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Grand Valley State University www.lanthorn.com Thursday, March 12, 2009 Student found mfimtfir’ More than 23 Michigan schools dead in South B sLl A By Lauren Fitch GVl. News Editor represented at Powershift 2009 Grand Valley State University student Daniel Lee Smith passed away By Ellen Hensel The Michigan Delegation got to break out on Sunday Tuesday afternoon. to work through what should be done in Michigan GVSU’s Department of Public TARSANDS= GVl. Assistant News Editor specifically. Safety officers found Smith, of As what was predicted to be the biggest snowstorm Topics incl uded the Clean Energy Izive press conference Muskegon, Mich., at 4:30 p.m. in his of the season loomed before the nation ’s capital, 12/XX) and campaign in support of Gov. Jennifer Gran holm ’s South B Living Center apartment after □IL ON college students lobbied for a climate change initiative as backing of renewable energy initiatives, the Regeneration receiving a request to check on his well Courtesy Photo / www.powershift09.org part of the environmental awareness campaign, Powershift Conference and environmental victories, such as a coal being. Youth rally: More than 12,000 college students lobbied for ‘09. plant being put on ice in Marquette. Officers were notified when Smith climate change at this year's Powershift 2009 conference. Grand Valley State University Mich, by the Environmental Protection failed to show up for an appointment. “These legislators, had 32 student representatives at the Agency. Smith, 24, was found alone in his conference, and they traveled as part these policy makers More than 23 Michigan schools bedroom. His roommates were unaware of a 430-member Michigan delegation, have to listen. We and various non-profit organizations of the situation, said Capt. Brandon the ninth largest at the conference. presented the work being done in their DeHaan, assistant director of DPS. are the people who Senior Jared Minima was one of respective communities. Some of the Officers reported no sign of foul those delegates. The culmination of will have to deal with projects included campus sustainability play. the four-day conference was a rally on the consequences of initiatives, state and federal policy An autopsy was scheduled for Capitol Hill. initiatives, renewable energy and energy Wednesday, but it will take four to six inaction. ” Minima stcxxJ for hours, bundled in efficiency projects. weeks to receive the full results of the several layers, to join the mass of people 'Hiis year ’s Powershift conference toxicology test. JARED MINIMA calling for change in how Washington was deemed a success by organizers, Smith’ s parents were notified GVSU SENIOR approaches policy. as they had a record number of immediately of their son ’s death. “It’s kind of ironic us being here, participants. news@Umthoni i om what with the volatile weather and all,” “Just as the youth of America turned Minima said. “It’s warm one day and freezing the next, and See more: Visit out in record numbers toelect a new president and transform that is just one small example of a bigger problem. These Lanthorn.com for an update. Congress in the last election, they turned out in record legislators, these policy makers have to listen. We are the numbers to take our rightful seat at the political table, ” people who will have to deal with the consequences of Courtesy Photo / www.powershift09.org said Jessy Tolkan. director of Energy Action Coalition, in Number power: The Powershift 2009 conference drew a inaction. So we are saying, do us a favor and make it a little easier. ” Internship 430-member Michigan delegation to Washington, D C. See Powershift, A2 placement services on rise Haas approaches House for funds By Chelsea Lane GVl. Staff Writer For many, the thought of working President Thomas J. as an intern conjures up images of fetching coffee, making copies and Haas asks Michigan other menial tasks. House subcommittee for In an emerging trend .an increasing number of students and their parents increased state funding are paying internship placement services in hopes of securing a By Lauren Fitch rewarding summer job experience. GVL News Editor For-profit internship firms, such as California-based University As the Michigan House Appropriations of Dreams, offer students an Subcommittee on Higher Education opportunity to travel around the began planning the 2009-10 budget. globe and intern for employers such President Thomas J. Haas presented the as NBC Universal, the U.S. Chamber fiscal concerns facing Grand Valley State of Commerce and fashion designer University to legislators on Monday. Betsey Johnson. Haas, joined by representatives from Approximately 2.(XX) students University of Michigan-Dearbom, will participate in a University of University of Michigan-Flint and Michigan Dreams internship program in 2009. Technological University, testified before Six-week program prices range from eight committee members on the challenges $5,499 to $9,499, and University facing state universities. of Dreams also offers financial The meeting, held in the Eberhard aid services. The expense covers Center, began with Haas’ testimony on housing, meals, transportation to and what GVSU has done to reduce the cost of tuition for its students and how increased from work and weekend activities GVl / Lauren Fitch state funding will further benefit the and trips. Funding pleas: GVSU President Thomas J Haas prepares to speak to the Michigan House Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education. The Prices depend on where university. hearing was held on GVSU's Pew Campus on Monday. Haas urged the state to increase GVSU's funding and promised a 4 percent tuition cut in exchange. participants travel, with destinations “Higher education is a public good, varying from San Francisco to deserving of investment and your received the least amount from the state is deeply unfair to our students and our instead recommended giving money from London to Hong Kong. enthusiastic support, ” Haas said. among the 15 state universities, despite taxpayers. We need a reliable partner in our the stimulus package directly back to the In addition to providing students He listed the university ’s commitment the fact that GVSU has experienced the state. Some may ask, ’Why use taxpayer students through one-time projects and with internshipsand workexperience. to retain financial aid, on-campus jobs and greatest increase in enrollment during the dollars to support higher education? ’ A scholarships. University of Dreams also counsels the elimination of 300 prerequisite classes past 10 years. highly educated workforce benefits all in a He said GVSU is currently undecided participants on techniques such as means of making it easier for GVSU The average among the Michigan-1 5 community. ” on how they will deal with the tuition freeze as job interview skills and resume students to graduate on time and afford schools for 2006-07 was $5,174 per student During the question and answer portion but is planning for the next five years. revision. Programs also include tuition. from the state. of Haas’ testimony, committee members Haas urged the state to increase weekly seminars that allow students Of the $171 million in financial aid “Why is GVSU being punished raised concerns about how GVSU would GVSU’s funding, and added he would cut to meet with career experts. available to students at GVSU, 20 percent financially for its success? ’ Haas said. handle the tuition freeze and money from the cost of tuition by 4 percent if the state “You're not just paying $8.(XX) comes from the state, according to the “With due respect, the state's flawed the stimulus package. would contribute fhxir-level funding at the GVSU Accountability Report. for an internship, ” said University policy of ignoring changes in enrollment Freezes do not work, Haas said and See Haas, A2 of Dreams Chief Marketing Officer At $3JO 19 per student in 2007, GVSU Eric Normington. “You're paying for all of the expertise and quality that

See Internships, A2 Ryan Fitzgibbon named first recipient of Student Legacy Scholarship

See more: Go By Amanda Lechel university, along with Student Senate, have GVl. Staff Writer been attempting to build up the fund with to the editorial and the intention of handing out this scholarship "Your Insights" on A7. Grand Valley State University senior every year. Ryan Fitzgibbon has reaped the benefits “I saw an article in the Lanthom of his fellow students' generosity as the announcing the Student legacy first recipient of the Student Legacy Scholarship. ” Fitzgibbon said. “At first, this 1 M : Scholarship. . title sounds intimidating and. as university *• • 4 ITie $500 Student legacy Scholarship, scholarships often are, implausible. awarded on Jan. 27, is the first scholarship I " • Nonetheless, I continued _ 0 . 'f/w entirely funded by GVSU reading and was surprised students. “... I was chosen to leam that this scholarship “I became aware that ... because was funded by students. ” I was the first recipient To be eligible for the toward the end of January, ” of my lasting scholarship, undergraduate Fitzgibbon said. “I received contributions to students must be entering a letter congratulating me on their junior or senior year the university. ” GVl / Bri Goodyear my academic achievement, at GVSU. The student must First dibs: Ryan Fitzgibbon is the first winner of the Student Legacy Scholarship The award is funded leadership ability and be enrolled full time, have a RYAN FITZGIBBON by students and used to reward students who demonstrate leadership in service to the university. motivation to be involved on minimum GPA of 25 and GVSU SENIOR campus. ” must be involved in the also the sole designer and creative director the first recipient was because of my lasting President Thomas J. community. of the GVSU “Do Something Guide. ” contributions to the university," Fitzgibbon Haas signed the scholarship into action last GVl / Brian Sevald Fitzgibbon is very much active in the He was an intern for “People Design, ” a said. “It is, nevertheless, a scholarship of November. Gussied up: In a recent trend, more GVSU community. designer for the GVSU Promotions Office legacy, so I believe that my involvement students and their parents are turning to for- For the past ycar.thc Office of University He is one of the presidents of the and a designer for the GVSU Art Gallery. profit internship placement firms Development, the fundraising branch of the Professional Association of Design and is “I think that the reason I was chosen as See Recipient, A2

