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he Muslim Student As-sociation handed out 100 Laker blue hijabs for the second annual “Wear a Hijab Day” on

Thursday, March 19. Students who participated were encouraged to wear the scarf all day in order to see how others react to it.

Besides wearing the hijab through-out the day, students were encouraged to attend an event at the Mary Idema Pew Library where they could discuss their experiences with other students. Members of the MSA also presented some historical information related to religious and non-religious headwear.

Nargilya Gasanova, a GVSU grad-uate and ex-member of the MSA, led the discussion. She enticed discussion by providing cultural and religious background that encouraged discus-sion amongst audience members.

Students who participated in wear-ing a hijab said it increased the amount of attention they received. A woman in the audience said most people tried to be sneaky while looking at her, but she definitely noticed she was getting more attention than before.

Another audience member said he did not receive more stares than usual. He said he usually receives looks be-cause of being African American, so wearing the hijab did not increase the attention others gave him.

While most of the discussion cen-tered around attention, other audience members saw some benefits to wear-

ing a hijab. Jenna Williams said the hijab made her feel different about her appearance – hair was no longer cov-ering her face and it felt like she was fully exposing her features.

Gasanova, who doesn’t wear a hi-jab every day, said the hijab can help women feel more beautiful.

“As you cover your physical fea-tures, the accent, the focus stays on you,” Gasanova said. “On your charac-ter, on your words, on your actions, on your smile, and your eye contact and your habits and your kindness.”

Amina Mohamed, a member of the MSA, agreed that a hijab can help accentuate a woman’s beauty, but she wanted to make it clear that this doesn’t mean that women who don’t wear a hijab aren’t beautiful.

Growing up, Mohamed said she de-cided to wear a hijab because she want-ed to imitate her mother. She would mimic her mother’s dress, so the hijab was just another piece of the puzzle.

“To me, it wasn’t as much of a chal-lenge just because the whole idea of covering my body was already some-thing that I had built into my attire because my mom dressed like that,” Mohamed said.

Objectification of men and women was also at the center of the discussion. Gasanova contrasted the objectifying images of half-naked men and women found in advertising with the idea of a hijab being constricting.

Williams agreed that it was an in-teresting comparison. Wearing the

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eith Brophy, a local business leader and entrepreneur, has been named state executive director of the Michigan Small Business Devel-opment Center (MI-SBDC). How-

ever, Brophy is not new to the center; he has served on the advisory board for many years and launched his first business, Sagestone Con-sulting, with assistance from the SBDC.

In this position, Brophy will provide lead-ership to the statewide MI-SBDC network, which consists of 11 different regions that span the entire state. Each office consists of over 100 team members and their mission is to work with high potential small businesses to help them succeed and to have a high impact on Michigan’s economy.

“Grand Valley’s SBDC center is located in the Seidman College of Business, and it’s unique and very significant for two reasons,” Brophy said. “Grand Valley hosts the state headquarters that provides leadership across all networks and, ad-ditionally, Grand Valley hosts the West Michigan region. The businesses of West Michigan inter-sect directly with the SBDC and Grand Valley.”

Brophy’s first day on the job was Friday, March 13 – although he’s already being kept busy.

“I came in and spoke with team members,” he said. ” On Saturday, I was in Washington, D.C. and had meetings all the way into Mon-day and Tuesday. Those meetings were with other SBDC directors from other states across the nation and sharing practices, and then also meeting with elected officials with our Michi-gan senators and representatives to provide the economic impact statements of the MI-SBDC.”

Though his days will vary, the constant

of his job will be supporting successful busi-nesses and small businesses, both in Michi-gan and the statewide economy.

“The typical day could involve meeting with other SBDC team members and small business-es and it could definitely involve working with other elements of Grand Valley, like outreach centers or with students,” Brophy said. “There’s a number of students that work as part of the marketing and research element of the SBDC.”

Despite being busy and having a hectic sched-ule, Brophy is excited for this opportunity.

“This is one of the top organizations in the nation,” he said. “The prior director built a tre-mendous organization, and I’m very excited about its role within the Seidman College of Business and the impact the organization has

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tudents, faculty and staff were given the op-portunity to talk with Grand Valley State University President

Thomas J. Haas during his virtual office hours on Thursday, March 19.

During the 90 minutes provided, Haas was questioned on a variety of topics, including sustainable land use, university athletics, environ-mental studies and the future of GVSU, among other issues.

In response to a question con-cerning GVSU’s potential Division I status, Haas explained that it’s in a student’s best interest to stay in Di-vision II.

“Division II is the right place for us to be because of the proper balance between academics and athletics,” Haas said. “Being in Di-vision II also helps hold down your tuition cost.”

Another community member took the chance to question Haas about what steps GVSU is taking to reduce sexual assault on campus.

“Preventing sexual assault is everyone’s responsibility, and we have invested significant resources in education, training and sup-port programs,” he said. “Please join us by encouraging your peers to become educated and be active bystanders. GVSU continues to be ranked as one of the nation’s safest college campuses.”

On a more personal note, Haas

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CULTURAL SUPPORT: GVSU alumna Nargilya Gasanova speaks at the second annual “Wear a Hijab Day” during Islamic Awareness Week.

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STRENGTHENING: Keith Brophy, business leader and entrepreneur, will take over for Carol Lopucki as the new executive director of the Michi-gan Small Business Development Center. Brophy began his position on March 13, and he will continue to advocate for small businesses.

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not only on the state, but on the whole West Michigan community.

“I’m looking forward to increasing the partnership in some innovating ways and to driving things, like job cre-ation, forward. I’m looking forward to extending the strong performance and teams and partnerships, and to extend our reach working with high potential

small businesses, startups and estab-lished businesses looking to grow.”

Carol Lopucki served as the state executive director of the Michigan Small Business Development Center for 14 years before she retired in De-cember. She called it a tremendous ex-perience and an honor.

“I had the opportunity in this po-sition to help thousands of businesses launch and grow annually through our business savvy consultants lo-cated across the state’s 83 counties,”

Lopucki said. “I’m very honored to have been a piece of the puzzle in the turnaround of the Michigan economy by assisting our state’s entrepreneurs in their building strategy, developing their management systems and ac-cessing their needed capital. I laud Grand Valley and the Seidman Col-lege of Business for its hiring of Keith Brophy, a talented entrepreneur him-self, who has the leadership skills to take the SBDC organization forward.”

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shared an experience from his college career in which he was falling behind in his studies due to a case of pneumonia.

“In my sophomore year at the Coast Guard Academy, I had pneumonia, putting me woefully behind in all my coursework, worried I could not catch up,” he said. “How-ever, classmates of mine rallied and, because of the friendships I had, I was able to overcome the challenge. These friendships have now

lasted a lifetime.”In contrast to the more se-

rious questions, Haas also re-vealed his favorite show is The Big Bang Theory and that his ideal meal consists of his wife’s homemade apple crumb pie with a hot cup of coffee.

Andrew Plague, presi-dent of the Student Senate at GVSU, assisted Haas in an-swering questions during the virtual office hours. Plague said Haas takes very seriously the feedback he receives from the campus community.

