVSU.

“Our kids kept playing on both sides of the ball and special teams,” Mitchell said. “It feels good. Our coaching staff enjoys coaching this group. We got a great group of kids that have high character. They’re competitive kids that I’ve not had any problems with, so I’m glad that we get to extend our season and keep coaching them, because I think they deserve it.”

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WE’RE NOT DONE YETGV earns its first playoff berth since 2010 with a 49-34 win over SVSU

BATTLE OF THE VALLEYS PART 2GVSU will host Saginaw Valley State in the first round of the Division II play-offs. The game is scheduled to start at 1:00 p.m. in Lubbers Stadium. GVSU is ranked the No. 4 team in Region Four, while Saginaw Valley State is No. 5. The winner will face top-seeded Colo-rado State Pueblo the following week.

WORTH NOTING...In addition to his 112 yards receiving on five catches, Potts also had four punts that went 144 yards, including one that landed inside the 20. With a hamstring injury to Chris Picano, it was Potts who had to take over the punting duties.On his one-handed catch… “He kind of had my right arm locked up, and I saw it was thrown pretty deep so I couldn’t really adjust to it much, and I kind of just stuck it out there and luck-ily it went into my hand,” Potts said.

GAME BALL GOES TO..the special teams unit. The return by Thompson and the blocked punt by Voss were the difference in the game and swung the momentum in GVSU’s favor. After Voss’ blocked punt and Spencer’s score, it felt like it was the Lakers’ day.

STAT OF THE GAME..7-0. With the win, GVSU finishes the regular season 7-0 at Lubbers Stadium. Considering the other stats, the Lakers were outgained in first downs (37-17), yards rushing (267-111), yards passing (306-274) and total offense (573-385).

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Champions don’t cower in the face of adversi-ty. They dance.

The No. 15 Grand Valley State University women’s volleyball team celebrated its first outright GLIAC reg-ular season championship since 2008 over the weekend by furthering its dominance of GLIAC competition with a pair of four-set road victo-ries at Northwood Universi-ty and Hillsdale College.

“I’ve had a feeling about this team since last spring,” head coach Deanne Scan-lon said. “I constantly told them that they have a lot of similarities with the 2005 team that won a national championship. It’s a little surprising because our conference is so tough, but on the other hand, I knew we had the talent.”

GVSU (26-3, 17-1 GLI-AC) has appeared to be un-shakable, unflappable and unstoppable since a 2-2 debut in the Riverfront Ho-tel Grand Rapids Classic in early September. It has won 24 of 25 matches since.

The young Lakers have seemingly forgotten how to lose.

The team needed a vic-tory to secure the outright GLIAC crown when the weekend began, but it came out flat in the first set at Northwood on Friday night.

The reigning GLIAC Player of the Year Juliia Pakhomenko and the Timberwolves came out swinging and scored the first eight points of the match to eventually take the set 25-9.

One might assume an inex-perienced group would panic, but fittingly, the Lakers did the exact opposite.

Scanlon said she wasn’t surprised to see that her play-ers had started dancing to the music on the court despite the initial shellacking.

“They’re goofy and silly off the court, but they have that ability to flip the switch and turn on the competi-tiveness and play relaxed,” she said. “They’ve worked hard at it; our captains have done a great job cultivating this great family environ-

ment within our team. They just don’t give up.”

GVSU responded by rack-ing off three straight victories to wrap up the match in four sets (9-25, 25-15, 25-22, 31-29) on its way to clinching the confer-ence title.

Junior outside hitter Abby Aiken led the way with 12 kills to go with a pair of service aces to power the Laker offense, while sophomore middle blocker Ka-leigh Lound set the tone defen-sively with a career-high nine blocks to go with eight kills and a .471 hitting-percentage clip.

“We got killed, but there was nothing we could do about it,” Lound said of the first set. “We just stayed positive. We always have those goofy moments as a team.”

The fun-loving group celebrated on the bus with a post-game dance party, and the title seemed even sweeter when Scanlon awarded the players with championship bling in the form of Ring Pops.

She said her team quickly regained focus for an impor-tant matchup with Hillsdale on Saturday because she wanted to ensure the team would garner a No. 1 seed in the regional rankings.

Sophomore outside hit-ter Betsy Ronda was lights-out from behind the service line against the Chargers, tallying a trio of consecu-tive aces in the third set before finishing the game with six. She also supplied five kills and nine digs in the victory (23-25, 25-16, 25-18, 25-19).