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“This is a great opportunity to announced for the first time at the joined some of the committee Haas Powershift Recipient show your leaker pride by making hearing. The award is designed members for lunch following the continued from page A1 continued from page A1 continued from page A1 a gift to this scholarship, ” Shira to benefit family members of heanng. statutory recommended minimum with the ‘Do Something Guide' said. “Many students require soldiers who died dunng active She said the legislators seemed a press release. "This year ’s of $3,778 per student. publication, the launch of the financial assistance to complete duty in Iraq or Afghanistan. receptive to the universities ’ participation is twice as big and University Art Gallery Web site their degree, and the Student “You have my word on that," After Haas’ presentation. requests and seemed to care about twice as energetic as our last and branding system, as well Legacy Scholarship helps those Haas said. Subcommittee Chair Joan Bower the students. gathering in 2007. We stand at as my investment as a Resident students succeed and earn their He closed by referencing his requested all students stand and “It was interesting to hear a critical point in our nation ’s Assistant or the founding of a experience in the U.S. Coast introduce themselves. all four presentations and the history, ready to work with our degrees ’’ student organization stood out This spring Fitzgibbon will Guard. “It’s important for the similar problems among state new leadership to pass bold as lasting impressions on the graduate with a bachelor ’s degree "As a good Coastie and now as committee to see the people who universities, ” Trombka said. climate and energy policies. We university at large. ” in graphic design. a good leaker, I know you never are impacted most,” Bower said. She said she hopes to see a won ’t allow this moment to pass Shaun Shira, the University He plans to move to San cut your engines when storms are Autumn Trombka, Student difference in state funding within us by. ” Development annual giving Francisco this summer to pursue around you,” Haas said. "People Senate president, was among the the next few years. Students participated in more manager said the Student a master ’s degree at the California are depending on you. The policy students present at the hearing. Bower said the final budget than 360 scheduled meetings Legacy Scholarship is a good College of the Arts. right now is disinvestment. Let ’s "It makes a difference to the should be passed by the end of with legislators, in addition to representation of GVSU’s ideals. turn that around. ” legislators to see students there. ” June. attending seminars, panels and He said he sees himself “The scholarship reinforces actively contributing creative The expansion of the Fallen Trombka said. workshops. the ideals that Grand Valley has direction and design strategy to Heroes Scholarship was also Trombka and other students news@ lanthorn com Energy Action Coalition, which is behind the Powershift been built upon - a culture of global business efforts. conference, has grown to include philanthropy in which giving back "I encourage all students 50 national organizations and is commonplace, ” Shira said. to invest not only in this fund, more than 700 local groups. “The scholarship also reinforces but to invest in the betterment GVSU junior Rachel Burkins the great sense of community of their peers in their time at met with Congresswoman that you find on all Grand Valley Grand Valley, ” Fitzgibbon said. Jackie Speier ’s aid and said the campuses. We are in this together. “I anticipate a return to Grand experience was a positive one. We help our own. ” Valley some time from now "It can be overwhelming Shira said one scholarship will to witness the progress of our to meet with these people be awarded each semester until community and will forever feel because they do so many of there are more funds available. privileged to have had a hand in these meetings every day,” Since this scholarship is a few of the many contributing Burkins said. “1 want to make entirely funded by students he efforts that make our university a difference, but I know that it urges students to donate money exceptional. ” takes more than just me. That is to the scholarship fund. alechel@ lanthorn com why it is so great to see so many kids, and more specifically, so Internships instructions. many kids from Michigan here. The Michigan state continued from page A1 We really stepped it up, I think, government Web site also offers and showed them that Michigan we provide. ” information about upcoming is willing to work and is already In recent years, internships career fairs. doing so.” have become a virtual requirement In addition, GVSU partners Courtesy Photo / Amanda Pitts for many students. with companies such as Meijer, State plea: GVSU President Thomas J. Haas speaks to the state House Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education assistantnews® lanthorn com As job opportunities dwindle, Spartan Stores, Pfizer, Amway The hearing was held on Grand Valley's Pew Grand Rapids Campus on March 9. students often rely on internships and small businesses to give to gain workplace experience and students a direct link to local to help build their resumes. internship opportunities. Traditionally, students have a GVSU also collaborates with number of options for securing neighboring Calvin College, internships: Relying on family or Cornerstone University, Hope community connections, visiting College and Aquinas College to their career center, filling out keep job fairs open to all students, online applications and going regardless of which institution is door-to-door at local businesses. hosting the event. Normington said he believes Coronado has not witnessed companies such as University a decrease in the number of of Dreams helps give students available internships, albeit fewer access to additional resources that internships are paid positions. may be otherwise unavailable to Still, he said he believes there are them. many rewarding opportunities for "That ’s why a program like i * Jnkidud Pcttyra SpCCe students. ours is so unique and special, “Some companies have put job because we are providing that fairs on hold, but only a handful, ” * fall Sze foskr anJ J)iy°t in Pcch tint foot in the door,” he said. he said. “The only decrease is in However, some are not participants. ” convinced paying for internships Marcia Pellicone, leader of is necessary. the Dallas branch of for-profit “It all depends on the person, ” internship firm Brill Street, said AweritieS said Grand Valley State University more businesses are utilizing 650Sq. Career Services Assistant Director placement services to obtain and ^Activity Room Internship Specialist Frank younger and more cost-effective Coronado. “But personally, I talent. don’ t think they do (need to use ^Online rent pay “Despite hiring freezes and placement services). ” lay-offs, many companies are Instead, Coronado suggests Witness Center open 24/7 turning to our direct pipeline of students should first utilize local the best young minds as a cost- and university resources to find ^‘SncwandTtaii Removal effective solution to traditional an internship. hiring models, ” she said. “On Laker Jobs, Career Services ’ ^24 HcurMairtEimr Service Requests average, we ’re receiving 300- onl ine jobs and internships service , *Aidl^FumishedaLH^ plus new applicants per week posts the latest employment and adding new companies to ouf opportunities as well as contact portfolio each day.” ^Locanad on 48di Avenue along GV Bus Route 48 information and application 2jTd3bedtoomawnharnBm^ clane@ lanthorn com open seven da)5 aweek scllbead^aTiajdftrfcrdeak $ranb ^allep Uantfiorn

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Twenty-year study tracks pursuit, spread of happiness Social Scientist Nicholas Christakis, Political Scientist James Fowler determine happiness can spread up to three degrees of separation

By Ellen Hensel his or her friends. “The strong focus on it could mean that a person ’s give a little structure to an someone you don ’t even know physical well being iscontingent abstract concept. ” has an impact on your well > GVL Assistant News Editor The process of feeling happiness is a characteristic of emotion is a four-step system. U.S. culture, ” Friedlmeier said. on the attitudes they have, and Sophomore Bill Femers being, ” Femers said. “I think it Next time you feel happy, First, there is an appraisal “Some cultures even condemn the attitudes of those around considers himself to be happy is a comforting thought to know thank those around you. system, where there is an this emotion because it is them. Many people will find with where his life is right now. that the actions of a stranger, • In a body of work published evaluation of the environment in thought to lead to a neglect of this interesting because I have He said the main factor for him the attitudes of someone you’ve regarding the contagiousness relation to one ’s goals, motives duties. Happiness, in American so many patients who come in when it comes to being happy never met, Can positively of happiness, researchers and desires. Second is the contexts, signals that one has just looking to be content and in life is success, having a impact your life. In some way it concluded happiness can be motor system reactions, which managed to significantly stand most of the time there isn ’t a family and maintaining healthy connects us all.” as infectious as microbes. includes expressive processes out, be unique and having formula for that. This doesn ’t relationships. Essentially, as easily as you can and any actions. Third, comes a fulfilled material and personal provide a formula but it does “I think it is really cool that [email protected] catch a cold,you physical reaction goals. This emotion is strongly can catch a case triggered by related to the idea of being of the happy. “This is important the autonomous independent and a unique Harvard research because nervous person. Social Scientist system and This study changed the Dr. Nicholas the authors Close friend endocrinological paradigm for explaining one Christakis and 25 percent demonstrate the processes. reason why people get sick, his Political Friend of spread of happiness And finally, but more importantly, how Science a friend there is the they get healthy. It might not polleague James through social 10 percent feeling system, be completely due to medical Fowler at the networks ...” which includes treatment, but rather their University recognizing the attitude and the attitudes of of California BRIAN LAKEY emotion as happy those around them. San Diego GVSU PSYCHOLOGY or sad, or any “This is important research conducted a PROFESSOR other emotion. because the authors demonstrate 20-year study Grand Valley the spread of happiness through of 5,000 people State University social networks, while ruling and concluded emotions pass Psychology Associate Professor out the possibility that the among a network of people Wolfgang Friedlmeier said effect was caused because to three degrees of separation the process of emotion can happy people form friendships away. be spread among a group of with happy people, ” said GVSU So a person ’s joy or people. Friedlmeier has written Psychology Professor Brian contentment can be attributed a book about the development Lakey. “The authors are careful f The effect only ” to how cheerful your friends ’ of e motion ^ “Development to point out, however, that as goes up until friends ’ friends are, even if they of Emotions and Emotion this was not an experiment, three degrees of separation are total strangers. Regulation. ” they cannot draw conclusions When the subject is , The numbers were published “Happiness like many other about what caused the spread of happy, they represent the jn the British Medical Journal emotions are contagious," happiness. ” effect percent of and consisted of the analysis Friedlmeier said. “And this is Critics of the study’s findings happiness boost. of the 50,000 social ties people mostly due to a basic emotion, still believe the results mirror shared. namely empathy, the ability the copycat effect, that happy ’ At various points during to experience the other ’s people are exposed to similar Subject the 20-year study, participants emotional state by being aware lifestyles and potentially there answered a standard that it is the other person. are social factors to explain questionnaire to determine Empathy is an emotional their shared joy, such as job their happiness level so the quality and not a cognitive placement,a winning basketball scientists could track changes process like perspective ­ team or favorable weather. in emotions. The intriguing taking. Babies show emotional But the authors of the study results broke down just how contagion from the third day of argue if that were the case, contagious happiness can be. life and this contagion develops happiness would spread more The results showed if a into empathy at the end of the uniformly throughout the Subject ’s friend was happy, that Siblings within second year of life. ” relationships. Subject was 15 percent more 1 mile This study puts a scientific Shelley Newberg owns her likely to be happy, too; if that 14 percent edge on something eternally own counseling practice in friend's friend was happy, the abstract. The pursuit of downtown Grand Rapids and original subject was 10 percent happiness, a core value of said the spread of emotion Friend of more likely to be so. Even if American society, has become through a network of people jhe subject ’s friend ’s friend ’s friend of a never-ending goal of the is not only an interesting friend, entirely unknown to the a friend American and international phenomenon, but could be a 5.6 percent jsubject, was happy, the subject public. There are books breakthrough for the science Still got a 5.6 percent boost. published and seminars offered, world. ' The happiness chain also counseling center waiting “The study goes beyond forked in the other direction, rooms fill with patients. They just why people are happy, ” moving from the subject out to are all after one goal: Joy. Newberg said. “Potentially, ; :------i

