Motivation. That thing that drives us to shuffle out of bed every day for something we’re probably not to keen on. Well, it seems as though I’ve misplaced mine about a week or so ago. Countless fliers and Craigslist ads later I’m sitting in...

Avoiding the deprivations of winter much like most of us avoid eye-contact with anyone speaking at people while holding a bible, bears must have known exactly what they were doing when they first decided to peace out for a good, long six months. Because...

Christine (and other readers), Reading your article in the Lanthorn this week was interesting. Your connection with higher education and belief in a deity is what I am concerned about though when reading the article. I would argue that belief and...

In 1970, according to U.S. Census data, the entire population of Allendale Township was less than the number of first-time-in-any-college students entering Grand Valley State University fall 2012 – the 4,005 new freshmen would have cast a marginal...

As Governor Rick Snyder prepares to deliver his 2014 budget plan speech before the state of Michigan, he will be doing so ready to save the state money with Medicaid expansion and lower business costs. As we all know, the state of Michigan is at a...

College, like religion, is an institution. These institutions are recipients of their constituents’ time and money, and said individuals work with these institutions to gain greater knowledge in a particular area. In both cases believers in these...

Can we all just agree to disagree without saying a word? I make it a point to avoid hot button issues when talking to people I don’t know very well. Politics, religion, even my sexual preferences are topics that are off of the table when talking to...

Well, Grand Valley State University, it’s that time of year again; the time of year when friends, relatives and enemies gather around the television to watch one of the biggest sporting events of the year, sip on a couple legal beverages and critique...

Dear Editor, The Martin Luther King Jr. Executive Planning Committee would like to thank the Lanthorn reporters, editors and photographers for great coverage of MLK events throughout last week. The photos and stories in the January 24 edition did a...

You would think that in coming to college, the over $10,000 a year going toward our education would at least get us a few perks. No parents, social skills, aka beer pong for some of you go-getters out there, a chance at making manager instead of having...

I’m sure things were probably worse in the past but….what’s up with all of this defect/recall nonsense? The whole Boeing 787 battery fiasco is just a tear in a bucket when it comes to trends in recent years. I feel like I can’t trust anything...

Black History Month is more than the cursorily made presentations students were forced to digest year after year from their teachers in grade school. More even, the indolently assembled four-page papers we had to write on Malcolm X, Martin Luther King,...