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GVPD catches one of two suspects in LVA home invasions

mum sentence of 20 years for each count.

Following the home invaolice have arrested a man they suspect was sions, the suspects used the involved in two home stolen credit cards to purinvasions that occurred at chase gasoline at several staGrand Valley State Univer- tions between Allendale and sity’s Laker Village Apart- Detroit. The suspects were recorded by a video camera ments earlier this year.

Leondius Derrick Kirk- at one of the stations, and sey was arrested Oct. 31 and their vehicles were identified charged with two counts of as a black Ford 500, driven first degree home invasion. by Kirksey, and a blue Jeep Kirksey, a 26-year-old resi- Cherokee, whose driver is dent of Detroit, is a habitual unknown.

“We believe Kirksey knew offender and is being charged the people in the Jeep,” Dewith his fourth offense.

“These are unusual Haan said. “These vehicles crimes, and it’s unsettling share a connection.”

DeHaan said Kirksey is specifically because homes not a student were entered,” at GVSU, and said Capt. police aren’t Brandon Deyet sure of Haan, assistant how he may be director of the linked to the Department of These are university.

Public Safety at unusual “Police GVSU. “That’s have been crimes, and it’s very unusual diligently to happen on unsettling... working and campus.” attempting to Kirksey was identify an acBRANDON DEHAAN arraigned in complice and the 58th Dis- DPS CAPTAIN to find the tie trict Court of as to why they Hudsonville on Nov. 1. Bail were here at the university,” was set at $50,000 for each he said. “People normally count.

Detective Bill Dewitt of do not come onto Grand the Grand Valley Police De- Valley’s campus unless they partment said police believe know someone. It is likely there was more than one per- that a student here knows the son who entered the Laker suspects. We’re looking for Village Apartments on the that tie, that connection.”

GVPD has listed Daniel morning of Sept. 13. The apartments were not neigh- Lewis McNeely, 26, as a perboring units, which suggests son of interest. McNeely is a the suspects walked through resident of Redford TownLaker Village trying multiple ship.

“This is a serious offense,” doors before finding two that DeHaan said. “We are asking were unlocked, DeWitt said.

Both apartments were en- our community to assist us tered through the back slid- by taking responsibility and ing doors as the residents calling our department if they slept upstairs, but no one was have any information on the harmed. Personal belong- second suspect or vehicle.”

Detective Dewitt asked ings, valued between $1,000 and $2,000, were taken from anyone in the campus comeach unit, including laptops, munity with additional inpurses, TVs, cash and credit formation on the case, or the vehicles in question, to call cards.

“Because the residents him at 616-331-2691 or Otwere home, it went from be- tawa County Silent Observer ing a break-in to a home in- at 877-887-4536.

If individuals wish to revasion,” DeHaan said.

If he is convicted of the main anonymous they can crime, which is a felony, send a text, “OCMTIP plus Kirksey could face a maxi- your message,” to 27463 (CRIMES).

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Inspiration: Alton Voss overcame numerous challenges before coming to Grand Valley State University and returning to football. The tight end put a drug addiction behind him to make a comeback in the classroom and on the field.

Voss tells story of recovering from severe drug addiction experimenting with heavy drugs. He had started smoking marijuana at the age of lton Voss doesn’t have to score a 12, but just before high school graduation, touchdown, catch a pass, or even drugs became a major problem in his life. take another snap for the Grand “That’s when I tried Roxicodone,” Voss Valley State University football team to feel said. “I was able to do it and not become like he’s accomplished something. addicted before I graduated, but when I That’s because the 25-year-old sopho- went off to college at South Florida—my more tight end has already freshman year—the second won something back that’s semester in the spring is more valuable than any game when I started seeing myself or individual award—his life. going back home every weekVoss didn’t have a traend and just getting high ditional childhood. He was I grew up in, from Friday night until Monborn in Pontiac, Mich., but I guess you day morning.” moved to Florida with his From there, his drug admother and sister at the age could say, a diction only became worse. of 3.

Voss decided to move broken home.

“I grew up in, I guess you back home for the summer, could say, a broken home,” ALTON VOSS and instead of just getting Voss said. “A year and a half GVSU SOPHOMORE high over the weekend like later, we met Robin Burg, and he had previously done, his from meeting Robin all the way until I was addiction to prescription pills eventually 18, I lived with him and played high school turned it into an everyday thing for him football at Gulf High. That’s when colleges over a two-week span. started coming in with offers.”

“I was so confused and lost. I just went After his junior year, Voss was ranked up to Coach Leavitt’s office and sat down as the best quarterback in the state of Flor- and talked to him and said football is not ida and the 26th best dual-threat quarter- what I want to do anymore,” Voss said. “I back in the country. He posted 1,600 yards just wanted to be a student, and I quit just passing and 600 yards rushing during his like that.” senior year in 2006.

Not only was he a star on offense, but ATTEMPTING A COMEBACK he also led his team in interceptions and Voss eventually was admitted to a pain sacks, and he blocked eight kicks. He management clinic. This allowed him to would eventually decide to attend the have his own prescription for Oxycodone, University of South Florida on a full-ride Roxicodone and Soma muscle relaxers. He scholarship to play for USF head coach Jim attempted to make a comeback in school Leavitt, where he would be redshirted his and on the field, but if the drugs weren’t first year on campus. holding him back, the withdrawals were.

Around this time, though, Voss began “Still being addicted, I was withdrawing

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when I was trying to make my comeback,” Voss said. “Eventually I hit a low to where I was shooting up cocaine with a needle, and then eventually I lost my mind.”

Besides pills always being at his disposal, having his own prescription presented Voss with another opportunity—drug dealer.

“I wasn’t working and then I found out for one little pill, I could make $12 off it,” Voss said. “I was getting 360 pills, so I thought this is a lucrative business. So a lot of my friends who were dropping out of school weren’t doing anything with their lives, they fell into the addiction, and I started selling to my friends and I didn’t discriminate to whoever wanted to buy.

It was money and I wanted money, and I needed to support my habits.”

Occasionally, Voss would find himself dope-sick, or experiencing withdrawals. On his third or fourth day of dealing with dope sickness, he would occasionally scheme people in drug deals.

“I remember one time I put Advil in an empty bottle and I told this guy this is 100 pills,” Voss said. “Actually it was two 100pill bottles and for each bottle he was going to pay me $700, so I made the bottles look exactly like you would get at the pharmacy, made the transaction, took $1,400 and I left.”

Voss received 360 pills every 28 days, which averages out to almost 13 pills a day.

But for him, that wasn’t enough.

“When my addiction was at my worst, 12 pills a day wasn’t enough,” Voss said.

“I remember some days I’d do 30. It got nasty.”

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n the spirit of Election Day, Grand Valley State University hosted a debate on Tuesday between two professors from opposing sides of the political spectrum who discussed the role of the federal government.

The Hauenstein Center’s inaugural Coffee House Debate, a new part of its Common Ground Initiative, put Mark Hoffman, director of the School of Public, Nonprofit and Health Administration, against Donijo Robbins, professor in the SPNHA. POSITIONS ON GOVERNMENT

Hoffman, who leans liberal, said that in a way the U.S. was established as an anti-government country

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because the Declaration of Independence was a “list of complaints against the colonial administration.”

“Given this history I think it is natural and healthy that we look with some suspicion on government, and we’re very sensitive to incidents of waste, corruption and red tape,” he said. “But because of this, I think we tend to be oblivious to the successes and the benefits of government.”

Americans tend to overlook the ability to drink clean tap water, mail a package without it being opened, or work in a factory without having to worry it will be a fire trap, Hoffman said, and even with contributions from generous benefactors, many construction projects have some government funding.

He added that about 1.4

million nonprofit organizations also have government help, with some receiving large percentages of their operating budgets through government grants and contracts.

“A lot of what the government does, I think, becomes invisible to us,” Hoffman said.

“So it becomes very easy to sort of dismiss what the government does and just say, ‘Well if we got rid of government, not much would be affected.’ But I think in reality an awful lot would be affected.”

Robbins, who identifies as a fiscal conservative, said the government is too big.

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Differing opinions: Faculty in the School of Public, Nonprofit, and Health Administration Mark Hoffman and Donijo Robbins participate in the Hauenstein Center’s Coffee House Debates.

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Nurturing a generation of leaders Venderbush Leadership Lecture honors student leaders, GV alumnus

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Students filled the Pere Marquette room of Grand Valley State University’s Kirkhof Center on Monday for the bi-annual Venderbush Leadership Lecture featuring GVSU alumnus Selma Tucker.

As part of his presentation, Tucker talked about his four tenants of leadership: vulnerability, growth, listening and decision-making.

“Part of being a leader is being able to say ‘I don’t know,’ and ask for help,” he said. “Leadership is probably more about listening than talking.”

