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to protect the artist’s vision/educational value and safety,” said Tim Layer, vice president rand Valley State University’s in- of the Student Senate Campus Affairs Comfamous pendulum has recently gar- mittee. “We want to make sure that everyone nered unprecedented national notori- will be protected from any harm.” ety, and earlier this week, a committee Steven Quirk, a mechanical engineering to make decisions about the pendulum’s re- student who is also on the committee, said they installation met for the first time. are hoping the repairs will be quick and added “We intend to reinstall the that the end goal is to put the penpendulum at the existing site, dulum back up. but will put in safety features so “We want to reinstall the ball it’s seen as an art sculpture,” said but also make it safe,” he said. Tim Thimmesch, associate vice We want to “We want to have the safety of president for Facilities Services. it but want it to be art, because “We haven’t come up with any reinstall the that’s what it is first.” solutions yet but will be looking ball but also The committee is also disfor those and discussing them.” cussing how to change student Thimmesch said the commit- make it safe. attitudes about the pendulum so Quirk tee, which consists of students Steven that it is seen as an educational Student and staff members, will meet sevpiece of university artwork, eral more times to discuss what Thimmesch said. safety features will be most effective, but add“(There are) no solutions yet,” he said. ed that they hope to act in a timely manner. “We want it to be returned as art and a scien“A structural engineer is looking at the tific exhibit with the appropriate signage. The current installation,” Thimmesch said. intent is not as a ride but as an art sculpture “Structurally, the beam is safe but the har- that it was originally designed to be.” ness, cable and spike need to be fixed. We’re Layer said the committee agreed that it looking to accomplish those repairs to the wants the pendulum to still be interactive in sculpture itself.” some way so that it can be used as a teaching There is still currently no time frame tool, but not for anyone to ride on. for when the pendulum will return to “The safety concerns were discussed as to campus, because it’s uncertain not only what actions need to be taken to keep everything how long the repairs will take, but also protected,” Layer said. “The pendulum has always who can undertake those repairs. been a tradition, and (it’s a matter) of spreading “There is no specific time set for the return the word to let students know this is a work of art of the pendulum because it’ll take time to and should be respected. The pendulum has genmake sure all the right steps are being taken erated a lot of news, and we hope to keep the penASSOCIATE@LANTHORN.COM
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enee Freeman said adjusting to her new position as Grand Valley State University’s director of public safety shouldn’t be difficult, but it will certainly be different. Freeman, who was sworn in Monday by GVSU President Thomas Haas, served with the Grand Haven Department of Public Safety for 27 years, during which time she rose from an officer to a lieutenant. Freeman said she decided to take the position at GVSU to enhance her career and felt that the transition would be natural from her previous administrative role. “And I hoped to return back to Grand Valley,” she said. As both a GVSU alumna and former adjunct professor with the school’s police academy, Freeman is accustomed to the university scene. “I really enjoy the interactions,” she said. “The youth (at GVSU) have a lot of energy, which is really exciting for me.”
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Arcade games made out of cardboard created by students at Grand Valley State University will be set up on campus as part of the Global Cardboard Challenge to raise money for the Imagination
dulum tradition around for many generations.” The committee hopes to make the process a quick one and decide on solutions for the pendulum’s installations in its upcoming meetings. “I like art and I like the sculpture,” Thimmesch said. “I’m glad students enjoy it and are interested in seeing it returned, and I know they will be respectful to it.”
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Creativity: Senior Kelsey Dean and junior Lucas Noel build a game out of recycled cardboard for the Global Cardboard Challenge, an event on Friday by the clock tower.
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Memorial: Students protest the removal of the GVSU ‘Wrecking Ball’ in Allendale.
