Lanthorn, Vol. 51, No. 16, October 17, 2016 Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley State University ScholarWorks@GVSU Volume 51, July 11, 2016 - June 5, 2017 Lanthorn, 1968-2001 10-17-2016 Lanthorn, vol. 51, no. 16, October 17, 2016 Grand Valley State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol51 Part of the Archival Science Commons, Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation Grand Valley State University, "Lanthorn, vol. 51, no. 16, October 17, 2016" (2016). Volume 51, July 11, 2016 - June 5, 2017. 16. https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol51/16 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 51, July 11, 2016 - June 5, 2017 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. grand valley ^ GV DEFENSE mb SMOTHERS TRUMAN STATE Hantljorn BULLDOGS 41-3 STUDENT-RUN PUBLICATIONS // PRINT • ONLINE MOBILE // LANTHORN.COM SEE A7 ALLENDALE & GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN VOL. 51 NO. 16 MONDAY, OCTOBER 17 KAUFMAN INSTITUTE IMPACT: Thomas Haas speaks with Doug Kindschi. GVL I LUKE HOLMES GV interfaith institute receives research grant BY DYLAN GROSSER [email protected] The John Templeton Foundation awarded the Kaufman Interfaith In stitute at Grand Valley State Univer sity a grant of $938,975 to conduct a project based on how religion is impacted by science. The money will largely be spent on organizing workshops and pay ing participants for their work in the project. Kelly Clark, senior research FREEDOM L fellow at the Kaufman Interfaith In stitute, said the project consists of t i ~ m ft,. ' professors, philosophers, physicists and biologists, all of whom identify Si> with Judaism, Christianity or Islam. He said participants come from a variety of different countries and will work together and discuss for matters related to interfaith co operation and how to encourage trustee “scientific inquiry among Abraha- mic believers. ” The project will take place over two years and in many different countries, eventually con REPRESENTING LAKERS: River Gibbs (left) and Wesley Wilson (right), along with Eric-John Szczepaniak (not pictured) are three GVSU students who will be on cluding in a conference in Istanbul. the ballot in their hometowns, running for positions ranging from school board trustees to a township trustee position this election cycle, gvl I Mackenzie bush After the project is completed, Clark said the institute is counting BY KYLE DOYLE hometowns in a meaningful way. few troubles because he is run listen to the ideas and thoughts of on two books to be published, a vid [email protected] And they ’re apparently doing well. ning unopposed for a Mona Shores the students. He plans on using his eo and numerous scholarly articles “I just had my first campaign sign school board trustee position. knowledge as someone fresh out of to be created about the project. n less than a month, people destroyed, so that actually can may “The president (of the school high school to help make decisions The grant is the largest the insti across the country will be lin be be a good sign because people see board) has kind of taken me un to benefit students. He faces a field of tute has received in its six years of ing up to vote for the next pres me as, at least, moderately credible, ” der her wing,” Wilson said. six candidates, including himself. existence. Clark said the institute ident of the U.S., along with Gibbs said, who is running for trust Each candidate has a unique Gibbs was the executive board typically receives one to two grants national,I state and local legislative ee of Georgetown Township. background which has helped them president of his high school ’s school a year in the $50,000 range, and this representatives, school board mem Szczepaniak, who is running establish why they want to run. board and has always dreamed of be grant is a “quantum leap forward” bers, millages and ballot proposals. for trustee of the Kenowa Hills For Wilson, he hopes to use the ing a township supervisor. from what they typically expect. But, unlike most students go school board, has had a similar six-year position as a stepping stone “My dream, even when I was a lit The director of the Kaufman ing to the polls, three Grand Val experience recently when he tried for later political endeavors, as well as tle kid, was to be the township super Interfaith Institute, Douglas Kind ley State University students will to speak during a school board bring someone to the school board visor, as soon as I was old enough, ” schi, said the institute is already in be hoping they ’re next in line for a meeting Monday, Oct. 10. who is more in tune with the feel Gibbs said. “Once I got older, I real talks with GVSU president Thomas representative