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Grand Valley State University ScholarWorks@GVSU Volume 42, July 12, 2007 - June 12, 2008 Lanthorn, 1968-2001 9-6-2007 Lanthorn, vol. 42, no. 05, September 6, 2007 Grand Valley State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol42 Part of the Archival Science Commons, Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation Grand Valley State University, "Lanthorn, vol. 42, no. 05, September 6, 2007" (2007). Volume 42, July 12, 2007 - June 12, 2008. 5. https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol42/5 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 42, July 12, 2007 - June 12, 2008 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Lakers win home opener against Pumas, B1 Tuna, cake bring Insurance reassures home award, A5 students, A3 )/# .in . ♦ 'rant) mllep JLantffom Grand Valley State University www.lanthorn.com Thursday, September 6, 2007^ See more: GV tennis Visit www.lanthorn.com to see videos of ravine on wheels storm damage. By Alicia Wireman GVL Copy Editor Four students at Grand Valley State University are taking tennis to a whole new level — on wheels. The Grand Rapids Wheelchair Sports Association, along with students at GVSU, arc developing the first collegiate wheel­ chair tennis team in the Midwest. The Grand Valley Wheelchair tennis team will call themselves the Rolling Lakers. The team will be present in front of the Review Board Friday to apply for status as an official GVSU student organization. “It’s a win-win situation for students and for Grand Valley, ” said Wheelchair Tennis Team Program Director Lynn Bender. “It’s encouraging youth and their families to PtlPtCI i I Ml I come to Grand Valley where they can play collegiate wheelchair sports.” PROPOSED RADIO TOWER WETLAND COMPLEX The GRWSA and the students who will SCALE r - 200* be competing have been planning to begin a collegiate team for awhile now. Bender said. This year was the right time to start Courtesy Photo / Peter Wampler a team because the number of GVSU stu­ Marshy movement: GVSU professor Peter Wampler and the Storm Water Advisory Group have propsed a new wetlands idea to help control runoff water on the Allendale Campus. dents participating in the GRWSA has been expanding, she said. “One of our major goals is to eventu ­ ally host one of the sectional tournaments at Grand Valley, ” Bender said. “We also Concern for runoff in ravineswant to eventually offer scholarships to get students to come to Grand Valley. ” Storm Water Advisory Group formed to help protect ravines' current state, keep erosion to minimal levels Since the Rolling Lakers will be the only collegiate team in the Midwest, trav­ By Michelle Hamilton he said. Course and a strip of porous material at to slowly squeezing water out of a full eling is inevitable. The team will compete GVL News Editor In the 1960s. the acceptable way to deal the edge of parking Lot C, Moyer said. sponge. Wampler said he would compare in three sectional tournaments that will take with storm water was to funnel it to the There are also purposed plans to construct current runoff levels to a fire hose blasting place in Alabama in October, Kentucky in Storm water management plans have ravines and let it take care of itself, Moyer a wetlands area near Laker Village and into the side of the ravines over a much January and Colorado in February. infiltrated the construction projects on said. The efforts of facilities used to focus Pierce Street. shorter period of time. Players will be required to attend one of campus at Grand Valley State University. solely on disposing of the storm water, but The goal of these strategies is to allow “From what we can tell (the erosion the three sectional tournaments in order to For the construction projects currently recently their focus has shifted to include the storm water to drain more slowly by rate) has been accelerated about 10 times,” compete in the national tournament, which efforts for reducing additional storm water retaining it in plants or ponds, Moyer he said. in progress on the Allendale Campus, the will be held at the University of Arizona in generation, he said. said. The porous material in the parking Wampler watched the water level in the facilities department at GVSU is trying to Tucson in March. Some of the new storm water lot sucks the water up quickly to reduce ravines underneath the Little Mac Bridge manage as much of the storm water as they The players ’ biggest challenge will be can on site, said Assistant Vice President of management strategies being integrated runoff. Implementing these plans will rise about a foot and a half within 10 trying to find the funds for traveling ex­ Facilities Planning James Moyer. into the current construction sites include hopefully reduce the impact of storm minutes, he said. penses, Bender