Junior libero Christina Canepa led the way with a match-high 25 digs—enough to put her in eighth place all time in the GVSU record books.

Aiken posted a match-high 12 kills to go with a pair of aces, while senior right-side hitter Megan Schroeder tallied 11 kills and five blocks.

“I’m very thankful that my last season was such a good one,” Schroeder said. “It will be nice to look back and have all of these memories.”

It’s safe to say the upbeat Lak-ers have every reason to dance.

The team will begin its postseason quest at home on Wednesday in the GLIAC Tournament Quarterfinals.

GLIAC champs: Abby Aiken (12) and Josie Werner (17) go up for the block in a previous game this year. GVSU won its first outright GLIAC regular season championship since 2008 after the Lakers defeated Northwood and Hillsdale over the weekend.

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didn’t play great in the back end of the half but also said we’re still up 1-0 and we need to win now.

“Sometimes, it’s important to focus on the positives instead of the negatives.”

The winds shifted in the sec-ond stanza as the Lakers sailed to a commanding five-goal lead in a little less than 12 minutes of play.

“The elements obviously played a role in both halves,” Dilanni said. “We made the decision early on to play heading into the wind, as-suming it was going to get a little stronger in the second half, but that didn’t happen. I also expected our depth to play a bigger role than it did, but I thought we really turned a corner to start that second half.”

In minute 54, Bradfield contrib-uted to another goal on a redirec-tion that bounced in off a Rock-hurst defender. Four minutes later, junior forward and GVSU season point leader Jenny Shaba struck pay dirt off an assist from Socia.

“I think going with the game plan today was really important,” Woolley said. “We knew the weather was go-ing to be terrible with the wind, and keeping it on the ground, especially in the first half, allowed us to get that first goal. In the second half, we just took advantage of the opportunities like we always do.”

In minute 65, Bradfield launched a long pass to Shaba, who finished a one-on-one opportunity against goalkeeper Ali Wallner with a strike to the middle of the Rockhurst crease. Freshman mid-fielder Marti Corby then capped

the game with a blast from the box 30 seconds later.

“We really worked together as a team, and I think in the second half, we moved the ball consider-ably better than we did in the first half,” Shaba said. “Keeping the ball on the ground was definitely a key, con-sidering the wind, and it made it easier for ev-eryone on the field to play with each other.”

Feet and ball on the ground, the Lak-ers tallied shutout and consecutive win No. 20 of the season while ex-tending the longest home winning streak in NCAA Division II history to 63 games. GVSU concluded the game with a 25-7 shot advantage

over Rockhurst.“The little things are crucial for

us,” Shaba said. “They were today, they have been this season, and they’ll continue to be. But today,

big picture, it just feels great. Every year in the beginning of the season, we make a long list of goals, and anytime we move on towards another goal, it’s a good day.”

Now 20-0-1 on the season, the Lakers will advance to play Mid-west Regional No. 2 seed Quincy (18-0-4), the No. 8 ranked team

in the latest NSCAA poll, Friday at a site that has yet to be determined. The obstacles left to be conquered by GVSU—weather, travel, oppo-

nents to face—are growing fewer and are steadily traversed each week.

“For us, it’s all in house,” Di-lanni said. “We need to get healthy, take care of ourselves and be in a good frame of mind, but it is good for us to get a game like this for our young kids to play. We have a lot of players who do not have game experience in the tournament, so that was exciting for them. It’s also good for them to know that if they put in the effort, they’re going to get the reward.

“To get the first postseason vic-tory helps progress the entire team, and this team is really just about trying to extend the season each week. This team loves each other, they want to keep playing, and we’re going to try to climb the lad-der here, rung by rung.”

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There was more than enough offense to go around at the Field-

house Arena when a pair of local teams collided for an entertaining game of exhibi-tion hoops.

The Grand Valley State University men’s basketball

team bounced back from a 101-52 loss at Michigan State University by taking down Hope College 90-84 at home on Thursday night to close out its exhibition schedule.

“We were happy to have another opportunity to have a practice game,” GVSU head coach Ric Wesley said. “We’ve had three of them, and I don’t think we performed very

well in the first two. We saw some positives, and I thought offensively we did some good things. Sabin and Woodson were tremendous.”