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GVL DIGEST 'Swiss gigolo' gets jail in BMW heiress case Michigan in Brief By Roland Losch “The only victim who came to Innsbruck. Austria, in July 2007. Sgarbi then demanded Klatten the late BMW magnate Herbert us and gave a witness statement Using what prosecutors called leave her family and invest €290 Quandt and holds a 46 percent Associated Press Writer Michigan's math standards force is Mrs. Klatten We had to find a well-practiced scam, he showed million ($367 million) in a trust for stake in the company along with new textbook purchases MUNICH (AP) - A man the others, with great difficulty,” up a month later at her vacation him, according to the indictment. her mother and brother. She also MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) dubbed “the Swiss gigolo ” by the Steinkraus-Koch said. home in the south of France and When she refused, he threatened owns a 88.3 percent share of — School districts throughout German media was sentenced to Prosecutors said the women their affair began. Then he told to release secretly filmed videos of chemical company Altana. Michigan may see their costs six years in prison Monday for were the victims in a series of scams Klatten that he was involved in a their affair. Forbes magazine listed her as multiplying after a decision defrauding Germany ’s richest by Sgarbi, who trained as a lawyer, car accident in the United States Sgarbi demanded €49 million the 68th richest person in the world by state education officials to woman of €7 million ($9 million) spoke six languages and worked as that left the girl paralyzed, and ($62 million) not to tell her family, last year, with a personal fortune of standardize the math that students and attempting to blackmail her a banker at Credit Suisse until the convinced Klatten to give him the the heads of her companies and the around $9.6 billion (€7.58 billion). must learn. for tens of mid 1990s. He cash for her treatment. media. He lowered the demand The Quandt family is regarded in Local school officials may millions more. Helg Sgarbi, dubbed also served as a According to her police to €14 million ($17.72 million) Germany as quasi-royalty. end up having to buy new Helg the “Swiss gigolo" reserve officer in statement, Klatten was initially but Klatten instead went to the Sgarbi had faced a possible 10- textbooks as a result of the Sgarbi (S’Gar- the Swiss army, taken aback by the story, but police in January 2007. Sgarbi year sentence, but presiding Judge state ’s change in 2005 in “grade bee) admitted by the German according to eventually met him in a parking was arrested shortly in Austria’s Gilbert Wolf said he decided on six level content expectations ” to the Munich media, successfully prosecutors. garage to hand over the €7 million Tyrolean Alps and has been held in years because Sgarbi ’s decision based on standardized-testing court that he blackmailed several According ($9 million) in cash, packed in a detention since. to confess had spared his victims requirements of the federal No threatened to to Swiss court laige cardboard box. Klatten is the daughter of having to testify in court. Child Left Behind Act of 2001. release secretly women for millions of documents, a Students must be given recorded dollars before one of countess 50 years standardized tests in each videotapes his victims, the heiress older than Sgarbi grade from third through of trysts with accused him of eighth, requiring the Michigan BMW heiress to the BMW fortune, swindling her in Department of Education to S u s a n n e went to police. 2001 but then had decide what would be tested in Klatten, 46, _ charges dropped each grade. In some cases, the unless the after he returned decisions did not coincide with married woman gave him millions 20 million Swiss francs ($17 what schools were teaching. of euros (dollars) to keep quiet. million) to her. Germany’ s Stem Grand Haven Area Public The 44-year-old also admitted magazine said. Schools decided last week to convincing Klatten to give him €7 Steinkraus-Koch confirmed spend $275 000 on 4000 new million ($9 million) by saying it that one case had been dropped in math textbooks for grades K was for the treatment of a girl left Switzerland and Sgarbi had been through 8 next year. paraplegic after he hit her with his sentenced to six months probation Muskegon Public Schools face car. on another case in the country. a $5 million shortfall this year but The Munich state court “It was not the first time he are using new math books on a found Sgarbi guilty of fraud and was involved in such things in this trial basis in kindergarten through attempted blackmail of Klatten, manner. ” Steinkraus-Koch said. fifth grade. The books would cost who turned him in to police. Klatten did not attend the four- the district $ 150,000 to $200000 He was also found guilty of hour trial and her attorney made to buy. fraud and attempted blackmail for no statement to the court. Her taking C2.4 million ($3 million) spokesman was not immediately Habitat for Humanity to tear from three other women — available for comment. down 1,000 Saginaw houses identified by the initials H., R., Her husband, Jan Klatten, has SAGINAW. Mich. (AP) and S. — who were located by made no public comment on the — An organization known for authorities in their investigation of case. building and repairing homes will the Klatten case. Sgarbi told the court he had AP Photo / Uwe Lein, Alexandra Beier tear down nearly 1000 vacant Prosecutor Thomas Steinkraus- specifically targeted Klatten, laying European blackmail: Combo shows German billionaire Susanne Klatten photographed in Munich, June 6, 2005 and Swiss ones in Saginaw . Koch praised Klatten for her the groundwork for his scheme Helg Sgarbi (right), during his trial on Monday in Munich The man dubbed "the Swiss gigolo" by the German media pleaded guilty Monday to threatening to blackmail Germany's richest woman by releasing secretly recorded videotapes of their trysts ! The nonprofit Habitat for bravery in stepping forward. when he first met her at a spa near Humanity will remove wood, unless the married heiress gave him millions of euros (dollars) to keep quiet. wiring, fixtures, floors, siding and anything else that can be reused. The two-year project will help reduce blight in Saginaw, which Israeli kids get rocket- is about 80 miles northwest of Detroit. It also will save the city money. Removing recyclable proofed indoor playground materials from a house should cut in half the $6000 cost of tearing offensive in Gaza ended. On away at hanging punching bags. it down. By Aron Heller Tuesday, Israeli aircraft hit a ‘Today, we bring back the Eighty percent of the materials Associated Press Writer militant rocket squad in northern childhood to the children of in a home can be reused, SDEROT, Israel (AP) - Gaza, wounding three, just after Sderot, and let them feel like recycled or sold, said Saginaw Brightly painted walls surround a they fired rockets at Israel. other children all over the world,” development coordinator John mini-soccer field, video games, a Now parents in this battered Mayor David Buskila said. Stemple. climbing wall and play areas. The town have a secure place to take Psychologists will be on More than a dozen abandoned converted warehouse also has a their children. the site for intervention with houses have been identified for new thick concrete roof, a half The $5 million center, funded children and families in need, AP Photo / Karim Kadim. the project. Those and others to dozen shelters and an alert system by the Jewish National Fund- and a medical station will aiso be To continue: Nawal al-Samarraie talks to The Associated Press about her decision to \ be demolished will be assigned to give a 15-second warning of U.S., is surrounded by anti ­ available. resign as Iraq's state minister of women's affairs during an interview in Baghdad, on * to the nonprofit. Feb. 8 Women lawmakers called on al-Samarraie to reverse her decision to resign . incoming rockets. shockwave walls, painted in blue, Stanley Chesley, president of Just more than 200 homes are Al-Samarraie, a Sunni, said she asked to step down, because her office was not a full * The children of Sderot finally yellow, green and red. Nearly the Jewish National Fund, said expected to be tom down this ministry and had been given insufficient authority and resources to help the widows and* have a safe place to play. 2.000 square meters (21,(XX) the idea for the rocket-proof year. other women facing great hardship in the country. • The fortified indoor square feet) in size, it has room playground came during his last A state grant and city funds playground got a warm welcome for 500 people. visit to Sderot, when he realized will pay for the project. To get Tuesday when it opened in this It is divided into two areas — the children were holed up in the grant money, some of the southern Israeli town that has Iraq's women's minister! one for infants and toddlers and their homes. work has to be performed by the been battered by missiles fired the other for He called the new center “the homeless. from the adjacent Gaza children in country ’s safest building. ” Strip by Palestinian If they don't stop elementary The sounds of children to withdraw resignation! University of Michigan to launch militants. and high laughing and yelling drowned embryonic stem cell programs firing, at least By Sinan Salaheddin additional dangerof being sidelined* “It’s an amazing school. It out his speech. “We want to hear DETROIT (AP) - The and unable to get jobs in a male-^ thing. Until now, only there is a safe will also this kind of noise all the time, ” he Associated Press Writer University of Michigan is the house and school dominated society. Widows in Iraq,* place to play. ” be used said, smiling. BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq’s for example, traditionally move in! launching the state ’s first major were safe, ” said Pesah by seniors Devora Biton, 43, said state minister for women’ s affairs embryonic stem cell research Hajbi, a 43-year-old with their extended families, but! during Tuesday ’s outing was the first said Monday she plans to withdraw program since voters eased father of three . “ It’s cold PESAH HAJBI many families find it increasingly! morning time she relaxed enough to let her resignation after receiving restrictions on such work in FATHER OF THREE difficult to care for them . ! comfort," he added. “If hours and her 4-year-old daughter, Noam, pledges from aid organizations to November. Other problems for women; they don ’t stop firing, can be run around and play freely with help improve women’ s lives. The university is expected to at least there is a safe include homelessness, domestic; converted into a disco at night. other kids. Biton said coming to Nawal al-Samarraie quit unveil plans Monday afternoon violence and the random detention; place to play. ” Children in costumes the playground was liberating for last month to protest the lack of — on the same day President of women caught up in U.S.-lraqi* Eight Sderot residents have celebrating the Jewish holiday her as well. resources for women, accusing Barack Obama signed an military sweeps. * been killed, hundreds wounded of Purim roamed the complex Even so, she said she had the government of not making executive order that ends former Critics say the Iraqi government! and nearly everyone in the Tuesday, playing in a mock mixed feelings, because the women ’s needs a priority. President Geoige W. Bush ’s has failed to address the needs! working-class town of 24,(XX) has shopping mall for dolls, jumping indoor playground is necessary. But the Sunni activist decided limits on using federal dollars for been traumatized by the frequent of women as part of its efforts to! on an inflatable trampoline and “It makes me happy but also to return to her job after getting stem cell research. rebuild the country. ! wail of sirens and explosions of playing foosball and air hockey. sad,” she said. “I’m glad the kids pledges for funds and support from The work is being led by the Al-Maliki left Tuesday foi; the thousands of rockets that have One, dressed as Spiderman. will have a place to go, but it international aid organizations. university’ s A. Alfred Taubman Australia with a delegation; hit over the past eight years. excitedly ascended the climbing means the kids will have to live She also said more than 50 Iraqi Medical Research Institute. including high-level officials; Dozens of rockets have come wall. Teenagers found an outlet under a reinforced roof, rather women have offered to volunteer Taubman. a retail mogul and from the political and economic* down just since Israel ’s January for their frustrations, pounding that play outside as they should. ” to implement the ministry's plans. philanthropist, donated millions fields as part of his bid to attract! “The reason for my resignation to the passage of Proposal 2 and international investment. • was the lack of funds and human the center that bears his name. The aim of the prime minister ’s! resources, but with the new visit is to b(X)st bilateral relation*! situation I think I can work,” she Corrupt U.S. immigration official and agricultural cooperation! said in a telephone interview. set for sentencing in Detroit government spokesman Ali al-; Al-Samarraie presented her DETROIT (AP) — A former Dabbagh said. • request to be reinstated Tuesday to senior immigration official who Al-Dabbagh said al-Maliki also* Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s t«x)k bribes in exchange for would travel to Russia and Britaio office. favors including releasing illegal but no dates have been set. ! Women face overwhelming immigrants from detention is Iraqi security forces,meanwhile! hardships in Iraq, with tens of scheduled to appear in a Detroit faced more violence a day after the! thousands of them left ptx>r or courtroom for sentencing. U.S. military said about 12jOOOr widowed by war. Roy Bailey will appear in U.S. soldiers and 4,000 Britislr Oxfam, a British based charity, US. District Court in Detroit on forces will leave Iraq by September said Sunday that the situation has Monday afternoon. in the first significant drawdowi> only worsened for many Iraqi The 55-year-old Romulus under President Barack Obama ’s! women since the 2003 U.S.-!ed man accepted free meals, casino pledge to end America ’s combat! invasion despite security gains chips and other gifts when he was role here. £ over the past year and a half. a senior official with Immigration Gunmen opened fire on a police! A study released by the group and Customs Enforcement checkpoint in the northern city o£ showed that the overwhelming and its predecessor agency, the Mosul, killing two officers anc$ majority of the 1,7(X) women Immigration and Naturalization wounding a civilian, police said. • interviewed did not have sufficient Service. A policeman also was killed access to electricity or drinking In exchange, he released and two others wounded when* water, and 75 percent of the widows prisoners, abetted immigration AP Photo I Sobastian Scheiner an explosives-laden bicycle left were not receiving the government fraud and granted other favors. Safe haven: An Israeli man looks on as children play in a newly-fortified indoor playground during its inauguration near a police station exploded irv aid they are owed. Prosecutors arc seeking a two- ceremony in the southern Israeli city of Sderot. Tuesday Battered by years of Palestinian rocket attacks, the southern Israeli Mishada. 20 miles (30 kilometers)! All Iraqis have undergone year prison sentence. town of Sderot opened a heavily-fortified indoor playground on Tuesday that will give its traumatized children a safe place to north of the capital . J P

|g»j Grand Valley Lanthorn NATION / WORLD Thursday, March 12, 2009 A5 Magician says he shipped self from New York to Vegas

