Forget, for a second, the struggle for land and power that dates beyond your honored grandparents. Forget the blows you delivered your neighbor, and your neighbor to you. Forget the stories you were taught that the person you’re laughing and breaking...

In lieu of the recent bias incident, I believe it is necessary, more than ever, to say the unsaid: Grand Valley’s lack of racial diversity is hurting the student body. According to Grand Valley’s Office of Institutional Analysis, 90.8% of students...

It’s a Thursday afternoon, and I am sitting here in the LRC logging hours for my Spanish 102 class. I’ve talked to other students about this and cannot find a logical reason for me sitting here wasting my time and the school’s resources. Looking...

By 3 a.m. most students at Grand Valley State University are tucked into bed or finishing up the last sentences of their paper due in the morning. The Lanthorn editors are pouring yet another cup of coffee. You see, it takes a lot of coffee to print...

I made an hour-and-a-half-long drive home on a Friday morning with a simple list of things to do over Spring Break. There were a few shopping-related items on that list, like a birthday present for each of my twin brothers, but most of it was dominated...

Welcome back to GVSU, Lakers. Nothing says “Hope you enjoyed your Spring Break” better than these record weather snaps, leaving us with both a low of -4 degrees and a high of 46 degrees in this week alone. With such vast changes in temperature, this...

In my mind, one of the most gratifying aspects of attending a college like GVSU is that it seems to occupy an ever-shrinking yet increasingly attractive niche in higher education: that of the public liberal arts university. Primarily, liberal arts universities...

The announcement of a “teach-in” in conjunction with the present Intercultural Festival greatly excited us. We’re all for fighting ignorance and righting misunderstandings. And it’s really brilliant to expand the Intercultural...

Here’s an uncommon situation you might find yourself in: a baby for a roommate. No, that’s not an an insult, I mean a literal infant. Before you start making insinuations about me, here’s this declaration: IT’S NOT MINE. Some backstory? Moved...

At its best, the new viral Internet sensation “Twitch Plays Pokémon” suggests deep and pulsing answers to questions about social contract theory and how we as humans negotiate freedom in its most unbridled form: anarchy. At its worst, the massive...

I want to share with you the story of Dr. Tyrone Hayes, a professor and researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Hayes represented the type of faculty member any research university hoped to have: admired, published, and dedicated to...

On Monday I (you guessed it) went to the gym. I put my valuables and unmentionables in a locker and took my necessary gym accessories—water bottle, mp3 player, armband to hold mp3 player, and towel—over to a nearby shelf to set down while I strapped...