It didn’t take junior guard Ryan Sabin long to show why he was tabbed as a preseason All-GLIAC North Division First Team selection.

The Byron Center, Mich., native drained a three on the team’s first possession and followed it up with a pull-up jumper on the next trip down the court. He finished with a game-high 23 points to go with five boards and two assists.

“My mindset was to attack,” Sabin said. “Usu-ally I’m a shoot-er, but there were some lanes out there and I started to take advantage of them. I don’t like to be one dimensional; I like to attack and shoot.”

The Lakers found some space in the lane after Hope’s 6-foot-11 senior center Nate VanArendonk got into foul trouble early on.

GVSU took advantage and went on to out-score Hope 50-16 in the paint. The Lakers dictated the pace of the game but failed to run away with it.

The NCAA Division III team’s three-point shooters were a key reason why.

The Hope shooters were feeling it from beyond the arc, connecting on six of 10 threes in the first half. They finished the game with 12 overall.

“We’re not going to win

many games giving up that many points,” Sabin said. “We have to know where people are going to be, where the help side is. That comes with experience, but as a col-lective group, we’ve got to play better.”

The visiting team was hoping for a late rally in the second half and managed to cut the GVSU lead to six with less than five minutes to play—then GVSU delivered

the dagger.The shot

clock expired as senior point guard Rob Woodson buried a three with 4:21 to play, and the Lakers held on for a six-point victory.

“We needed something big right there to

slow down their momen-tum,” Woodson said. “That shot really gave us a boost to finish out the game and slow up their run.”

The speedy point guard propelled the Laker offense to the tune of 18 points, a game-high eight boards, two assists and two steals.

He said the team benefit-ed from the play of freshman forward Trevin Alexander, who came up big despite playing just 19 minutes. He finished the game with 14 points and seven rebounds.

Sophomore forward Ri-cardo Carbajal also chipped in with 13 points.

The team begins its 2013-2014 regular season tonight at the Fieldhouse Arena against Olivet College at 7 p.m.

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Due to a bacterial skin infection that broke out among the Grand

Valley State University club wrestling team this week, its dual meet with Eastern Michi-gan University on Saturday was canceled.

“It was basi-cally a precau-tion. It wouldn’t have been the safest thing for our team to wrestle,” Head Coach Rick Bol-huis said. “We also had sev-eral other injuries, and with our schedule that we have coming up, it was the saf-

est decision to go ahead and not travel to (Eastern Michi-gan).”

The bacterial infection broke out earlier in the sea-son among a group of mid-dle-weight wrestlers, but it

eventually sub-sided. Days pri-or to the sched-uled match with Eastern Michi-gan, the infec-tion broke out again, sidelin-ing several Lak-ers.

“ W h e n e v -er you have a group of guys c o n s t a n t l y

training and working out with each other, bacterial infections are bound to hap-pen,” Bolhuis said. “It was

nothing too serious. We should be ready to go next week.”

The Lakers, however, did hold an intersquad scrim-mage Saturday to further prepare themselves for their upcoming schedule, which features back-to-back invi-tationals at Mott Commu-nity College.

“Our guys will be fo-cused and ready to go come next weekend,” Bolhuis said. “This is a really important part of the season for us. Our upcoming week of prac-tice is going to be crucial in preparation of the invitation at Mott.”

The Lakers will have a week to prepare before they head to Mott for the Mott Community College Bear Open on Sunday, Nov. 24.

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Through 11 games last season, the Grand Valley State Uni-versity club men’s Division II

hockey team was in the midst of an 11-game win streak, sporting a 9-1-1 record and looking nearly unstop-pable. The winds of change have hit the Lakers this year, as they held a subpar 4-5-1 season score going into this weekend’s doubleheader against perennial powerhouse Fer-ris State University.

GVSU appeared to be in old form against the archrival Bulldogs as it steamrolled its way to an 8-0 victory in Big Rapids to lift the record up to the .500 mark for the first time in the 2013-2014 campaign. Senior goaltender Scott Tiefenthal led the way for the Lakers with a 16-save effort in his first shutout of the year.

“(Tiefenthal) played great and he made the saves when he had to,” junior left wing Matt Smartt said. “I thought we played really well and put together a complete game… Our goal was to keep moving for-ward, not have any setbacks, to compete well, and get our goalie the shutout.”