“Prior to his career here, Haas was a professor who had open office hours, so for him,

this is really a way to continue that,” Plague said. “He keeps a record of the concerns and the compliments and lets the ap-propriate person know about it. I do think he takes it seriously.”

Plague added that the vir-tual office hours provide a space where people feel more comfortable to talk directly about the important topics.

“I think people may have more courage online, and that they may be a little more to the point,” he said. “I feel the questions really do reflect what people are talking about, and they’re usually very timely.”

Haas said one of the best

parts about the virtual office hours is the opportunity to build relationships with stu-dents, staff and faculty.

“I like the description that we are the smallest large com-munity, and I think that’s be-cause of the relationships be-tween students and staff,” he said. “People on the chat are very respectful, and I think it shows the value of GVSU in how they understand these op-portunities are important. I’ve never been disappointed.”

ANSWERING INQUIRIES: GVSU President Thomas Haas held virtual office hours on Thursday, March 19. He answered a wide variety of questions, including ones about university athletics, land use, the future of GVSU and other issues.

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hijab was a unique experience, but she was still being surround-

ed by objectifying images.“Those photos are every-

where,” Williams said. “Men and women feel like they have to live up to that – they need to

look like that.”All of this plays into how

our culture sees itself, Williams said. Advertisements have al-tered the perception of what

humans should look like, so when people don’t look like that, it can create a disparity.

The MSA plans to make “Wear a Hijab Day” a yearly event.

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LAKER NAMED PRWEEK’S STUDENT OF THE YEARDaltyn Little, GVSU advertising and public relations

senior, was chosen as PRWeek’s 2015 Student of the Year among a field of 100 other candidates.

For the competition, students and alumni from GVSU’s School of Communications assisted Little in de-signing an advertising campaign for the Toyota Mirai, a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle. The project included a five-page plan, two pages of additional materials, a video explaining fuel cell technology and a 100-word essay.

Little received the first place award on March 19 at the annual PRWeek Award Ceremony in New York.

For more information, visit awards.prweekus.com/student.

HEALTH EXPOThe Kirkhof Center will host the second Health Expo,

an event including information on topics such as sexu-al health, healthy living and other breakout sessions.

The event will be brought to Kirkhof by the Midwest Interprofessional Practice (MIPERC), Education and Research Center and revolve around the theme “Sailing to Good Health.”

Organizations such as Kids’ Food Basket, Women’s Center and additional community vendors will help host the various breakout sessions offered. Those attending can expect refreshments and a chance at different prizes.

The Health Expo will take place from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on March 24 in the Grand River Room at Kirkhof.

For more information, go to www.gvsu.edu/miperc.

LAKERS FOR A CURE TELETHONStudents from Grand Valley Television, the Grand

Valley Lanthorn and Whale Radio will be combining forces to host a live telethon on Tuesday, March 26 to raise money for Relay for Life.

Titled “Lakers for a Cure Telethon,” the event will in-clude music, comedy stand-up, guest speakers as well as representatives from the Colleges Against Cancer.

The telethon will take place from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in Area 51 in the lower level of the Kirkhof Center. Those unable to attend can also stream the telethon at grandvalleytv.com/live or tune in to channel 46.1.

Donations will be accepted on the main level of Kirkhof all day during the event. Students, staff and fac-ulty can also help with the cause by using the hashtag #LakersForACure on any social media platforms.

For more information about the telethon, go to grandvalleytv.com/telethon.

STUDENT SCHOLARS DAYThe 20th annual Student Scholars Day will include

keynote speaker Brian Fagan, a best-selling author and archaeologist known for his work on climate change.

Fagan is the professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He has authored more than 45 books.

The event, which is sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Research, will take place on April 8 and include 700 students and faculty mentors.

For more information, go to www.gvsu.edu/ours.

RESEARCH TEAM TO PRESENT FINDINGS ON SHIPWRECKED STEAMBOATS

Following a successful dive into the bottom of the Reeds Lake on Feb. 20, members of the GVSU research team will present their findings on the observed steamboat shipwrecks on Tuesday, March 24.

The dive was led by professors Mark Gleason and Mark Schwartz. The team was able to locate the wreck of the Steam Ship Hazel A. and became the first aca-demic research team to do so in the process.

The presentation will take place at 7 p.m. in the East Grand Rapids City Commission chambers.

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rand Valley State University hosted West Michigan high school stu-dents at its annual Michigan His-tory Day contest this weekend. In addition to providing a venue for

the event, GVSU gave high school students a look into the campus and university life.

Students from local high schools showcased their projects at an exhibition and were judged by 33 historians who enjoyed the works and the interviews with students. Some of the students worked alone while others worked in groups for their projects. There were 43 entries, and 67 stu-dents qualified for the state contest.

Although the event is mainly focused on his-tory, there were many different ideas presented at the exhibit. Students focused on leadership with George Washington, innovation with Walt Dis-ney, invention with Thomas Edison and Christi-anity with D.L Moody. A student group gave the historical theme a twist and combined a discus-

sion of Theodore Roosevelt with conservation, giving their project the slogan “Saving our blue, protecting our green.”

High school junior Vennila Thillaivanan ex-plained that she gained inspiration for her project from a recent trip to New Dehli. She participated in the junior exhibition project with her friend Lisha Chadda and showcased the life of Akbar the Great and his Red Fort. The juniors supple-mented their submission with a Styrofoam rep-lica of the Red Fort, and they went on to win a place to compete at the state competition.

Professor Sean O’Neill coordinated the event and announced the winners. He has been the regional coordinator of this event since 1991 and explained that a lot of plan-ning goes into the event.

“We had over 150 students from 17 schools this year,” O’Neill said. “We limited schools this year to just their top entries at our contest, so our total number of students is about half as many as we had last year. Ev-ery year, we pick up new schools – rules are

tweaked a little, and the technology shifts.”O’Neill added that the Michigan History

Day Contest is not only important for the high school students who compete, but also for GVSU as an institution because the con-test brings hundreds of West Michigan stu-dents, siblings and parents onto the campus.

“The history department shares its resources in judging the History Day entries because we appreciate what a special opportunity this is for

middle and high school students to study his-tory in a similar way to how historians work,” O’Neill said. “The History Day program is a great educational program. Students go through all of the steps of determining and nar-rowing a topic, producing a thesis, researching and preparing a historical presentation. History Day students may present their work in a paper, an exhibit, a performance, a documentary or a website. We see some of the most creative works in the History Day program.”

GVSU student Scott St. Louis was a Junior Division judge for the paper competition at last year’s program and spoke highly of its ability to connect GVSU with high school students.

“The opportunity to serve in this capacity was very rewarding,” he said. “I read some out-standing papers written by students in grades 6-8, and was very impressed with the quality of their writing and the depth of their insight. I hope that History Day encourages these stu-dents to follow their passion for the subject. Perhaps a few of them will end up at GVSU.”

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ear Grand Valley Com-munity:

With the warmer spring

weather, there will be vari-ous outdoor programs and speakers similar to previous years. As a reminder, Grand Valley is a public university that supports the free ex-change of ideas. Without freedom of expression, shar-ing and testing ideas is not possible, which diminishes learning for everyone.

