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Grand Valley State University ScholarWorks@GVSU Volume 46, July 14, 2011 - June 18, 2012 Lanthorn, 1968-2001 9-26-2011 Lanthorn, vol. 46, no. 10, September 26, 2011 Grand Valley State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol46 Part of the Archival Science Commons, Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation Grand Valley State University, "Lanthorn, vol. 46, no. 10, September 26, 2011" (2011). Volume 46, July 14, 2011 - June 18, 2012. 10. https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol46/10 This Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Lanthorn, 1968-2001 at ScholarWorks@GVSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Volume 46, July 14, 2011 - June 18, 2012 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. (an you dig it? Archaeology Week | Laker Life B4 WWW.LANTHORN.COM THE STUDENT-RUN NEWSPAPERS AT GRAND VALLEY MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 lanthorn.com Online video MAREC to collaborate with U of M MSU in Lake Michigan research Gvl / Eric Coulter GVSU football Slideshows MEKIK GVL / Eric Coulter General Ed. Volleyball program top concern for new UAS chair GVL / Eric Coulter Archaeology Week By Anya Zentmeyer GVL News Editor Chasing the Sky The new academic year bongs a Lanthorn columnist new chair and fresh goals for the Uni Kevin VanAntwerpen versity Academic Senate at Grand discusses his life as part of Valley State University. a moderately successful The UAS serves as the connecting indie rock band. body between faculty and staff and the administration, voicing and acting on the concerns of faculty, staff and community members at GVSU. As / MAREC Courtesy Photo of April, the Executive Committee of Innovation: A research platform like the one pictured is en route to the Muskegon-based Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center at GVSU. The platform will collect data for a multi-university effort to determine whether off-shore wind is a viable energy source. the UAS elected professor Figen Me- kik to serve as chair, along with Cory DiCarlo as vice chair of UAS. Buoy will collect data on wind, water quality, bird and bat flight Mekik, who is in her 13th year schedule to arrive in Muskegon viable energy source. as a professor in the geology depart KEVIN VANANTWERPEN By Samantha Butcher tonight. “There’s significant interest in ment, said the senate’s largest focus GVL COLUMNIST GVL Managing Editor The 17-by-17-foot buoy will off-shore wind energy for the fu will be the revision of the General www.lanthorn.com/blog s part of a unique col help researchers collect real-time ture, but the question is, is that via- Education Program. laboration between Grand data on a number of factors, includ ble7 ’ said Am Boezaart, director of “This is just really important be What's Inside Valley State University’s ing information on wind, water MAREC. “We have a lot of statis cause we’ve been working on it for AMichigan Alternative and Renewquality and the flight paths of birds tical data from satellite modelling, a long time and it does affect almost able Energy Center and research and bats over the Great Lakes. The but little real time data. What we’ll everybody on campus, so that’s a big A2 News ers at the Annis Water Resources platform, which will spend a week be doing is real scientific research.” thing on our plate,” Mekik said. A4 Opinion Institute (AWRI), Michigan State in Muskegon Lake for trials before The research platform will em The General Education Com University and the University of moving into Lake Michigan for ploy LiDAR, a new laser technol mittee, headed by writing professor A5 Your Space Michigan, a new research platform data collection, will help determine ogy that works by aiming a beam Roger Gilles, has been hard at work intended for Lake Michigan is on whether off-shore wind farms are a See Research, A2 on a proposal for revised General A6 Downtown Education goals, holding frequent workshops and forums with faculty. B1 Sports SEC, Athletics partner to collect recydables during games The GEC’s workshops are cur B4 Laker Life rently focusing on three new goals — collaboration, ethical reasoning and B5 Marketplace 8 problem solving. Gilles said mem bers of the GEC, including Student Senate representatives, have beeri working on this choice of goals for the past four years, basing selections on what other colleges and universe, ties are doing, the academic literature on the aims and values of the general education programs and a variety of surveys and conversations on GV- SU’s campus. “The GEC is convinced that these three goals — collaboration, ethical reasoning and problem solving — are! crucial to what it means to be a gener-; ally educated person,” Gilles said. •; The GEC will submit its proposal: closer to Thanksgiving. From there*, the UAS will hold a forum