By William Kates The Transportation Security town 30 miles west of Syracuse Associated Press Writer Administration and the FBI are where Breen lives. investigating Whitcomb ’s claim, Prefaced by a “Warning, Do SYRACUSE, N Y. (AP) - A said TSA spokeswoman l^ra Not Attempt ” message, they show professional magician who claims Uselding. She said the stunt would Whitcomb climbing into a crate he shipped himself by cargo plane violate a number of laws but marked “theatrical equipment ” on a cross-country flight from declined to specify which because with a change of clothes and snacks upstate New York to Las Vegas may the investigation is ongoing. for the trip. Once in the crate, the find it difficult to escape prosecution Dan McMackin, a spokesman videos, taken through nail-sized from federal for Atlanta- holes, appear to show it being authorities based UPS, said picked up by a UPS truck and who want to “UPS is going to be Whitcomb ’sclaim taken to the airport in Syracuse, know if he probably mad that I may be a hoax, 2,117 miles from Las Vegas. The really pulled “I can ’t verify clips also appear to show the crate off the stunt. did this. Or it kind of it one way or being moved by a forklift inside a ; W a d e proves how good they the other. If you warehouse. Whitcomb are. I mean, I didn't watch the video, Whitcomb said the 25-hour, said he folded you can ’t tell if it 43-minute journey was tolerable, himself into get hurt. I got to my was real or not. To although in the videos he repeatedly a cramped destination. ” me, it seems like says how bored he is. He told the wooden crate a publicity stunt, paper he was met in Las Vegas by — stamped WADE WHITCOMB and therefore, I Breen, 29, and two other friends, J‘ t h e a t r i c a 1 MAGICIAN think it could be a who had parked their truck on a fequipment ” hoax, ” McMackin city street. In the video, the crate is and bearing red “Fragile ” stickers said. UPS is also investigating. opened as cars can be seen driving j— for the 26-hour trip, first on a Contacted by The Associated by- (United Parcel Service truck then AP Photo / Joe Blum Press on Tuesday. Whitcomb said Whitcomb didn ’t tell the fiboard a UPS plane. Seated on a Live shipment: Wade Whitcomb, a North Syracuse magician who performs under the name Wade Live, peeks out from the his lawyer advised him to stop newspaper how much the trip cost crate he shipped himself in from Savannah, NY to Las Vegas as a publicity stunt to promote a friend's new Web site, Friday, in a Vvooden bench, he sipped water talking to the media. but according to a calculator on the warehouse in Weedsport, NY. hnd ate cashews, Cheez-Its, potato The North Syracuse resident UPS Web site, it would cost about chips and chocolate. His biggest told The Post-Standard of Syracuse $4,500 to ship a 250-pound, 5 foot- mad that I did this, ” Whitcomb UPS several years ago and he and Newark International Airport to complaint: Boredom. last week that he worked with by-4-foot-by-4-foot package by air said. “Or it kind of proves how Breen made sure the crate would be Dallas, traveling 1,500 miles by * Whitcomb, who goes by the friend Ryan Breen on the stunt to from Savannah, N.Y. to Las Vegas good they are. I mean, I didn ’t get shipped in a pressurized container. truck, plane and delivery van. Stage name Wade Live, said he promote Breen ’s new Web site, for guaranteed next-day delivery. hurt. I got to my destination. ” Whitcomb wouldn ’t be the McKinley said he was looking for made the trip in November as a where videos purportedly showing For his trip, Whitcomb sat on McMackin said if Whitcombdid first person to turn himself into air a cheap way to visit his parents. ■publicity stunt for a friend ’s Web the excursion are posted. a wooden bench attached to the ship himself, he put himself at great cargo. He pleaded guilty to stowing site, videotaping the trip with four The videos open with crate's back wall and hung on to risk because cargo planes can be In 2003, Charles McKinley, away on a cargo jet , a misdemeanor, tiny cameras pointed out of the construction of the crate by handrails when the box was being very cold, with low pressurization a 25-year-old Bronx warehouse and was sentenced to a year of fcrate and another inside focused on Whitcomb, Breen and friends in moved. that can make it hard to breathe. shipping clerk, shipped himself probation, including some house him. a storage building in Savannah, a “UPS is going to be probably Whitcomb said he worked for in a wooden air cargo crate from arrest. Ohio teen linked to fatal shooting of twin brother

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins shot in the head. If convicted. Derris Tim Mitchell, an assistant prints that could belong to people earlier to live with his girlfriend. Lewis could face life in prison. Franklin County prosecutor, said who have not yet been identified. But Derris remained best friends Associated Press Writer The twins' mother told police Tuesday that police also found two He said he will call witnesses with his brother, picking him up COLUMBUS. Ohio (AP) - that several masked men entered fingerprints on a mirror and wall who will identify the person who each day to go to school where The trial of a man accused of fatally her house early on Jan. 18, 2008, that match those of Derris Lewis. spearheaded the robbery at the they were active in sports and the shooting his identical twin brother held her at gunpoint, ransacked the The crime scene was off-limits Lewis' house that night. Nemann marching band. began Tuesday with prosecutors house and then shot Dennis after by the time Denis I^ewis arrived, said police have tested that person ’s Only a few family members revealing new fingerprints linking breaking into his bedroom. Mitchell said, meaning there was gun and have not been able to rule were in the courtroom Tuesday the man to the killing while the Police and prosecutors have no way he could have entered and it out as the murder weapon . for opening statements since they defendant ’s lawyer insisted another long pinned their case on a bloody left prints after the shooting. Nemann has filed court were scheduled to testify later as Sibling murder: In this May 7, 2008 file man had masterminded the attack. palm print found in Dennis Lewis' He echoed the mother’ s story documents saying three people will witnesses. A cousin of the twins, photo, Derris Lewis, who is accused of Derris Lewis, 19, has pleaded bedroom. They say the print that multiple attackers broke into testify Derris Lewis was at a house Felicia Lewis, said the family is being an accomplice in the January 2008 not guilty' to aggravated murder, matches Derris Lewis ’ palm, the house. That version is at odds on the south side of Columbus miles confident Derris Lewis is innocent. fnurder of his twin brother Dennis, reacts aggravated robbery and kidnapping. placing him at the scene. with the conclusion by police that from where his mother and brother “We ’re ready to get it over to the testimony of his mother April Agee He is charged with participating in a Identical twins share the Derris Lewis acted alone. lived when the shooting happened. with and get him back home with during an hearing in juvenile court to January 2008 robbery in which his decide if he should be tried as an adult in same DNA but have different Defense attorney Adam Nemann Derris Lewis had moved out of his family,” said Lewis, 34, of twin brother, Dennis, was savagely Columbus, Ohio. fingerprints. said police found several other his mother ’s house several weeks Columbus. ***** • beaten with a wooden stool and