Consistent with this prin-ciple, the university embraces individual rights under the First Amendment that afford everyone the opportunity to express protected speech freely. I encourage members of our university community to embrace the tenants of free speech even when ideas or expressions may seem offen-sive or wrong. People at the university often engage in civil discourse about ideas even when their notions differ extensively. In fact,

at times, the only area of agreement may be “to agree to disagree” on an issue.

Unfortunately, sometimes people strive to drown out the voices of those who dif-fer with their thinking – this is antithetical to free expres-sion. Sharing one’s views via protected speech, even when judged offensive or distaste-ful by some, does not violate the protections of the First Amendment and should be respected in our community. Each of us can choose how we will react to the ideas of others – if you encounter a speaker(s) expressing views that are disagreeable to you, I encourage you to ignore them as you go about your daily travels on campus.

Grand Valley is a special place for learning – let’s keep it special by understanding and valuing free expression!

Cordially,H. BART MERKLEVICE PROVOST FOR STUDENT AFFAIRS & DEAN OF STUDENTS

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COORDINATOR: Professor Sean O’Neill coordinated the History Day event at GVSU.

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FACULTY FAIRNESS: John Kilbourne, GVSU movement science professor and advocate for adjunct faculty, spoke about the importance of the walkout movement and how many full-time faculty are not aware of it. He said GVSU should be a leader in treating adjunct faculty better, giving them better wages, a voice in faculty governance and healthcare programs.

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djunct Walkout Day is a national movement that occurred on Feb. 25 to raise aware-

ness about what the New Fac-ulty Majority website calls “the contingent faculty crisis.” The movement works to ensure “that all faculty have equal ac-cess to the working conditions they need to help students ac-

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quire the education they need, not only to improve their own individual economic situations, but also to become thoughtful, active citizens.”

At Grand Valley State University, many faculty and staff are discussing this event and its impacts.

With so many categories, it can be hard to sort out who is an adjunct and who is not. Philip Batty, the director of In-stitutional Analysis, explained that there are part-time and full-time faculty members. Full time include tenured and non-tenured professors, as well as associate and visiting faculty. Adjuncts, Batty said, are “contracted on a course-by-course basis,” meaning that they are given money to teach specific courses.

“They staff courses from faculty under contract,” Batty said. “If they have courses they can’t get an instructor for, from full-time faculty,

they need to arrange that with adjuncts. Hiring an adjunct is a much quicker solution than hiring a full-time faculty, which could take a year.”

Batty has heard of Adjunct Walkout Day, but said he does not think anyone actually left their classes at GVSU.

“Nationwide, there was relatively little walking out,” he said. “There was a lot of ac-tivism, but a lot of them can’t afford to take that stance.”

Jon Jellema, associate vice president of academic affairs, said as of Nov. 1, 2014, there were 1,145 benefit-eligible faculty – which includes visit-ing and affiliate faculty – and 575 part-time instructors. The number of part-time professors has increased since 2012, but has fluctuated since 2004.

“Overall, there’s not been much growth,” Jellema said. “Different from the national trend, GV has been intention-al about trying to increase the

number of full-time faculty and decreasing its reliance on part-time faculty.”

In addition, Jellema ex-plained the benefits and drawbacks to employing part-time faculty. From a universi-ty standpoint, hiring adjuncts is necessary because it helps financially, responds to stu-dent demand for courses and provides new perspectives in the classroom.

For the professors them-selves, the disadvantages seem to outweigh the benefits. Ad-juncts may have the opportu-nity for what Jellema calls “pure teaching,” which means there is no research, committee work or advisees required.

“Some adjuncts like the life, and/or see it as building teaching experience for other

jobs,” Jellema said. “Many oth-ers would much prefer a tenure position with benefits.”

The main drawbacks for ad-juncts include course cancella-tions, low pay, no benefits and tight office space. Plus, Jellema said many of them do not feel part of their department be-cause of irregular schedules.

Jellema added that com-paring part time and full time professors’ salaries is often not adequate.

“Because of market forces, different disciplines pay differ-ently – a beginning account-ing prof will make much more than a beginning English prof, for example, and same is true of part-time faculty who teach accounting or English,” he said.

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Do you think students are given enough opportunities to voice their concerns with administrators?

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“The opportunities are in place, but they’re not advertised as well as they could be.”

TALON RUDEL

YEAR: JuniorMAJOR: F i lm & VideoHOMETOWN: Ortonvi l le , Mich.

“Yes, no matter who I’m dealing with here, it’s easy to find an answer. People look for help for you.”

NATALIE VANDORN

YEAR: SeniorMAJOR: Elementary EducationHOMETOWN: Warren, Mich.

“People complain to each other, but they don’t tell how they feel to administration.”

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YEAR: SophomoreMAJOR: International BusinessHOMETOWN: Seoul , South Korea

“Most of the professors are really open to talking to you and there is a lot of counseling on campus.”

MORGAN LABARRIE

YEAR: FreshmanMAJOR: HTM, Meeting & EventsHOMETOWN: Berkley, Mich.

“Not really, There’s a hotline, but I don’t know the number.”

MADDIE FORSHEE

YEAR: JuniorMAJOR: JournalismHOMETOWN: Twining, Mich.

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rand Valley State Univer-sity President Thomas Haas held his second virtual of-fice hours of the year on Thursday. These sessions

allow students, faculty and staff to con-nect with the university president and bring concerns to his attention. He took questions about sustainability, sports, the future of GVSU and more.

This provides the GVSU community with a valuable opportunity to communi-cate with someone who has a direct con-nection to how the university functions and has the ability to influence it.

We at the Lanthorn want to encour-age students to ask tough questions and voice their concerns to administrators when given the chance. Virtual office hours are one way to speak up about things that concern you on campus.

Some students may have a question or issue, but they do not tell anyone about

because they might think its not that im-portant or no one will have the solution. How do you know if you never ask? It doesn’t hurt to ask administrators like the president questions, because others are probably wondering the same thing.

Bringing up ideas for change on campus can also get administrators thinking about possible directions the university can take in the future to improve the college experi-ence for students. There might be an issue that many students have encountered that the faculty and staff know nothing about, and the only way to remedy that is to bring those issues up to someone who can help resolve them. It can also give those leading GVSU a better insight into what campus is like for the everyday student.

Voicing your opinion is also crucial when it deals with tough topics or con-troversial issues, such as sexual assault on campus. Haas answered a question about this on March 19 when someone asked

what steps GVSU is taking to decrease sexual assault. Topics like this are hot-button issues this year. Many people are discussing this because they care about how it impacts their time at GVSU.

Students that are worried can find out what the university administrators are doing to address these controversial issues, which can help them feel better about their safety on campus. Or, if they feel GVSU is not doing enough, they can work to create change with an educated perspective on what is being done and what they think should be done.

In short, there are many positive out-comes to talking to administration about the campus community. It shows them that the students care and want to see GVSU continue to grow in the right direction. Take advantage of opportunities like the virtual office hours to tell President Haas and other university leaders what you want out of your college experience.

chool is stressful enough, but try-ing to work part time can some-times be too

much. Then again, college is expensive, and working even just eight hours for minimum wage can help the slightest. So, how can you decide if you should work throughout the school year or not? Before I took my job at the beginning

of the school year, I found myself mentally making a pros and cons list.