GVSU showcased a relentless forecheck that aided in Tiefenthal’s shutout, as the Lakers were able to continually get the puck deep in the Bulldog zone as per the game plan of head coach Mike Forbes. The Lakers chipped the puck into the corner time and time again, forcing

the Ferris State defensemen to turn their backs while the Lakers flooded the zone with speed.

As GVSU knows, the best de-fense is a good offense, and that proved to be true Friday night as the constant Laker pressure lead to a massive 58-16 difference in the shot department.

Smartt kicked off the route with an early goal, and the rest of the Lakers followed suit, taking a 3-0 lead into the locker room upon the sound of the first period horn.

GVSU’s play faltered during the second peri-od, but not enough for Ferris State to take ad-vantage, as the Lakers tallied two more scores to hold on to a com-manding lead heading into the final period of the game. GVSU du-plicated its first-period production in the fi-nal stages of the night, knocking home three

more goals en route to the GVSU-friendly final score of 8-0.

Despite its slow start to the sea-son, the team believes it’s just a matter of time before things start to click and flow smoothly, and it anticipates that this weekend’s per-formance will kick-start yet another strong season.

“We’re a team that’s finding themselves right now,” Forbes said. “We’ve got a lot of good individual talent, and we’re just trying to find the right mix of culture and hab-its for out time, and sometimes it takes time. We could easily be 10-1 right now… We’re good enough. All

teams find themselves at different paces.”

The Lakers put together a strong team effort in one of their most statistically impressive outputs of the season, as the final score sheet saw six different GVSU skaters with markers. In addition to Smartt’s ear-ly goal, senior forward Chad Wil-helm and sophomore center Alex Ostrowski each scored two, joined by a trio of juniors—Tyler Stoller, Jake Endicott and Ian Hamilton—who each found the back of the net once on the evening.

While the final score and the general flow of the game were coop-erative with the Lakers, they believe that the game could have tilted even more in their favor were it not for a temporary let-down in the middle stages of the contest. Sandwiching the disappointing second period, however, were two stages of con-stant pressure and flowing play that lead to the final outcome.

“It took us a little bit of time to click this year… We had a slow start, but after last weekend, we got our lines up and running,” Wilhelm said. “I think we’ll keep running and gunning on Saturday and do a lot of the same things we did well tonight.”

On Saturday night, the Lakers played host to Ferris State in the second game of the weekend dou-bleheader.

GVSU’s stellar play from Friday night carried over into the first pe-riod as the Lakers opened up an early 2-0 lead, creating a 10-goal unanswered stretch over their last four periods. The Bulldogs finally snapped their drought with a sec-

ond-period goal to draw within one, but GVSU put any comeback hopes to rest with two late third-pe-riod goals to complete the weekend sweep and continue improving its escalating record.

Freshman goalie Dom Juncaj, filling in for Tiefenthal, continued the hot streak the Laker netminders have been riding, making 23 saves in a standout performance of his own. GVSU has only allowed four goals in its past three games—all of which it’s won—parlaying the ad-

vantage into its longest win streak of the season.

Junior forward Brad Wilhelm led the Lakers offensively with two goals and was joined by freshman defenseman Reede Burnette and Ostrowski, who each netted one of their own.

“We played very well and kept the puck in their zone for a lot of the game,” Chad Wilhem said. “We hurt ourselves by not capitalizing on the chances when we got them, but I think we still played a great game.”

BY ADAM KNORRAKNORR@LANTHORN.COM

Turning tables: The GVSU hockey team defeated Ferris State in an 8-0 victory despite a subpar record this season going into the game.

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RoommatesFemale roommate for 4bed/2bath house on route 50.Large room, huge closet.$350 1/4 utilities.616-516-3942 fordetails.

URGENT: Female roommate

needed for WINTER 2014. (Late December through end

of the school year.) CampusView, private bedroom, 2

bathrooms, 2 other room-mates. There is significant

parking space, a pool, an ac-tivity center, and is very close

to the bus stop.

In need of a roommate forWinter 2014 semester. Theplace is at Ottawa CreekApartments on 52nd Avenue,which is close, but not reallyin walking distance in theWinter.Costs $360 a month andutilities are about $20-30each month. Two-bed,one-bath, with a kitchen, din-ing, and living room area.Quite spacious. I have thesmaller bedroom, so thelarger one with a HUGEcloset is up for grabs.I am a male hoping to findanother male, but I'min a tight situation, so I canbe flexible.I am not the loud, ruckusy,party-type. I am in my fourthyear of college so I needsomeone who is chill, butthat I can still be buddieswith.If you are interested pleasecontact me immediately andwe can set up a time andplace to meet for an informalinterview.

