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During the celebration, one outstanding student will be honored with the LGBTQIA+ Graduate Award. (Courtesy GVL Archives)

Lavender Graduation acknowledges LGBT students

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Apr 19, 2021
All the donatioins were given to the Replenish food pantry on campus. (GVL / Annabelle Robinson)

Sigma Pi “Stuffs the Bus” to feed GV community

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Apr 5, 2021
Players from a number of club sports teams will be manning booths and running carnival games at Field Day. (Courtesy GVSU Quidditch)

Campus organizations host Field Day for Apr. 1 break

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Mar 29, 2021
Dwight Eisenhower and Ralph Hauenstein both worked in Intelligence during WW2. (Courtesy Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies)

Hauenstein Center celebrates historical founder

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Mar 22, 2021
In March 2020, few GVSU students could have anticipated just how long the pandemic would be a presence in their lives. (GVL Autumn Pitchure)

Students reflect on COVID-19 lifestyle shift

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Mar 15, 2021
The Center for Recreation and Wellness is encouraging students to enjoy the outdoors as Spring begins. (Courtesy / GVSU)

Rec & Wellness promotes small adventures, big impacts

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Mar 8, 2021
The club playing "Mysterium," a co-op game about getting a message across using pictures as clues.(Courtesy Emily Booms)

Relax with the Tabletop Gaming Club

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Mar 1, 2021
The evening started with a performance from La Reine Devine (GVL Autumn Pitchure).

GV hosts Valentine’s Drag Show

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Feb 22, 2021
The restaurant's recently reopened indoor dining features live music on Fridays. (Courtesy/ Ed Dunneback & Girls).

Historic Grand Rapids farm looks back on romantic beginnings for Valentine’s Day

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Feb 15, 2021
Courtesy to Zomato

A low-lit lounge for Valentine’s Day

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Feb 8, 2021
The winners of a snow sculpture contest from a 1960's Winter Carnival at Grand Valley (Courtesy GVSU Archives)

CAB reimagines Winter Carnival as Winterfest

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Feb 1, 2021
The Student Academic Success Center is looking to recommend strategies and resources that students can utilize to manage their coursework during remote learning. (GVL / Jonathan Eloi Lantiegne)

Students find ways to adjust to asynchronous learning

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Jan 25, 2021

Semester-in-Review: Laker Life

Katherine Arnold, Autumn Pitchure, and Ysabela Golden
Dec 14, 2020
Civic Engagement Associates Grace McHanon and Carson MacCready begin the event over Zoom. (GVL Ysabela Golden)

CSLC focuses on community engagement amid COVID-19

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Dec 7, 2020
Speakers Tina Freese Decker, Winnie Brinks, Jeff Polet and Paul Isely answer audience questions alongside moderator Gleaves Whitney. (GVL/Ysabela Golden)

Hauenstein Center discusses America’s “New Normal”

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Nov 23, 2020
In previous years, fair attendees wandered from booth to booth; this year, they signed up in advance for a series of meetings in their areas of interest. (Courtesy/ CLAS Academic Advising Center)

CLAS hosts first Virtual Majors Fair

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Nov 16, 2020
The virtual event will feature filmmakers Chase Joynt and Kristen Schilt, who are working on the experimental documentary Framing Agnes. (Courtesy/ Chase Joynt)

Community reflects for Transgender Day of Remembrance

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Nov 9, 2020
The Community Service Learning Center is striving to engage students with the election on Nov. 3. (GVL/Megan Landgren)

GV community to celebrate Election Day

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Nov 2, 2020
Grand Valley's Quidditch team takes to the field seven players at a time — no broomsticks necessary. (Courtesy/ Ryan Swanson)

Quidditch flies on Allendale campus

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Oct 26, 2020
Apple picking is more popular than ever during the fall of 2020. (GVL / Autumn Pitchure)

West Michigan flocks to apple orchards

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Oct 19, 2020
The Community Service Learning Center has gotten creative in finding ways for Grand Valley students to give back to their community. (Courtesy / CSLC)

Make a Difference Day transforms into month-long affair

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Oct 5, 2020
Students in isolation can find a pace to vent in the Counseling Center's Virtual Drop-In sessions. (Courtesy / Science News for Students)

Counseling Center expands virtual drop-in sessions

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Sep 28, 2020
GVL / Annabelle Robinson

COVID-19 changes GV Science Labs

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Sep 21, 2020
Though current opportunities to study abroad have been halted, the Padnos International Center encourages interested Lakers to plan ahead for future semesters. (Courtesy/Alissa Lane)

Study Abroad cancelled for 2020-21 school year

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Sep 14, 2020

New and returning students journal COVID-19 experiences

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Sep 8, 2020
GVL Archive

Students journal their COVID-19 experience

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Aug 10, 2020
GVL / Autumn Babas

Increasing levels of sleep deprivation challenge many college students  

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Mar 9, 2020
Courtesy / Protect Life

GV students debate abortion

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Feb 24, 2020
Attendees at the 2019 Sibs and Kids Weekend. Courtesy / CAB

CAB prepares for Sibs and Kids weekends

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Feb 17, 2020
GVL / Micah Hill

Mantella hosts first Presidents’ Ball

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Feb 3, 2020
Courtesy / Padnos International Center

Padnos International Center hosts Study Abroad Application Party

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Jan 27, 2020
Director Relando Thompkins-Jones presenting on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2019. Courtesy / Thomkins-Jones.

GV offers Social Justice Education to students and faculty

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Jan 20, 2020
Courtesy / Campus Interfaith Resources

Lived Conversations with Campus Interfaith Resources

Autumn Pitchure, Staff Reporter
Jan 13, 2020