Congratulations are in order to the graduating class of Fall 2010 as its students prepare for wherever post-Grand Valley State University life will take them. Most of the undergraduate class began their time at GVSU in 2006 or 2007, and as the years...

It has come to our attention that the GVSU Student Senate is considering a change to the financial process that we believe to be very problematic. The proposed change is a $1,000 limit on the amount of money that a student organization can request for...

Following the barely-passed bill granting $969 million for construction projects at universities and colleges across the state, Republicans said a more conservative budget will soon be enacted when their party gains the majority in January. The construction...

Thanksgiving has been over for a couple of weeks, and my dietary schedule has finally reached its homeostasis again. However, the next holiday season is right around the corner — just in case every single television commercial in the past month...

Oil is everywhere. Even outside the Gulf of Mexico, it’s everywhere one looks. It powers planes, trains and cars, it’s in the plastics that make water bottles and computers, and it heats buildings and keeps the lights on at night. Oil also...

The issue of gender-neutral housing continues to be debated in universities across the nation. Currently 50 universities nationwide have some sort of policy allowing students of opposite genders to live together on campus, and GVSU is not one of those...

It is officially T-minus-one week until finals. For anyone who is not a physics major, “T” stands for “time” in this equation. I hope that helps on your exam. Finals correlate with the holiday season, which is fitting because...

It’s that time of year again when suddenly every group project is due, every class assigns a 10-page paper, exams are nearing and the holiday season quickly advances, bringing the demands of shopping and preparing for a variety of family and social...

If you would have come to me two years ago and asked me what my biggest pet peeve about college was, I would have ranted at you about cell phones and how they are destroying society. I would have blabbered on about students paying more attention to texting...

This afternoon in football games played across the upper midwest, MSU won, as hoped, UM lost, as feared, and then GVSU played and … unexpectedly lost but also apparently unnoticed. Yes, our beloved Lakers lost in the 2nd round of the national football...

I am appalled by the ignorance and logical incoherency demonstrated in Jimmy Burger’s letter to the editor in the November 22 issue of the Lanthorn. Writing in response to the controversy over the Parkway Tropics strip club advertisement ran on...

I am writing in response to the advertisement taking up space on the back page of the Lanthorn (on Nov. 22). I turned the paper over to see spread before me an image of meat. As a vegetarian, it is extremely offensive to see an animal presented in this...