Housing1 room for sublease in Cop-per Beach Townhouses. Bigrooms; lots of living space!There are currently 3 othergirls in the house and wouldprefer afemale. This is an upstairsbedroom with its own privatefull bathroom attached. Thewhole apartment is furnished.The bedroom has: frame,bedspring, mattress, bedsidetable, large lamp, 2 walk-inclosets with shelves. Thefloor plan is 2bedrooms upstairs; 2 in thebasement with the main floorhaving the living room andkitchen, there is also laundryin the basement. The 3 girlsare VERY respectful, nice,and clean. I recently changedmy major and all my classesare now at GVSU’s down-towncampus. This sub-leasewould run from Dec 14th(2013)- June 28th (2014). Therent is $442 a month whichincludes water. Electric isseparate. As of now one wallis painted peach color, butwill be painted over upon re-quest.Please feel free to contactme with any questions or toget a tour!

DESPERATE for FEMALE

roommate for Winter 2014. Private bedroom, 2 bath-

rooms, great roommates,good rent, right near bus

stop.616-546-1794

Looking for a female sub-leaser for January- April 262014 at Hillcrest. Rent isabout $345 a month (freeparking, internet, water, andbasic channels). Four bed, 21/2 bath, not far from the 48bus stop. Contact me formore info!jonescf@mail.gvsu.edu

I'm looking a female to sub-

lease my apartment at Cam-pus West from ASAP until

May 2014. The suite accom-modates myself and 3 other

lovely young ladies, all areGV students. For more infor-

mation contact me (DaviaDorsey) at 313-516-7167 or

dorseyda@mail.gvsu.edu.

3 rooms available starting

Dec 1. 24 Deloney Ave NWGrand Rapids 49504. Rent is

300 a month and Utilitiesnormally come to about 70 a

person. No pets. Furnitureincluded. Washer and Dryer

included.

Looking for a female sub-leaser at Campus West! I livein a furnished unit in the new2 bd 2 br apartments. Rent is$535/month utilities,cable/internet/parking arefree! The lease goes until July27 and I am looking to moveout by December 16. I will bepaying for the entire month ofDecember AND January. Text 734-417-1625 for moreinfo.

Rooms available in GR.

Short 10 min walk to down-town

campus. 24 Deloney AveNW, Grand Rapids 49504.

Emailglashowk@mail.gvsu.edu

Senior looking to subletMeadows Crossing bedroomstarting Dec. 2013.$449/month, utilities usually$25-$30.Bedroom #3 in Style Aapartment. E-mail me at to-the@mail.gvsu.edu.

Sub-Leaser Wanted ASAP.Male or Female. One bed-room available at High TreeTownhomes. Rent is $395 amonth with $22 a month forutilities. There is a washerand dryer in the apartment.Free parking. Free water.Free wifi and cable. Share abathroom with only one otherperson. 3 female roommateslive there and are college stu-dents. Walk-in closet. Fur-nished living room/diningroom. Dishwasher in theapartment. A free bus stopright outside of thecomplex that goes all theway downtown. Closeenough to walk to the GVSUAllendale campus. If yousign soon you will get therest of November free.Please contact me for a tour.Call or text 616-914-4214. Oremail karelre@mail.gvsu.edu

Looking for a subleaser at 48

west. 4 person style aapartment, needed ASAP!!

The other girlsare super niceand easy to get along with!

text/call with any questionsanytime! 248-330-9110,

Meghan

Looking for a Sub-leaser fornext semester (Winter 2014).Private room with clean,quiet, and friendly room-mates in Campus ViewTownhouses. Unit is one ofthe closest to campus (lessthan 10 minute walk toKirkoff), a quick walk to route48, or you can ride CampusView's own bus thatoperates every school day.Two bathrooms, laundry in-side unit, with ample kitchenand living space. Rent is$320 a month, with utilitiesthat have been ranging from$20-35 a month; internet, ca-ble, and water are free.Lease runs until the end ofthe winter semester. Pleasecontact me with questions orto set up a time to tour. Mat-t h e w -rauppm@mail.gvsu.edu

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