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Grand Valley State University ScholarWorks@GVSU Volume 27 Lanthorn, 1968-2001 3-31-1993 Lanthorn, vol. 27, no. 25, March 31, 1993 Grand Valley State University Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol27 Part of the Archival Science Commons, Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation Grand Valley State University, "Lanthorn, vol. 27, no. 25, March 31, 1993" (1993). Volume 27. 25. http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol27/25 This Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Lanthorn, 1968-2001 at ScholarWorks@GVSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Volume 27 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. iNIlF b; volume 27 issue25 Approval of lead to funds for If the Legislature acts by By Chris legislature to act quickly, to wards an April or May ap June 30 and passes the Olsen / proval," said Matt McLogan, Governor's plan, construction Staff Writer vice president of University of the Life Sciences Building Relations. could begin in the fall of 1993. LQtnrrr hau. Governor Engler has recommended thatthe Michigan State Legis lature approve a capi tal outlav budget of $770 million, which would include $39.9 million for the Grand Valley Life Sciences Building. The entire $770 mil lion proposal will go to state universities, H # r ' community colleges, KW*' *. and state agencies. The Life Sciences ar ' ■ JmvM'- - .■ Building proposal for . > Grand Valley would include faculty offices, classrooms and labo ratories that would engulf the present Loutit Hall on the Allendale campus. "Grand Valley does not have the $39.9 mil lion for the Life Sci- encesBuildingyet. The governor recom mended it," Student Senate President Len VanPopering said. "It still has to be passed by the Joint Outlay Committee, the Senate and the House." In addressing his recommendation on Grand Ma/fey way finally receive funds to build the Life Photo By N ikki Boertman March 12, Engler Sciences Building, which would surround Loutit Hall. stressed the impor tance of the $770 mil lion for capital outlay. GVSU Senate fighting zoning ordinance "Not only will these projects By Janet Meana The petition can be signed address major academic needs Staff Writer in die Student Senate Office, at our state universities and but only voters registered in community colleges, but they Student Senators are col Allendale Township can sign will help put thousands of lecting signatures on a peti it. Students can also register Michigan citizens back to tion to referendum the zon to vote in the Student Senate work," he said. ing ordinance that was Office, Ryder said. President Arend Lubbers passed by the members of "The Student Senate is cited the importance of the Life the Allendale Township taking on the majority of the Sciences Building for Grand Board on March 8. responsibility, assuming that Valley and its student body, They have until April 7 to the students will give forth while welcoming the collect the 155 signatures on their end," Ryder said. Governor's recommendation they need to get the issue on If the referendum is suc to the State Legislature for a special ballot so that the cessful, the issue will prob quick approval of the budget electors in Allendale Town- ably be voted on at the end of which the capital outlay is at shipcan voteonit, said James Jidy, Ryder said. The Stu tached upon. Ryder, the vice president of dent Senate will mail out ab "Construction of the Life the Political Actions Com sentee ballots to the students Sciences Build ing is not merely mittee of the Student Senate. that are gone for the sum an issue of relieving over The petition has to be mer. crowded classrooms. Con turned In within 30 days of "This ordinance is very struction of this facility is criti the passing of the ordinance crucial for the younger stu cal to our ability to provide and requires signatures from dents of Grand Valley be students with the knowledge at least eight percent of the cause it affects the future and skills they need to be suc P h o t o By E u c H o u a d a y amount of people that voted student housing more than cessful in an increasingly com Students from am sfhoob gathered at the Field House for the Ninth in die governor'sselection elec in the present student hous petitive job market," Lubbers