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Existing medical schools see medical school ranks go from three today to six within a few years. increase capacity, new In the Detroit suburb of Royal schools open to respond Oak, William Beaumont Hospital is collaborating with Oakland University in to increased interest Rochester on a new medical school that would accept its first class in 2010. By David N. Goodman Michigan State University is Associated Press Writer expanding its medical school programs ROYAL OAK. Mich. (AP) - You at a new campus in Grand Rapids, as wouldn ’t know there was an economic well as in Detroit and Macomb County ’s crisis the way the medical school business Clinton Township. is booming these days. Central and Western Michigan Responding to warnings of a looming universities are well along in planning doctor shortage, existing schools are medical schools of their own. Wayne increasing enrollment, and new ones State University has significantly are opening or under development from expanded its medical school enrollment, El Paso in West Texas to Kalamazoo in while the University of Michigan has West Michigan. kept its enrollment steady. Medical school expansion plans Pushing plans fora new medical school are rushing ahead despite the severe even as Michigan ’s auto-based economy economic downturn, even in the battered sputters isn ’t as crazy as it might seem, home of the nation ’s struggling auto according to Robert G. Miller, associate industry. vice president at Western Michigan The reason is quite University. simple, according to “... the The board at his the president-elect of Kalamazoo school the American Medical demographics of gave the go-ahead for Association. American society advanced planning on a “Americans are ... need ... a well- new medical school in living longer, and there January. are more of them," said educated medical “It’s many years Dr. J. James Rohack, work force. ” out,” Miller said. “This AP Photo / Carlos Osorio a Temple, Texas, economic downturn is Increased enrollment: Cardiologist Dr Terry Bowers (left) discusses catheters with medical fellows at the Surgical Learning Center at the Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., Friday. In the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak, Beaumont Hospital is collaborating with Oakland University in Rochester on a new cardiologist. “It’s clear not forever. ... There ’s J. JAMES ROHACK medical school that accepts its first class in 2010. J that the demographics enough support in the CARDIOLOGIST IN TEXAS of American society community and enough a surplus of doctors. They said doctors school enrollment, saying even that up 9.1 percent from 16.538 in 20031 point to the need of assets to move forward.” seeking income would perform unneeded would fall short of meeting the nation ’s The number of students applying for having and expanding a Health care in procedures, making medical care more need for doctors. admission rose 21.4 percent in that well-educated medical work force. ” America is a $2.4 trillion annual business, expensive. In response, medical schools In an updated report last year, the period, from 34,786 to 42,231. * This year alone, the number of or about $8 .(XX) for each of the nation ’s capped or cut enrollments. association said if current demand and Michigan ’s entering medical school, accredited medical schools training 300 million residents. President Barack But in recent years, doctors and supply patterns continue, the U.S. will classes rose from 533 in 2003 to 616 in doctors in the U.S. is set to grow by Obama has made overhauling health care medical school groups have re-examined have about 750,000 doctors by 2025 — 2008. i four to 130. Five others have applied for — extending coverage to the 48 million the issue of doctor supply and now warn about 159,000 fewer than it needs. The AMA warns that expanding accreditation from the Liaison Committee uninsured while fighting rising costs and of a large shortfall in the number of The shortage will be particularly acute medical school enrollment leaves another on Medical Education, with the aim of attacking waste — an early priority of his doctors in coming decades. for primary care doctors, the group said. big problem unanswered: Coming upf accepting students in 2010 or 2011. administration. The Association of American Medical Nationwide, enrollments already are with the $200.(XX) per year it takes to Michigan, where unemployment A quarter century ago, experts blamed Colleges issued a report in 2006 urging edging up. Accredited schools accepted train new doctors during their three- to jumped to 11.6 percent in January, could rising health costs on what they said was a 30 percent increase in U.S. medical 18,036 new medical students in 2008, seven-year residencies. Sept. 11 suspects say in statement: ‘We are terrorists to the bone’ Five men charged and terrorism, were at a pretrial Their lawyers. Army Maj. campaign even while you are in, hearing in Guantanamo when Jon Jackson and Navy Cmdr. captivity, and the way to do thaf in Sept. 11 attacks President Barack Obama Suzanne Lachelier, said they is to broadcast, your.beliefs,sa abruptly suspended all war- had not met with their clients to you will inspire others," Jenkins release statement crimes proceedings pending a discuss the document and cannot said. mocking U.S. action review of the much-criticized say what may have motivated Flagg Miller, a professor of system for prosecuting terrorists the men to sign it — or even religious studies at the University created by Congress and the Bush vouch for its authenticity. They of California, Davis, said he was’ By Ben Fox administration. said the judge struck by the language of the* Associated Press Writer They will “It's saying 'If should not Sept. 11 defendants, who write SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico still be tried, have released more harshly than the top aU AP Photo / Mark Duncan this is where the Holocaust deaths: In this Feb. 28. 2005 file photo, John Demjanjuk arrives at the (AP) — The self-professed but under what it. Qaida leaders seeking to portray federal building in Cleveland for an Immigration hearing mastermind and four other men type of system roller coaster is Brian themselves in a more diplomatic light as defenders of workf charged in the Sept. II attacks has not yet been going, then we're Jenkins, a declared they are "terrorists to the determined. senior adviser justice. bone ” in a statement that mocked Three of the going to ride it to on terrorism Miller said he was struck Former Nazi camp guard the U.S. failure to prevent the defendants have the end. This is a at the RAND by such phrases as “We are' Corp., said terrorists to the bone, ” which killings and predicted America been acting as performance... ” will fall like “the towers on the their own lawyers the statement suggests a dramatic attempt ter but two of the appears to shock the public and sow fear. charged on 29,000 counts blessed 9/11 day.” FLAGG MILLER men, Binalshibh be aimed at “It’s saying “If this is where In a rambling response to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA the government's case, the men and Mustafa attracting the roller coaster is going, then By David Rising Center, said he was “very pleased also sought to justify the attacks, al-Hawsawi, support and we're going to ride it to the Associated Press Writer that the German authorities have citing a violent interpretation of still have Pentagon-appointed recruits abroad by portraying end. ” said Miller, who has been taken this step. ” Islam and a series of grievances military attorneys pending a the men as Muslim warriors analyzing thousands of hours of BERLIN (AP) - German “We hope that the process can against the U.S., including court ruling on whether they are defending a religion under tapes of Osama bin Laden. “This prosecutors said Wednesday they be expedited to ensure that this support for Israel, the Iraq war mentally competent to represent siege. is a performance, and they are have charged retired Ohio auto Holocaust perpetrator will finally and abuses at Abu Ghraib prison themselves. “You have to continue to good at it.” worker John Demjanjuk with more be appropriately punished, ” Zunoff and in Guantanamo. than 29jO(X) counts of accessory told the AP in a telephone interview “To us, they are not to murder for his time as a guard from Jerusalem. “We're on our way accusations. To us they are at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, to a victory for justice today.” badges of honor, which we carry and will seek his extradition from A native of Ukraine. Demjanjuk with pride, ” the men wrote in the the US. emigrated to the U.S. in 1952 and six-page document, which was Demjanjuk (dem-YAHN'-yuk) gained citizenship in 1958. released Tuesday by a military is accused of participating in the In denying involvement in war judge over the objections of the murders while he was a guard at crimes, he has said he served in the Pentagon-appointed lawyers for the Nazi camp in occupied Poland Soviet army and became a prisoner two of the men. between March and September of war when he was captured by “So, you are the first class war 1943. Germany in 1942. criminals," they added, “and the “In this capacity, he participated Demjanjuk was extradited whole world witnesses this. ” in the accessory to murder of at to Israel in 1986, when the U.S. The five, who are among 245 least 29 XXX) people of the Jewish Justice Department believed he was prisoners held at the U.S. military faith." Munich prosecutors said in the sadistic Nazi lockup on Cuba, include Khalid a statement. guard known as Sheik Mohammed, the professed The 88-year-old Ivan the Terrible architect of the Sept. 11 attacks, Demjanjuk. who “... he participated from the and Ramzi Binalshibh,allegedly lives in a Cleveland in the accessory to Treblinka death one of his key lieutenants in al- suburb, denies murder of at least camp. Qaida. involvement. He spent Both men previously said Demjanjuk ’s 29,000 people of seven years in they were proud of their role in son, John Ap Photo I Janet Hamlin* the Jewish faith. ” custody before the attacks on the World Trade Demjanjuk Jr., Without remorse: In this file photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin, reviewed by the U S Military, the five Sept J the Israeli high Center and the Pentagon — and said in an e-mailed 11 attack co-deferidants sit during a hearing at the U.S Military Commissions court for war crimes, at the U S Naval Base, in J court freed him all five had said they wanted statement to the MUNICH Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Jan 19 From top to bottom, they are Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Waleed Bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, after receiving to plead guilty. But this is their AP in Cleveland PROSECUTORS All Abdul Aziz AIi and Mustafa Ahmad al Hawsawi The five men charged with the Sept 11 attacks said they "are terrorists to the ■. evidence most detailed statement to date. that his father is IN A STATEMENT bone" in their most detailed response to U.S war crimes charges The Associated Press on Tuesday obtained the six-page court that another The men do not go into filing in which the defendants refer to Sept 11 as "the great attack on America " suffering from a Ukrainian was details of their roles in the blood disorder and that Nazi guard. plot, but they call the charge acute kidney failure, and is not fit Demjanjuk’ s U5. citizenship of conspiracy “laughable ” and for international travel. was restored in 1998, but the U.S. mock U.S. authorities for being “Whatever the Germans decide Justice Department renewed its unable to prevent the attacks. to do, we will continue to fight for case, saying he was another Nazi “Blame yourselves and your justice in this sad case as there has guard and could be deported for failed intelligence apparatus ” never been any credible evidence falsifying information on his entry They also predict defeat for of his personal involvement in even and citizenship applications in the the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan one murder, let alone thousands, ” 1950s. and the overall collapse of Demjanjuk Jr. said. “He has never But it was unclear which country America. “Your end is very near hurt anyone — before, during or would take him — his native and your fall will be just as the after the war. He is a good person Ukraine, Poland or Ciermany. fall of the towers on the blessed as his family, grandchildren, Demjanjuk will be formally 9/11 day” friends and neighbors have always chaiged in front of a judge once he The five, who could face maintained." is extradited to Germany. the death penalty if convicted Efraim Zuroff, the top Nazi on charges that include murder hunler at Israel ’s Simon Wiesenthal Grand Valley Lanthorn A ^7 [email protected] OPINION Thursday, March 12, 2009 i JL • EDITORIAL EDITORIAL CARTOON , r Parental benefactions Students need to earn summer internships on their own and not ask Mom and Dad to fork over some cash to help. In these trying times of high unemployment rates, the pressure of competing to find a decent job after GVl. I Elliot Slenk graduation sits on the shoulders of all college students. YOUR INSIGHTS While graduation and entering the job market are just around the corner for some students, many are focused What are the benefits of summer internships? on finding an internship for experience. However, internships are not awarded solely a on qualification anymore; many parents are doing everything in their power, including paying a fee, to guarantee their son or daughter a spot in a summer w/r.wf- internship program. Throw your resumes out the window, and don’t even think about submitting your college transcript to a summer internship program. Why bother, when mommy "As a political science "It's beneficial to get "Summer internships "Internships, paid or "There are several major, it might be more hands-on experience in help a lot with real not, are a really good benefits of a summer and daddy can pay your way in? beneficial for me to spend your field of expertise. life experience and opportunity to get internship: The chance It’s disappointing when students are relying on my summer studying Even if you can't find a hopefully more than hands-on experience to gain knowledge, abroad since most paid internship, it may just learning how to and learn from people skills and hands-on their parents to get what they want, rather than being internships are unpaid help you in the long make coffee. It also is already in your desired experience in that independent adults and earning an internship. anyway. Internships run and employers will good networking for field. I haven't had one particular field. It also may look good on an consider your internship the future. I had an yet, but I hope to get offers a chance to There’s a time in every young adult’s life when it’s application to grad when browsing through internship at Hallmark.' one this summer." network and develop time to say goodbye to Mom and Dad and the help they school, but may not be resumes." connections for the plausible for everyone future." provide. Sure, there’s always room to ask for advice or because many students even borrow a little extra cash when gas prices begin to need to spend the summer earning money." soar, but moderation is the key. Never should a student allow his or her parents to pay Alexandra Spurlock Michael Chinneck Ricardo Timmermann Kelsey Amann Brittney Brinner Sophomore Sophomore Sophomore Sophomore Sophomore the way into a summer internship program. Qualification Political Science Nursing Undecided Hospitality and Tourism Undecided Birmingham, Mich. Clinton Township, Mich. Veracruz, Mexico Management Chicago, III. and skill should be the only factors that determine an Wayne, Mich. internship status. GVL STUDENT OPINION — Competition is what drives our capitalistic society, and every person should always consideran extra leg up; however, allowing money to buy your way into a job Obama's letter turns ugly that you may not deserve is not a leg up, it’s an unfair Medvedev last month. The unofficially to get a feel of protection we were offering advantage that puts others who work hard in the gutter. gist of Obama ’s letter was an how they would respond. If it them to create a relationship So, in the future, order your transcript and organize offer to stop deploying a new is a favorable response, then with Russia. It might look like missile defense system in the government embraces we are willing to throw our your resume for an internship rather than allowing Mom Eastern Europe in exchange the issue and everything goes allies under the bus. and the and Dad to sign a check. Getting a job because you for Russia’s help in stopping along smoothly. If, however, last thing we need is to lose Iran from building nuclear something unfavorable their trust and support. deserved it will be gratifying, and will ultimately make Spring Break is over and weapons. Surprisingly, or happens, the U.S. government Also. Russia is using this you appreciate it so much more. we are back to our lives at maybe not so surprisingly, can state the official was acting overture to show the world that Grand Valley State University, Russia said no to the exchange on his or her own and it did we “need ” their help to control picking up where we left off. in a very un-confidential not reflect the wishes of the the Iran situation, thereby If you arc anything like me. manner. administration, thereby killing weakening our position among you didn ’t tune into the news At first glance, this overture any credibility of the overture. the other states and perhaps during the break and with good seems like it was a good idea. Sorry kids, that ’s the way threatening our position as a arrant) yalkp Jiantljorn reason, it would probably just We could use help with Iran things are done in Washington. superpower. depress you while you were on and it would be great to open The fact that this This letter is damaging to The student-run newspaper of Grand Valley State University vacation. a line of communication with administration decided to the image of our country and it Now that we are back Russia again. handle this overture in the perhaps has gotten us into even Editorial Page Board though, we need to catch up However. I believe the manner they did definitely more trouble than we were in on what has been happening way this overture to Russia weakened our country’ s image. already. was handled, specifically It is admirable they wanted to We will have to see in Alicia Alabbas Editor in Chief since we left off. Let ’s see, the economy is still bad. 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Actually I agree, Just recently, a story was obtain adequate embryos to Letters appear as space permits each faculty and staff. there is a definite necessity for released about a man who conduct research, scientists scommet® lanthorn com /V Vfc Grand Valley Lanthorn Susie Skowronek, Laker Life Editor lm.O Thursday, March 12, 2009 LAKER LIFE [email protected] Encounters on the London Peace Week encourages Zen for GV i night bus Events throughout week seek to help students relax, reflect on how personal actions can benefit community By Susie Skowronek a meditative state, encouraging peaceful GVL Laker Life Editor images and focusing their thoughts. Yoga benefits those who practice it : The last six weeks of school are crunch both mentally and physically. The exercise i time. With exams and research papers i encourages better health and disciplines piling up, students and professors alike the mind, Rawls said. i can use a bit of inner peace. Physically, those who do yoga can The Women ’s Center hosts Grand increase strength and flexibility, decrease Valley State University’ s Peace Week By Alan Kotenko tension and ease aches and pains. with events Monday through Thursday Mentally, yoga decreases stress and GVL Study Abroad Columnist this week. tension, allowing people to leave their Peace Week kicked training mats at peace. What confuses me the off Monday with tables ► Sophomore Danielle most about the city of in the Kirkhof Center. “College students London is how one of the Mosier attended : The Women ’s Center have a lot of stress Yoga for Inner Peace world’s largest cities seems modeled their booth to shut down at midnight: and it's good to because she liked a after the movie “Pay It pilates class she took ► The tube stops running, Forward,” in which one have something to ' in the past. When the *• the trains stop running, good deed encourages calm them down. A » the Starbucks cafes close Rec Center increased * another. At the tables, stressful life is not prices, she decided to fte and even most McDonalds students filled out cards ► close. The only modes of fun. ” take advantage of this ► with stories of peaceful opportunity for a free ► transportation left are taxis ► actions done during taste of yoga. - or buses. Peace Week, which the DANIELLE MOSIER “Peace means being * Taking a taxi home would GVSU SOPHOMORE » Women ’s Center then calm and at ease with •» cost me upwards of 100 traded for white and everything around you,” pounds, so this really is not purple “Pay It Forward*’ Mosier said. an option. I have never been bracelets,similartothe popular Livestrong However, she found it difficult to find a fan of public buses, but to wristbands. peace during the yoga session in Kirkhof. be fair, the night buses really “We want to encourage students to It was awkward to have the yoga session in are not bad. Yes. they are few pay it forward and to do nice things the middle of the lounge with background and far between, but there is without expecting anything in return, ” activity and staring eyes, she said. no greater joy than getting said Women ’s Center intern Patty Mosier plans to press on with yoga in a bus out of the cold and Iwankovitsch, who coordinated Peace despite the noise of Kirkhof and continue sitting around the strangest Week. working to lind inner peace. people you have ever met in At the Kirkhof tables,available through “College students have a lot of stress your life. today, students can write their definitions and it’s good to have something to calm There are three types of of peace on sticky notes and attach them them down, ” she added. “A stressful life people you meet on a night to white boards for display. is not fun. ” bus: One, drunken university “Peace means something different to On Wednesday of Peace Week, students; two, homeless everyone, ” Iwankovitsch said. “It goes speakers Nadyne Parr and Soraya Deen people; and three, crack/ beyond what is traditionally thought. ” gave lectures “Peace Moms” and “Peace meth/smack heads. Some Yoga allows for a peaceful, individual Matters. ” They brought tips on how to people belong to more than meditation and encourages participants raise a child peacefully using love and one category at a time, toward a more relaxed state of body forgiveness toGVSU parents and provided but I have yet to meet a and mind, said senior GVSU Yoga Club hints on how to live peaceful lives to the person outside one of these member and instructor Kirah Rawls. rest of the campus community. GVl / Kim Miller categories. On Tuesday, Rawls taught Yoga for Until Friday, the Women ’s Center Yoga meditation: GVSU students Danielle Mosier and Lauren Champlin were given a free yoga lesson by I watched a homeless yoga instructor Kirah Rawls Tuesday in the Kirkhof Center The Women's Center and the Yoga Club held Inner Peace at I and 4 p.m., while other and Spotlight Productions will present woman smack a drunk these free sessions in Kirkhof throughout the day on Tuesday, offering students and faculty a chance to Yoga Club members instructed other “Voices of Iraq.” portraying the Iraq War student because he made a sessions during the day. relax their minds and bodies, and try out yoga for free. joke about knife crimes. A through Iraqi perspective, Iwankovitsch Rawls led students through a series of said. After watching the movie, students drunk French student slapped students can respond to others ’ reactions a peaceful life while war still exists. A yoga stretches including the mountain, can place questions in a box outside the me because I laughed when in a discussion about the movie. person doesn ’t need to lead protests in tree and warrior. She guided meditation, Big Screen Movie Theater in the Kirkhof she fell down. I sat across “The purpose of Peace Week isn ’t order to be peaceful. ” which involved ignoring background noise Center. from a homeless man to be anti-war, but to promote peace, ” in the Kirkhof Center lounge outside the Following today’s 2 p.m. showing. smoking crack on the bus. LGBT Center. She coaxed students into Iwankovitsch said. “A person can live [email protected] These people are fairly interesting, and they make for wonderful anecdotes to drop into a conversation. The people who really Campus to come down with Bollywood Fever interest me. though, are those who engage in conversation. These are people who, when Desi Student Union dancing, art, music and food corporate media, ” Rhoads said. said. “We ’re from South Asia, Newton said. intoxicated, disregard their showcased at the event. Bollywood Fever will include and we ’re really proud. ” Some family members arc friends in an effort to talk annual event set “This is only a small part of a free Indian dinner and free She said more than I (K) people also helping with the henna or with a stranger. They can what our side of the world has to mehndi (the Hindi and Nepali have already confirmed they will other parts of the celebration. and will talk about anything, to showcase South offer, ” she said. word for henna). There will be attend on Facebook, and she is “Even if people don ’t want and I will join them. This Asian culture Basnet said she struggles with items on sale such as pictures, hoping for a great turnout. to try all the food or the dances, past weekend, I had a 15 conflicts such as the increase statues and clothes from some of She added the event has they can explore other cultures minute discussion with a in human trafficking, poverty, the featured countries. A fashion become a family affair for some. and traditions, ” Newton said. homeless person about KFC, By Alexandra Butkovich AIDS and hunger seen in many show will display some of the “Families are donating which is surprisingly popular G’VT1 Staff Writer countries in South Asia. traditional clothing from various decorations and clothes for us [email protected] “I want to educate the Grand areas of South Asia, followed by to wear in the fashion show, ” here. Another conversation If your head starts to feel Valley community about these seven dance performances. with a drunk teenager went a little warm Saturday, do not issues with the hope that we can Caris Newton, an officer of something like this: worry — you probably just overcome it together," Basnet Desi Student Union, said she has Teenager: “Oh, your caught Bollywood Fever. said. been practicing the dance she is teeth are nice! Are you The Desi Student Union Dr. Russell Rhoads, associate to perform at the event. American? ” will host Bollywood Fever this professor of Anthropology and “I’m a part of the Bollywood Me: “You can tell my weekend to spread awareness adviser to the Desi Student Mix, which is to songs from nationality by my dental of South Asian culture to Grand A Union, encourages students to Bollywood movies, ” Newton hygiene? ” Valley State University students. attend Bollywood Fever because said. Teenager: “I knew it!” Sweta Basnet, president of many countries in South Asia After the performances, We then continued to the Desi Student Union, said the dance floor will open to discuss cultural dentistry more than 200 people attended are growing in importance for Western nations. Students can everyone, and students will have practices. the first Bollywood Fever last also learn about other people's an opportunity to learn traditional The thing I like about year, making it the group ’s most dances. moments such as these is the successful event of the year. She lives on a personal level. I “Students can come to the Newton said although she British as a whole are quite encouraged everyone to attend Desi event and experience people was not involved in the event last : reserved. It is only when Bollywood Fever 2009 and to with first-hand knowledge of this year, she is excited to participate they are intoxicated they experience a culture not very are prompted to talk about region and its cultures, instead of this time. prevalent at GVSU. Courtesy Photo / Jeff Busby having to rely on popular images, “We ’re all human beings and themselves, thus enabling me She said her goals for the Going Bollywood: The GVSU Desi Student Union will host the event Bollywood many of them negative, from the we all have a story,” Newton to gather information about organization reach beyond the Fever on Saturday to celebrate South Asian food, clothing, art, dancing and music. the culture. For instance, the drunk teenager who liked my teeth told me she had always Illusionist to invade minds of students wanted braces grow ing up. Her mother forbade them, By Susie Skowronek show give a fresh approach to magic and Hoffman ’s Web site notes how he and said braces were only for and Lauren Sibula mental ism. combines perceptual manipulation, Mentalists create the illusion of mind psychological illusions and unparalleled people with vanity issues. GVl. Staff So, while we mock their bad reading, clairvoyance, hypnosis and mind sleight of hand, leaving his audience left teeth as carelessness, they Mentalist and illusionist Wayne Hoffman control to captivate audiences. questioning the term “real. ” mock our teeth as narcissism. will not be bothered with pulling a rabbit out Senior Carly Steinhauer said she searched His most popular tricks include levitating Now I know that if of his hat. for videos of Hoffman on YouTube after a borrowed finger ring, putting a half-dollar someone ever compliments Instead. Hoffman prefers risky illusions hearing about his upcoming performance at inside of a beer bottle, reading minds, moving my pearly whites (which and daring stunts to entertain his audience. Grand Valley State University, adding his the hands on a person ’s wristwatch without happen quite often - my For Hoffman, the typical magic show has show is a different style touching it, bending borrowed mouth is flawless), I know run its course and now bores audiences with of entertainment than “He brings the coins and keys with his mind redundancy. and levitating himself off the it is really a backhanded she has seen in the past. little kid out. And remark to say that I am an Hoffman was recently featured on This dejjarturc ground. egomaniac, which I am. “Phenomenon. ” “The Glenn Beck Show, ” from the norm is the everyone needs a Hoffman ’s Web site claims I look forward to these “TIXT." “The Discovery Network" and “The very reason Spotlight break from classes his performance is no average Howard Stem Show. ” Productions chose “magic show" with card tricks bus rides more than I do the with it being just techno music and lasers that According to http://www.hoffmanmagic . to bring Hoffman to and women being sawed in fill many of the London clubs com, Hoffman is one of the most powerful campus, said Gxirtney after midterms. ” half. He blends illusion and mind reading, creating a show preceding a ride on the night and extreme mentalists in the world. Hoffman Jones, president of has performed for thousands of audiences Spotlight Productions that has captivated thousands bus. COURTNEY JONES Courtesy Photo / «ww cab wmich edu in some of the most elite venues across the of college students across the So if I must spend four She said he provides SPOTLIGHT PRODUCTIONS Unreal: Mentalist and illusionist Wayne Hoffman hours at a super club. I will world and continues to be ranked one of the the entertainment of a VS. will perform at GVSU on Thursday top 10 entertainers in his field. Those who attend should be do it. magician, adding his Histwocurrent shows, “Mind Candy," and on the look out for Hoffman ’s “Just because I But only for the crazies I own elements of humor. p.m. in the Gram! River Room of the Kirkhof get to meet later. his theater show. “Phenomenon .” are high- “He brings the little kid out,” Jones said. can" stunts, where students can win cash for Center. energy displays of magic and psychological completing off-the-wall challenges. laker life@ lanthorn com “And everyone needs a break from classes Iakerlife@ lanthorn com stunts. 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Women s softball team final five games. leads the team with two home rups. “This early in the year you’re kind This is the second year the team has takes nine wins from of feeling yourself out,” Woods said. traveled to the Orlando, Fla. area to play grueling 14-game “Figuring out which players are going in the National Training Center spring to fit into different situations. ” games, hosted by former Olympic spring break schedule Senior Lori Andjelich made six starts softball player Dot Richardson. and came on in relief in two other games, “Even though our record doesn ’t By Grant Wieman finishing the week with a 5-3 record. quite reflect it. overall, I’m happy with GVL Senior Reporter "I feel like this year, the first time how everything went, ” Andjelich said. I stepped on the mound 1 was ready, ” “We ’re playing well and our team is For the Grand Valley State University Andjelich said. “1 said to myself, ‘I’m incredibly fun. It will be a good senior softball team, spring break in Florida is ready to play. I’m comfortable, bring year. ” a bit of a contradiction. them on. ’” GVSU is scheduled to compete again Although they got out of the cold, the Andjelich posted a 0.58 ERA, this weekend in the Urbana Blue Knight players ’ “break ” consisted of playing 14 including a no-hitter Invitational. The Lakers will have their games in nine days, against Bentley first look at a conference opponent, as finishing the trip 9-5. College in the second Lake Superior State University is also The team played “I feel like this year, game on Sunday. scheduled to play in the Urbana, Ohio ip Clermont, Fla., the first time I stepped Ironically, Woods event. Winning their first two did not discover the games on Feb. 28, and on the mound I was accomplishment until g wieman @ lanthorn .com their final three, which ready. I said to myself, he was looking at the were all played on books later that night. Sunday. 'I'm ready to play, I'm The Laker ’s ace also • “Overall I think it comfortable, bring had 54 strikeouts in was a great trip, ” said 48.1 innings pitched. GVSU head coach them on/ ” “I always figured BA Kronberg .372 Doug Woods. “We did stats aren ’t something HR Kronberg 2 some things well, we to dwell on so 1 try know what we have RBI Kronberg 13 LORI ANDJELICH not to look at them, ” to work on and we ’re GVSU SENIOR Andjelich said. “Our R Woityra 8 going to go after it.” team is just ridiculous Woods said he was OPS Kronberg 1.043 at defense. The more pleased with the team ’s the ball gets to them the better. ” Wins Andjelich 5 defense and pitching, but believes the The Lakers ’ leading hitter was junior hitting still has a way to go. The Lakers ERA Andjelich 0.58 Breanne Kronberg, who started all 14 GVL Archive / Brittany Jacques averaged 5.5 runs per game in their first Andjelich 54 games at catcher and finished the trip SO Wind up: Senior Lori Andjelich pitches during the second inning of a past Detroit Mercy game at nine, but scored only four runs in their GVSU. The women's softball team played 14 games during spring break, winning nine of them. with a .372 batting average. She also Golfers take fourth, sixth places during break

