Twenty days, folks, and we will be on that magical break that celebrates the currently non-existent season of Spring. No alarms, no studying, no tests, and if you’re lucky, no snow. Everyone’s Spring Break looks a little bit different, but if I...

Pronouns: a type of speech which stands for a noun (e.g. person, place, thing, situation, idea, etc.) referenced earlier in a given context. Some examples? I, me, we, us, you, she, he, her, him, it, they, and them. There are other kinds which have...

Grand Valley State University has made large strides in the last few years when it comes to encouraging religious coexistence. In 2012, the university helped host Grand Rapids’ Year of Interfaith Understanding. Additionally, the Brooks College...

Psych majors are going to laugh at me for this. All of them, all at once. With disdain. My sophomore year, I took some Psych courses for fun. Elective credits were needed, and as someone who not only writes, but places high value on human characters...

I remember, long ago, when I first started thinking about what I might want to study in college. The possibilities seemed endless, and I still had trouble feeling confident in what I wanted to pursue. I always knew I wanted to do something that involved...

During its last meeting, Student Senate proposed a resolution to make Grand Valley State University a smoke-free campus. If the university approves an anti-smoking policy, it would join the ranks of many other Michigan universities, such as Saginaw Valley...

I wrote a story featuring a fictionalized version of myself (writers sometimes indulge in a little situational narcissism) going for a walk and dealing with some heavy thoughts, like leaving loving parents in a mostly empty nest and trying not to lash...

In my two years as a participant in the basketball pep band, we (and the cheer team) have never been joined in loudening an otherwise silent gym. It is not often that students make an active effort to create a home-team advantage at basketball games....

Grand Valley State University emphasizes diversity and inclusion, but often people only associate those terms with questions of identity, such as race, sexual orientation or religion. Diversity, it seems, is rarely associated with ideas or opinions. But...

Over winter break, I had this moment where I realized that all the papers and assignments I’ve written over the past four years will likely not be read by anybody but my professors and will probably never go anywhere but my Google Drive, where they...

TO: The Editor-in-Chief of GVSU’s Lanthorn, Elizabeth Balboa and Staff FROM: Michael R. Ott, Associate Professor of Sociology, GVSU. I write to congratulate and thank you and the Lanthorn staff for your recently published articles about the potential...

Communities are formed by open communication, and they continue to be shaped by it. We discuss acceptable laws and common rules to abide by, and then, through civil debate, we agree on the most reasonable. When changes are called for or the status quo...