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By Jenny Whalen his phenomenal talent as a musician. By Chelsea Ponstein (iVL Managing k'ditor “Doug was nothing less than wonderful to me GVL Staff Writer in my time with him,” said Matt Brunner, fellow Though the world may never realize its loss, For the past week, faculty musician and friend of Ward. "His enthusiasm members have had the opportunity members of the Allendale Campus will remember about music was contagious and he was a great the student artists whose lives were taken to participate in a survey focused on mentor on the trombone to me. I will miss him the issue of whether or not untenured prematurely. greatly.” Douglas William Ward. 26, and Amber Rose faculty members should be allowed Ward and Brown were found deceased in a to vote on personnel actions and Brown, 20. will be missed by many, having touched sport utility vehicle parked in a wooded area in the lives of friends and strangers alike in their time decisions. Muskegon County ’s White River Township shortly According to an e-mail sent to at GVSU. after 9 p.m. Wednesday by relatives of Brown. “I never knew who he was, but I always heard all faculty members from Kristine Mullendore, chair of the Executive him practicing by the lake,” said Devon Neumann, See Loss, A2 Courtesy Photo / Facebook.com sophomore nursing major. "I never paid a whole lot Blooms: Brown was an aspiring artist. This is one of her works. Committee of of attention, but I got to expect to the University see him there playing.” Academic Senate, Though not recognized by the personnel name. Ward was a familiar sight actions would for many GVSU students as he involve contract often practiced his trombone renewal, tenure in different locations around and promotion of campus. He was especially tenured faculty. fond of playing outside the “This was Performing Arts Center and in a proposal by the arboretum. the (Faculty “His music will be missed, ” Personnel Policy Neumann said. “He made me Committee) smile as I walked to class.” during the winter A graduate of Interlochen term 2008 to Center for the Arts, Ward was revise the policy a resident of Aiken, S.C. and of whether would have graduated GVSU in untenured April with a bachelor’s degree in (faculty) could music. vote, ” Mullendore A native of Montague, Mich., said. “The Brown was a junior at GVSU essential question pursuing a degree in psychology. is who should “Her real dream was to be a writer and a painter,” be eligible to said Deanna Cullen. Brown ’s mother. “She was so vote in personnel smart, so intelligent. She was one of those people actions. ” who could fit any career because she was good at The question everything.” was brought to Brown had recently been accepted to GVSU’s UAS from the art program. FPPC and a Whatever career she ended up pursuing, she recommendation always wanted to write and paint, Cullen said. to gather more qytfttwn “I will always remember Amber for the ambition data by sending out a survey to all faculty members (she had) and the hard worker she was,” said Katie Grimes, friend and roommate. “She was an amazing was made. artist, anything she drew, it was always beautiful.” “The purpose of the survey is to really understand how first-year Friends and family remember Brown as independent, intelligent, creative and ever-ready to faculty feel about being involved in the personnel process and to laugh or smile. “Whenever her friend Doug (Ward) was over understand what the attitude and you could hear them laughing all night,” Grimes opinions of the tenured faculty are,” said Teresa Beck, chair of the FPPC. said. ”1 would do anything just to hear it again. We all miss you Amber and would give anything to The survey was broken down into three different parts: Tenure, have you back here with us.” Trombone professor Mark Williams said Ward tenure-track and first was “a fixture in the music department, ” whose Courtesy Photo / Facebook.com year, and “The essential caring and sensitive personality was reflected in Forever remembered: Friends, family and the greater GVSU community mourn the loss of Amber Brown (pictured) consisted question is of 14 to 18 questions who should be per part. eligible to vote Some Community benefits from local man's prerogative questions in personnel included actions.” Free Downtown Grand Rapids Thanksgiving Feast were: “I feel brings community together for urban experience comfortable voicing my KRIS opinion ” The event was one of several put on by MULLENDORE By Ellen Hensel and “I feel Rob Bliss, a man who began organizing UAS CHAIR 617. Staff Writer pressured monthly urban experiments starting in by tenured Thirty rows above the Deltaplex