Tucker holds three degrees, all of which he earned from GVSU: a bacherlor’s in public administration with a concentration in economic development, a second bachelor’s in political science, and a master’s in public management.

DEBATE CONTINUED FROM A1 that the scope is “the intervention of government into the economy or our lives.”

Robbins said the government can intervene by supplying goods and services— such as trash collection, water and sewer—or taxing policies, redistributing wealth and over-regulation.

“As government grows and the scope of government becomes more involved in our lives, its expenditures will grow,” she said, noting that size and scope are intertwined.

“When we borrow $17 trillion, we’re borrowing from the future,” Robbins said of the current U.S. deficit. “We’re borrowing from somebody in the future so that we can pay for stuff today, and that’s unsustainable.”

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Both professors agreed that the budget should be balanced, but Hoffman wasn’t sure if they would agree on how.

“I don’t necessarily agree that the whole problem is that we’re providing too many services,” he said.

“The problem may also be that we’re not providing enough revenue to cover the services.”

Though the U.S. income distribution is somewhat

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“Grand Valley was a really he said. “There are always big part of my own develop- people willing to pay you if ment,” he said. “Despite its they want you to show up in size, there are opportunities their office every day. Have a for young people all over the compelling story as to why place at GVSU.” you want to do Tucker grew what you want up in Buchanto do.” an, Mich., beTucker curfore coming to rently serves as Leadership is director of marGVSU. He said that as an openly probably more keting and comgay student, not about listening munications at many people Public Sector “got him” there, than talking...

Consultants. and attending Since comGVSU helped SELMA TUCKER pleting his unhim discover GVSU ALUMNUS dergraduate depeople who did. gree in 2009, he “I probably wouldn’t have has also worked for two mulgone to school if I hadn’t been timillion-dollar agencies and gay,” he said. “I needed to be been involved with public somewhere else. You need service programs for the city certain things in life. You need of Grand Rapids. Tucker has a family; you need people in also served as an administrayour life who get you.” tor and regional coordinaTucker left the attending tor for Grand Rapids’ Better students with a piece of advice. Buildings program.

“Even in a place like Apart from hearing Michigan, you can do well,” Tucker speak, the audience

skewed, with higher earners paying more in taxes, Hoffman said the distribution of wealth—the marketable assets one owns minus their debt—was different.

“If you looked at that, you would see about the top 1 percent of households own about 35 percent of all privately held wealth, and the next 19 percent have about 53 percent,” he said. “So all in all, the top 20 percent own about 89 percent of all wealth in the country, and they’re certainly not paying 89 percent of the tax burden.”

Robbins suggested reforming the 55,000 page tax code to balance the budget.

“Perhaps we could reform the tax code, because I don’t think that creates a level playing field, and I don’t like it when government policies pick winners and losers, and I think that’s exactly what they do from either side,” she said.

Robbins said removing tax deductions for nonprofit charitable donations could give about $1 trillion more to government.

Hoffman agreed the tax code should be reformed but said it would be difficult because the positions people take will be rooted “very strongly in self-interest.”

Robbins was also concerned with legislators’ selfinterest. Recently, those in Congress wrote themselves

at the Venderbush event recognized student leaders.

The lecture is an event designed to honor Kenneth R. Venderbush, who came to GVSU in 1969.

Venderbush served as an associate professor and acting dean of the William James College, as well as the vice president for Student Affairs until 1973. He was a strong advocate of using participation in student leadership as a learning tool.

The event also involved welcoming 90 new members into Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society and the awarding of the Immediate Impact Award, which went to Josh Theil, graduate assistant in the Office of Student Life.

The Immediate Impact Award is given to an individual who has improved a student organization through their time, effort and abili-

out of requirements to enroll SEQUESTRATION under the Affordable Care Robbins said she liked Act, she said. They were also sequestration because Conpreviously exempt from in- gress wasn’t spending money sider trading laws. they don’t have, but that’s the “The people who write bad part. “Congress has not these laws are exactly the been able to pass their apones who get to benefit from propriation bills in a timely these laws, and I don’t like matter,” she said. “This is not that,” she said. something new; “So if you’re goit’s been happening to make a ing for 20 years, policy, make it so something where the writhas got to be ers of the laws I do think this done.” actually have to is something She also said conform.” it raises awareH o f f m a n that is very ness about efmentioned an- dangerous. forts being made other issue that to change the could make MARK HOFFMAN Congressional g o v e r n m e n t SPNHA DIRECTOR Budget Act of more effective 1974. and credible.

“It has now “I think that basically in set the stage for the way they our system, money means act in Washington,” Robbins too much, that it costs too said. “It allows them to shut much to run for office,” he down government if they said. “This money needs to don’t come to a decision, it come from donors and those makes super majorities necdonors then wind up having essary to pass certain legisan awful lot of influence on lation, and I think from that legislation. Somebody run- standpoint we really need to ning for Congress can’t just reform the 1974 legislation.” be looking for how they’re Hoffman said sequesgoing to raise millions and tration is a symptom of millions and millions of a growing dysfunction dollars two years from now, among legislators. even if they were just elect“I do think this is someed, because they’re not going thing that is very dangerous,” to be able to solve these hard he said. “I worry that we’re problems, because they have going to lose our democracy to pay too much attention to because our legislatures bewhere they’re going to get come ineffectual.” the money.”

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BRIEFS GV to host Israeli-Palestinian conflict lecture The student organization Peace M.E.ans and the Middle East Studies department are co-sponsoring a lecture titled “The Battle for History: Israeli and Palestinian Narratives in War and Peacekeeping.” Speaking at the event will be Gershom Gorenberg, who is a senior correspondent for The American Prospect and has written for The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Foreign Policy and The New York Review of Books. In his lecture, Gorenberg will explore a deeper analysis of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. The event will be held tonight from 4 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. in 2215/2216 Kirkhof Center. The event is free, open to everyone and is approved by LIB 100 and 201 courses.

President Haas to hold virtual office hours President Thomas J. Haas will hold virtual office hours for Grand Valley State University students, faculty and staff members today from 1:30 p.m. until 3 p.m. Participants will be able to ask questions and chat with the president through the online program. Haas started holding virtual office hours in 2007 to make it easier for students, faculty and staff members to communicate with him. Only members of the campus community will be able to access the office hours using their network logins at www.gvsu.edu/virtualofficehours.

GV students receive competitive scholarship Twelve Grand Valley State University students recently received a combined total of $40,000 in scholarships from the Benjamin A. Gilman International program.To be eligible for a Gilman scholarship, students must meet certain criteria such as U.S. citizenship and plan to study for at least four weeks in a country that isn’t on the State Department’s travel warning list. GVSU is a nationally top-ranked producer of Gilman scholars. The deadline for the next Gilman Scholarship is February 25, 2014. Students are encouraged to complete application information well in advance of the deadline. For more information about the Gilman program, visit www.iie.org/en/Programs/Gilman-Scholarship-Program.

GV receives award from Keep Michigan Beautiful Grand Valley State University received an award from Keep Michigan Beautiful for their sustainability projects and community development initiatives on Oct. 18. Keep Michigan Beautiful is affiliated with the national organization Keep America Beautiful. Both organizations annually recognize programs and activities that work toward environmental cleanup, beautification, site restoration and historical preservation.

GVSU submitted the application for the award detailing the university’s most recent efforts in waste minimization, including waste audits, efforts to reduce energy, the Eco-Rep Program and zero-waste football games.

Center for Inquiry to host Carl Sagan day The Center for Inquiry will be screening a documentary narrated by Carl Sagan to commemorate his birthday this Saturday from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sagan was a well-known educator whose passion for advanced knowledge and learning inspired many. The event is aimed to celebrate his life and achievements.

Discussions will follow the presentation of his documentary.

Free snacks will be provided at the event in 0072 Kirkhof Center.

All students, faculty and staff members are welcome.

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Kindertransport survivor talks WWII experiences

BY STEPHANIE BRZEZINSKI SBRZEZINSKI@LANTHORN.COM

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n the early 1950s after graduating high school, John Rosen left England for America, where he was soon drafted into the Army and later started his own advertising business. Before living in England, he was forced to leave behind his parents, his home country and nearly everything he knew, but he considers himself one of the lucky ones.

Starting in 1938, the German government forced Jews to leave the country. On Nov. 9 of that year, the violence escalated, which stemmed largely from anti-Semitism, or hatred and discrimination

against Jews. Synagogues and The Frederik Meijer Honors Jewish-owned stores were de- College hosted the event in stroyed. Around 30,000 Jew- honor of the 75th anniversary ish men were arrested. of Kindertransport, which Rosen said it was after that saved 9,354 children from the when “things rehorror of the Hoally got bad.” locaust.

