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Grand Valley Lanthorn

The Student News Site of Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Lanthorn

The Student News Site of Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Lanthorn

‘Vagina Monologues’ empowers women by openly addressing taboo topics

Feb 17, 2011

To the Editor, I am writing in response to the Feb 13 editorial cartoon comparing the Vagina Monologues to porn. It should go without saying that this comparison is highly offensive, and it is clear that the author of the cartoon either hasn’t...

‘Love and Monsters’ written with permission only for classroom submission

Feb 17, 2011

A letter to the Editor. Hello, My name is Nicholas Fiore. On 2/14/2011 an article was printed about the unusual circumstances by which my girlfriend, Amanda Rzucidlo, and I came together. Though Amanda and I were interviewed for the class paper...

Lanthorn should get all facts straightened out before printing cartoons

Feb 17, 2011

Wow, you truly put your voice out there on the Vagina Monologues which makes me believe I should have mine as well. I actually believe you missed the entire point on the Vagina monologues and think it was one big mistake to have put that out there seeing...

For the price of a cup of coffee

Chris Slattery Feb 14, 2011

As midterms begin preparation stages and professors start to make mountains out of homework molehills, sleep tends to take a back seat. Of course, with how much college students abuse slumber time, sleep not only takes a back seat, but it gets the middle...

Roses are red

Feb 14, 2011

Valentine’s Day is not the enemy. I repeat, Valentine’s Day is not the enemy. To be fair, it’s a flawed holiday. It tells us that we have one day a year for grand gestures – one day to prove to our loved ones how much we care....

Why you shouldn’t talk to anyone on the bus

Kevin VanAntwerpen Feb 14, 2011

A recent problem with the radiator on my ’96 Saturn SL2 transformed THE Green-Love-Machine into a smoky death trap that spurts oil and growls whenever I put Adam Lambert on the radio. This led to my first encounter with the bus (where there’s...

Students should embrace los foreign languages

Chris Slattery Feb 10, 2011

Foreign languages are sexy. There is something about those Spanish rolled ‘r’s and the German phlegm-inducing ‘h’s that get me all hot and bothered. Too much information? Apologies. This is why a poll conducted a couple of weeks ago by the...

Letter to the Editor

Feb 10, 2011

To the editor, In regards to both the editorial cartoon and the editorial piece in the February 7th issue of the Lanthorn, we have some serious concerns to address. First, the more visible and obvious of the two offenses. The cartoon depicts a representative...

Letter to the Editor: Response to Feb, 7 editorial

Feb 10, 2011

I have no doubt that the author of the 02/07/2011 editorial about the Egyptian uprising had decent, even noble, intentions. However, the editorial merely evinces how powerful the culture of imperialism in America is. The author’s main contention...

Well, it’s… uh…

Feb 10, 2011

Remember “The Matrix”? Jam-packed with action that blew your mind, philosophy that made you question reality and an appropriately-cast line of characters that topped off the experience, the line of “Matrix” movies sparked one...

Letter to the Editor

Feb 7, 2011

Dear Editor, While I enjoyed your article which highlighted the February 3, 1959 deaths of three Rock ‘n’ Roll legends. Your omission of certain facts relating to your thesis is objectionable. You write that “In 1959, claiming Feb....

Kevin VanAntwerpen Feb 7, 2011

After a lifetime of Sunday school stories, cheesy 80s movies, and one mediocre Dreamworks cartoon about the Israeli’s plight in Egypt, you’d think the conservative Christian community would know it’s a really bad idea to go toe-to-toe...