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Grand Valley Lanthorn

The Student News Site of Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Lanthorn

Save the river, ravines and rowing

Save the river, ravines and rowing

Lanthorn Editorial Board Oct 28, 2019

This week, the Student Senate passed a motion asking the university to oppose the Grand River Waterway Project. This plan would use state funding to channelize 22.5 miles of the Grand River, and proponents of the project say the increase in boat access...

Letter to the Editor: Help GV grow with Campus Climate Survey

Letter to the Editor: Help GV grow with Campus Climate Survey

Jesse Bernal, Vice President for Inclusion and Equity Oct 28, 2019

Dear Campus Community: As part of our ongoing efforts to create a more welcoming and inclusive environment for everyone at Grand Valley, we are once again reaching out to you for your valued input with a climate survey. The survey is an important...

LGBTQ people not safe on social media, including Instagram

Dylan Grosser, Columnist Oct 22, 2019

The Washington Blade reported in 2018 on an incident where a picture of a same-sex couple kissing on Instagram was taken down as a result of it violating “community guidelines,” which sparked outcry in the LGBTQ community and condemnation (aimed...

Reduced fat Cheez-Its suck (mathematically, scientifically, historically and objectively proven)

Athena Jasman, Columnist Oct 22, 2019

I know I’m supposed to be politically correct during the current year, but I can’t keep ignoring the fact that people who like reduced fat Cheez-Its are ruining our country. The Reducies are taking my good, old fashioned American shelf space, and...

Pledge of Allegiance: Yea or nay?

Pledge of Allegiance: Yea or nay?

Lanthorn Editorial Board Oct 22, 2019

While there are quite a few topics that are contentious in the Student Senate, the most recent of these hot debates has been the argument surrounding the Pledge of Allegiance.  The debate comes after Student Senate’s decision to omit the Pledge...

Fall Break Crushed

Fall Break Crushed

Xavier Golden, Cartoonist Oct 22, 2019

A note on business reactions to Hong Kong protests

A note on business reactions to Hong Kong protests

Writer Name Redacted., Writer Title Redacted. Oct 14, 2019

Recently, American businesses have weighed responding to pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong against the financial risk of alienating the enormous Chinese marketplace. It has become difficult to resist speaking up on this  matter of significant geopolitical...

If I die this week, please grade everything I turned in

Brianne Kerr, Associate Editor Oct 14, 2019

If I die this week, it would probably be from exhaustion, or some exhaustion related incident. And before you freak out with your vigils or mourning, please, make sure that the projects and essays and exams I worked so hard on are still graded. And...

Letter to the Editor: A place to be your full, authentic self, no matter what 

Twenty-one years ago this month, Matthew Shepard, an openly gay first-year student at the University of Wyoming, was tortured, tied to a prairie fence, and left to die. The attackers had pretended to be gay to gain Matthew’s trust. He died of his injuries...

Rewind the Decade: The best female songs of the 2010s

Ryan Reichard, Columnist Oct 14, 2019

The 2010’s have been a rather turbulent decade, not only politically, but musically as well. The emergence of new technologies made it easier for the blending of musical genres that had not been previously available.  At the forefront of this musical...

Letter to the Editor: Rising textbook prices require support of Open Educational Resources

College today is far more expensive than it was in decades prior. When our state college was founded, the state pitched in a much higher percentage of the overall costs. Now there is much more of a burden placed upon the individual student. This should...