Grand Valley Seventy-five State University’s years ago, Rosen Mary Idema Pew was part of the Library had a We had British initiative to full multipur- no idea remove thousands pose room on of Jewish children Tuesday when what was from Germany. students and happening.

Rosen explained community that Kristallnacht, members lis- JOHN ROSEN the Night of Brotened to Rosen, WWII SURVIVOR ken Glass, was the a Kindertransturning point. port survivor, speak about It was after Kristallnacht his World War II experiences. that the British government

decided to help the children, who Rosen called “innocent bystanders of a political war.”

Between December 1938 and August 1939, trains transported thousands of children from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia to England, where they were sent to various homes.

“We had no idea what was happening,” Rosen said. “We had to move to another country to live with other people who spoke another language.

We were scared and we were crying, but we were very lucky.”

Most of the children would never see their parents again, Rosen said, but he and his brother were “very lucky.” His parents were able to obtain a

work visa that allowed them to escape Germany and go to England to be with their sons.

He said one thing a lot of people might not realize is that the parents of the Kindertransport children deserve the credit. He expressed his appreciation for what they did for him and others like him.

“All I can do sometimes is think about the people who helped me,” Rosen said. “It is beyond my comprehension to understand how parents could send their children away. The true heroes were the parents.”

Rosen also spoke about the problem that many Jews

had at the time, which was believing the horror would not happen to them.

“They thought they were German first and Jews second,” he said. “You’re always a Jew first.”

Those who want more information following the event can visit GVSU’s exhibit, “A History of the Kindertransport,” on display in the library’s exhibition room until Nov. 24.

The GVSU theatre will also perform Diane Samuels’ “Kindertransport” starting Nov. 15. For more information, call 616-331-2300 or visit gvsu.edu/theatre.

GV students support Anonymous movement on campus

BY ERIN GROGAN EGROGAN@LANTHORN.COM

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everal students gathered under the Cook Carillon Clock Tower at Grand Valley State University on Nov. 5 to show their support for the Anonymous movement, an international initiative aimed to end government corruption.

“Recently, Grand Valley made it into the news because of the pendulum stunt,” said Lindsey Baker, the lead protester. “It’s sad to me that we were known for that. It was pretty funny, but we are a community of educated individuals, and I think we can make a bigger impact.”

That bigger impact would include supporting the group Anonymous, making statements of support for whistle-blowers and standing up to corruption within the government, Baker said.

Such whistle-blowers include Edward Snowden and Chelsea

Manning. Snowden, a former CIA employee and NSA contractor, disclosed top-secret government surveillance programs. Manning, an army intelligence analyst, was sentenced to 35 years in prison for providing documents to WikiLeaks that exposed the killing of unarmed civilians and journalists in Iraq.

“We want to show our discontent with what’s going on and the things we are unhappy about,” Baker said.

The group Anonymous held non-violent demonstrations around the world as a part of the Million Mask March.

“This is the world we have to grow up in and become a part of,” Baker said. “We can make it whatever we want it to be. I’m trying to make it a place worth living in.”

Dan Smit, a liberal arts student at GVSU, writes songs about change, justice and the pursuit of freedom.

“I think there’s a lot of problems with our country and government,”

Smit said. “An activist is a critical thinker—someone who doesn’t need an official opinion to form their own opinion, and who takes their thinking into action.”

Smit, who calls himself an activist by spirit as he hasn’t done enough to be considered an activist, was at the clock tower to educate people so that they can “make a difference.”

“I want to unify people and bring them together over likeminded i d e as ,” Smit said.

Students maintain Native American burial grounds

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mounds because that is the final act of genocide,” Strong said. “You’re helping the ancestors; you’re helping the culture and preventing the final act of genocide.”

The Norton Mounds, located just a few miles south of the Grand Rapids city limits, are one of the few remaining traditions of the Hopewell, an ancient civilization from

more than 2,000 years ago.

The Grand Rapids Public Museum is working to preserve and protect this area, which its website states is “one of the most important archaeological sites in Michigan.”

The service day was led by Kristie Scanlon, the assistant director for the Office of Multicultural Affairs at GVSU, with the GVSU Native Amer-

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tudents from Grand Valley State University worked with members of the West Michigan community on Saturday to clean up a Native American burial ground as part of Native American Heritage Month.

The day of service, led by GVSU’s Office of Multicul-

tural Affairs, began with an introduction by Eugene Strong, who has been working to preserve similar burial mounds in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.

Strong said cleaning up the area is important because it shows honor and respect in the fight against the “desecration and disrespect” of the mounds.

“They want to remove the

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Preservation: Eugene, a member of the local native community, educates students on tribal traditions and rituals. Some Grand Valley State University students helped clean Native American burial mounds in Grand Rapids as part of a day of service.

ican Student Association also involved. The group works in both the campus and the West Michigan community to promote Native American culture through service learning opportunities.

“We wanted to do something to get the students involved with the community,” said Nikole LeCompte, president of NASA. “A Day of Service is something more unique and interactive than the traditional lectures or film showings. The students that participated seemed to have a great time and seemed like they learned quite a bit.”

LeCompte said it was the first event of Native American Heritage month, and because of its success, the group plans to host similar service learning events in the spring and fall each year. She also said helping to clean up the burial mounds was an important educational opportunity for people to learn about the local history, as well as Native American culture and traditions.

“Native American culture is particularly important because of its near extinction,” LeCompte said. “Native American culture stands as a symbol of resiliency—a sign that says Native American people will not be silenced or forgotten or destroyed.”

Strong said there is an in-

creasing need to raise awareness about Native American history and culture. He explained that many people have trouble naming Native Americans in history, which he sees as a problem because their culture is disappearing.

Preserving the mounds is one way to preserve the culture because, as Strong said, they are sacred and part of the Native American identity.

“We are all related,” Strong said. “All people are important and here for a good reason.

Just enjoy being who you are.”

Terry Frechette, chairman of the West Michigan American Indian Movement, agreed with Strong.

Frechette said a lot of people do not care about the mounds, and will often climb on them or throw trash into the area.He said this is why they try to clean the mounds at least once per year, and other Natives will teach the significance of them.

The NASA will host Joy Harjo, a well-known poet, performer, writer and saxophone player, at 4 p.m. in the Cook-DeWitt Center tomorrow as part of the Professionals of Color Lecture Series.

For more information about upcoming events honoring Native American Heritage Month, visit www.gvsu. edu/oma/native-americanheritage-month-139.htm.

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The problems with the student-consumer model of education: Part 1

BY KEVIN JOFFRE KJOFFRE@LANTHORN.COM

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e are, above all else, consumers, and this consumerism shapes the way that Grand Valley operates. The consumerist model is the notion that a consumer’s desires should influence the availability of goods and services. In a university setting, this manifests in the belief that because students are paying for school, they should have a say in the education they receive. While this may seem reasonable, the underlying self-serving culture of consumerism tends to change students’ expectations of education, and in return the university molds itself to

match these expectations.

Now, to some extent, this model can be a good thing. It encourages students to identify systemic issues and pressure the university to implement necessary changes, thereby creating a more just or efficient institution. The consumerist model thus requires responsible, community-oriented people, and yet it has the tendency to produce the exact opposite qualities. Consumers have a tendency to confuse the responsibilities of their consumer voices with the egotistical notion that their individual feelings are the highest priority for a service based organization. This results in the restaurant patron who complains to the manager to get free food.

Because students have grown up in this consumer-oriented setting and GVSU establishes itself as a student-based institution, students tend to view it as a “service” and place self-indulgent demands upon it.

For example, if you ask a student why they’re at college, they’ll either tell you it’s (1) because college is fun or (2) because college helps you get a job. Very few students can claim that they’re at college for the pursuit of individual growth through rigorous academic challenges without earning an eye-roll. As a result, “enjoyment” and “practicality” become—for students—the highest virtues of higher education.

Unfortunately, the virtue of

enjoyment is the root of most student-professor conflicts.

For example, one issue in education is the tendency for students to avoid professors who have accents. Last semester, the Lanthorn surveyed students about their experiences in international faculties’ classes. All of them said that the professors’ accents interfered with their education. In a consumerist model, this makes sense. Why should a student pay to be in a class if they can’t understand the professor? It is a professor’s responsibility to convey information clearly to students, and if students can’t understand the professor, then the university is providing poor customer service.

Consequently, students dismiss

QUESTION OF THE ISSUE

VALLEY VOTE

ARE THERE ANY EDUCATIONAL EVENTS THAT YOU HOPE TO SEE GVSU BRING TO SUPPLEMENT YOUR CLASSROOM LEARNING?

Do you think expansion of academic buildings should be an immediate priority for GVSU?

“When we read books in class, I love having the opportunity to hear the authors speak. I feel it gives me a better insight.”