The first obvious pro for working is the money. Whether it buys your grocer-ies for the week or lets you do a few loads of laundry, that’s just another $100 that won’t be added to the possible debt of student loans. Addition-ally, with minimum wage on the rise, fewer hours will still be giving you a decent amount of money.

The next pro of work-ing during the school year is the time management skills it can give you. If you know how to manage your time, getting a job will actually help you out even more. Knowing that you have class in the morn-ing and then work in a few hours will force you to do your homework and not sit

around watching Netflix. It can sound counterproduc-tive, but if you have the right mindset, it can actually work in your favor.

Another positive aspect to working is the people you meet. If you’re shy at school, work can really help you flourish and possibly make new friends – I love my work friends.

Even though working during the school year can be a good thing, there are also some obvious cons to it.

The first con would be the time consumption. Working, even if only for a few hours a day or a week, can leave you little time for schoolwork or school-related activities.

The next con would be the stress. Whether it’s from lack of free time or the job is just stressful, it can be overwhelming to have a

job. Nobody wants to go to a job that aggravates them and makes them wish they were somewhere else. Get to really know the environment of the job and the company before accepting a job.

Another con of working during the school year is the driving. If you have to drive to your job, you’ll want to make sure that your paycheck will make up for the gas that it’ll cost you to get there and back.

Having a job isn’t easy in the first place, and then placing the stress of school and trying to do well in both areas can be too stressful for some people. Make sure that, if you want to get a job, you look into all aspects of it first. Knowing the pay, how far away it is, and the amount of hours the company is expecting you to work each week can help you decide what is best for you.

any Americans view illiteracy as a foreign issue. It’s common for a lot of us

to recognize it as a significant problem in other parts of the world, but ultimately feel it is irrelevant in America because

they don’t have any direct experience with it.

Being here at Grand Val-ley State University implies we have received and are con-tinuing to receive an advanta-geous education that allows us the privilege of not having to consider the actuality of American illiteracy. Despite it not being as prevalent of an issue in America as it can be in countries such as Afghani-stan and Burkina Faso, it is not nonexistent.

According to the Literacy Center of West Michigan, one in eight adults in Kent County is functionally illiterate. To be functionally illiterate is essentially the inability to

use written material to get by in everyday life and expand knowledge. The illiteracy rate in Grand Rapids is much lower than that of Detroit, but there’s no reason it should be this high for either in consideration of our state’s resources.

America isn’t underdevel-oped. We provide free public education. All students are mandated to attend; why does illiteracy exist at all in America? How are people passing high school if they are functionally illiterate? Are they somehow not attending? Are they copying homework? Are the teachers not observ-ing their work?

There must be a problem

somewhere in the educational system if people are graduating with illiteracy. And some are. Some of those who are illiterate may have not been attending school at all, getting around the system but, as a legal obliga-tion, it doesn’t make sense.

If they are attending school, they may be barely passing and just getting by to reach a diploma, but they are putting the piece of paper above the worth of actual education. We have the resources, why aren’t they being utilized?

Poverty plays a major issue in illiteracy. When parents are focused on being able to put food on the table, other issues are likely to become marginal-

ized. Parents have to work; they don’t have time to take them to monuments, libraries, museums or other places to expand on their education.

They probably aren’t able to make sure their children are getting to and from school. Their children aren’t being provided the opportunities to practice their skills. Money isn’t spent on purchasing books for children. Their parents can’t adequately encourage their educations or nourish their minds. They are left to find motivation within themselves. This is extremely difficult with-out a solid support system.

It’s easy to forget about these issues when they don’t

feel directly applicable. Most of us have been surrounded by fortunate education all of our lives. We had parents that read us bedtime stories. Our teachers observed our learn-ing process. If there appeared to be a major hindrance to our understanding capacity, it was brought up in parent-teacher conferences. We were presented opportunities to use and improve our reading and writing skills.

This blinds us to the potential of others not having the same experience when it feels so readily available. Il-literacy is not an overwhelm-ing issue in America, but it shouldn’t be an issue at all.

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“An adjunct might only teach one course, whereas a full-time faculty will teach three, plus be expected to do scholarship, handle advising, par-ticipate in committee work, etc.”

Mitchell Place is on the GVSU Al-lendale Campus four days per week to teach three German courses this winter semester. He has been in this position at the university since 2006.

As an affiliate professor in the modern languages and literature department, Place said he is on a contract that lasts three years at a time and goes through a review process whenever the contract is up for renewal.

Although the affiliate position in-cludes a full benefits package, Place said he would consider taking part in a walkout event.

“I think it is important for ad-juncts and affiliates to show support for each other and make sure our voices are heard in the university,” Place said. “Of course I wish I had a bigger salary – I think most people

would say that – but one thing about the affiliate position is we are locked out of tenure and promotion, so there is really not much of a mecha-nism for upward mobility.”

John Kilbourne, GVSU move-ment science professor, has first-hand experience with part-time work because he has been in that capacity, and he is married to an ad-junct faculty member.

Though he has been at GVSU for 11 years now, Kilbourne advocates for the walkout movement. He first heard about Adjunct Walkout Day in the fall when it was announced, but he said many full-time profes-sors that he talks with were not aware of that day.

The professor has shown his interest through his Oct. 2013 blog for the Chronicle of Higher Education and Feb. 2015 column for the Lanthorn.

“I don’t know if I agree with walk-ing out, but I support the increasing awareness, not just at this institution but also abroad,” Kilbourne said. “I’m concerned about it. I think more ten-ured faculty need to be raising this

awareness because we can do it with-out worrying about whether or not we’ll have a job.”

He said the movement science department has seen an increase in the number of part-time fac-ulty because of the increase in the number of movement science ma-jors. This has a direct impact on the department because, as Kilbourne said, “only tenure-track faculty can advise students.”

As far as administrative involve-ment goes, Kilbourne said he would like to see a few things happen at GVSU – pay part-time professors a fair wage, allow them to have a voice in university governance and give them the option to take advantage of the healthcare program.

“I am proud to work here in so many ways, and I would like to see Grand Valley be a leader in this,” Kilbourne said. “The status quo is not satisfactory.”

For more information about Adjunct Walkout Day, visit www.newfacultymajority.info/february-25-is-national-adjunct-walkout-day-nawd/.

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he Grand Valley State University Johnson Center for Philanthro-py, an academic

center within the College of Community and Public Ser-vice, recently released the re-sults from the 2014 VoiceGR survey. The results indicate that most people feel positively about living in Grand Rapids.

Jodi Petersen, senior re-searcher at the Community Research Institute, explained that the Johnson Center has conducted the survey annu-ally since 2001. In 2013, the format changed from pri-marily phone calls to online and in-person questioning.

“We are really working on increasing the number of people taking the survey and splitting it by demographics,” Petersen said.

Eighty percent of peo-ple who responded to the VoiceGR between Sept. 15 and Dec. 1, 2014 gave Grand Rapids either an ‘A’ for excel-lent or a ‘B’ for good. In addi-tion, city dwellers were asked questions about topics such as safety, work, healthcare, the economy and the ability to meet their basic needs.