position. “At their meeting, (they) didn’t ings of high school students. He has ized maybe that ’s kind of a stretch, so Haas about future grants, but wasn’t GVSU students River Gibbs, want to hear any dissent,” Szcz worked on three campaigns, one of now I’m going for township trustee.” willing to specify from which or Eric-John Szczepaniak and Wes epaniak said. “They didn’t want which is active, for two state repre A close family friend encouraged ganizations. Although the grant is ley Wilson have been hard at work to hear from the public and they sentatives and a local sheriff. Gibbs to go out for the position, so large, Kindschi said it is only one on the campaign trail, trying to didn’t like what I had to say, (so) Szczepaniak was involved in he decided to make his dream a real step forward in the right direction. get their message heard and their they rebuked their own agenda several organizations during his ity. He is running against five other “I don’t think the mission of the in- name out to as many people as that they had already passed.” high school career including the possible. These young adults are On the complete opposite end Gay-Straight Alliance, and said he hoping to create change in their of the spectrum, Wilson has had felt the school board didn’t really SEE RUNNING | A2 SEE GRANT | A3 GUEST SPEAKER GOVERNANCE University Libraries Recognizing the history of refugees advocates for open GV to host U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum lecturer access textbooks BY MEGHAN MCBRADY While most of the passengers on rounding the Holocaust. fundamentally, in the way human be BY JESS HODGE [email protected] the St. Louis had legal documents in “For Americans, the Holocaust ings treat other. ” NEWS@LAN THORN.COM Havana, complications arose when has served as a measure for abso Further emphasizing the signifi From Irish citizens escaping their both Cuba and the U.S. refused the lute evil,” he said. “As the years go by, cance of diverse points of view, Fran How many students have though country due to a devastating potato group entry into their countries, forc were even more and more tolerant ciosi said being able to share the tes about not buying a textbook for a famine to the droves of families flee ing the boat back to Europe. of different perspectives and differ timonies from refugees - in this case class, even though it was required, be ing conflict-ridden areas in Bhutan “The reason why I talk about the ent positions, but there is a universal cause of the cost? How many students and Syria, refugees have been an im St. Louis is (because it’s) a symbol of agreement that something happened, SEE REFUGEES | A2 decided to not buy the textbook, even portant part of the world’s history. other Jewish refugees who wanted to though they were fairly sure it would A segment of history ’s asylum find a safe haven, ” Afoumado said. impact their grade in the class? seekers - European Jews during “You can basically write about dif These are the questions Matt Ruen World War II - will be the subject of ferent subjects related to the St. Louis asked Grand Valley State University ’s a talk Monday, Oct. 24 at 4:30 p.m. and see that it is central to (the) study student senators Thursday, Oct. 13. in the Mary Idema Pew Library at of other refugee stories.” As the scholarly communications out Grand Valley State University ’s in re Rob Franciosi, a GVSU English * reach coordinator at University Librar lation to Syrian refugees. professor whose research centers on ies, Ruen came to speak about interna I^d by Diane Afoumado, the chief American cultural responses to the tional open access week. of research and reference branch at Holocaust, will be hosting Afoumado “A 2014 survey of American under the Holocaust Survivors and Vic during her visit at GVSU. Ori 9 graduates said that about 65 percent tims Resource Center at the U.S. While the talk is primarily for stu ^tST- had, at some point in the previous year, Holocaust Memorial Museum, the dents who are currently taking classes chosen not to buy a textbook, ” he said. talk will focus on how in 1939, more within the Holocaust education pro “Even though almost all of those who than 900 German and Austrian Jews gram, the event is open for anyone in boarded the S.S. St Louis in order to the GVSU community wanting more HELP: Jewish refugees look outside from within the S.S. St. Louis. GVSU will escape Nazi persecution. knowledge about the politics sur host a lecture from Diane Afoumado about refugees courtesy | rob franciosi SEE LIBRARY | A2 Xantljorn • o«« • • ♦ • ♦ • OCTOBER 17, 2016 GRAND VALLEY LANTHORN A2 NEWS (aGVLNEWS ^0 faces and it also lets them really,” Gibbs said.

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