SARAH MANIS

Junior Biomedical Sciences Kalamazoo, Mich.

“I hope that GVSU educators use speakers in their classrooms more often. For me, connecting a topic with a story if more helpful.”

BRANDON MITCHELL Junior Social Work Bir Rapids, Mich.

“To see more leaders of the scientific community whether it be through politics, ethics or pioneers in the scientific community.”

BRIAN RAWLS Junior Chemistry Palatine, Ill.

YES - 62%

the expertise of the professor or the value of an international presence in the classroom.

A similar phenomenon occurs in the classrooms of demanding professors. Despite the undisputed fact that demanding professors tend to create the most academic growth in students, these professors are often avoided because they are “mean.” If a student-consumer wants to get an A, why would they purposely select a path that makes this product harder to get? As a result, students disregard the value of being challenged and instead seek out classes in which they are entertained. In this context, “boring” is a justified excuse for skipping a class or not doing an assignment,

while a Chili Pepper rating on RateMyProfessor is a legitimate incentive for selecting a professor.

Sadly, the virtue of enjoyment is implicitly reinforced by professors. In a business model, you don’t challenge customers, and in a university you don’t challenge the student culture. For example, some professors ask, “Did anyone read the homework last night?,” which legitimizes a student culture that sees homework as too high a threshold to overcome. Anytime a faculty member over-apologizes for an accent or provides catchup reading time in class, they are accepting enjoyment as a virtue.

THIS ISSUE’S QUESTION: Do you think “common ground” is attainable in all issues of dissension?

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COMMON GROUND

We are impressed with and encouraged by the Hauenstein Center’s initiatives to help people of different perspectives find common ground, and we think you should be, too.

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n Tuesday, the Hauenstein Center hosted a debate between two Grand Valley State University professors on opposite sides of the political spectrum. With even tones, they civilly discussed the U.S. budget, sequestration and the role of the federal government. Neither agreed on any particular issue, but they acknowledged one another’s views and, as it seemed, open-mindedly received the perspective of the other.

This is just one of the many events the center has hosted as part of its Common Ground initiative, which appropriately seeks to establish common ground between people of opposing perspectives. We would like to express our support of this movement and encourage you to do the same.

After all, common ground is what keeps society moving. Unless an explicit hierarchy exists, decisions are made by groups of individuals who

contribute unique views to form a compromise, and that compromise is found on common ground.

This sort of system exists at all levels in every sector of public and private life; it’s universal.

On a small scale, all you students can appreciate the importance of common ground as you engage in group work; to effectively and efficiently collaborate, you need to compromise, and no compromise is ever arrived at when two parties are standing still and not actively seeking common ground.

Even at a university level, ideological polarization has presumably resulted in hostility and a lack of cooperation. There are opposing ideas in any discipline wherein an opinion could be had, even setting aside religious and political allegiances.

Certainly there are scientists divided on the source of global warning just as there are English academics divided

on which critical lens is most valuable in textual interpretation.

Perhaps these disagreements don’t hinder academic departments as much as the liberal-conservative division inhibits the U.S. Senate, but they are troublesome nonetheless. Where there is dissension, there is likely an inability to comprehend how the other can come to such an “idiotic” conclusion. Obviously, one thought is more informed and correct than the other, or so the dogmatically partisan thinking goes.

In this respect, seeking common ground is essential even when compromise isn’t. Giving honest consideration to others’ views and wholly understanding the reasons behind them only improves your perspective, as your ultimate view is more informed and you are better able to empathize and engage in dialogue with people who disagree with you.

And that is how things get done.

GVL EDITORIAL CARTOON I MARELGUIJ BRIONES “Events that talk about life after college and how to get the dream job and how to find internships.”

KARI KOSMALSKI Junior Accounting Commerce, Mich.

“I would like to see GVSU bring someone to give a talk about how to be motivated/ maintain motivation throughout the semester. Possibly someone who could give tools and tips on how to study, etc.”

CHELSEA JULIAN Junior Psychology Howell, Mich.

The “Goldilocks Zone” for liberal education

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couple years ago, a good friend of mine studied abroad in Crossmaglen, Ireland. When he came back, he told me a story that, every so often, still traipses forward from the outer fringes of my memory. One day during his trip, a few students were in their hostel drinking and talking when a local bartender, whom I’ll call Mark Brady, paid them a visit. The group of them had been deep in a conversation which grappled with aesthetics and the visceral beauty of human complexity when Brady walked in. Being the brash character he is, he

interrupted.

“Oy, oy, oy, oy,” he told them, “That’s all a load of shiste.”

He proceeded to tell the group how philosophical conversations don’t mean “shiste” when someone can break into your house, beat you up, and drag you, bloody and in your boxers, through the middle of town. As you can imagine, this very thing happened to Brady. Crossmaglen is perched in a tense sociopolitical atmosphere where the citizens’ beliefs are at odds with those of the law enforcement. When you’re frightened for your basic liberties, Brady said, airy, non-practical speculations about the world don’t hold much water.

This anecdote gave me a new perspective on liberal education. Having a liberal education is wonderful, but obtaining one requires a “goldilocks zone” of social, economic, and political factors. Historically speaking, colleges like ours, which

pander to the middle class, are an anomaly.

America sits in this “goldilocks zone.” We haven’t faced prolonged attacks on our home turf since the Civil War. We’ve shifted away from an agricultural or manufacturing-based economy to a more servicebased economy, where fewer and fewer jobs are rooted in arduous, physical labor.

Advances in technology, medicine, and social thought have created a culture where the quality of life for the average man is much higher.

It all boils down to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

Once your physiological and safety-based needs are met, it’s far easier to access the loftier aims of liberal education and self-actualization.

When these lower-tier concerns are in jeopardy, however, accessing education can be far more difficult.

A couple of my other friends (and fellow columnists!) give back to the community through an organiza-

tion called Job Corps, which helps low-income young adults obtain their GED or high school diploma. These people, struggling with poverty and teen pregnancy among other obstacles, have difficulty seeing the practical value of discussing Plato or Aristotle’s notions of rhetoric. When you’ve got a child clutching your ankles asking for toys you can’t afford, it can become difficult to prioritize the long-term effects of liberal education and critical thinking.

By no means am I arguing against the benefits of a liberal arts education. That being said, stories like Mark Brady’s and the Job Corps’ students remind me how fortunate I am to receiving the education I am. So often, it’s easy to gripe and moan about my unwieldy to-do list and how many essays I have to write, but the truth of the matter is: we’re pretty dang lucky to be able to have such #firstworldproblems.

Women supporting women Conference to honor female leadership

eight tenets of the Athena Leadership Model HLENTZ@LANTHORN.COM currently function and have functioned rand Valley State University will host in her life. The eight tenets are authentic the ATHENA Connections conference self, celebration and joy, collaboration, Nov. 18 to prepare college women for courageous acts, fierce advocacy, giving back, learning and relationships. leadership in higher education and beyond.

Englehart will also focus on Sponsored by the GVSU the idea that women should not Women’s Center, the Grand only see themselves as leaders Rapids Chamber of Commerce, but gain the skills necessary for the Women’s Commission, the women and gender studies The goal is to successful leadership in the 21st century. program and GVSU Career Founded in 1982 by Martha Services, the event provides a give students Mertz, Athena setting for college students to an opportunity Mayhood International is a nonprofit interact with women leaders in to interact... organization that seeks to business and higher education. support, develop and honor “While great gains in equality JENNRICH female leaders. The program for women are always being JESSICA WOMEN’S CENTER inspires women to reach their accomplished, there remains a full potential and strive to create number of issues that having connections as a college-age student can help balance in leadership worldwide.

The program also highlights the life young women navigate work—and life— with the experience of quality mentorship,” journeys of successful women, illuminating said Jessica Jennrich, director of the Women’s the challenges and successes they have faced and continue to face in determining a Center at GVSU. The ATHENA Connections conference career path, combining work and family, and will provide an informative and interactive making professional connections.

“Think about Rosa Parks, who from the way for students to consider their own professional and personal life journeys authenticity of her core, refused once again while surrounded by individuals who have to go to the back of the bus,” Mertz said at a recent Athena International Leadership succeeded in their respective fields.

“The goal is to give students an opportunity Conference. “Consider Mother Theresa, who to interact with women leaders,” Jennrich expressed her leadership by the touch of said. “The goal is for students to learn more her hand, by the healing of her voice, by the about women in leadership so they can power of her presence—always giving hope. meet potential employers and role models, These are but two examples, albeit great network with the community and develop examples, of women’s ways of leading that have changed the world.” steps to becoming an authentic leader.”

The conference will be held from 6 p.m.

