Grand Valley Lanthorn

Taking care of the elderly

Claire Fisher • Oct 24, 2016

“You can’t just leave me here!” an elderly man called to his daughter as she walked out the door after moving him into the senior living home. “I love you, and you can’t just leave me here like this,” he yelled. I witnessed this scene while...

Police brutality discussions are vital to progress

Lanthorn Editorial Board • Oct 24, 2016

Police brutality isn't something people necessarily want to talk about. It's complicated, it's uncomfortable and it is upsetting to consider. Human-on-human violence is something we like to push away and pretend isn't happening, but if you have turned...

Halloween isn’t worth the hype

Jake Keeley • Oct 20, 2016

For the most part, fall is one of my favorite seasons of the year. But like with anything, I've got a list of things I dislike about fall. That list begins and ends with Halloween. Halloween is the absolute worst.Almost everything surrounding Halloween...

Marking the measure of success

Kelly Smith • Oct 20, 2016

When people talk about success, what people see is only the tip of the iceberg, the final result of all the labor and effort that went into an endeavor. There's something else about success that, based on my observations, isn’t discussed as much. ...

Give us a break

Lanthorn Editorial Board • Oct 20, 2016

We're tired.Physically, mentally, emotionally, we're done. The homework is piling up, we're falling behind on reading and, unfortunately, we can't see the light at the end of the tunnel just yet. Life may not be a Kit Kat bar, but it's time to give us...

Looking at local elections

Lanthorn Editorial Board • Oct 17, 2016

For the past two months, Grand Valley State University has teamed up with multiple student organizations to promote voter registration for the upcoming presidential election. In a presidential election year, the stakes for young voters to make their voices...

Students’ health should be taken seriously

Kelly Smith • Oct 17, 2016

It seems we’ve hit one of those times when there’s illnesses floating around and allergies acting up at Grand Valley State University. There’s been quite a handful of people I know who’ve had some sort of bug this past week. I myself had to deal...

Letting go of standardized test scores

Claire Fisher • Oct 17, 2016

Standardized tests seem to determine everything. They tell you how smart you are at various subjects and give you a concrete measure of which colleges you’re good enough to get into.Whether you took the SAT or the ACT, you probably remember that fateful...

Earlier kickoff times would keep students in the stands

Chris Cubel • Oct 17, 2016

Editor’s note: This letter to the editor is a response to a column, "Where did the students go?" by Beau Troutman, published in the Monday, Oct. 10 issue of the Lanthorn. After having some firsthand experience, actually five years of experience, with...

Letter to the editor: Unfounded judgment can be destructive

Ivo Soljan and English professor • Oct 17, 2016

Editor's note: This letter to the editor is in response to a column by Kelly Smith titled "Combating judgment with relationship-building," which was published in the Monday, Oct. 3 issue of the Lanthorn.I am writing, in order to congratulate, from the...

GVPD has little to do with recent sexual assault reports

Hannah Lentz • Oct 17, 2016

A Twitter search of "GVPD" comes up with hundreds of results. The interesting part of these search results isn't how many people are talking about the Grand Valley State University Police Department, it's what they're saying about it.Time and time again,...

Accepting the struggle of senioritis

Claire Fisher • Oct 13, 2016

You’ve made it—senior year. You started college three, maybe four years ago and every year you came to class, you did your homework, you attended extra-curricular activities and did what you could to make the most out of college. All of a sudden,...