on Dec. 1 to get feedback from members before acting. “The workshops are very collab Courtesy Photo / Bart Bartels orative — it’s not like people come Green scene: Student Environmental Coalition member Andy West (left), SEC President Vince Panozzo and SEC member in and tell you. ‘This is the goal and Cassandra Beech volunteer at Saturday's football game to collect recydables. Fifteen volunteers filled 17 large garbage bags this is what it’s going to be about, ”’ Please Recycle with plastic water bottles during their time at Van Andel Arena, which lasted from 4:30 p.m. to midnight. In addition to water bottles, the group collected soda cans and bottles, cardboard and compostable materials such as pizza boxes and paper cups. See UAS, A2 Meijer GIFT I ‘lIKE”thesLanthorvv (yyvfaceboobfxyr your chance to \VIN \ Milla * restrictions oppty I I h v. V Grand Valley Lanthorn A2 I NEWS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 Research he doesn’t expect the two t: readouts to be identical, GV to enforce new federal continued from page A1 NEWS they should be similar. of infrared light vertically, to After the trial ends, BRIEFS financial aid codes measure the direction, speed, the buoy will be moved peal to ensure that students temperature and strength of to Lake Michigan, where By Lizzy Balboa are aware and able to be the wind at multiple heights it will be anchored about GVL Staff Writer successful in regaining and simultaneously. The plat four miles off the shore un Students targeted Grand Valley State Uni maintaining SAP standards form is also unique in its til mid-November, or when in sustainability versity is changing the way it rather than continue on pro mobility, a significant ben the icy season hits. survey responds to students who fail bation indefinitely,” Rhodes efit compared to station Once winter thaws, the ary wind towers, which device will be placed back to comply with eligibility stan said. Beginning this week Boezaart said tend to be into Lake Michigan, this BOEZAART dards for federal financial aid. She added that officials in the Sustainable Com expensive, politically un time on the Michigan side . This summer, the federal the Financial Aid Office are munity Development popular and technically- of the mid-lake plateau, a mary focus, the avian stud pvemment altered the terms still working on a plan for Initiative is initiating difficult “eyesores.” more shallow area in the ies coming out of Michigan nd conditions of financial aid communicating the change to their survey about stu * "This is very innova center of the lake, where it State also have significant i the Satisfactory Academic students reliant on federal aid, dent understanding of tive,” Boezaart said. will remain for the season. implications. iogress policy, which out- but they will give probation sustainability at Grand The $3.3 million re “This is a very unique "There’s always con nes the academic standards ary students time to submit Valley State University. search platform was fund comprehensive research cern about flight paths and Sr students to remain eligible their required documents to This survey is oriented ed through a number of project,” Boezaart said. patterns of flight as bird )r financial aid, as well as the remain eligible. with the goal of educat grants: $1.3 million from “It’s significant in that it’s migrate, because that can pnsequences for failing to Currently, the scholastic ing students about sus- the Michigan Public Ser a multi-university effort.... be impacted if people build jeet the standards. requirements for receiving tainabiality at GVSU. vice Commission, $1.4 Our role is to gather the re wind farms,” he said. “Es Michelle Rhodes, director aid include maintaining a cer All students will re million from the U.S. search and collect the data, pecially in regards to bat 'of the Office of Financial Aid, tain GPA and completing and ceive an email from the Department of Energy, and others will determine studies, we know very little said the academic require passing at least two-thirds of SCDI this week with a $260,000 from the Phoe if the research indicates a about their behavior over ments have not changed, but all attempted credits, both at link to the survey. Re nix Energy Institute at the viable industry.” water, especially the Great ‘ the process for regaining eligi GVSU and at previous institu sults from the survey University of Michigan, Although MAREC is Lakes. We think they fly bility has. Previously, students tions. will help the SCDI plan $250,000 from Wisconsin coordinating and managing over the water — we know \vho were not scholastically Students must also "com for future sustainable Energy and $30,000 from the project, the undertaking they fly over smaller, in ‘ Eligible only had to submit plete all degree requirements projects and discover the Sierra Club.

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