Highlighting this year’s event is the acknowledgment of 2013 Athena recipient to 7:30 p.m. in the Grand River Room of Jeanne Englehart, vice president of client the Kirkhof Center. For more information management at The Charter Group, a mergers regarding the conference, visit www.gvsu. edu/women_cen. and acquisitions firm in Grand Rapids.

Englehart will be discussing how the

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Local leaders promote sustainability at ICMA

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he International City/ County Management Association Graduate Student Chapter at Grand Valley State University hosted an event on Monday about sustainability in West Michigan and all over the world.

Jason Escareno, president of the ICMA student chapter, said the event was held to show students how the different themes they are learning in class can be applied outside the classroom. “(We chose) professionals who are well-seasoned in their careers,” Escareno said, noting that the community leaders who lectured at the event were picked strategically.

Arn Boezart, Dennis Sturtevant, Mary Buikema and Haris Alibasic all spoke at the event and offered different perspectives on sustainability efforts in the area. “(Sustainability is) about meeting the needs of the present without compromising the quality of life for future generations,” said Boezart, the director of the Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center.

He noted the far-reaching

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tendrils of sustainability, adding that MAREC incorporates sustainability into its work with economic development, business development incubators and research on new technology for renewable energy.

The next speaker was Sturtevant, CEO of the Grand Rapids-based nonprofit organization Dwelling Place, which provides affordable housing and support to West Michigan families and individuals in need.

In his lecture, Sturtevant said Dwelling Place’s sustainability initiative is about more than just renewable energy, but it also places an emphasis on historic preservation of old buildings, urban gardening and creating housing close to public transit.

Buikema, the executive director of Kent County’s Habitat for Humanity, said her organization is making effort to create more sustainable homes. Energy efficiency isn’t just beneficial to the environment, but it also helps the families that use the Habitat for Humanity services to keep their energy costs down, Buikema said.

“We build ‘green’ because it benefits the families we help the most,” she said.

Alibasic earned his degree at GVSU and was

once a professor. Now, he is the director of the Office of Energy and Sustainability for the city of Grand Rapids.

In his part of the lecture, Alibasic said Grand Rapids is recognized as a national leader in sustainability for various actions that it takes.

Last year, Grand Rapids received a climate leadership award at the United States Conference of Mayors and also recently won an award for the most sustainable midsized community in the U.S. The ICMA student chapter hosted the event in conjunction with GVSU’s School of Public, Nonprofit and Health Administration.

The group is an international association that works to advance professional local government worldwide.

The association recently allowed universities to form their own chapters, and the student chapter at GVSU became the first in Michigan earlier this year.

Escareno said the students of the chapter plan to host three or four events per semester in order to promote the ideas of the ICMA among the GVSU community.

For more information, visit www.gvsu.edu/spnha/ icma-gvsu-114.htm or connect with the chapter on its Facebook page.

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Lansing House of Representatives building features GV alumnae art

Getting recognized: GVSU alumnae Monica Lloyd and Danielle Fritz will have their art inside Michigan’s Capitol. It’s the fifth straight year GVSU has had art in a legislative building.

BY CHANON CUMMINGS CCUMMINGS@LANTHORN.COM

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ince 2009, Grand Valley State University has had student artwork accepted every year to be exhibited in the Michigan House of Representatives’

Anderson House Office Building in Lansing.

The Art in the House initiative selects university student artwork for display, and this year, work by two GVSU graduates has been chosen for the Michigan’s Capitol.

Assistant Director of Galleries and from Braeden and is based on the idea of Collections at GVSU, Cathy Marashi, how adults lose their creativity as they played a part in selecting which student age,” she said. pieces GVSU would submit.

Monica Lloyd created the piece “Five” “When the request for student art for the chosen for display. “Five” was the final legislature arrived, I contacted Professor piece in her series about creation.

Ed Wong-Ligda, who recommended “It is the most colorful and complex work by several students, and I of the series,” Lloyd said. then selected and entered work “I work a lot in detailed

by Monica Lloyd and Danielle drawings and explorations Fritz, and both pieces were of pattern in a conceptual accepted,” Marashi said.

It is the most way.”

During a reception on Oct. Having graduated from 16, 26 pieces of artwork were colorful and GVSU in the summer of selected from 15 of Michigan’s complex of 2013 with a fine arts degree, public universities.

Lloyd is now working as Fritz, a GVSU alumna, the series. an intern at Avenue for the graduated in 2013 with a degree Arts, and some of her work in art and design. The piece that MONICA LLOYD is currently exhibited at the was chosen was from her senior GVSU ALUMNUS Green Well restaurant in thesis series, which was titled Grand Rapids.

“Figments and Fortes.”

Art in the House is a partnership The chosen piece, “The Boy at the between the President’s Council, state Window,” was created using pen and universities of Michigan, and the Michigan ink, watercolor, acrylic paint and colored House of Representatives to promote art pencil. in everyday life.

“I also used a slightly distorted “It is a wonderful way to promote the perspective to represent viewing through arts and the exceptional talents of our a child’s eyes and mind,” Fritz said. state university students,” Marashi said.

Her senior show consisted of eight Work that is selected to hang in pieces that she dedicated to her 5-year-old the Anderson House Office Building brother, Braeden. will continue to be on display though “The piece was inspired by a quote September 2014.

GV alumni collaborate in music video shoot

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n Oct. 30, a barn in Ada, Mich., was transformed into a video set with production lights, cameras and several instruments for the shoot of Kari Lynch Band’s first music video.

Grand Valley State University alumni Kari Lynch and Dustin Foster teamed up to create an authentic video that would portray the band’s low-key vibe, Lynch said.

Lynch, the band’s lead singer who started writing music at the age of seven, gets inspiration from her life experiences, she said.

“Most of my songs are personal to what I’m going through… It was always just a way to help me figure out life,” Lynch said. “If something big happens … I grab my guitar and go sit somewhere—that’s always been the most natural feel for me.”

This mechanism and her interest in creative non-fiction led her to get a degree in writing at GVSU. Although there were days when she just wanted to focus on her music, she stuck with her education, she said.

Since graduating in 2010, GVSU has continued to congratulate her on her successes and even invited her to open for Justin Moore when he performed at the spring concert in 2012.

“What school does that? That’s so nice,” Lynch said. “I definitely love that I went to Grand Valley and graduated from such a great school, where obviously they care about their students after they graduate.”

Apart from Moore, Kari Lynch Band has also opened for The Band Perry, Miranda Lambert, Thompson Square and many more, some of which she still remains in contact with.

“People in country music … are just so welcoming and really supportive of one another,” Lynch said. “Most of the people we’ve opened up for have been just awesome to work with, awesome to share a stage with.”

Many of the artists have also offered

up a handful of advice, the most important being to remain true to who she is as a musician instead of conforming to what is popular, she said.

“Do your own thing … people will love it or hate it, but hopefully they’ll love it because it’s you,” Lynch said. “You’re not trying to follow someone else; you’re trying to forge your own path.”

Like Lynch, Foster—director and creative editor for Such Video—also values the education he got at GVSU and has since gone on to make a name for himself.

After graduating in 2003 with a degree in film and video, he got a job right away as an assistant editor and spent 10 to 11 years living in Chicago and teaching at Colombia College.

In the length of time that he’s been working, he’s realized he can do the job anywhere, he said.

“I’ve worked on feature films, independent films, commercials, music videos, I’ve worked in Seattle, Santa Monica, Chicago, and I still came back to Michigan,” Foster said. “The support system is fantastic, the talent is fantastic, the locations are fantastic and there is a community that is looking to be born.”

Although college and life after graduation can get stressful, it is important to stick with it through the hard times, build relationships and ask questions when you don’t know what you’re doing, he said.

“Stay with it, it gets harder before it gets easier—no one ever told me that,” Foster said.

Since graduating, he has remained in close contact with Kim Roberts and John Philbin, who are both professors in the film and video department at GVSU. With his recent return to the Grand Rapids area, he has a few guest lectures scheduled at GVSU and is in the works of acquiring an adjunct position at the university.

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Slugger: The Kari Lynch Band shoots its video for the song “Nowhere Now.” The band includes Kari Lynch, who is the lead singer and a Grand Valley State University alumna.

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Local Kari Lynch Band makes first video

Slugger: The chamber orchestra plays a show in the Mary Idema Pew Library. The orchestra has its next show in collaboration with the Symphonic Wind Ensemble on Nov. 12.

Highlighting small ensembles Orchestra and Wind Ensemble collaborate for show AUDRA GAMBLE AGAMBLE@LANTHORN.COM

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he Grand Valley State University Chamber Orchestra and select members of the Symphonic Wind Ensemble will be performing in the Cook-DeWitt center Nov. 12 at 8 p.m.

The concert will feature varied styles of ensembles, including a brass quintet, a woodwind quartet and a percussion ensemble.

