It’s here again. Winter has officially made its presence known to us by giving us another day and a half of no classes. I read on an online weather report that these winds we encountered were labeled as “arctic winds.” I’m sure anyone who spends...

By Dan Golembeski, associate professor of French I think there is something to be learned this week from what is going on in France. On Wednesday (Jan. 7), gunmen broke into the editorial room of a French satirical newspaper and killed the paper’s...

There's no question that Grand Valley State University is growing every year, both in enrollment numbers and in campus development. Due to the increasing student population and the desire to live on or close to campus, Rockford Construction Co....

With the commencement of 2015, students are no doubt making (and perhaps already breaking) a fresh set of New Year’s resolutions. While I certainly believe that January is the perfect time to implement positive changes, I can’t help but feel discouraged...

You might be scoffing to yourself, “I am not a hypochondriac!” But in truth, it is a lot more than just the commonly misjudged illness of over-exaggerating/ feigning your illness.By definition, a hypochondriac is someone who is “abnormally anxious...

One thing that inspires me the most is traveling. It is not just about places, but the new vision.My first time on a plane was when I was four years old. Unfortunately, I cannot tell you much about it. However, I do remember how I dumped the cookies on...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is on Jan. 19 this year. To honor this important historical figure, Grand Valley State University is hosting its annual MLK Commemoration Week from Jan. 19 through 24.We would like to encourage all students, faculty, staff and...

Ukrainian and Armenian Christmas is on Jan. 7. The Christmas holidays immediately evoke childhood memories, because Christmas is a family holiday. It is a tradition to sit down at the table during the emergence of the first stars because our ancestors...

For some reason, people seem to fixate on categorizing things. Maybe that’s our form of understanding. We seem to want to be able to explain something with one word: a label. A label that soon comes to define us. But things can’t always be defined...

Everything seems much easier with the advanced technology we have today, but there are many problems lurking behind the iPhone, Droid and MacBook craze.Nowadays, it is uncommon to see someone without a smart phone; they make life just that much easier....

Headline: RecognitionSubhead: GV received the ETC college of the year award, but this recognition wouldn't have been possible without the studentsGrand Valley State University has been recognized as the ‘Educate to Career (ETC) College of the Year 2014’...

Grand Valley State University has recently exchanged land with Spectrum Health so that the university can prepare to expand its Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences in the future. Recently, GVSU purchased additional land on the north side of the Interstate...