September. The Free Downtown Grand faculty to racetrack where a lone miniature semi Rapids Thanksgiving Feast was held vote in a certain way." Answers were truck sat abandoned after a weekend of in the Grand Rapids Deltaplex located based on a ranking from strongly races, a community of people from all at 2500 Turner Ave. NW on Sunday. agree to strongly disagree. different backgrounds joined together Organized similartoa potluck,attendees “I thought the survey instruments over an early Thanksgiving feast. shared food and tables. were problematic in the way it was “I’ve always found the whole idea of constructed, ” said David Rathbun, community and bringing people together photography professor and former fascinating, ” Bliss said. “I like the idea chair of UAS. of someone who is 8 years old sitting There was not a distinction about at the dinner table with an 18 year old who is considered untenured because (who) are complete strangers. And that it could include tenure track, adjunct the leftovers are being given out to the or visiting faculty, Rathbun added. homeless.” There is the principle of whether or The event differed from previous GVl / Ellen Hensel not they participate in the life of the events, which included a September Thanksgiving feast: (left to right) Maxine Smith and Joy Burlmeyer enjoy a Thanksgiving meal at university, he said. pillow light and an October Zombie the Deltaplex This was the first event they attended that was one of Rob Bliss’ urban experiences “Even though it may be difficult Walk. Five days before the event was to do this well, I think it matters scheduled to occur. Bliss received word I thought it would be a good idea to loophole. During the event, volunteers to aim for equality, and those who that his original location. Calder Park, host a feast that people from the entire were packing boxes with sandwiches live with the outcome of the vote was no longer available, sending him community could come to. ” and any leftovers to then be hand should participate in the vote and scrambling for a new location. When With people of all ages sharing delivered to the homeless of downtown the long range commitments and Deltaplex offered to host the event stories and food, the event also had a Grand Rapids. consequences. ” Rathbun said. indoors, Bliss took the offer gladly. charitable purpose. All food not eaten “We contacted Rob (Bliss) and asked As of now, every faculty member “I was about to cancel the event but was donated to the homeless of Grand him what was going to happen to the has the opportunity to vote on every I was happy to hear that they would Rapids, mostly due to the work of other member. host it,” he said. “It was difficult to citizen Charlie Snedeker. 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Loss camp on property owned by Gayle Berntsen will officiate. Brown ’s family near Indian Donations can be made to the continued from page A1 Bay Road and Meinert Road. Arts Council of White Lake at Friends at GVSU reported Police said preliminary 8701 Ferry St. in Montague. last seeing Ward and Brown findings suggest the pair died Services for Ward will be together on Nov. 16 and a of carbon monoxide poisoning held in Aiken. Visit the online missing person report for Ward caused by breathing in fumes memorial at http://www. was filed with the Department from a charcoal grill inside the shellhouseriversfuneralhome. of Public Safety last Monday, vehicle. com for more information. after Ward failed to attend Brown ’s funeral is II a.m. multiple classes. today at Clock Funeral Home [email protected] The pair had intended to in Whitehall, Mich. The Rev. for only* 2.99 Nacbo Supreme Community “Really, it is just all about activities. community,” he said. “I have come to some of the uitn Vet Burrito Taco Salad continued from page A1 Grand Valley State University other urban experiments and leftovers, ” Snedkeker said. “He freshman Katie Allen was one of this one in particular is a great said he didn ’t know and they fewGVSU students whoattended way to interact with people you might just have to dump it. We the event. Allen attributes low wouldn ’t otherwise,” she said. knew that we could help out and attendance by GVSU students “It brings people of all different make sure that people who need mostly to the event ’s more races, ages, backgrounds and this food can get it.” secluded location. experiences together. Really, that Snedeker works with several Allen added she attended is just what Thanksgiving is all organizations, including Harvest because of Bliss’ reputation for about. ” for Heartside, which also helps to providing interesting and unique ehensel@ lanthorn .com provide food for the homeless.