During the second half of the program, the Chamber Orchestra will perform “Serenade for Tenor, Horn and String” by composer Benjamin Britten.

Conductor Henry Duitman said a lot of people have been performing Britten’s work this year because it is his 100th anniversary.

“We’re just doing one piece with the Chamber Orchestra, but we’re including our professor of tenor, Min Jin, and professor of horn, Rick Britsch. They’re just fabulous,” Duitman said. “These are pieces done by super professionals; they’re really hard. It’s an amazing piece.”

All of the lyrics for the Britten piece are from poems written by famous poets like William Blake, Alfred Lord Tennyson and John Keats.

While there will be members of the Symphonic Wind Ensemble playing in the concert, all of the music is for small groups of musicians.

“It’s all chamber music,” Duitman said.

“There are just huge benefits to the students doing chamber music. It’s much more challenging to be the only one on a part. It’s much more intimate. It really encourages

people to really know their own part.”

The Chamber Orchestra members are the top string players at GVSU, but the music still presents a challenge to them.

“The chamber music is more difficult,” viola player Elizabeth Boyce said. “It’s in a smaller setting, so it’s really different. There’s a lot more power to a big orchestra just because you’ll have a lot more big brass instruments, but in a chamber ensemble, it’s a lot more refined and will sound more professional.”

This is the first concert put on by the GVSU music department that is solely chamber music, and Duitman said the student musicians have a lot to learn from the experience.

“The difference is hearing something in a large hall versus hearing something done just for you in a more intimate setting,” Duitman said. “Cook-DeWitt is a smaller setting, and chamber music comes from the idea of music in almost a home situation, like a king would have a small orchestra just for him. It’s much harder to be the only one on a part. (Students are) more responsible for their parts than in a larger group. The students really excel at it.”

Duitman said he hopes the students can learn from each other, as the string and wind players rarely play at the same concerts.

“I hope the students will listen to each other a lot,” Duitman said. “The band kids do band things, and the orchestra kids do the orchestra thing, and I hope they’ll listen to each other and realize they’re all doing things together and studying together.”

The concert is free and open to the public.

For more information, visit www.gvsu.edu/ music.

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SHORTS Hogan repeats as Defensive Player of the Week

Sophomore outside hitter Betsy Ronda of the No. 16 Grand Valley State University women’s volleyball team has been named the GLIAC North Division Player of the Week after leading the team to a pair of victories in the Upper Peninsula over the weekend.

Ronda posted a matchhigh 13 kills on Friday night against Northern Michigan University, which had entered the game in a firstplace tie along with GVSU. She also tallied 10 digs in the sweep.

The Grand Rapids, Mich., native led the way once again at MichiganTechnological University on Saturday by recording a match-high 10 kills to go with seven digs and three service aces. The sweep was GVSU’s 12th of the season.

GVSU will host a pair of home matches at the Fieldhouse Arena this weekend against Saginaw Valley State University on Friday at 7 p.m. and Lake Superior State University on Saturday at 4 p.m.

Kimble tabbed as Defensive Athlete of the Week

Senior defender Kayla Kimble of the No. 1 Grand Valley State University women’s soccer team was named the GLIAC Defensive Athlete of the Week on Monday after scoring the game-winning goal on a penalty kick against Lake Erie College at home on Friday night.

Kimble notched the big goal in the 76th minute of the game, which helped the Lakers cap off their undefeated regular season with a record of 16-0-1.

The Livonia, Mich., native has helped anchor a GVSU defense that allowed just one goal during the regular season.

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Lightning quick: Quarterback Heath Parling dodges an opposing team’s defender. Parling will lead the Grand Valley State University team on Saturday as it takes on Wayne State University in Detroit. The Lakers have won one of three games on the road and look to improve their record.

‘Next man in, next man up’

Lakers look to take on Wayne State without Ratay

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f the Grand Valley State University football team is going to make the playoffs, they’re going to have to do it without its most productive offensive player.

Junior running back Michael Ratay leads the team with 1,012 yards rushing (7.3 yards per carry) and 16 touchdowns, but he will miss the remainder of the season after he suffered a torn ACL and torn meniscus in last week’s win over Hillsdale College.

“I think we have guys on our offense and on our entire team that kind of the last couple of years

have approached the ‘next-man-in, next-man-up’ mentality and that’s no different this year,” junior quarterback Heath Parling said. “It’s a big loss, as it should be. He’s a great player, but we’re going to have on and move forward and try our best to beat Wayne on Saturday.”

GVSU (7-2, 5-2 GLIAC) will aim to record its second road win of the year when they travel to face Wayne State University (3-6, 3-5 GLIAC) at noon on Saturday.

Wayne State’s overall record may not be impressive, but their performance at home is what has GVSU head coach Matt Mitchell worried.

Revenge is sweet Volleyball sweeps Ferris State to win 12 in a row

BY JAY BUSHEN ASSISTANTSPORTS@LANTHORN.COM

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crowd of more than 1,000 erupted in cheers as junior captain Abby Aiken tallied the game-winning spike that put a decisive end to the battle for first place.

Aiken made her offensive presence felt as the No. 16 Grand Valley State University women’s volleyball team took a commanding lead atop the GLIAC standings after getting its revenge against rival No. 24 Ferris State University in three sets (25-20, 25-22, 30-28) on Tuesday night at the Fieldhouse Arena.

“She is just playing with a calming presence about her,” head coach Deanne Scanlon said. “She’s not afraid to take that big swing in big moments. For a setter to know that you have that kind of player on the floor, it’s just magical.”

The outside hitter led the way for the Lakers with a match-high 14 kills to go with nine digs and a

trio of service aces, while junior setter Kaitlyn Wolters continued her impressive season with 39 assists, 10 digs and four kills.

GVSU (22-3, 13-1 GLIAC) has now swept both second-place teams—FSU and Northern Michigan University—in a five-day span. If it can take three of its last four regular season matches, it will win its first conference title since 2008.

“We’ve been building up to it,” Aiken said. “My freshman year wasn’t so good; last year we were so close, and this year we have everything we need to win. We’re excited.”

GVSU has pushed its winning streak to 12 games and boasts a 5-1 record against teams in the AVCA Top 25. It has won 20 of its last 21 games.

FSU was the only team able to beat the Lakers during that stretch, as the Bulldogs took a five-set thriller on Oct. 1 at a packed Ewigleben

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VOLLEYBALL Friday vs. Saginaw Valley 7 p.m.

Saturday vs. Lake Superior St. 4 p.m.

Tuesday vs. Madonna 7 p.m.

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“I’ve been ready for this game all week,” sophomore middle blocker Kaleigh Lound said. “Everybody has been pumped for it since we lost to them last time. We really had to come out and prove that we are better.”

Lound was assertive early on and made a number of key plays that appeared to set the tone for the entire match. She finished with four blocks and nine kills.

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Women’s soccer defeats Northwood 1-0

Friday at Michigan State 5 p.m.

Saturday at NCAA Division II Regional 1 p.m.

Not in our house: Ally Simmons (8) and Kaitlyn Wolters (7) go up for the block. GVSU swept Ferris State to avenge an earlier season loss.

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“I think the biggest factor in this game is where it’s being played,” he said. “Wayne is 3-1 (at home) and probably should be 4-0. They outplayed Saginaw Valley at home. There’s going to be a lot of seniors playing in their last home game that are going to be emotionally and mentally prepared to play us.”

For GVSU, stopping the opponents run game is always a top priority, but this week’s matchup forces an even greater emphasis on limiting the ground attack.

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Grand Valley State University sophomore defensive lineman De’Ondre Hogan has been named the GLIAC Defensive Player of the Week for a second straight time after a big performance in the team’s 31-21 home victory against Hillsdale College on Saturday night.

Hogan made his presence felt against the Hillsdale offense, tallying 2.5 sacks to go with 2.5 tackles for a loss, seven total tackles and a forced fumble.

The Livonia, Mich., native has been wreaking havoc for opposing offenses lately, as he also turned in eight total tackles, including three tackles for a loss and a pass deflection against Northwood University the week before.

The team returns to action on the road Saturday against Wayne State University at noon in Detroit.

Drive: Katie Bounds drives the ball up the pitch during the Lakers’ match against Northwood in the GLIAC Tournament.

Since defeating the University of Tiffin 13-0 on Oct. 20, the Grand Valley State University women’s soccer team has averaged just 1.5 goals per game. Whether it was the offense experiencing a bit of a slump in the five previous games or the opposing defenses making adjustments, it was up to the Laker defense to lead the team to victory against Northwood University in the quarterfinals of the GLIAC Tournament.

“I do think it’s at the end of the season where teams know what’s coming at them and they’re adjusting,” head coach Dave DiIanni said. “We have to make counter adjustments, which is something we aren’t doing a great job of right now.”