By Jared Greenleaf tied for 43rd with 151. L.akers included sophomore Smith said after playing in for the rest of the year, ” Smith up. ” The Laker women will tee it GVL Staff Writer The men ’s team will Caitlin Bennett, tied for 24th such a competitive tournament, said. “We know it’s going to see action on March 21 (244), junior Ashley Smith it will help give the team be tough going back indoors up on March 28 at the Northern The men ’s golf team ’s spring in the Northern Kentucky tied for 33rd (248), sophomore momentum heading into the for a few weeks, but it should Kentucky Invitational held in break competition was off to a Invitational,held in Pendelton, Allie Tyler finished 44th (254) main part of the season. help prepare us for our other Highland Heights, Ky. rocky start when the Richard Ky. and senior Michelle Boogaard “This tournament was a tournaments that are coming [email protected] Rendelman Invitational was The women ’s team also finished 47th (257). good way for us to get ready cancelled. stood up to a challenge as they • But that did not change the finished in sixth place at the tnen ’s competitive mindset Florida Southern Lady Moc is the Laker men ’s golf Classic held in Lakeland, Fla. (earn finished the Tusculum last week. invitational on Monday in “We obviously had some fourth place, with a team score expectations going into (the VICTOR WOOttN & JD BLAIlHi*' pf 577. Lady Moc Classic), but it Fine Arts Center: Mar 14 8pm $18 ' Coker College shot a team was hard to have a lot of of 564 to take home first expectations not having been THEI able to get outside and see what ‘We definitely didn ’t play the girls were capable of,” said )ur potential, but I guess Grand Valley State University DM can ’t expect too much head coach Rebecca Mailloux. /hen you haven ’t played golf “Coming into the season, we THE HOLD STEADY four months, ” said Grand had an average day score of ' WITH THE WAR ON DRUGS • ; r F APR 2. 9pm: FINE ARTS CENTER /alley State University junior 303, but because of the 20-25 osb Burt. “Even though we L‘ IT . i ’ Non-festival tickets $20 mph winds and a temperature 111* Tfcv .. jdn ’t play well, it was good to of 30 degrees, those scores et out playing and get a little were elevated. But coming out ompetitiveness in us again. It of being indoors a„ winter , DAVID BAZAN yill help us get going. think they did remarkably well VIC CHESNUTT & BABY DEE Burt, along with junior and held the ir own. ” GVL Archive • APR 2 9pm LADIES LITERARY CLUB GVL Archive / Pete Tabberer J^tt Malloure, led the way GVSU ended the tournament Swing golfer: Junior Caitlin Bennett High ball: Senior Tony Mango follows Non-festival tickets: $20 HP®® Ldkers with two-round wj(b a three-day score of 971. hits a long shot in a previous match. his shot down the fairway after a drive •cores of 144 to finish tied for Rollins University won the The women came in sixth during break 13th. Rounding out the scores even t with a score of 929. Ms senior Matt Johnson and Sophomore Kristina CORNEL WEST freshman Ben Brooks, who Langton finished in fourth APR 3. 7pm: VAN NOORD ARENA t»4l shot two-day totals of 146. p] ace with a 54-hole score of Non-festival tickets: $10 ^enior Tyler Hering finished 229. Others chipping in for the What in the world are you thinking? LUPE FIASCO Dill hockey earns WITH SPECIAL GUEST f APR 3.. 9.30pm; VAN NOORD ARENA Non-festival tickets: S25 .1 . ', ' rV third place trophy ■ ■ -iXVWii . _ __ ftI Saso M OVER THE RHINE W* AND JULIE LEE Grand Valley State University's Dill hockey mm ma IB V IS 25 CM JL APR 4. 8pm; FINE ARTS CENTER ! team traveled to Rochester, NY on March 3 to Takft the Survey you could win xn © • i m 7? /V* Non-festival tickets. S20 ; compete in the Dill National ACHA Championship. iPod touch! The Lakers opened the tournament with a 3-2 APRIL 2-4, 2009 / $125 / $75 students ; victory over Georgia Tech, followed by a 7-2 win ~IM\ www.calvin.edu/go/ffm ! over College of the Canyons (Calif.). The team's o V ; bid for a national championship ended after gv8ufood.com For more information & I a 3-2 loss to Saginaw Valley State University. tickets, visit or call: www.calvin.edu/sao However, the Lakers still managed a third-place finish 616 526 6282 ; in the tournament with a 4-3 win over Farmingdale ; State (NY). With 57 seconds left in a sudden-death overtime David Stone scored to give GVSU the win.

