NOVEMBER 21, 2013 GRAND VALLEY LANTHORN
ANNIVERSARY EDITION
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CELEBRATING 50 YEARS
of student-run newspapers at GV T H E HISTORY OF GV L
While Nov. 22, 1963, will forever in America be remembered as the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, it was also the inaugural date of The Keystone, the first sanctioned, student-run newspaper at Grand Valley State University. Grand Valley was a state college at the time, founded in 1960, and The Keystone got its name from the architectural design features of the “lake” buildings, which made up almost all of the Allendale Campus. Fifty years later, the campus has been awarded university status and has expanded to more than 80 buildings on about 1,400 acres in Allendale and Grand Rap-
ids, from a few hundred students to nearly 25,000. And, over 50 years, the student-run newspapers also evolved into a news organization that receives regular state, regional and national recognition. The first student-run newspaper at Grand Valley State College was The Keystone, and the inaugural issue was Nov. 22, 1963. The Keystone issued its final edition on Jan. 21, 1966. It was succeeded by another tabloidsized newspaper, The Valley View, on Oct. 28, 1966, and it was published until June 6, 1968. The Lanthorn began October 1968.
The Internet edition, www.lanthorn. com, was established fall 1995, and it was the first online edition of a weekly Michigan collegiate newspaper. The name changed to Grand Valley Lanthorn on Jan. 13, 2000, and GVL grew to broadsheet size on Aug. 27, 1997. It averaged 20-24 pages each week. With the Aug. 29, 2005, publication, GVL expanded to a twice-weekly newspaper, circulating 8,000 copies of each edition on Allendale and Grand Rapids campuses. The office is located at 0051 Kirkhof Center, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, 49401.
While Nov. 22, 1963, will forever in America be remembered as the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, it was also the inaugural date of The Keystone, the first sanctioned, student-run newspaper at Grand Valley State University. Grand Valley was a state college at the time, founded in 1960, and The Keystone got its name from the architectural design features of the “lake” buildings, which made up almost all of the Allendale Campus. Fifty years later, the campus has been awarded university status and has expanded to more than 80 buildings on about 1,400 acres in Allendale and Grand Rapids, from a few hundred students to nearly 25,000. And, over 50 years, the studentrun newspapers also evolved into a news organization that receives regular state, regional and national recognition.