So with all of that opportunity waiting just down the street, it puzzles us that a person would still choose to deface public property at Grand Valley State University in order to release their creative expression. Rather than enter ArtPrize for a...

In the current economy, being unexpectedly ineligible for a $1,000 grant can have a massive impact on a student’s financial status or his or her ability to pay for school. That change becomes even more impactful when the students affected are...

I was a kid once. I know it’s hard to believe, but 22-year-old Chris was once a small, immature freshman will no greater ambitions than throwing things off the bridge. It feels so long ago… but that may be because I’m currently in...

Chances are that if you live in the Grand Rapids area, you have heard mention of something called ArtPrize. Like you, I don’t have favorable opinions about art, let alone prizes, so the fusion of the two could only lead to one of the most detrimental...

Tradition. Excellence. Success. Those are the words that come to mind when one thinks about athletics at Grand Valley State University. Those three words constitute the way GVSU projects its athletic and academic prowess to its students, other universities...

What national movement is getting almost as much media coverage as Lady Gaga’s drag performance? Bill Clinton’s doing it daily, Oprah Winfrey is encouraging her staff to do it and hip-hop icon Russell Simmons is telling his fans to do it....

The following comments were taken from a blog post from the Lanthorn website, www.lanthorn.com, in which News Editor Anya Zentmeyer described her personal perception of Friday’s scene during Jed Smock’s visit to GVSU. “Respectfully...

For years now I’ve struggled with not only depression and the medical implications of it, but also the social stigma of being classified into a group of people that are called overly emotional, inappropriately disenfranchised, and a chore to be...

Last year, I wrote a column about how awesome it would be if you made good on your ambitious claim that you would like to attend Grand Valley State University to receive your higher education. You being the famous and perpetually-shirtless star of the...