said. Wheelchair tennis “We're trying to find a way to manage roof gardens that will help soak up storm water on campus and the ravines and stop “A lot of people don't even realize, the water without sending it to the ravines, ” water, a new pond near the Meadows Golf the generation of more runoff from storm or just don ’t even think about, what is helps players gain a greater awareness, in ­ water, Moyer said. happening to the ravines, ” said GVSU crease self-esteem and be a part of a team, “It’s not an exact science,” Moyer senior Emily Brehm. she added. said. “We’ve tried some things that failed Brehm said she took a tour of the ravines “I love playing tennis, ” said Jessica miserably, but it doesn ’t prevent us from with a couple of her geology classes last Sporte, president of GVSU’s wheelchair year. She said the ravines are beautiful, but going out and trying again." tennis team. “It’s nice to be able to repre­ A piping structure built near the the damage from piping water into them is sent Grand Valley in a sport even though 1 southeast comer of parking Lot N, for apparent. example, slipped in 1996 and caused a Together, Brehm and her classmates am disabled. ” landslide in the ravines, he said. brainstormed possible solutions together Sporte helped develop the idea of insti ­ “If you ’re going to improve a situation for ways the facilities department could tuting a collegiate wheelchair tennis team you have to set a goal,” he said. improve the ravines, she said. Everything at GVSU. She said playing with her fellow Moyer said his goal is to return the her classmates thought of is something that students through the GRWSA program en ­ runoff levels on the Allendale Campus the facilities department has already tried ticed the idea of a university team. to what they were in 1960 before the though, she added. “We just kept talking about starting a university was built. “Everything they ’re doing helps, but in team and the idea just sort of snowballed GVSU geology professor Peter Wampler the end it’s still going to happen ” Brehm from there,” Sporte said. has formed a Storm Water Advisory Group said. Even though the current members are with some of his colleagues to help provide disabled, Sporte said she hopes that able- the facilities department with another [email protected] bodied students or professors will get perspective on storm water management. “The role of SWAG is to ask the hard See Wheelchair, A2 questions about what we’re doing, ” See more: For more Wampler said. on this story, see the Historically, a lot of runoff water drained Courtesy Photo / Peter Wampler over a longer period of time, Wampler said. Flood gates: Storm water discharges through a pipe near the ravines after a thunderstorm. editorial on page A4 He compared the former runoff levels Heels taking over business world By Kim Shine “The greater Grand Rapids Courtesy Photo / Lynn Bernier Determination: Grand Valley State University GV1. Staff Writer area needs to know that there are women running multi-million dollar students are attempting to organize a wheelchair tennis team that will compete sales companies and multi-faceted A new segment on WGVU’s across the country The Morning Show is putting the operations in West Michigan,” Wall spotlight on headstrong, business said. A certified member of the savvy females in West Michigan. Zantborn As more and more women Women ’s Business Enterprise successfully climb the corporate (W.B.E.), Language International, ladder, the term “CEO” is expanding Inc. translates, interprets and offers accordingly. As of last year, women both language classes and graphic INDEX were running 10 Fortune 500 design services in more than 80 companies, including Radio Shack, languages to the West Michigan area Section A eBay and Sara Lee, according to of international commerce. Wall News........................................A3 said. CNNMoney.com. Opinion....................................A4 Though having no initial interests Grand Valley State University Laker Life ...................................AS graduate Beverly Wall is one of the in business herself, this farmer’s more than 60 West Michigan women daughter success story is one example Section B who has turned her vision into a of the experiences showcased on Sports.......................................B1 WGVU radio ’s new The Morning reality. Inspired by the rules of her Nation/World........................... B3 father — work every day, stand Show segment, “Business Happens in Marketplace .......................... B5 by your word and watch your debt Heels.” — Wall owns 100 percent of her The new segment is spearheaded A6E .......................................... B6 Girl power: WGVU host Shelley Irwin starts a new segment, "Business in Heels," to discuss the company.

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