This week, in honor of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, the Grand Valley State University Women’s Center and Love Your Body Week Committee is joining forces with the university’s Counseling and Career Development Center to bring educational...

Seeing as midterms are upon us and spring break is in the very near future, I felt it was necessary to look back at the past year along with our accomplishments. I, along with all of you who are reading this, have survived the onslaught of copious reading...

There is a common saying to the effect of “there’s an app for that,” and if you use the saying, you are almost never wrong. We can pay our taxes with an app, read a book, deposit a check, and find the nearest bathroom (a real blessing on a long...

Concert season is approaching and many of us are going to be faced with some very hard decisions in the near future. Pitchfork or Lollapalooza? SXSW or Coachella? These are just an example of some of the harsh choices I’m left with this year. It should...

Here at Grand Valley State University, we’ve all done it. Whether we want to admit it or not, it’s safe to say that every student has at some point in their college career put off studying for a test until the day before or neglected to write a five-page...

Time is a unique resource. It is tricky in that there is no way to ever obtain more of it than we are given, and no way to rid ourselves of it. While society has applied time-keeping measures to this resource, the conventional method being the twenty-four...

As Grand Valley State University announces more and more expansion projects each month on both the Allendale and Pew campuses, it’s clear that the university is extended beyond it’s initial reach. With 15 public four-year universities, and 28...

Neighbors, the one group of people that know you better than most but probably don’t really know you at all. Since I moved out of the house cough years ago I’ve encountered just about every type of neighbor anybody would ever hope to meet (or not)....

A few mornings ago I woke up with a wrinkle in my forehead. A real-live wrinkle. I stared into the mirror and pictured what I would look like at age 90, haggard and lined – possibly toothless (the mental image terrified me as well). I stretched...

Michigan college students might finally be able to rack up some credits that won’t also rack up expenses with the introduction of a new bill by the Michigan House of Representatives on Feb. 5. to encourage college-educated young adults to stay and...

Valentine’s Day (like most holidays) is a day that brings forth mixed emotions for everyone. Every year there’s the group that doesn’t feel the need to “yield to the man” and pony up for a gift for their partner. While that is generally frowned...

Apparently someone was stabbed back in September at Robinson. Apparently. See, my source is anything but reliable, and after calling the Allendale Campus Dispatch to ask about both this mysterious shanking and the sirens that had been going off all day,...