“The hope is that the sur-vey will provide feedback to better understand what’s happening in the neighbor-hoods,” Petersen said.

Despite the overall positive outlook, Petersen acknowl-edged that there is still work to be done to disclose some disparities the survey high-lights. For instance, different demographic, geographic and socioeconomic groups have different experiences within the same city.

According to the Johnson Center’s website, 76 percent of respondents said they can afford to meet their needs very or fairly well based on their current in-come, but this statistic changes

depending on the person’s race and education level. Fifty-two percent of Hispanic/Latino peo-ple said they could afford their basic needs, while 83 percent of Asian or Pacific Islanders said they can meet theirs.

Fifty-three percent of those with less than a high school education indicated that they could meet their basic needs, and 88 percent of those with a bachelor’s degree or higher could meet theirs. For those who cannot meet their basic needs, top concerns include utilities, food, shelter and healthcare.

As for the general West Michigan atmosphere, 11 per-cent of residents said racism is very much an issue in their community, and 33 percent said it is somewhat an issue. Thirty-three percent of people reported feeling discriminated against in the past year.

Twenty-seven percent of respondents said the econ-omy and jobs should be the top area for improvement in their community. Crime, public safety and transporta-tion were other topics people thought should be improved.

Petersen said the impact on college students is also a factor.

“College students at Grand Valley are looking for ways to make the community better,” Petersen said. “We want to help people see they do have a voice in decision making. The hope is that it can help pro-vide that feedback loop.”

According to a 2014-2015 GVSU Accountability Report, 89.9 percent of recent gradu-ates are employed or in gradu-ate school, while 86.3 percent of graduates are employed in Michigan. In addition, 81.4 percent of graduates are em-ployed in Michigan while 71.5 percent are employed in West Michigan.

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igh school students came to Grand Valley State Univer-sity’s Fieldhouse Arena from March 20-21 to compete in the For Inspiration and

Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Robotics District Competition.

More than 40 teams from across the

state participated in this year’s game “Re-cycle Rush,” where the robots designed at-tempted to score points by stacking totes and capping them with recycling contain-ers. All game elements were made of recy-clable materials.

The teams had six weeks to design and build robots for the competition with hopes

that the students would take away hands-on experience in robotic-related challenges and creation. Winners will move on to the state championships, held from April 8-11 at the DeltaPlex Arena in Grand Rapids. The national competition will take place in St. Louis, Missouri on April 22-25.

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PURPLE PASSION TALENT SHOWCASEThe Purple Passion Talent showcase is an oppor-

tunity to highlight a variety of talents of individuals from GVSU and all over Michigan. This free event will feature acts such as Ballet Folkorico Mexicano and the hip-hop stylings of Awkward Theory. Those in attendance will also be able to snack on some free food beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. For more information, email [email protected].

ZAC QUIST AT THE INTERSECTIONLocal Grand Rapids hip-hop poet Zac Quist is

following up his latest hit “Grand Rapids” with a performance at The Intersection in downtown Grand Rapids. Inspired by the city that he loves, Quist wrote the song and is currently working on a full length album. The concert will also feature Bamfomania, Conway and Steven. Tickets are $5 in advance and $8 the day of the show. For more infor-mation, visit http://sectionlive.com/event/zac-quist/.

A NIGHT OF BELLY DANCEThroughout the year, the GVSU Belly Dancing

club hosts many events. On March 27 at 8 p.m. they will showcase their talents in “A Night of Belly Dance.” The free event will also offer free food to those in attendance. For more information, visit facebook.com/events/856198717773073/perma-link/856200964439515/.

SHAKESPEARE AUDITIONSThe auditions for GVSU’s MainStage “All’s Well

That Ends Well” with the touring production Bard to Go are being held March 29 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and March 31 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Those looking to audition are asked to prepare a one-minute contemporary monologue and 16 lines of Shakespeare. To sign up, contact the Louis Armstrong Theatre box office at (616) 331-2300 or [email protected]. Callback dates have yet to be decided.

CIRCA SURVIVETaking a break from his solo career, lead singer

Anthony Green recently reunited with Circa Survive for a nationwide tour. On March 28 at 7 p.m. at The Intersection in downtown Grand Rapids, Circa Survive will take to the stage with Balance and Composure & CHON. This 5-piece alternative, rock band debuted their first album in 2005. Since then they have produced hosts such as “The Difference Between Medicine and Poison is in the Dose” and “Birth of the Economic Hit Man.” Tickets for the show are $18 in advance and $22 the day of the show. For more information, visit http://sectionlive.com/event/circa-survive/.

ue to political, ra-cial and econom-ic issues over the years, refugees from countries

such Armenia, Palestine, Iraq and Jordan have fled to Syria for safety. To tell the tale of these refugees and the struggle that they are going through, Grand Valley State University alum-nus Jared Kohler began snap-ping pictures of the conflict as a photojournalism project.

Kohler will present “The Syrian Refugee Journey” in the Pere Marquette Room in the GVSU Kirkhof Center at 1 p.m. on March 24.

“Photographs are impor-tant for many reasons, but one is because they are memories,” Kohler said. “They become a part of history. When a house is burning down, people usu-ally run to recover their photo albums because, this way, they

can keep from forgetting all the things they want to re-member from their lives. Pho-tographs help us not to forget – both happy things and hor-rible, tragic things.”

While at GVSU, Kohler studied the Arabic language and, through the Padnos Scholarship Fund, was able to study in the Middle East. This experience ignited his interest in the many civil war conflicts in the region that resulted in extreme amounts of refugees.

“For a year before I began photographing anything re-lated to the Syrian crisis, I had already been living in Jordan,” Kohler said. “So when the op-portunity to start photograph-ing material related to the cri-sis came up, it was already an issue that I was very familiar with and had begun to become emotionally invested in.”

When staff at the GVSU Padnos International Center heard that Kohler would be lecturing at the World Affairs

Council of Western Michi-gan’s Great Decisions Series in Grand Rapids, they took the opportunity to invite him to speak at his alma mater.

“We thought it would be a really good opportunity for GVSU students to hear about experiences of a fellow Laker who’s gone on to do really in-teresting and really great things with his career,” said Alissa Lane, GVSU Padnos Interna-tional Center’s outreach coor-dinator. “I think it’ll also be a chance for people to, you know, understand the Syrian refugee crisis in a different way.

“A lot of what you are ex-posed to – like through the media – can be sensational-ized, but I think to talk to someone who, you know, has been there and has lived in the Middle East for a long time…it’ll give them (those in attendance) a first hand look and an insight.”

The presentation will ad-dress the refugee crisis so-

cially and politically through the photographs Kohler was able to snap while working in the region, and he hopes to share the impact that the situation made on him.

“Humanity – I always hope that my images can help to break down the sense of the ‘other,” Kohler said. “Most of the people caught in a con-flict like the one in Syria are common, ordinary people. So many disastrous decisions that are made in the world today (on both an individual and also a government policy level) are based on reducing people in other contexts to something less than human and less than equal, at least subconsciously. I want to re-store a bit of that awareness of shared global humanity.”

