October is here, and I am beyond excited. Not because of Halloween (well, kind of), but because I get to go home to Paris in two months. It has been a year and I miss my country a lot. I spent the whole summer in the United States for the first time...

It’s that time of the year, Grand Valley State University. Sorority and fraternity life on campus just finished up their 2012 Panhellenic recruitment season, and Lakers from all walks of life are becoming part of communities that act as a catalyst...

The sky can be grey, the sky can be blue. Fresh Food Company doesn’t always satisfy everyone’s appetite. Classes will get harder throughout the semester. Our school has a good football team. Not everybody on this planet has to the same religion....

Last week, College Measures, a partnership of the American Institutes for Research and the consulting firm Matrix Knowledge, released a report that aims to shed some light on the darkest corners of higher education: is your degree worth it? With every...

“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.” – Alexander Pope Most of us go through these moments that truly hurt...

Are you sick of all those pesky political Facebook updates? Me too. Let’s face it. Only people who wear wire-rim glasses and suffer from severe acne think about something as boring as politics. It’s not like our lives will ever change because of...

Politics: the word intimidates me. Not because I’m incapable of having an opinion or because I’m one of the most indecisive people you will ever meet, but because it is surrounded by argument and controversy. The loss of jobs, the oil spill, the...

You can run, but you can’t hide…from the presidential election, that is. The campaign game is in every newspaper, on every television channel, and posted on all the blogs these days. This is the first year I can legally vote and, to be honest,...

If you take classes on Grand Valley State University’s Allendale Campus, you’ve probably noticed bicycles chained to every bike rack, sign post and lunch table near buildings. And although sometimes the sound of bike wheels hitting the cracks in...

As I was complaining about a purse being expensive in a little shop in New York City, an old lady once told me “nothing is free in America” and I responded, “but anything is possible.” I put the purse back and walked out of her store with a...

I am not a Christian. If you brought me to your church, the Holy Spirit (or your elders and deacons, if the Holy Spirit is a little too radical for you) would stop me at the door and say, “We don’t take kindly to your type ‘round here.” I am...

Let’s face the fact that is laid out plainly by our college voting record: students don’t care, at least, most of them don’t. Take the cabinet elections for Grand Valley State University’s Student Senate – for the last two years, only one percent...