Snyder Elected Governor

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For the students, by the students »B4 Student original play “Founding" to premiere Nov. 12 GRAND VALLEY’S STUDENT-RUN NEWSPAPER <3catit) Wallep Imtf/orn WWW.LANTHORN.COM | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2010 SNYDER ELECTED GOVERNOR GV alums make up the Crane Wives Courtesy Photo / annarbor.com One tough nerd: Republican candidate Rick Snyder (pictured) won the Michigan Governor's race Tuesday, defeating Democratic foe Virg Bernero in the process. Courtesy Photo / Tommy Valdez Snyder's frame as political newcomer, business-savvy problem solver contributes to success POLICE BLOTTER By Chelsea Lane cording to unofficial returns tabulated by the Associated Press. 2010 Michigan Election Skateboarder & Garrett Pelican RESULTS GVL Staff Snyder gave his victory speech STRUCK BY CAR outside of a De Bust out your troit hotel Tues pocket protectors be day night where A vehicle struck a pedes- Michigan's voters cause Michigan vot many cheering trian on Oct. 30 shortly decided that Rick % ers have decided nerds supporters held 39 59% after midnight outside rule. In the first gover (Snyder) needs signs proclaiming of Kirkhof Center. The Democrat Bernero Republican Snyder nor’s race without an that Snyder and pedestrian, who was support throughout incumbent in eight his running mate, Snyder said. with Rick Snyder and I will call on riding a skateboard, years, self-proclaimed governmentand Grand Valley State Bernero conceded on election you to work with him as well, but if complained of soreness “tough nerd” Rick decided voting University alum night and addressed supporters in that doesn’t happen, you and I will be in his right leg following Snyder claimed vic nus Brian Calley, downtown Detroit. watching, won’t we?” the crash but refused Republican was the toryTuesday night. had been “hired” “It was a fight, my friends, worth The election night results closely medical treatment. The way to do so,; With 70 percent of by voters. fighting, but it wasn’t our time,” he mirrored poll predictions. As of Oct. driver was found to be precincts reporting, “The citizens of said. “ ... Mr. Snyder will soon be 19, non-partisan opinion research responsible for the ac -Kyle Smith Snyder had 59 percent the state of Michi governor. He has promised to gov organization Rasmussen Reports re- cident. GVSU College Republicans President of the vote to Demo gan have spoken ern as a moderate like Bill Milliken, See Snyder wins, A2 crat Virg Bemero’s 39 percent, ac — it is time to reinvent Michigan,” not like John Engler. I will partner ONLINE GV installs water bottle refilling units Republican, to reduce use of disposable bottles Democrat perspective on Units provide 30,000 bottles election of purified water per filter By Anya Zentmeyer Andrew Justus blog: GVL Assistant News Editor Washington isn't welcome: Junior Nick Workman pays for his Mor* A .. O, H* «« meal with debit dollars. Cash is not accepted at Engrained. ~i S/sX//ssjfez: - Last year, the Student Environmental Coali » 4 ' T,*.**'.> m a • I ’ I tion’s subgroup organization. Students on Tap, Michigans reorganized and regenerated, asking students Engrained's no-cash to look at themselves and make a sustainable switch. lack of public: The group proposed the idea of water bottle policy promotes Courtesy Photos / David Feenstra refilling stations paired with some sort of uni Sustainable practice:Above and below: GVSU master transit versity system for checking out free water bot plumber Christopher Jeffries installs a water bottle tles to reduce the use of the plastic, disposable refilling unit to a water fountain in the Kirkhoff Center. efficiency water bottles that have currently cornered the It is the latest of three on the Allendale Campus. market at Grand Valley State University. LAST REGULAR SEASON HOME Demand (The POD) in “1 hope that the conversation we started is By Chelsea Lane The Connection, where FOOTBALL GAME going to grow into a larger question students GVL News Editor see multimedia coverage of the they can convert their ask themselves, ‘Why am 1 paying for water cash into $10 or $25 gift game, the fans and the One of Grand Valley that 1 can get for free?”’ said Josh Lycka, orga cards. marching band following State University’s new nizer of Students on Tap. est on-campus restau The idea first came to Saturday's game against In what Maintenance Supervisor