The event is free and open to the public. For more infor-mation on the event, contact the GVSU Padnos Internation-al Center at (616) 331-3898.

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SHARING STORIES: A delegation of diplomats visits the Jordan-Syrian border on Feb. 3, 2014. GVSU student Jared Kohler took this photograph while he visited the area. Kohler will show more of his photojournalism work at GVSU on Tuesday.

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he Spiral Gal-lery in Grand Rapids will display the cul-minating work

of three senior Grand Valley State University students.

Printmaker Elizabeth De-forest, illustrator Jonathan Greenwald and sculptor Anna Hunt put their ideas together to create “Barely Forgotten” as their Bachelor of Fine Arts thesis show.

In “Barely Forgotten,” the artists hope to display the dynamics of memories through their exhibit.

“The memories we attempt to illustrate vary from dam-aged innocence, dry days of love, unresolved dreams and secondhand events with long dead family,” Deforest said.

The artists embraced sto-rytelling in each piece to allow these memories to be shared. The work not only emits their memories, but is set to make viewers reminisce as well.

“We hope that our work

presents itself as an artifact of what was,” Deforest said. “Our interest is sharing memories, moments and events that have kept themselves over time.”

Deforest’s work focuses on the sentimentality of precious personal objects.

“The private nature of these objects come from my individual interaction with them through time,” Deforest said.

Greenwald’s artwork per-sonifies an outsider peeking into the memories of others.

“Among the other two,

I’m working in the illustra-tion manner and showing the memories itself, not ex-actly being truthful about it,” Greenwald said. “It’s inter-esting because it’s the same subject matter at different angles of sentimentality.”

It is approached in a quirky, immature manner and the others are really thought out, Greenwald said.

Hunt’s art focuses on cha-otic, collective memories that are created through ob-jects, cloth, plants and per-sonal belongings.

Hosting an exhibit also came as a challenge to all of the artists, especially with an opportunity to branch off campus in a different workspace.

“It’s fun to be in a differ-ent environment and it al-lows (us) to network with a gallery that we don’t have access to,” Deforest said.

The artists found it fulfill-ing to finally have their art-work out at the gallery and have an audience look at it.

“It feels good to have it up now since we were stay-

ing up all night, every night, and it was a huge struggle to make all of these decisions,” Greenwald said.

“Barely Forgotten” will hold a closing reception on Friday, March 27 from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public, and there will be light refreshments served.

The exhibit can be seen now until March 27 by ap-pointment at the Spiral Gal-lery, located at 44 Division S. Grand Rapids 49503. For more information, call (616) 881-2511.

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he Laker anchor and the campus transition links proved to be a common theme in this year’s Art 2 Park competition. Over 1,600 students, faculty and staff mem-

bers voted for their favorite designs, which re-sulted in the top 10 design nominations totaling 400 more voters than last year.

“A lot of our population and community are saying that this is something they want to take part in, and that’s a good thing,” said Parking Ser-vices Coordinator Lisa Garringer. “That’s what this is about – helping our students showcase

some of their work and have it on every car – which is quite an opportunity.”

Additionally, Art 2 Park intern Paige Melick approved a record 41 designs and put them on the ballot for the first round of voting, when participants picked their top 3 designs to be included in the top 10.

Voting for the top 10 will open Monday at 8

a.m. and will go until Friday, March 27 at mid-night. Anyone with a Grand Valley State Uni-versity campus login can vote for their favorite design during the allotted time.

“For the second round of voting, we’re hoping to have even better numbers,” Garringer said.

Those wishing to vote for the final parking de-sign can go to www.gvsu.edu/parking.

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rand Valley State second baseman Kevin Zak came into the series at Ohio Dominican with a .500 batting average and a plan: keep it simple at the plate and wait for the right pitch.

The first pitch thrown his way ended up in the trees beyond the wall in left center.

“I’m just riding hot right now,” Zak said. “Baseball is up and down. When you start off on a hot streak or a low streak, it’s amplified -- so it makes (the numbers) stand out a little more. It’s a game of ups and downs, but it’s a lot more fun when you’re on the up.”

The fun didn’t end there for the redshirt senior.He deposited two more home runs over the

fence during Saturday’s doubleheader, includ-ing a grand slam, as GVSU began its GLIAC schedule with 11-1 and 7-3 wins at Panther Val-ley in Columbus, Ohio.

Sunday wasn’t a fun day, however, as ODU flipped the script by shutting out GVSU for the first time this season, 7-0. The Panthers proceeded to sal-vage the series split in the nightcap, walking off with a 5-4 victory in 11 innings.

“It’s a disappointing feeling, especially because we played so well on Saturday,” said coach Jamie Detillion. “It’s frustrating to end with two losses. It was self-inflicted wounds and mistakes that cost us.”

Offensively, GVSU was rolling in game one of the series.

Seven different Lakers finished with at least one hit and one RBI as the team scored 11 runs for the second game in a row. Two freshmen came through with multi-hit outings: shortstop Josh Smith (three hits, one RBI) from the nine spot and catcher Con-nor Glick from the eight spot (two hits).

“One of our biggest strengths is our ability to hit from top to bottom,” Zak said. “That’s going to get us a lot of wins down the road.”

The nine-inning nightcap had a similar result of-fensively -- but more Zak. The Novi, Mich. native belted a two-run shot in the fourth inning before blasting a grand slam to make it 7-0 in the eighth.

All three home runs came on 0-0 counts.He finished 2-for-4 in game two with six

RBIs, and became the first GVSU player to hit three roundtrippers in a doubleheader since Giancarlo Brugnoni (2013).

“As one of our team captains, he does a good job of staying humble and staying focused,” catcher John McLaughlin said of Zak. “He’s doing his job -- just always super quiet and staying within himself.

“He never gets too high or too low.”On the mound, GVSU had a pair of impressive

performances from Aaron Jensen and Patrick Kelly. Jensen (3-0) went the distance in seven innings, giv-ing up just six hits and one earned run. Kelly (1-1)

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ACHA National Tournament.The Lakers, held back by a

devastating overtime loss against New York University, did not ad-vance past pool play, thus shutting

the door on their dream of being crowned national champions.

Though disappointed, the team didn’t let the loss stop them from leav-ing everything out on the ice while battling Northern Arizona for national ranking on Sunday afternoon.

After losing an important game in the crucial tournament, the Lakers turned to their seniors for the moti-vation they needed to play.

“It’s really hard. In this situa-

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The Grand Valley State club baseball team bounced back from a loss at Cornerstone with a trio of mercy-rule victories over Michigan Tech on Sat-urday afternoon in Grand-ville, Mich.

GVSU pitchers Marcus Gignac and Mike Michal-ski were dominant on the mound, starting the series with back-to-back five-inning no-hitters as the Lakers cruised to 10-0, 12-0 and 16-6 wins.

The Lakers hope to stay hot at home against North-ern Michigan in a double-header Saturday.

FORMER LAKER ATTENDS NFL VETERAN COMBINE

Former Grand Val-ley State standout Matt Armstrong was one of 100 players participating in the first-ever NFL Veteran Combine on Sunday at the Arizona Cardinals practice facility in Tempe, Ariz.