From the opening minutes, the Lakers controlled the ball as Northwood faced an uphill battle playing against a team that had only given up one goal on the year.

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“We really challenged our girls to be mentally prepared to play,” DiIanni said. “I felt as if we were really unlucky in not getting a goal in the first 20 to 25 minutes, which brought a bit of frustration on our part.”

GVSU’s first chance at a goal came 27 minutes into the first half when freshman Erika Bradfield nearly scored as her ball ricocheted off the crossbar. Several other opportunities fell short for the Lakers in the first half as they went into the locker room tied scoreless with the visiting Timberwolves.

“We struggled a bit in the beginning, had a tough time connecting on some passes,” senior Kayla Kimble said. “I think the wind played a bit of a factor in it as we couldn’t find the balls sent over the top.”

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Her performance highlighted a stingy Laker defense that held FSU to a hitting percentage mark of .163.

“It makes it easy when we can get our hands up and shut them down right from the beginning,” Lound said. “It gets in their heads.”

GVSU seemed to make its rival work for every single point.

Junior libero Christina Canepa, sophomore outside hitter Betsy Ronda, and freshman libero Nicayla Joyce combined to make a number of diving plays to keep the ball alive. Each of the three finished with 13 digs.

Some of these defensive plays not only interrupted premature celebrations

from the opposing team, but also drew cheers from the increasingly engaged crowd. The 1,022 in attendance combined to form the largest crowd since Oct. 9, 2009, when 1,025 fans came to see GVSU beat Ashland in five sets.

“We were just playing volleyball and keeping the ball off the floor,” Aiken said. “We didn’t want it to go to (a fourth set).”

Still, the Bulldogs refused to go down without a fight.

GVSU edged FSU in the second frame despite 15 tie scores and nine lead changes. The final set was even more dramatic, but the Lakers found a way to finish on top behind the play of their star outside hitters.

Aiken, who has been clutch in a

number of situations this season, broke a 28-28 tie when she put down backto-back kills that capped off the team’s 13th sweep of the 2013 campaign.

GVSU controls its own destiny down the stretch and figures to be the favorite to win the conference.

“Mathematically, we don’t have it in hand,” Scanlon said. “There’s still a cluster at the top (of the standings).

We’ve separated ourselves a little bit tonight, but we have four really tight matches upcoming. We haven’t won it yet.”

The team will continue its pursuit of a GLIAC title at home this weekend against Saginaw Valley State University on Friday at 7 p.m. and Lake Superior State University on Saturday at 4 p.m.

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Maintaining momentum: Freshman player Gabbie Guibord takes the ball down the field against Northwood University.

Manning the sail: Head Coach Matt Mitchell leads the Laker team to victory during the Saturday game against Hillsdale. The team looks for another victory this weekend.

has bone spurs in his ankle which are floating around. It’s giving him some problems, but Mitchell fully expects him to play.

Most of the load will fall to senior running back Chris Robinson in the wake of Ratay’s absence. But Mitchell expects junior back Ben Hutchins to receive his share of carries, along with the other GVSU backs.

“We have to give Ben Hutchins more carries,” Mitchell said. “We can’t sit there and have a game where we give Chris 30 carries. We have some stuff where Hersey Jackson’s in the backfield.

We gotta maybe use Terrell Dorsey a little bit too in the run game.

With only two weeks left, the Division II playoff picture is beginning to take shape. Mitchell has his eye on the playoff situation, and compared to last year, likes his team’s chances if GVSU is able to care of business these next two weeks.

“Again from a big picture perspective, I think this year is a little bit different than last year. In our region, there are a few more two-loss teams than there were last year,” he said. “As we sit here as a twoloss team, it probably gives

us a little bit more optimistic approach to things in the end of the season than maybe in the position we were in last year. We had a bunch of oneloss teams and it didn’t look as favorable.”

24 teams are chosen by a committee to make up the NCAA Division II Football Tournament. There are four major regions, and GVSU currently sits at No. 6 in Region Four.

If the Lakers are able to take care of business this

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“Our focus is on this team and this week and how things play out,” Mitchell said. “I’m cognizant of what’s going on, but at the same time, I’ve not talked about that with our team or not mentioned that to our staff because we need to be focused on Wayne State.”

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Wayne State enters this weekend with the secondmost rush attempts in the GLIAC North, trailing only Ferris State University. The Warriors have run the ball 407 times this year; an average of 45 attempts a game.

Wayne State utilizies its quarterback in the running game similar to how Ferris State University uses Jason Vander Laan, who managed to run for 210 yards rushing against GVSU. “They really make a big push to try to run the ball,” Mitchell said. “They do similar schemes. He’s not as big as Jason Vander Laan, but when you see 11 in the backfield at the quarterback position. It’s definitely a higher percentage of runs and quarterback runs.”

GVSU will have also have to prepare for multiple looks at the quarterback position.

The Warriors have used three different signal callers this year, including using all three in six games this year: junior Doug Griffin (nine games), sophomore Carl Roscoe (seven games), and junior Sean Guinane (six games).

“They rotate a lot of quarterbacks, so we get some different things,” sophomore defensive lineman De’Ondre Hogan said. “They have a running quarterback and a throwing quarterback and they have a couple good running backs that they rotate throughout the game.”

Hogan has been named the GLIAC Defensive Player of the Week the last two weeks, where he has recorded 15 tackles and 4.5 sacks over that span.

Despite the bad news about Ratay, GVSU received good news about senior center Matt Armstrong.

Armstrong underwent x-rays on his ankle and the results showed that he

Voss looked forward to celebration day by planning to take as many pills as he could.

But on one of his worst days, he managed to outdo himself.

“I remember this day I did 34 pills, and I don’t remember going to sleep,” Voss said.

“I remember waking up. I don’t know if I overdosed. I don’t really recall.”

Pills weren’t the only drugs of choice for Voss. For four months, he was shooting cocaine into his body

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using a syringe. One day, he bought $50 worth of cocaine and shot the entire $50 worth at once, giving him his worst drug experience yet.

“I put it all in the syringe and I shot it up, and I immediately I got my high and seconds later, my heart was like pounding in my chest,” Voss said. “I felt like it was going to explode. Luckily, blessed or fortunate, nothing did happen and I was able to come out of that. That was the lowest that made me reflect on what I was doing with my life and that I wanted to change.”

Voss then began experiencing a manic episode where he believed that he was going to win the lottery. He decided to buy six scratch-off tickets and managed to win six times in a row. The first ticket won him $40, and the other winners were either a small amount or

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SOCCER CONTINUED FROM A7 as the Lakers continued to miss out on point-blank opportunities. It wasn’t until a miscommunication between Northwood midfielders that GVSU found its chance. The error allowed an odd-man rush for the Lakers in which Bradfield found junior Jenny Shaba across the box to score what would be the only goal of the game.

“The majority of the game was a little sporadic, and we weren’t always on the same page, but it felt good to get the win and the one goal that we needed to do so,” Shaba said. “(Bradfield) fought hard on that drive to get the ball across the line, which set me up for a great opportunity to score.”

Senior goalkeeper Abbey simply just another free ticket.

“I called my buddy who is in Holland and said ‘Hey man, what’s going on? I have this intuition that I’m going to win the lottery,”’ Voss said.

“I think he was really concerned, so he called me back a few minutes later and he was like, ‘I talked to my Dad and we think it would be a good for you to come up here for a few days just to get away.’”

At the time, Voss had $1,600 in his backpack. He went to the school library and bought a plane ticket and left for Michigan without telling anyone.

After arriving in Holland, Voss was still experiencing his manic episode, which led him to steal a car.

“I went out for a jog, and I saw this Pontiac Grand Am just sitting there and it was running and the guy walked away and it was like, ‘Well, this is perfect. This is for me to take,’” he said.

Voss stole the car and ended up at a local cemetery, but his actions finally caught up to him. Holland police officer Joe Slenk arrested Voss and took him into custody in March 2011.

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Defense attorney Jane Patterson assisted Voss in reducing his charges to a misdemeanor.

Patterson also knew a guy named Ross Pool who went to CMI Abasto in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for heroin addiction and suggested that Voss follow the same path.

“She presented it to me as a gift,” Voss said. “I didn’t even think twice. I said, ‘Let’s do it.’”

Voss spent two years in Argentina getting a cure to his addiction. He had his treatment tailored to him, where CMI focused on giving Voss tasks to find it within himself to improve as a person.

“It forced me to sit down and really observe and reflect on how I act because it’s not anything outside of me, it’s internally how I see the world and how I act and I react,” Voss said about his treatment.

Throughout his time in rehab, Voss managed to stay in touch with people from home via email or phone calls. One of those people happened to be the person who arrested him, Officer Slenk.