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GVl Archive Firm stance: Junior Tony Dang follows through with a return for the men's tennis team in a past match. The GVSU men's tennis team won its first three matches of the spring season on its trip to Florida during the break

Tennis hits off in Florida The women ’s tennis team opened the spring season with a 6-3 loss to Brenau University. However, the Lakers bounced back with wins over Flagler, GVl Archive / Kelly Begerow Slippery Rock and a 7-2 victory Pile up: Senior defensive lineman Dan Skuta, No 33, begins to tackle the Puma offense in a past game Skuta and three other former Lakers attended NFL Pro Day. , over Mount Saint Mary, where the team swept doubles. The 17-3 Lakers will face Drury on Friday in Illinois, then travel to Indiana to play matches against Four former Lakers work to * California (Pa.) and DePauw. The men ’s tennis team ’s spring campaign kicked off on the right note with three wins over Martin Methodist, Ohio Northern and catch eye of NFL pro scouts Laker Superior State. Despite the early success the Lakers By Matt Kuzawa you got to the point where you’re “They test just about everything Tefelski said NFL teams struggled against Flagler, losing GVL Sports Editor at an NFL pro day - that ’s pretty they can test here so they ’ll have typically do not publicly show, 8-1, and were shut out by Rollins special. ” an idea leaving here if this kid interest in players until a day before Former l^akerdefensive lineman College 9-0. The Lakers (6- GVL Archive / Craig Harmer While each player ’s dream is to is athletic enough to play at that the draft, but did offer one team that Dan Skuta has trained vigorously 3) will play in two matches on Ball track: GVSU women's tennis be selected in the 2009 NFL Draft level. ” may have “tipped their hat. ” Sunday in Indiana against Rose- player Katelyn Grashorn prepares a for eight weeks - but those two on April 25-26, Martin said the only This bodes well fora player such “I will say this: The Cincinnati months of hard work came down Hulman and DePauw. shot during a previous match. The player at Monday ’s workout he as Skuta, who at 6 feet 5 inches and Bengals sent their linebacker coach to just one day: Grand Valley State team is now 17-3. sees as a legitimate draft prospect 250 pounds, ran the 40-yard dash in to work him out specifically, ” he University ’s NFL Pro Day. is Skuta. the 4.6 range. said. “So, that ’s a good sign. ” On Monday Skuta and three “I don ’t see anyone else getting “He ’s a damn good athlete, ” said NFL scouts in attendance other former leakers had one goal drafted - based on what I know Skuta’s Agent Tom Tefelski. “It all included Atlanta,Carolina, Buffalo, in mind: To make an NFL roster. about these guys I’ll be shocked if depends on how he does today, and Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, New Scouts from about a dozen NR. anybody else in this (workout) gets who else is available on the board. England, New Orleans, the New teams gathered in the L>aker Turf drafted, ” he said. But a lot of teams like him. He ’s a York Giants and the New York Building as athletes from GVSU For the graduating seniors, the good character kid, a hard worker. Jets. , * and other area GLIAC schools chance of continuing their football They like that from him ” sports® lanthorn x om showcased careers has their talent and “I don't see anyone diminished with athleticism. else getting drafted - the close of the Each player Arena Football took part in the based on what I know League in 2009. 40-yard dash, about these guys I'll “That stinks the three-cone for a lot of drill, the 20-yard be shocked if anybody these guys - shuffle, bench else in this (workout) hopefully they press, the broad gets drafted. ” will get it back jump and the going, ” Martin vertical jump. CHUCK MARTIN said. "A lot of With months GVSU HEAD COACH guys had an of training for opportunity to this one shot at play beyond college and prolong catching the eye of a pro scout, it is their childhood. ” GVl Archive / Carol Dalrymple easy to see how nerve-racking the Sandwich race: Xavier Parnell (far left) and Jovon Faulk (far right) race in the While most players will not be workout can be for athletes. finals for the men's 400-meter dash during a previous GVSU track meet drafted, some hope to impress the “Some of the things you get scouts enough to be invited to a a little bit nervous but I’ve been Track teams prepare for NFL camp. working for eight weeks for one “We don ’t have all our seniors national championships day,” Skuta said. “So my thought Fresh off a GLIAC title, here, but if they're close, who am process is, if you’re going to get I to tell them that they ’re not good the GVSU women ’s track and nervous than that ’s a waste of that field team is preparing for the enough, let them come out and eight weeks. You might as well run and see what times they put NCAA Championships, to be come in here and do what you have held in Houston this weekend. up against other people in - let the to do.” NFL guys decide (that), ” Martin The Lakers placed first overall GVSU head coach Chuck in the GLIAC Championship said. Martin said it is important for his While the workout is only a two weeks ago, while claiming former players — offensive tackle GLIAC titles in seven events. piece of the puzzle in determining Sam Allen, wide receiver Corey if a player ’s talent is NFL worthy, The men are also preparing Edwards, tight end John Mathews Jk forthe National Championship, Martin said it is a major factor. and Skuta — to have fun at the “It’s a good estimate of what following a second-place workout. S(and«lr Retail Center GVl Archive / Andrew Mills type of athletes they are - the Corner of Wilton It l-ake Michigan l>rlve finish in the GLIAC Track & (f»in>7tball stuff they have to get off Field Championship. 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Power-pop band to visit GVSU