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i-LGVL DIGEST ' News in lirief C02 research project wins $84,000

Commencement speaker, By Lauren Fitch to determine the mechanism and speed with which the ocean can award winners announced GVL Staff Writer The president and CEO regulate the excess C02 in the A Grand Valley State of Spectrum Health will atmosphere. University research project on provide the keynote address at The GVSU researchers test the ocean ’s absorption of carbon commencement on Dec. 6. sediment samples from the ocean dioxide recently received an Richard Breon, a former fkxrr for calcite. The amount of chair of the Michigan Hospital $84XXX) grant from the National calcite dissolved in the ocean Science Foundation. Association, has served in sediments correlates with how Figen Mekik, a biology health care administration for fast the ocean can absorb C02. more than 30 years. professor at GVSU for the past The first phase of the research 10 years, is leading the three-year , He is a board member for involved creating a proxy for project. the Alliance for Health and The estimating the amount of calcite Iliere will be four students, Right Place, and was appointed dissolved in chosen from to Michigan’s Certificate of relation to the all majors, Need Commission and the “I'm very excited amount of C02 hired to assist State of Michigan Hospital absorbed. All in the project. Advisory Commission. about (the research)... of these tests Mike Wicker, . He joined Spectrum Health, were done with Sarah Clark In order to understand ! which offers helicopter small samples of and Jonathon 1 transportation services, long- sediment in the Cutting have the future, we need to | term and continuing care lab. already been • services, home care and look to Earth's past. ” With the selected for hospice care services, in 2000. most recent the team. ; Spectrum Health has 140 grant of $84,000, “I’m very FIGEN MEKIK : service locations and employs researchers will excited about GVSU BIOLOGY PROFESSOR • about 14,000 people, including complete the it,” Mekik • 1,5(X) affiliated medical staff next stage of said. “It’s fun members. testing actual to work with The Alumni Association ocean samples to lAll of this research is dedicated Once the C02 has been expenses and student salaries. ' Alumna Award and Lois Tyson global warming period, Mekik The NSF said it awarded the to developing new technology to removed, it has to be injected Mekik said the grant will have a ' will take the Outstanding added. grant because of the importance reduce the amount of C02 in the somewhere and the research positive impact on GVSU because • Educator Award. Researchers will kx>k at how of the research but also because of atmosphere. about ocean absorption will reveal it gives students the opportunity to Clanton is the magistrate the ocean responded to increased Mekik’s record of working with One idea for new technology whether ocean water would be the participate in a research project, ; and director of probation C02 in the past to predict how it undergraduate students to get their is a sort of cloth hung across best methtxl of eliminating the which often helps them get into a services for the 62nd District will keep up in the future. work published in peer-reviewed fields to extract the C02 from the C02. better graduate school. Court of Kentwood. Since the Industrial Revolution, journals. atmosphere and replace it with Most of the grant awarded to She became the first Black C02 emissions have increased The purpose of the study is water vapor, Mekik said. GVSU will be used for analysis Ifitc :h @ hint horn com magistrate in the Grand Rapids drastically. 1 area when she was appointed ’ in 1992. She earned her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from GVSU in 1976 and her Budgeting system master's degree in public administration from Western Michigan University in 1992. for RSOs revamped Tyson,an English professor, has served as a member of GVSU’s faculty for more than By Ellen Hensel Finance. “Instead of one lump -"26 years/ GVL Staff Writer sum, we will allocate the funds throughout the year.” She is the faculty Spotlight Productions, development coordinator for This system is different Grand Valley State from past years, where the the English department and her University ’s only student- text, “Critical Theory Today: A Finance committee had more run programming board, has of a say in where the money User-Friendly Guide, ’’ is in its a working second edition. goes, as opposed to individual budget of organization ’s boards. They $85 ,4 I 0 will not vote on a specific Road crews' overtime hours for the slashed for winter months club’s budget, such as the school GVL Photo Illustration / Nicole Somerville The Michigan Department Biology Club, but will instead year. Recognizing signs: A growing movement for suicide prevention is the practice of writing "love" on one's arms. of Transportation is cutting decide how much money the From Academic Club Committee back its road crews’ overtime concerts on several highways, including gets and allow that committee to comedy to designate funds for their Counseling Center's QPR strives to end Lake Michigan Drive and shows, the Chicago Drive. Krombesn respective organizations. club has Furthermore, the money MDOT is dividing roads one of the into two sections based on will not be given in one lump suicide, raise awareness of telltale signs largest budgets on campus sum but instead allotted • traffic volume, with lesser- because of the vast number of program helps people feel comfortable reaching • density roads not getting incrementally to ensure the By Ryan Hanna programs they produce. money is being used fully. out to those in need. ” plowed during overtime hours. GVL Staff Writer On Dec. 4, Spotlight Despite a beleaguered Dilsworth added QPR is helpful because it ! Those designated as teaches people how to refer suicidal individuals Productions along with economy. Associate Director Suicide is a tragedy that affects the lives of 1 orange routes signify regional to places where they will receive help. about 160 other registered of Student Life Michelle everyone close to the victim. I significance and include The counseling centers on GVSU’s Allendale, student organizations eligible Burke said she does not Grand Valley State University ’s Counseling ) Interstate 96. Pew and Meijer campuses are just a few of the for funding through the anticipate a decrease in funds and Career Development Center hosts a program • Blue routes, such as M-45, places that offer help, she said. Student Life Fund will learn in regard to student life. called QPR - Suicide Prevention every week to • indicate more local activity. According to the Centers for Disease Control approximately how much “Our fund is unlike others demonstrate even though suicide is a tragic part • Each route will be treated and Prevention, there is one completed suicide money they will in the sense that of life, it can be prevented. 