“About six or seven months into my treatment, he sent me an email because a buddy of mine who is with me in CMI is a neighbor of Joe,” Voss said.

Miller’s night was uneventful as the Laker defense allowed not a single shot, which proved to be the stat of the night as the Lakers went on to outshoot the Timberwolves 30-0.

“The defense is doing a great job, as everyone has noticed,” Shaba said. “Some teams that know us a little bit better have been playing back, which is allowing our defenders to get up in the attack, which has been good for us.”

The Lakers will now look ahead to the semi-finals of the GLIAC tournament when they will host rival Ferris State University—a team they defeated 1-0 on Oct. 30.

“We know them and they know us very well,” DiIanni said. “It’s really up to us to get our minds and bodies right and be fully prepared for Friday.”

“So there was like some conversation where our names were passed and he looked me up online and he saw that it was me and sent me an email saying, ‘Hey, I arrested you. For some reason I feel like I want to reach out to you and talk and see where this will go.’”

Slenk visited Voss in Argentina for a week at the end of his inpatient, which was the oneyear mark of Voss’ treatment.

Ironically, Voss lived with Slenk’s parents in the summer, where Voss commuted back and forth from football summer workouts.

Now, Slenk attends every GVSU home game with his daughters and wife to watch Voss, and the relationship between the officer and the former drug addict has continued to grow.

“I hang out with him one day a week at least,” Voss said.

“He’s my best friend, really.”

The journey for Voss to join the GVSU football program began two years ago when he and head coach Matt Mitchell began talking over email and phone about the possibility of Voss becoming a Laker.

This season, Voss has seen time at tight end and special teams.

“I heard about him three years ago,” Mitchell said. “I met with some people in Holland and East Grand Rapids that knew him. He wanted to try to get back into the game after some issues. He had to go Division II based on NCAA rules. To look to further his education and his playing career, he thought Grand Valley was the best spot.”

Voss has yet to come across any drugs or have any offered to him since he’s been at GVSU. Surprisingly to most people, he’s able to drink beer but stays away from liquor.

“One thing that CMI is able to do is they make you a normal person,” Voss said.

“I don’t count my days. My focus isn’t on my drugs anymore; it’s on my daily life.

Now that I fixed the core of me, all the other stuff that used to be a problem is not a problem now. I can drink casually and have a couple of beers and it’s not a problem.”

For the first time in a while, Voss is enjoying his life. With the vices purged from his body, he has something more powerful than any drug—peace of mind.

“I’m not suffering now,” he said. “I’m happy and I’m balanced.”

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t Monday night’s practice, the Grand Valley State University men’s club rugby team left no stone unturned, running the same drills ad nauseam until not a flaw could be seen.

No one wants to come up short again this year.

On Saturday, the Lakers (8-2) will head to Detroit to take on the Golden Flash of Kent State University in the Great Lakes Conference Championship. GVSU, which went undefeated in the GLC, has been to the conference championship game each of the past three years. The winner of the game earns a bid to play in the USA Collegiate Championships. For the past three years, the Lakers have been forced to hang their cleats up prematurely, coming up short when it mattered most.

Sophomore winger Colin Dekam said he believes that this will be the year GVSU finally breaks through.

“We’ve beaten several good teams so far and went undefeated during regular season play, so we like to thing we can hang with just about anybody in the postseason,” Dekam said.

The Lakers' path this season has groomed them well for this weekend, blending a smooth mix of top-notch competition and confidence-boosting victories to perfectly prepare them for their prize. GVSU lost its first game of the season to Michigan State University—a Division I program— before winning eight of its next nine. The Lakers' only loss in that span came against another Division I opponent in No. 6 Davenport University.

The losses to higher competition were just what the team needed as the Lakers rolled through their Division II schedule, going undefeated and nearly untouched, outscoring the opposition at a 365-14 advantage.

GVSU nearly faltered down the stretch, finding itself minutes away from a loss at the paws of Oakland University.

With their undefeated Division II record slipping away with each vanishing second on the clock, the Lakers anchored down and scored two lightning-quick tries in a span of just five minutes, preserving yet another win. This type of grit and determination has been instrumental in the Lakers’ success this year time and time again.

Get off me: The Grand Valley State University club rugby team competes in an earlier match this season. The Lakers hope to enjoy similar success that they expereienced in the regular season, where they went 8-2. GVSU is currently the No. 8.

“This team handles adversity really well,” senior 8-man Dave Giese said. “Last year, when the other team scored or we made a bad play, our team would cave in on itself. This year we’re staying positive and cohesive, and it’s helped us along the way.”

As the players know full well, though, positivity alone will get them nowhere fast. Fortunately, the team has the talent, pedigree, and above all, the motivation to win a game its failed to conquer so often in years past.

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in the nation with Kent State nipping at their heels, clutching the No. 12 ranking of its own. After rolling through the end of their regular season schedule, the Lakers are working to focus on what will likely be the toughest Division II competition they will have seen this season.

“If we can win, it’ll be a big morale boost for our team to show that we can play with anyone,” sophomore inside center Dylan Bergbower said. “It’ll be one of the toughest games we play this season, but we all want to send our seniors out right.”

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the University of Southern Indiana and Wisconsin-Parkside field strong teams mong the nation’s Division II ready to compete. Although, the Lakers cross-country elite, the Grand have plenty of experience both with Valley State University cross- challenging courses and challengers.

“It’s definitely a tough course, but not country program is a perennial leader near as tough at Michigan Tech was two of the pack.

The men’s team at GVSU has won weeks ago,” GVSU senior Larry Julson GLIAC titles 12 years in a row, the said. “The biggest trick to running at women 13, as the squads swept the big meets is staying calm. It’s easy to get field at the GLIAC championship meet caught up in all the hype of who you are at Michigan Tech University on Oct. racing against or what meet you are at, 26. The lady Lakers have been ranked but nothing is changing; a race is still No. 1 in the nation since the preseason just a race.

“We go out everyday and run, and USTFCCCA was unveiled; the men these big meets aren’t any different. It’s rank No. 3.

In the NCAA Division II Midwest really a mindset to embrace that you’ve Regional Championship meet at done it a million times.”

Two-time GLIAC men’s cross Wisconsin-Parkside University country athlete of the week Alan Saturday, the Lakers will be favored, as they have been for much of the season. Peterson, a junior, has led the Lakers for Although in cross-country, the farther much of the season, but it was senior you are ahead, the more people there Brent Showerman who captured GLIAC Men’s Cross Country Athlete of the Year are chasing your steps.

“Rankings really don’t mean much GLIAC honors after pacing the field at in our sport,” said GVSU coach Jerry the GLIAC Championship meet with a Baltes, who was recently named the time of 25 minutes and 18.8 seconds on the eight-kilometer course.

GLIAC Head Coach of the Showerman is the ninth Year on both the men’s and straight Laker to win both women’s sides. “It’s nice the meet and the award. to have the respect of our Sophomore Chad Cini, piers, but ultimately the We are going senior Josh Moskalewski higher we are, the bigger to keep doing and Julson have also been the target on our back.

“There are a lot of very what we have integral to the Lakers’ success this season. strong teams in the top “The men are coming 10 on both sides, and we been doing... off of their best team will need to be ready to LARRY JULSON performance of the season compete to the best of our SENIOR at the GLIAC meet,” GVSU ability this weekend at the assistant coach Nick Polk regional and beyond at the NCAA Championship, when the time said. “We saw what teamwork and cohesiveness can do for the group’s presents itself.”

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Junior Allyson Winchester came in second at the GLIAC meet with a time of 22:09.4 and paced a pack of three GVSU student-athletes who finished in the top five. Sophomore Jessica Janecke placed third (22:16.1), while senior Courtney Brewis came across the line in fifth (22:28.5). All three earned First Team All-GLIAC honors, although quality depth has also helped to define the lady Lakers this season.

“The women have been solid and consistent, and we feel we have 10-plus women that we can put on the starting line and get the job done,” Polk said.

“We haven’t seen a complete race run yet from the women this year, but they are capable of great things and have been training like a great team. In our next two races, we expect to see it click and all of our training to come together to produce the team race we’ve been waiting for.”

With only the regional meet left separating the Lakers from the NCAA Division II National Championship meet in Spokane, Wash., on Nov. 23, GVSU will continue to run from the front without looking back.

“We are going to keep doing what we have been doing all year long; keep our nose to the grindstone and stay hungry,” Julson said. “Even if we win regionals, it won’t be enough until we win a national title. That is where our mindset has to be if we want to be there.

“In order for us to do what we want (win a national championship), we all need to have a really good day, which is completely in the realm of possibility.

We’ve still got two and half weeks until the big dance to shine our shoes and iron our shirts, so I’m very excited about what we can do.”

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