Haas swears in new campus director of public safety
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he pandemonium of a government shutdown is seen well beyond the limits of Washington, including at the secluded Allendale Campus of Grand Valley State University. However, considering the school’s identity as a public institution, the effects aren’t as direct as one might think. “Current students will see no effect from the federal shutdown; classes, housing, dining, student services, and normal university operations are state— not federal—functions,” said Matt McLogan, vice president of University Relations at GVSU. “Grand Valley has contracts with the federal government; examples are TRIO, the small business outreach program (SBTDC), and selected research projects. So far, work in these activities continues and no university employees have been impacted by the federal closure.” The GVSU community could feel the effects outside the academic sphere, though. Mclogan “It’s not so much how it affects GVSU, but everyone as individuals,” said Whitt Kilburn, associate professor of political science. “Flu season is almost upon us, but the Center for Disease Control has to stop its flu vaccine program. Food safety, air and water quality monitoring from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture has been reduced.” Professor research could also be halted with a cut-off of federal information. “Perhaps most generally, anyone reliant on access to data provided by the federal government is affected,” Kilburn said. “Businesses and individuals who use data from the U.S. Census Bureau, for example, will find that data access is suspended. Various websites used to access census and survey data are down.” Kilburn added that some GVSU students will feel the effects more than others. “Student veterans could lose benefits if the shutdown continues for more than two weeks,” he said. “Any GVSU education students who study, teach or assist with Head Start programs could see that as Head Start programs begin to close, their education is affected. Students who receive disability benefits from the federal government could lose support.” The effects may not be so direct, either. “Health sciences students could be affected by a shutdown at the National Institutes of Health. For example, clinical research trials and grant funding operations are halted,” Kilburn said. As more consequences come to light, McLogan said the university is monitoring them daily to gain a better understanding of how the GVSU community could be impacted.
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Foundation on Oct. 4. “It’s a collaborative effort between Honors, lib studies and movement science,” said John Kilbourne, professor in the movement science department and the Honors College course “In Search of the Meaning of Games in Life.”
His class—along with two liberal studies creativity classes taught by his wife, Elizabeth Kilbourne—is creating cardboard games for the event. Residents of the Movement Science House, located in the South D apartments on the Allendale Campus,
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New leadership: President Thomas Haas swears in the new director of public safety, Renee Freeman, who is a GVSU alumna and former adjunct professor at the police academy.
Freeman’s familiarity with the campus may certainly lend a hand as she seeks out safety concerns, but the GVSU perspective is not the only one through which she approaches her new position. As she embrac-
will also be participating. “Our goal is to help the students tap into their playful side,” John said. “What we love is just how focused they are. It’s like taking them back to kindergarten and first grade.” This weekend is a global weekend of play to promote creativity in children, John said. The Kilbournes were introduced to the idea through the short film “Caine’s Arcade,” created by Nirvan Mullick in April 2012. Caine Monroy, 9, had set up a small arcade with cardboard games in the front of his dad’s auto parts store in Boyle Heights, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, where Mullick met him. The film was posted online and received more than 1 million views the first day, and it led to the creation of the Imagination Foundation, a nonprofit that aims to “find, foster, and fund creativity and entrepreneurship in kids around the world,” according to its website. The first cardboard challenge organized by the foundation took place in the fall of 2012 with more than 270 events in 41 countries. “This is the first time we’ve
es her role as an administrator, she makes sure not to forget where she came from. “I still recognize the fact that I am a fully SEE DPS ON A2
done this, and so hopefully it it stands for, as far as the will just be a celebration of Imagination Foundation, is play,” said Elizabeth, a pro- really good because I feel like fessor of liberal studies and there’s just not a lot of cremovement science at GVSU. ativity and imagination in the “It’s about a day for play, but world, especially in younger it’s a fundraiser for the Imag- kids nowadays,” Sowa said. ination Foundation.” “So I think by doing this Students in the classes we’re kind of raising awarewere randomly put into ness. The fact that not just us, groups and had to brain- but younger kids, (and) other storm ideas independently schools across the nation are before collaborating. doing it, that’s even cooler.” “This is really fun for the A lot of cardboard was creativity classdonated for the es because we event, and Sowa talk about the helped bring process of trysome of it herself ing to generate from the pharideas—divergent What we love macy she works thinking—then is just how at in Muskegon. coming together “I’m a comand analyzing focused they muter, so I work the ideas—con- are. like every other vergent thinking day in between— and teamwork— john kilbourne every day I don’t and trying to professor have class,” she come up with said. “So those novel ideas and adapt,” she days I would collect the cardsaid. “And it also teaches that board and shove it in my car sometimes it doesn’t work and drive over here, and in and you’ve got to figure out between classes I would just how to make it work—per- drop it off.” severe.” Levi Bauer, a junior studyOlivia Sowa, a sophomore ing cell molecular biology, studying speech language pa- and Emily Aulerich, a junior thology, is in Elizabeth’s Cre- in clinical exercise science, ativity class. “I think the fact that what
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