Hellogoodbye to headline annual spring (! concert; Sullivan Skye set to open * JiH 1 By Haley Otman Recordings ” EP. GVL A8tE Editor Hellogoodbye will likely play their most popular song, “Here Google Hellogoodbye, and (In Your Arms)” at the concert there are 1,540,000 results. as well. It may seem impossible, but “People just go nuts for that Grand Valley State University song, ” Head said. “I don ’t know students will have a chance to if the band would be where it is see the popular power-pop band now without rightpn campus that single. ” - and one lucky Eventhough person will “We're really he has played it win a guitar excited to play with so often. Head autographed said he does by the band Hellogoodbye; they not get sick members. seem like really of it because ; The five- of the positive man group will cool guys and we're response it play at GVSU pumped about the draws from Hellogoodbye on Wednesday, audiences. with opening show. ” With act Sullivan less than a Skye. PAUL KIGER SULLIVAN SKYE week before finds its rhythm ; “We ’re the concert, rieally excited BAND MEMBER Spotl ight ’s to play with “If anybody ever broke up, it Music By Haley Otman Hellogoodbye; would be weird! ” Kline said. Committee is busy not only GVL A&E Editor they seem like really cool Mam) said he decided to join ironing out the details, but also When asked what advice he guys and we ’re pumped about the band because they had a void working hard on promoting the would give to aspiring college the show, ” said Paul Kiger, a to fill, and he was gtxxl friends show. musicians. Forrest Kline, lead member of the GVSU student with Kline. “We ’re expecting a good singer and songwriter of power- band Sullivan Skye, which has The transition went well turnout, ” said Courtney Jones, pop band Hellogtxxlbye, said, previously performed with the overall, though Mam) admitted the president of Spotlight “Drop out.” Taking Back Sunday. he is “a little awkward in Productions. Kline quickly added he was Hellogoodbye will be general, ” also noting the She added they already sold only joking, but admitted that brought to campus by the difficulty of learning the band ’s close to I ,(XX) tickets before was the path he took. Music Committee of Spotlight preexisting songs. He had a few spring break. Kline formed Hellogtxxlbye Productions. CiVSU’s small errors in his first show with Dembinski said they are in high school, and the band programming board. Hellogoodbye, but since then has shooting for 2,500 people to today includes Kline, Joe Mam), Alicia Dembinski, the music meshed well, he added. attend the concert. Travis Head, Aaron Flora and chair of Spotlight Productions, Hellogoodbye has spent a lot At the show, guitarist Forrest Ryan Daly. said they are confirming of time recently recording for Kline will play a brand new He attributes their winning the band ’s travel plans, and their first album in almost three Hagstrom guitar. a record deal to playing locally donfirming the final details with years, and playing small shows at After the show, the band a lot and making connections. Heliogoodbye ’s agent. colleges. members will all sign the guitar, Two years after they received ; Travis Head, the band ’s “It’s great when you can have and one lucky guest will win the a record deal with Drive-Thru bassist, said he loves playing enough time off that you really guitar. Records, they were featured in at colleges because the event look forward to going back out,” The winner will be decided a documentary on MTV, made planners are always really Kline said. via a raffle, which is free to enter by the cast of ‘The Real World: accommodating. The band just returned from with a valid ticket, Austin. ” ! “Everybody ’s just so Australia, where they got to meet Sullivan Skye will open the "It was our first time on TV, Welcoming and stuff at a another popular pop-punk band, show at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, which is always cool, (and) our dollege, ” he said. New Found Glory. followed by Hellogoodbye at 9 parents (finally thought it was) J Plus, colleges usually give The band plans to continue p.m. legitimate," Kline said. them everything they request; working on their new album, The show will be at the After many band member usually items such as chips, which Head said is about 80 Fieldhouse Arena on GVSU’s changes. Hellogoodbye has had drinks, hummus and pitas, percent "derrKxxl wit,” and Allendale Campus. the same five members for about peanut butter and jelly - “normal should be released in the next Tickets cost $5 for GVSU a year. kid food,” Head said. three to four months. After that, a students, $10 for GVSU faculty, Head, HellogcxxJbye ’s bassist, | Hellogoodbye ’s keyboard headlining tour is in the cards. staff and alumni and $15 for the has only been playing the bass for player Joe Marro said concert “You get tired of (a Uxir) when general public. a year and three months. guests should expect to hear the you’re on it, and you can miss They can be purchased at the “I actually picked up the bass band ’s staple songs, in addition it when you're not, ” Kline said. 20/20 desk in the Kirkhof Center, when I joined the band, ” he said. to, most likely, two new songs. “You’re kind of limited all the or at http://starticketsplus.com . Head had played the guitar • Marro’s current favorite, “You time in what you can do. but if since high schtx)l, so he found it Sleep Alone, ” will be one of the you just go with the flow it can be arts @ lanthorn .com pretty easy to adapt to the bass new songs audience members really fun. ” when the band needed it. will not have had a chance to Mam) said his favorite part See more: Visit All of the Hellogoodbye listen to before the concert. The of playing live is “the bonding members have been great friends Other new song, “The Thoughts Lanthorn.com for thing" between band members, as for years. Kline and Head live That Give Me the Creeps, ” well as the “little jokes on stage. ” more information in a house together, and their is available for purchase on Courtesy Photos / Google Images and www hellogoodbye net on Hellogoodbye. girlfriends are sisters. iTunes in the band's “Ukulele arts® lanthorn rom Grand Valley Lanthorn A&E Thursday, March 12, 2009 B5

Paris inspires ‘Musical Postcards’ • ri GVSU students compose been written for the event. Students looking at the PDF files of the pieces BAL were told to make their musical pieces of art. TOUS Les SOIRS short musical works in between 30 seconds and 60 seconds. “These prints are just beautiful ” she response to French art Tyler Smith, a GVSU student said. “The pictures are so vibrant and LA Go U LUC who examined the artwork, said he so alive it’s hard to look at them and By Jessica Pawlowski chose pieces of art that struck him not hear music.” GVL Senior Reporter as interesting, and composed three Her work “Pegasus ” is in response musical pieces in response to the art. to a print of a horse, and her work A combination of music and art is on “For a student composer, “Teardrops ” is in response to a print of the agenda today in the Grand Valley performance opportunities definitely a woman sitting on a bed with a man State University Art Gallery. aren ’t (everywhere), so whenever you walking away in the distance. Busch The “Musical Postcards from Paris” get the opportunity to write for an said it was the only print in the exhibit event features about 50 prints hung on ensemble it’s definitely an opportunity that caused her sadness. the gallery ’s walls, with many having you want to pursue, ” he said. “I saw that print and just heard a musical piece written by students in Smith, who will also be playing this melody playing in my head that response to the artwork. piano for the event, said he spent a lot sounded like teardrops, ” she said. The student-composed pieces will of time walking around in the gallery to The event ’s environment provides be performed at 6 p examine the artwork, for a complete sensory experience, p.m. by GVSU’s New “Writing a piece that and also examined Busch said. She added people should Music Ensemble. PDF images of them. take advantage of the experience The exhibit features will appeal to the The most because it is a once in a lifetime event. French prints from listener and will create challenging aspect of “It’s an opportunity to experience the Robert L. Hoskins a lasting impression the process was fitting 27 premieres, sitting within the and Erwin A. Raible the musical piece environment that inspired the work,” Collection of “Fin de in less than 60 within its allowed Ryan said. Sifccle. ” seconds is definitely a time frame, Smith Faculty judges will be on hand to Bill Ryan, director challenge. ” said. determine the top three compositions, of GVSU’s New “Writing a piece and award cash prizes. Music Ensemble, that will appeal to the The event begins at 6 p.m. and is TYLER SMITH and Henry Matthews, listenerand will create free. T he Art Gallery is located in the EVENT SONG WRITER curator for the Art a lasting impression Performing Arts Center on GVSU’s Gallery, developed the in less than 60 Allendale Campus. event to accompany seconds is definitely a “It’s bound to be a fun thing the “Fin de Sidcle ” exhibit. challenge, ” he said. because there ’s almost 30 works being “The music will be incredibly One of the musical pieces he performed, ” Smith said. “Literally one diverse - from more traditional- composed is a dance piece based off a minute one piece will be playing and sounding compositions, to those print of a man dancing. Another piece the next minute a new piece. There ’s incorporating very experimental ideas, he composed by looking at lines and bound to be something everyone will Courtesy Photo / Google ImagA to those trying to recreate the music of shapes in the artwork. enjoy. It’s very atypical. ” Musical inspiration: This print by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec is a sample of 19th century French art the time period, ” Ryan said. GVSU student Ashlee Busch similar to that on display in the GVSU Art Gallery. GVSU’s New Music Ensemble has composed music* Ryan said 27 compositions have composed her four musical pieces by jpawlowski @ lanthorn .com pieces inspired by the art exhibit, and will perform their pieces today at 6 p.m. The B.O.B. to offer blast to the past with '80s prom;

Macombumer said The that he can dance to ‘80s music. event provides a different way to By Liz Reyna B.O.B. puts on the event every “I am tall, rhythmless have fun. ” GVl. Senior Reporter year as a means to offer students and gangly but ‘80s music is Tickets for the prom cost and Grand Rapids bar-goers a something 1 can tap my foot to,” $35 per person, which includes Purple scrunchies. Members On Friday night, come rock the '80s with The Whale, Grand Only jackets. Bright blue chance to revel in the fun of a he said. a buffet style dinner and show. eyeshadow. Hair-sprayed locks. decade that inspired a lot of fun Tarrow added the night is fun Dinner is at 6:30 p.m. and prom Valley State University's student-run radio station. There Legwarmers galore. Puffy, puffy and often not-so-great fashion. because it gives students another at 8 p.m. will be free pizza for attendees, and '80s apparel is highly j “The event is great fun and Halloween by offering a costume In addition to this weekend ’s sleeves. George Michael, a recommended. Also, everyone who walks through the doors stud? makes you come out of the box, ” contest. show, the event will run What ’s better than a night on she added. “And it’s something Sophia Sanchez, a GVSU subseq uent Fridays and Saturdays can sign up to enter to win a pair of tickets to Lupe Fiasco the town? A night on the town in different, rather than going to the health professions major who is through April 16. on April 3. "The Whale Rocks the 80s" will take place Friday \ the past. movies. People always have a also interested in the event, said For more information visit from 8 to 10 p.m. in the Grand River Room of the Kirkhof The B.O.B. of Grand Rapids good time at the prom. ” the night might also be a means http://www.thebob.com or call Center on GVSU's Allendale Campus. will hold its Awesome ‘80s Prom Andrew Tarrow, a Grand of escape for some students after (616) 356-2000. Friday and Saturday, and through Valley State University marketing a hard week at school. Ireyna® lanthorn .com April 16 at its venue on Monroe student who plans on attending “We all just got back from Avenue in Grand Rapids, with the prom, said the night will give spring break and it’s nice to take dinner and dance provided him an opportunity to show off a break from school, and the each night for a dose of retro- fashioned fun. Inspired by the not-so- long-ago past, bar-goers are encouraged to dress up ‘80s style, in an effort to be crowned Prom King and Queen as best dressed for the night. The audience will decide who wins, so students are R. B. Annis Water Resources Institute encouraged to play their favorite Making a different through research, education, and outreoch ‘80s characters in the costume contest. The event will also feature Student Highlight ‘80s music with classic hits such as “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun ” by Cyndi Lauper and “Wake Me Up Before you Go Go!” by Wham! Similar to prom, a buffet dinner will be provided for all prom-goers, though unlike prom seating, tables need not be assigned. Jennifer Macombumer. an employee of The B.O.B. , said the event in the past has garnered Courtesy Photo / Google Images much attention by prom-goers. Past blast: The B.O B will host its '80s style prom on Friday and Saturday. “I have seen a lot of people come from the event in the past and they seem to be having a lot of fun and always have a good UIE BUY nriD SELL GAMCS TEXTBOOKS CDS DVDS COLLECTIBLES time, ” she said. Michael (Ben) Stacey Macombumer added she looks forward to attending this ‘f* & O f year's event. Fall 2008 Bill & Diana Wipperfurth Scholarship recipient The event scenery is set to 3728 Alpine Ave. _ * 3999 28th St. mimic the scene at Wanaget Comstock Park Grand Rapids Sen worked with Ors. Cori Ruett and Ryon Thum ecomining the spotiat popuiohon patterns of High ’s Senior Prom of the play 49321 49912 the Involve round goby. Their project. “The genetic population structure of the Invasive "Tony n' Tina ’s Wedding, ” (616) 789-0291 616) 940-1460 one of the longest running round goby along eostern Lake Michigan ", provided on opportunity to conduct bonds on, comedies in American theatrical www.cddvdexchanges.com riforous sdendfk research and present thot reseorch of multipie conferences Including the history that stages a traditional Von Andel Institute's Undergroduate Science Reseorch Conference In Grand Rapids, Mkhigon Italian-American wedding and and the Midwest fish and Wildlife Conference in Columbus. Ohio reception.

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