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Grand Valley State University ScholarWorks@GVSU Volume 42, July 12, 2007 - June 12, 2008 Lanthorn, 1968-2001 8-27-2007 Lanthorn, vol. 42, no. 03, August 27, 2007 Grand Valley State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol42 Part of the Archival Science Commons, Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation Grand Valley State University, "Lanthorn, vol. 42, no. 03, August 27, 2007" (2007). Volume 42, July 12, 2007 - June 12, 2008. 3. https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol42/3 This Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Lanthorn, 1968-2001 at ScholarWorks@GVSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Volume 42, July 12, 2007 - June 12, 2008 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. From GR to China, one GVSU grad's story, B4 Soccer wins Fall Arts Celebration opener, B2 brings culture, A6 Guild Vdlley State University www.lanthorn.com Monday, Auqiist 27, 2007 Program to Making room for football fans HOW TO GET A TICKET To obtain a football game ticket this discuss poverty, By Michelle Hamilton Department of Public Safety have been coming out to the game — is use the year, students will need to have their GVL News Editor working together with other campus bus, ” he said. student identification cards scanned organizations since the beginning of the A shuttle will run from Allendale literacy at the 20/20 desk in the Kirkhof On-campus parking will be limited summer to devise a plan for mediating High School to the Fieldhouse every parking on Thursday, said Capt. 10 minutes between 5 and II p.m. for on Thursday to make room for Laker Center or in the Athletics office. By Danielle Arndt Brandon DeHaan, assistant director of overflow parking during the football football. GVL Staff Writer Grand Valley State University ’s first DPS. The plan is very similar to the game. There are ecological and cost­ Capt. Brandon DeHaan, assistant home football game of the 2007 season one implemented for the home football saving benefits to riding the bus on director of the Department of Public Grand Valley State University will be held before Labor Day break, game held on a Thursday night last Thursday, DeHaan added. faculty and staff are working together while students are still on campus. September. "To me, it’s a no brainer, ” DeHaan Safety, said the process will help to provide a haven for students of all Holding the game on a weeknight The west side of Lot C will be closed said. “If I had a job anywhere else in this alleviate overcrowding in Section 9, disciplines to explore the questions allows students to attend the game all day and the east side will close at institution I wouldn ’t be driving a car to surrounding poverty and economic before leaving campus for the holiday, noon. The west side of Lam F will also work.” 1 the student section, by ensuring only justice. said Tim Nott, associate director for close at noon, and the east side of the In addition to the normal flow of students from GVSU receive tickets. The College of Interdisciplinary athletic relations at GVSU. lot will be reserved for faculty only at commuter traffic, coordinating parking Studies at GVSU has created a new "That ’s who we play for is the that time. this year will involve a few extra Overflow students will still be allowed program this year called Campus students, ’’ Nott said. "We feel our student Cars left in parking lots after they challenges, said Associate Director of to stand around the field. Conversations. body is a major component behind our close will not be ticketed or booted, Athletics Lisa Sweany. “The program ’s main objective home team advantage. ” DeHaan said. Students who commute "We ’re at the disadvantage of being will also have the option of parking able to continue to be able to get this is to get students involved in GVSU’s Athletics department and the Another challenge is more students in residential lots on only Thursday information out to people, ” Sweany interdisciplinary conversations generally tend to drive cars to campus without being ticketed. said. that encourage and engage critical during the first week of classes, Sweany Parking staff will be working The Athletics department does thinking about the big issues of said. throughout the day to help guide drivers not have the luxury of three weeks to today’s society, ” said Wendy Wenner, An e-mail was sent to all GVSU to available parking spots, DeHaan continually remind everyone on campus Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies. students, faculty and staff last week that added. The staff will be especially about the unique parking situation, as These issues will be investigated detailed which parking lots will be open helpful for commuter students who may they did last year, she said. via lectures, literature, service, to students and faculty and which lots not all be