I have a guilty pleasure. Sometimes, on those nights when nobody’s home, I bring my computer into my bedroom and I turn off the lights. Then I cuddle up under the blankets, and I type “pluggedin.com” into Google Chrome. No, it’s...

Ask the administrators, and they’ll tell you the same thing. At 123 square feet of space per student, excluding living areas, GVSU has only half the average space per student in the state, a shortcoming university officials credit to GVSU’s...

Dear Freshmen, What’s up, homies? Like an irresponsible hotel patron, it’s been a while since I’ve checked in, and I wanted to see how you were holding up after your first full semester at Grand Valley State University. How did...

The Michigan legislature might finally be on to something. As the suits in Lansing begin establishing the executive budget for the 2013 fiscal year, cash-strapped public universities might finally feel some relief from the legislature as they explore...

A 12-page paper here, some final exams there and a strenuous presentation in between can be enough to make any college student want to scream, but those trifles are minor compared to the plight of Jacob Bouwman, a Grand Valley State University junior...

Dear Emanuel Johnson, After reading the story posted in the Dec. 8, 2011 Lanthorn’s article “For us, it’s really about governance and funding”, I feel appalled about how the money from the Student Life Fund is distributed. As...

Dear Editor-In-Chief, In regarding the response, or should I say the sheer uprising, that has occurred after the December 6th article “There is Only Room for One Holiday” in the Lanthorn, I would like to say that I am quite disappointed...

Dear Editor, Let me start off by saying that this is my first semseter here at GVSU and for the most part I have been unimpressed with the Lanthorn’s quality overall. However I have enjoyed Mr. Slattery. They have been exactly what I’ve...

With a recent report of an attempted sexual assault on Grand Valley’s campus that has since been determined to be false, it is important to understand the dynamics of sexual assault. Both college women and men hold misconceptions about sexual assault...

Do you remember all of that money that you spent at the beginning of this semester? No, not for those prostitutes (we said we weren’t going to talk about that again). I’m talking about the thousands upon millions of hyperbolic dollars...

To the editor of the Lanthorn, I understand that the goal of the article “There is Only Room for One Holiday” was to create a satire to show the ignorance of the person who poested that comment on facebook. However, the way this article...