Armstrong, a center, signed as an undrafted free agent with the New Orleans Saints last season but failed to make in through final cuts. Since then, Armstrong has bounced around, appearing most re-cently in training camp with the San Jose SaberCats in the Arena Football League.

The Lansing, Mich. native won the Rimington Award as the NCAA Division II’s top center in 2013.

GVSU FIRST IN DIREC-TORS’ CUP STANDINGS

Another Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup may be heading to Allendale this summer.

Grand Valley State increased its lead in the most recent standings after the track and field and swimming and diving teams notched four top-20 finishes (287 points) at nationals on March 14.

GVSU, which capped the fall campaign by winning two national champion-ships on the same day, now owns 660 points on the year and has a commanding lead on second-place Colo-rado Mesa (440.5 points) and third-place LIU Post

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tion they’re not playing for anyone but themselves, so you have to re-mind them that there’s five seniors on the ice, and you play for them,” said head coach Mike Forbes. “You play for the guy sitting next to you, you play for the school, you play for a national ranking.”

Keeping that in mind, the team dominated puck possession and firing on every opportunity against NAU’s goalie, who faced a total of 49 shots.

As a result, GVSU had the upper hand throughout the whole game, coming out on top with a score of 7-2.

The win, though bit-tersweet by the ruined prospect of semi-finals, was a good showing of GVSU’s progress since last year’s tournament, where NAU put “quite a physical beating” on the team, recalled Forbes.

“We came out on the better side of it this year, I think we showed them that we were the bet-ter skilled team and I think that was in everybody’s memory this year,” Forbes said. “That put a couple ex-tra crosschecks in there this year.”

Between crosschecks, major pen-alties, player ejections, and a black eye, the physicality of the game didn’t hold a candle to the talent shown by GVSU, who clearly outdid NAU in both intensity and perseverance.

Producing offense out of both corners and showing deep puck sup-port in the defensive zone, the Lakers didn’t give NAU many chances to find their net. GVSU couldn’t stop scoring.

“We went out and we got the win, we executed our game plan, we defi-nitely didn’t want to go out losing like we did last year,” said senior Jacob Endicott. “We knew we had to come out with the win for sure.”

Endicott, in his last game as a Laker, robbed the puck from NAU’s goal setup and sniped it past two defenders, had the first goal for the Lakers on Sunday, a top-shelf shorthanded beauty.

Several more strik-ing goals and two periods later, the Lak-ers finished their im-pressive season with the well-earned win against NAU.

“We were excited to win for our seniors, but it still wasn’t the outcome we wanted coming into nation-als,” said sophomore Collin Finkhouse. “Our main goal was to win the championship, but overall it was a

good season. We won a lot of games, didn’t lose very many, and had a lot of fun doing it.”

“It’s been a success,” said Forbes of his sixth season as head coach. “Any time you have the kind of record that we have, that’s pretty good. It’s not about the wins and losses, it’s about what you learn and the leadership qualities the players learn, and from that standpoint, it was a very positive season.”

GVSU finished with a 25-7-2 re-cord for the 2014-2015 season, fall-ing short of their goal of a national championship.

GV splits four-game set at ODUZak’s three-HR day highlights 2-0 Saturday; Panthers turn tables Sunday

turned in a similar outing, surrendering seven hits and no earned runs.

But on Sunday, ODU ace Ryan Colegate stole the spotlight by serving up a two-hit gem. GVSU’s Tim Tarter (0-1) took the loss, giving up seven hits and three earned runs.

“Kid threw a good game,” Detillion said of Cole-gate. “Kept us off balance.”

In game four, the Lakers saw clutch hitting from leadoff man Mike Nadratowski -- who supplied a two-RBI double that tied the game at 4-4 in the

eighth inning -- but were unable to score in extras.The Panthers scored on a fielder’s choice in

the 11th frame.“Our bullpen guys came in the game and

weren’t very effective throwing strikes,” De-tillion said. “When the bullpen doesn’t throw strikes you’ll be searching for some other an-swers when you’re trying to win games. Unfor-tunately we came up a little bit short.”

GVSU returns to action Tuesday with a nine-inning game at St. Joseph’s in Rensselaer, Ind.

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his weekend the Grand Valley State women’s golf team was looking to defend its title at the Perry Park Spring Fling,

and that’s exactly what they did.The GVSU women led after day

one with a score of 294 and finished with a total score of 894 points on Sunday.

“We did a great job and achieved a new school record for a 54-hole event,”

said coach Rebecca Mallioux. “It was an overall great team performance. Our ball striking was really good, we were hitting quality shots off the tee and we stayed steady and kept our scores down.”

On Saturday, the Laker women had four scores in the lower 70s. Senior Kelly Hartigan, who shot a 2-under 70 tying her career low, led the team. During the first round she sank five birdies, more than any other golfer on day one.

Hartigan held a two shot lead over teammate Gabrielle Shipley, who shot

an even par for the day with a score of 72. Shipley recorded a tournament-high 14 pars. Sophomore Julie Guck-ian took seventh place with her 3-over 75, which was her best second round of the season.

“We played very well as a team overall, a couple of girls had low scores,” Hartigan said. “Overall we are very happy with the way we played in this tournament, and we were extra motivated to play well and hit the ball well. Everyone’s hard work is really paying off for us.”

On Sunday, the Laker women con-

tinued to assert their will on the com-petition by racking up a great score of 894 points, which is a school record for 54 holes. Indianapolis was in sec-ond place with a score of 900.

The Lakers were once again led by Hartigan, who tied for first with a score of 219. Hartigan fell in a score-card playoff to Chanice Young from Indianapolis.

“This is a great momentum builder for us as a team, beating a top con-tender that we will face in regionals,” Shipley said. “It is really something that we can build off of as a team, and

hopefully we can back up this great play and show them what we are ca-pable of doing week after week.

“Overall we hit the ball very well as a team this weekend, and our ball striking was on which helped to keep our scores lower. We struggled a little bit with our putting, but it will keep getting better and our scores will keep going down and going lower.”

The Laker women are back in ac-tion this weekend at the NC4K Classic in Columbus Ohio.

BY ANDY [email protected]

Hartigan, Lakers win Perry Park Spring Fling for second year in a rowTWICE AS NICE: The Grand Valley State women’s golf team finished first in the Perry Park Spring Fling after strong performances from Gabrielle Shipley (pictured) and Kelly Hartigan.

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or first-year coach Gary Bissell and the Grand Valley State golf team,

a fourth-place finish at Sagi-naw Valley State’s Spring Invi-tational isn’t good enough.

GVSU carded a 31-over 607 in the event, shooting a 17-over 305 on Saturday and a 14-over 302 on Sunday at Boone Links Golf Course in Florence, Ky.

The Lakers finished 11 shots behind first-place Lew-is in the 12-team, 77-player field after slipping from third

to fourth place on Sunday.Ferris State (29-over 605)

surged past GVSU on day two, taking third behind Lake Superior State (26-over 602).

