Welcome to the holidays. The time of year everything and everyone is scripted. When December hits, we study hard (or for some of us, not at all), we finish finals and cross our fingers for good grades, we start thinking about what to buy our family...

Dear Editor, We are currently enrolled in the Introduction to Liberal Education course here at Grand Valley. We have been working on a group project in which we have decided to bring the concept of affirmative action into the spotlight to be researched,...

Most of my columns I write are about how hard it is being in college — the stress, the MIPs, the letdown that “The Walking Dead” has been this season — but recently I’ve come across the situation that is more frustrating...

Dear Letter to Editor, I am quite upset that GVSU tries to “hush-hush” situations like sexual assault. It does happen and it is not the universities fault, although a universities duty to providing safety is to provide safety and knowledge....

Ask any college student in the country if being in college is difficult, and they’ll tell you that it certainly has its challenges, especially for those who live on the widely-popular ramen noodle diet. But for all of the challenges that today’s...

You can’t take it with you, and Frederik Meijer lived his life according to that adage, spreading his wealth far and wide to help a number of local causes, ranging from education, medicine, nature and the arts. The Meijer, Inc. CEO, who passed...

Today, I want to talk about “slimming,” or soaking a tampon in vodka. I’m so sorry, but I couldn’t think of any other way to kick this column off. I just needed to dive right into it… Okay, this is going to be difficult. Very...

In this age of promiscuity and casual sex there is a group of young adults who are saying no and promising to be true to their one and only. These couples are making commitments to each other and getting rings, and no, they aren’t engagement rings,...

There is an uncomfortable truth about sexual assault, both on college campuses and in the community at large: the numbers lie. While the two reports of assault near the Little Mac bridge have been recanted, that does not mean that the Grand Valley...

By the end of tomorrow, many of us will be going home for Thanksgiving Break. We’ve earned three days off, right? I mean, is it just me or has everyone felt incredibly stressed for the past month? Maybe it’s the depressing weather, or...

Right now, somewhere, a man named Ray Bradbury is weeping before a grave marked “George Orwell,” hoping that his magical tears will raise the body back to life just so the two can co-write a new best-selling novel titled “I Told You...

Whenever playoff time rolls around for any given sport at any given level, you always hear about someone or some team getting screwed out of a playoff spot, but this is especially true in American football. Whether it’s the 2008 New England Patriots,...