familiar with the parking lots Also, construction on campus has performance and dialogue, Wenner will be closed, and fliers with the same on the south end of campus, DeHaan closed Lot N, eliminating about 450 said. information were sent to landlords of said. parking spots, and section eight of Lot Wenner explained societal many off-campus apartment complexes "The one thing that I would encourage D is closed while the new addition to the problems are more easily solved in Allendale earlier this summer, she Kirkhof Center is being built. when looked at from various GVL Graphic / Brian Richards our commuter students — and anyone said. , disciplines. Poverty and economic justice are real issues in the Grand Rapids community, she added. Many campus organizations, offices and departments are joining Cracking down on smoking the effort to raise awareness. The Women ’s Center, along with Project ACCESS, a non-profit organization, will be conducting a poverty Public smoking up for vote to ban lighting up simulation on Nov. 12 to show inside public facilities in Ottawa County students what it might be like to live in a low-income household. The simulation will take place By Michelle Hamilton also be exempt from the new smoking in a classroom where students will GVL News Editor regulations, she said. All facilities assume the roles of various family exempt from the indoor smoking members facing poverty, said policies would also not be required to The Ottawa County Board of Susan Mendoza-Jones, Director of adhere to the 25-foot perimeter rule, she Commissioners will vote Tuesday on Integrative Learning. added. legislation that could make smoking “Some may be unemployed, More than 66 percent of businesses inside public facilities a civil infraction. uninsured or on food stamps," were in favor of smoke-free work The legislation calls for a smoke- Mendoza-Jones said. “We all have environment policies, according to a free environment inside all public and these noble ideas of what choices we poll conducted by the Ottawa County private worksites and public places would make in certain situations, but Health Department last June. A total within Ottawa County, said Marcia it’s different once we ’re actually put of 55 businesses from Ottawa County Knol, chairperson for the Smoke-Free in that position. ” responded to the survey, with one Ottawa campaign. Healthcare facilities, Although this is GVSU’s first business not responding. common-use areas (such as restrooms) year launching a campus-wide Most smokers would probably not and office buildings are a few of the focus, Mendoza-Jones said she is appreciate having to walk 30 feet away locations the law would affect. hopeful Campus Conversations will from where they work in the rain or Businesses would be required to have become an annual endeavor with a snow for a smoke break, said Art Edson, a formal written policy on not smoking in new university focus each year. office manager for Allendale Heating the workplace and post clearly-marked The effort is an interactive Co., Inc. no-smoking signs at building entrances, experience, she said. Students can Of the estimated 15 employees Knol said. The law would also prohibit choose to participate in a variety of where he works, Edson said about four smoking within a 25-foot perimeter of events where their input will be both employees use the company's designated public facilities and business entrances. welcomed and reflected upon, she smoking breakroom. Smoking in private residences, added. “Unfortunately, I don ’t think that except for lobby areas, will still be "The idea is to have everyone there are enough people to sway the determined by the buildings ’ landlords. within the university moving in the commissioner ’s opinions one way or the Restaurants and bars will also remain same direction, ” Mendoza-Jones other, ” Edson said. unaffected because they fall under state said. “Sometimes, to students, GVSU Cracking down on smoking is just seems isolated and disconnected. jurisdiction, Knol added. a fad everyone is picking up on and Places that include a restaurant or We don ’t always do a good job of smokers will have to deal with whatever a bar, such as a bowling alley, would showing how each discipline relates happens, he added. to the other, or how someone in a The law would give Ottawa County's different area of study may have a See more: For more Public Health Officer the authority to different answer to a problem. ” on this story, see the issue a warning to violators and property owners or managers for a first smoking AP Photo / Mel Evans See Poverty, A2 editorial on page A4 Burn one down: Ottawa County will meet to vote on legislation that would ban smoking in See Voting, A2 worksites or factories that have a designated smoking area New tradition welcomes university community By Danielle Arndt usual, in the Fieldhouse Arena.

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