“I just think we need to get back to work,” Bissell said. “We’re coming out of winter and you can’t expect a ton, but at the same time we got beat by Lake State which still has two feet of snow on the ground. I thought we made some pretty dumb mistakes...But I believe in this team and these players and we’ll continue to im-prove. It’s about what you do in May.”

Redshirt senior Jack Rider

paced the pack with his third top-10 finish of the season. Rider fired a 2-over 74 on both days, finishing in sixth place.

He wasn’t thrilled with the performance.

“Overall it was just kind of a poor effort, but over time it will correct itself and not be something we’ll look too deep into,” he said.

Meanwhile, junior Ty-ler Polulak moved up seven spots on day two, finish-ing with a 2-over 74 and an 11th-place showing. It was his second-best perfor-mance of the 2014-15 sea-son. Freshman teammate Dominic Mancinelli also

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Lakers finish fourth in Kentucky

Ferris State makes most of GV’s short-game woes on day two

he Grand Valley State women’s lacrosse team began its 17-3 win at Urbana

with a bang.Senior midfielder Rachel

Leibovitz rifled one between the pipes to put GVSU on the board just 60 seconds into the game before five Lakers com-bined to score seven goals in the opening 10 minutes.

“This was more of a com-plete team win,” said GVSU coach Alicia Groveston. “We took smart shots, played as a team and didn’t force issues.”

Following goals from Lei-bovitz, Erika Neumen, Vic-toria Devine, Sarah Lowe and Zoe Stiemann, freshman Kerrigan Baird checked in for the Lakers. Baird made her presence felt in a hurry, notching her first career goal 40 seconds later on a look from Leibovitz. Freshman Ashley Bailey scored for the first time in her career less than three minutes later, giv-ing the Lakers a command-ing 9-0 lead early on.

Urbana managed to slip a goal past the GVSU defense, but not before allowing two more. GVSU controlled the flow of the game with more forced turnovers (15), draw controls (15) and ground balls (14) in the opening frame, which allowed them to relax a bit and settle into an offense.

Bailey said the team has

been working on offensive flow in practice lately, but the offen-sive outburst had just as much to do with defense.

“When you make a killer stop on defense, it fires up the offense,” she said.

Bailey tallied her second goal of the game in the second half, one of six tallies for GVSU.

Devine, one of two Lak-ers to finish with five points, said slowing down on of-fense allowed the team to run through plays and commu-nicate while on attack. She finished with a hat trick and two assists.

Leibovitz added two goals and three assists, Lowe tacked on two goals and an assist and Brooke Ingraham came through with two second-half goals. Eleven different Lakers found the back of the net.

The big lead gave Groveston a chance to experiment with roster rotations and player combinations.

“They really wanted to set

the tone and take the opportu-nities we had,” she said. “I was impressed to see people step up and perform at their high-est level on the field and show what they can do.”

The Lakers have proven that the talent on the ros-ter runs deep, but playing at home may give them an extra edge when they welcome No. 3 Lindenwood in their home opener on Tuesday. Now 3-3 on the season and ranked No. 19 in the most recent Nike/Lacrosse Magazine media poll, the Lakers look to close out pre-conference matches on a hot streak and ride the momentum into GLIAC play.

“I think we’re all pumped to finally have a home game and want to make sure we play our best in our home stadium in our home opener,” Devine said. “But, at this point, it doesn’t matter where or who we play, what matters is that we play the best that we can to have the results we want.”

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Pulling out all the stopsLakers start quick, showcase offensive firepower

SWINGING INTO SPRING: Grand Valley State redshirt senior golfer Jack Rider hits a ball during a 2014 tournament. Rider finished sixth at the Saginaw Valley State University Spring Invitational in Florence, Ky. The team finished fourth in a field of 12 teams and will compete again at the Wisconsin-Parkside invitational at Otter Creek Golf Course on March 29.

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finished 11th.GVSU’s other two scorers

were juniors Chris Beltzer and Alex Nannetti. Beltzer notched a 13-over 157 while Nannetti returned home with a 14-over 158.

To both Rider and Bissell, the short game led to problems all weekend.

“Our main focus this week is going to be the short game,” Bissell said. “That’s just about all we’re going to do. We hit it

fine but overall, 75 yards in, that’s what killed us.”

GVSU is back in action at the Wisconsin-Parkside Spring Invitational at Otter Creek Golf Course in Colum-bus, Ind.

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etween 2006-10, the Grand Val-ley State club dodgeball team won 41 games in

a row, setting a record for the most consecutive wins in Na-tional Collegiate Dodgeball Association (NCDA) history.

On Saturday, GVSU tied its own record with 41 con-secutive wins, but also suf-fered its first loss of the sea-son: the streak-breaker.

Central Michigan Univer-sity hosted the CMU Show-down on Saturday. GVSU squared off in four games during the day, going 3-1 with a loss to CMU, moving its sea-son record to 30-1.

The Lakers began the tournament by beating Sagi-naw Valley State, 3-1.

In February, the Lakers crushed the Cardinals 4-0, but this was not the same SVSU team as before.

“Against SVSU, we played well,” said senior assistant captain Dylan Fettig. “They were a lot tougher this tour-nament than in the Michi-gan Dodgeball Cup.”

In the next bout on the dodgeball court, GVSU took on perennial powerhouse

James Madison. JMU entered the tournament undefeated, just like the Lakers, and came away with their first loss of the season against CMU, just like the Lakers.

Despite the similarities, the Lakers recorded their 41st consecutive victory, winning handily 3-0.

“The JMU game was kind of a letdown because they just lost to CMU, so they were playing slow and with-out purpose,” Fettig said.

The next game of the day was against CMU.

At the Michigan Dodge-ball Cup, the Lakers un-leashed a fury of physicality that was too much for CMU to handle. But on Saturday, CMU returned the favor with a 2-0 streak-snapping victory.

Right before the end of the first half, GVSU had a chance to swing momentum but was unable to hit an es-pecially elusive Chippewa.

“We had a close situation versus CMU where we were one person away from earn-ing a point, but he stayed alive until halftime,” said se-nior captain Kevin Bailey.

In the final game of the day, GVSU took on Michi-gan State and pulled out a 2-1 overtime victory.

Similarly to how GVSU took down JMU by capital-izing on their lack of energy, MSU was almost able to do the same against GVSU in the final game.

Moving forward, junior assistant captain Aaron Terenzi still likes the outlook of the team despite the loss.

“Now we don’t need to stress about keeping an un-defeated record and can just focus on playing dodge-ball the Grand Valley way,” Terenzi said.

For Bailey, he can see where improvements need to be made.

“Our loss was certainly disappointing, but it was certainly a wake-up call,” he said. “The loss made us realize a few things we need to work on in the next few weeks of practice. We took the loss well, and we know we can rebound and still win nationals.

The 2015 NCDA Nation-als take place from April 10-12 in Bowling Green, Ky.

“This team is extremely resilient, so I am confident we will learn from our mis-takes and come back next tournament as a better team,” Bailey said.

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Starting overDodgeball club ties NCDA record for consecutive wins, loses next game

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RUBBER REBOUND: GVSU senior Trevor Nordberg and the rest of the dodgeball team is looking to continue their success after a 3-1 record this weekend at Central Michigan.

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