Annual Scknce Olympiad on March 27. TheEggDmp was just one of Allendale Township. ing,''he added. said. the numyevenistfntttstedtheskiBaof the students. "The governor wants the Page 2 The Lanthorn M arch 31,1993 Students reelect 22 representatives for 93-94 By Janet Meana Staff Writer Seven hundred and fourteen students voted in the Student Senate elections last week, which was a 5.9 percent increase from the previous year, Senator Elizabeth Buskirk said. Twenty-two senators were reelected. Students elect 30 of the 35 senators. The remain ing five are appointed in the fall by the Student Senate appointments committee, Buskirk said. About 30 volunteers monitored the Student Sen ate polls, which were open for three days. New Student Senators Kelly Aldrich Anthony Lawrence Renoulte Allen Stephanie Mack Nelson Aquino Stacey Mahoney Bettina Blank Spencer Miller Kristen Brooks Crystal Pettus Keirsten Browning Shauna Reed Edward Cardenas James Ryder Drew Cataldo Kathy Sly Craig Collins Marilyn Sorita Angela Cripe Scot Sroka Dee Feldt Peter Tadros Michelle Gardner David Taylor Scott Goldberg William Washington ChasHoff Heather Wood Oscar Jones Len VanPopering Michelle Gardner, Lisa Fisk, and Danny Quinzy cast their ballots for Student Senate. Photo By Dan Irvinc Students elect 30 of the 35 senators. The remaininfive are appointed in the fall. Meadows Clubhouse to open April 5 DISCOUNTS By Janet Meana said. Due to wet weather last fall AVAILABLE FOR PHOTO CLASS STUDENTS Staff Writer The University Club which only two-thirds of the course is made up of faculty members was seeded. The rest will be. The Meadows Clubhouse, has applied for a club liquor seeded as soon as possible, but ON ALL YOUR NEEDED SUPPLIES. which includes a pro shop license. They hope to have it will need time to grow, Sack and restaurant, will be open by the April 5 opening. said. Present your class "needs list" when ing April 5, according to Terry Only dub members will be Rates for the course haven't making your purchase! Sack, the assistant vice presi able to drink alcoholic bever been set yet, but according to dent for Campus Operations ages at the clubhouse, but any Sack, "students should be able and Planning. one can become an assodate to play 18 holes out there for /FILM / PAPERS "By all means, students are member of the dub for $2, Sack less than they would pay at welcome in the d ubhouse and said. The membership will be other good public courses in / CHEMICALS / NEG SLEEVES welcome to use the restau for a calendar year and not for the area." rant and pro shop," Sack said. a 12 month period. /TANKS /T O N E R The clubhouse is located on A week-long grand opening the north side of Campus of the dubhouse is planned for / THERMOMETERS / BATTERIES Drive West. The restaurant September. TAGE RENTACAR seats85 and will havea higher The Learning Center, which NEW: Custom Color Photo Processing - 28th St. Store quality of food than a typical is across the street from the golf course restaurant, Sack clubhouse, is scheduled to We Rent To: 18 & LOW PRICES & CONVENIENT LOCATIONS! said. open in mid-May. It includes older with credit card "We're rushing the open a driving range and two prac 1533 Wealthy ing a little bit so members of tice holes. 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I I * iw # ’1 ; UNIVERSITY II mucjwtk ■OUTWWWTINM ram Josh's South 1 8 2 0 4 4 th SW Just West o f Burlingame b o o k s t o r e M arch 31,1993 Th e Lanthorn Pace 3 Speaker advocates vegetarianism By Paul Torres Staff Writer Valley Six billion people can be fed if five to 10 percent of the population switched to a veg etarian diet; 13 million people can be fed the soybeans and grains it takes to feed livestock in the United States. Ninety-five percent of the oats grown in the United States is grown for livestock and 99 percent of carbohydrate is wasted by cycling grain through livestock. Gary Vella, from the Kalamazoo-Area Animal Lib eration League, expressed the Please see VELLA, p. Science and math dean elected president of P hoto By Dan Irvinc international student from Japan, demonstrates academy of Japanese Week. More Japanese Week Douglas Kindschi, Photo By A dam Carroll dean of Science and Gary Vella of Kalamazoo gave a presentation on vegetarianism and Mathematics, was animal cruelty in research on Thursday, March 25.