After watching a ton of American movies, I always wanted to experience an American wedding in person. I just wanted to see how accurately the movies portray the traditions of the celebration. The movie that I think of most is “My Best Friend’s Wedding,”...

Outside my apartment doors, you can almost still smell the dew on the grass from the lovely little field that dump trucks dusted years of dirt over so suddenly. Yes, another construction zone. Hillcrest and Country Place Townhouses is expanding with another...

Twenty-one years ago, I wrote the Violence Against Women Act to end the violence against women and hold perpetrators accountable. It’s been a great success, but even one attack is one too many.I held a number of calls with hundreds of students, administrators,...

The fifth myGVSU Campus Climate survey opens this Thursday at Grand Valley State University. Students, faculty and staff are asked to answer the short survey any time between Nov. 12 and Nov. 22.According to the website, the purpose...

Saturday morning, my travel companion Allyson and I boarded a flight to Delhi. On the other side of that flight was my mom, who had arrived from the United States in the middle of the night. Our program has organized for us a week-long tour of the “Golden...

This past Monday, I had the opportunity to attend a talk given by Fred Lessing, a child survivor of the Holocaust. He discussed his experience as a Jew in hiding in the early 1940s, his life now in relation to the Holocaust and his opinions on various...

You wake up to discover that you have 45 minutes until your first class. You get ready as quickly as you can and discover you have 20 minutes left as you are walking out the door. The question is, how will you get there in 20 minutes? You know from experience...

It seems like every year around this time, the Lanthorn staff writes an editorial urging the Grand Valley State University student population to get involved with the fundraising aspect of Battle of the Valleys, and here we are again. To be frank, we're...

Grand Valley State athletic history is littered with conference and national titles, All-Americans and win streaks that stretch across the country. The GVSU football team, oft-viewed as the most illustrious program at the school, has drawn an average...

This semester to explore a statistics minor, I enrolled in the introductory course, STA 215. To learn course material, we have a couple different mediums, such as online assignments or textbook work.The other day we had a worksheet for homework, which...

In high school, you usually wake up anywhere from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. five days out of the week. It’s exhausting, but you adapt. Many people think that this early-rising habit can be carried over to college, but they fail when they realize that they can...