David rants, Engrained, offers GVSU Dining five years Northwood Feenstra calls “coincidental timing,” Students everything from subs to ago during a business »ON LANTHORN.COM on Tap is making strides toward its goal with alfredo to salads. But trip to Virginia Tech the installation of three new “retro-fit bottle- there is one thing stu nological University, filling units” on campus. dents won’t find there. which has won multiple national awards for its In late summer, Feenstra said Christopher Cash. INDEX on-campus food. Cam Jeffries, Grand Valley State University’s master GVSU opted to make Engrained, which fea pus Dining hopes the plumber on campus, came to him with the idea versity’s pre-existing water fountains on cam tures a sustainably- system will prove more Opinion to add the retro-fit bottle-filling unit to the uni- pus that would result in not only filtered water focused menu, its first efficient, allowing em News from the fountain but also a unit on top that uses cashless campus restau ployees to spend more an infrared light that reads when a bottle is there rant. Guests at Engrained time focusing on cus and shuts off" when the bottle is removed. place their orders and pay tomer service. Sports “You’re adding the device to the drinking in one line, where they “With speed comes fountain, so not only do you have the drinking efficiency,” said Campus A & E self-scan their school ID, fountain; you have this to fill your bottle above debit card or credit card. Dining general manager Marketplace Guests with cash only See Water refill, A2 can go to Provisions on See Engrained, A2 Some Restrictions Apply For Students, Faculty, and Staff @ Lanthorn.com • • »»• ♦ i I i A2 Thursday, November 4, 2010 NEWS Grand Valley Lanthom Water refill to be met with general accep Snyder wins continued from page A1 tance and high usage, Feenstra continued from page A1 and Jeffries speculate that the it,” Jeffries said. “It’s a retro main lobby of the Perform corded that of 500 likely voters surveyed, fit kit to a pre-existing water ing Arts Center along with Snyder held the lead at 54 percent over fountain. Not only arc you Manitou’s main floor lobby Bemero’s 34 percent. An additional 4 per filtering the drinking fountain, arc both likely candidates for cent of respondents preferred other candi you’re filtering the water that the next unit. Both said there dates while the remaining 8 percent were comes out of the bottle filler." is a potential goal of one unit undecided. The water comes directly per building if this trial period How Snyder Won from the water supply and continues to thrive. Paul Cornish, professor of political sci passes through the filter and “Down the line if we get ence at GVSU, said three key elements con then the evaporator, producing funding or money to do more tributed to Snyder’s victory. chilled, filtered water that dis of them, then sure, but right “One was Snyder’s ability to define him penses from both the pre-ex now we’ve got to be careful self - to give a frame of himself - very early isting bubbler on the original because we’re on a budget, ” in the election process,” Cornish said. “And unit as well as the new bottle Jeffries said. that frame, in terms of someone who is a filing unit. Each filter is good Feenstra, in conjunction problem-solver and focused on things other for about 3 XXX) gallons of wa with Norman Christophers than partisan politics combined with just a ter, which,depending on bottle from Sustainability Commu kind of wave of anti-government sentiment size, can average out to 30,000 nity Development Initiative, would be the second factor* And I think the uses. This would require the is currently exploring possible third factor is probably just that he ran a purchase of a new filter for funding options for future de good campaign. He avoided mistakes. ” the unit once every year or so, velopment of the units, which Cornish said the second factor has been GVL / Nicole Lamson again, depending on amount Lycka and the rest of the Stu a trend in this election cycle that may disap Exit polls: The Allendale Christian Reformed Church served as the Allendale polling location Tuesday. usage. dents on Tap group are already pear next time around, but in this instance “Refilling water containers rallying around. created a nice avenue for Snyder and other Governor-elect Snyder on transitioning into hit the party hard.

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