First off, we’d like to say congratulations. Whether it took you 10 years or four, if you’re one of the 1,000 students who crossed the stage at Saturday’s commencement ceremony, you survived the unforgiving world of higher education, and you’re...

I have heard the rumors. 2012, end of the world type stuff. There’s been whisperings of a Zombie Apocalypse. And we mustn’t forget that Mayan calendar predicting all sorts of cataclysmic events. I want you all to rest assured that should the world...

I hate Christmas. I’m not a fan of snow, ham or hearing the same seven horrible songs over and over every year. Why do I feel so alone on this? I can’t be the only person who dreads the end of daylight savings time and the dozens of ‘special’...

That moment when the lights are about to go on, the audience cheers and the music starts is like no other. You have this urge to make sure that your straps are still where they should be, to practice one last time, and knowing that time will continue...

As a university, Grand Valley State University is a community of students, faculty, employees and alumni. However cliche it might sound, a good community is like a family, and as everybody’s favorite Real Housewife of New Jersey Caroline Manzo once...

Here we go again, Grand Valley State University. Fall semester is wrapping up, the days are getting shorter and shorter, and the stress of exam week is getting the student body more out of whack then the unpredictable Michigan weather. For the last...

This is it guys. The end. Turkey day is over, and the dreaded subsequent pseudo-holiday sets us at the less-than-20-day mark for that supposed 2012 cataclysmic disaster. I don’t know about everybody else but I have a lot of mixed feelings when it...

To the United States Government: Hello there. My name is Christine Colleran. You may not know me, for in the government’s eyes my short existence has proved utterly unremarkable in every way, shape, and form. Still, I carry on. I am senior at Grand...

At first glance, the idea of Seasonal Affective Disorder is easy to laugh off. First, it has an almost comically perfect acronym (SAD), which is presumably intentional, but feels goofy nonetheless. Along the same vein, the concept of it seems so simple...

As I am writing to you now, I have the privilege of witnessing yet another snowfall that prompts me to claim the official arrival of winter – even though it’s not even December yet. Strangely enough, this upcoming winter seems to be more effective...

Recently it has come to our attention that the annual event of “Battle of the Valleys” concluded last week with a final fundraising total of $1,100 raised for the Mental Health Foundation of West Michigan by GVSU, and $30,000 by SVSU for Great Lakes...