“The LGBT community is not the only community with rights that need protecting.” I wish this were true. I wish the LGBT community HAD their rights and that we could be in the business of protecting them as well as the rights of every other marginalized...

As a senior at Grand Valley State University it was important for me to complete a “practicum”. For those of you who are not familiar with the term it is a practical application of the materials you have learned thus far. Some students complete an internship...

Recently, the Student Senate at Grand Valley State University looked into making a proposal that would place a $1,000 cap on the food budget for any given student organization’s event. After strong resistance from several cultural organizations...

These last few weeks of the semester are crucial. Not only is it finals week, but every single paper assigned at the beginning of the school year is now due. And after working two jobs, taking sixteen credits, reading a novel a week for a class and writing/co-producing...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...