With all the expansion that Grand Valley State University’s seen even in the last few years, it’s hard not to accuse it’s administrators of having a sort of complex. This year, GVSU members cut the ribbon for a new library and business building,...

This is to clarify, not to retract, anything that I was quoted saying in the referenced article (‘Legacy,’ published Oct. 31). The clarification has two purposes: the first, is to affirm my belief in the honesty and dedication of each employee...

School, Darling, we’ve been together for 17 years now, so I know the true weight of this statement: I love you. I promise, I love you. You don’t even understand how much I dig the way you’ve taken me under your wing and shown me the world. Your...

Eat all your Halloween candy. Clean your room. Watch three 20-minute episodes of that show you started two months ago. Go visit a friend. Finish your French homework. Call your parents at 2am and say, “Mom, Pops, I feel like we never just talk.”...

Grand Valley State University students had less competition for Grand Rapids parking and more room to move in the bars this weekend thanks to Aquinas College’s fall break. Conversely, the GVSU students had to push forward with their constant student...

Winter has arrived early. The evidence: the sheet of snow and ice that I discovered on my car early Wednesday morning. Pondering this sad fact as I waited for the warm air to defrost the windshield, I felt a disarmingly strong urge to return to bed....

Every year on the last day of this very month, we subject ourselves to a tradition widely known for celebrating pop culture, past history or current trends that have gone viral. We pick out the best that we think will showcase our creativity in being...

As seen in the front page article, Grand Valley State University held meetings this week to solicit professors’ opinions and keep them up to speed about current retention problems, which surprisingly start as early as orientation week. As accurately...

They’re all awfully different from each other, I thought, looking around. The Distinguished Alumni-in-Residence were gathered at the Alumni House for a luncheon, during which they would share how their experiences at GVSU prepared them for success...

A strange tension between objectivity and subjectivity haunts the study of science. Though scientific knowledge often gets a bad reputation for being presented as distant, sterile, or inaccessible, the fact of the matter is: we, as human beings, are...

Every so often, parents will turn on the television, rent an action movie, or watch their children play a new video game, and for a moment will realize, as if given new, chaste eyes, that what they are viewing is extraordinarily violent. Most recently,...