1 similarly during storms, but for every 1 (X) to 2(X) attempted suicides among receive for the it is just part “QPR - Suicide Prevention gives everyday ! afterward, road crews may not “Instead of one individuals 15 to 24 years old in the U.S. next academic of the general people the basic skills they need to recognize if \ use overtime to finish clearing Dilsworth said the large number of attempted year. lump sum, we will budget of the a person is suicidal. ” said Eric Klingensmith, the out the blue routes. suicides makes programs like The Student allocate the funds university, ” coordinator of Crisis Intervention ; Instead, they will come QPR - Suicide Prevention Senate Finance Burke said. “At and a GVSU counselor who ; back during regular working throughout the “You never know even more necessary. Committee other schools occasionally hosts the program. ■ hours to finish such roads. “We hear about people who facilitates year.” there is an “The more people we train to when you're going to « Subdivision roads will not be have completed suicide, but the budget (activities) fee. recognize suicidal behavior, come across a person ! plowed during overtime either, MIKE KROMBEEN we don ’t always think about process. This We are treated the better the chance of helping ! unless they have accumulated who might be at risk. those who attempt it,” she year, however, STUDENT SENATE VICE like a university suicidal individuals." ! more than 6 inches of snow. PRESIDENT OF FINANCE said. "We need (community they are department. Our The program is held every You might be the only ; Ottawa County Road members) to be our eyes and implementing money is based Thursday from 10 to II a.m. | Commission workers picked up person who can help ears and help bring in suicidal a different process to not on enrollment. More students in the Counseling and Career ; about 16200 hours of overtime them.” individuals for help.” only increase organization on campus, more money for Development Center. Those • last winter, piling on $4 million Even community members accountability but also give student life.” who wish to attend must call ■ beyond the projected budget. SUE DILSWORTH who do not believe those the organizations more say in However, Burke added the Counseling and Career i The state may save 10 GVSU COUNSELOR AND HOST around them are suicidal where their funds go. the number of student Development Center to reserve a ! percent this year on salt and OF QPR PROGRAM should consider attending the With a budget of $1 organizations at GVSU has space in the program. ! overtime costs, with most of program, Dilsworth said. million, the Student Life fund increased significantly and Each week, the program ! it coming from counties with “You never know when is first split into 13 different the funding available has not focuses on a three-step method called QPR that ; more MDOT blue routes. you're going to come across a person who might categories that include always been proportionate to was designed by the QPR Institute. QPR stands be at risk,” she said. “You might be the only ones similar to the Cultural that increase. for question, persuade and refer, and it is vital to ; Medical device company person who can help them" Organization budget and the “Our funds are in really the program. ; begins with aid from GVSU The program teaches community members Media and Entertainment high demand," Burke said. “QPR helps people question what’s going on • A West Michigan company how to recognize certain symptoms of suicide, Budget. President of Spotlight with a suicidal person, persuade that suicidal < has received start-up capital such as when a person is depressed, isolated or These overarching Productions Courtney Jones person to see there is hope and refer them to ! from three venture firms to gives away prized possessions. categories are then broken said although money is always community resources for help,” Klingensmith ! create new medical devices. Kristin Prins, a sophomore majoring in down further into individual difficult to come by, it does said. I TransCorp, Inc., which Spanish, said she believes everyone should pay organizations. allow these organizations to Kelli Ostrom. a senior dual majoring in i is operating with the West attention to signs of suicidal behavior. Individual organizations better serve the students. advertising and public relations, said she agrees I Michigan Science and “If you don't recognize a person ’s suicidal were required to submit “With the price of with the program's goals. ; Technology offices inside symptoms, you might not get a chance to fix it.” tentative budget requests by entertainment, money is “I know three people who have committed ; GVSU’s Cook-DeVos Center, Prins said. “That’s something you might regret Nov. 14. These requests are always tight.” Jones said. “I suicide, ” Ostrom said. “If someone could have ; is developing neurosurgical for the rest of your life; afterwards, it’s too late" used to guide Student Senate feel with proper budgeting, seen the signs, maybe my friends would still be • and orthopedic instruments and To learn more about QPR - Suicide Prevention . deliberations. which is something we always around." implants. visit the Counseling and Career Development “What we are attempting to strive for, we can put on the Sue Dilsworth, a GVSU counselor who also Engineering, prototyping and Center, or go to http://www.gvsu.edu/counsel/ . do is to make sure that we give quality of entertainment that hosts the program, said she believes QPR is patents are currently pending, rhanna® lanthorn .com student organizations more GVSU students have become important because everyone should know how to so TranCorp ’s innovations are control over their funding, ” accustomed to. ” ask if someone is suicidal. being kept confidential for now. said Mike Krombeen. Student “Most people don ’t want to ask someone if However, the company may See more: Go to the Senate vice president of ehensel® lanthorn .com (he or she is) suicidal because they are afraid of have a marketable product in 12 how that person will react,” Dilsworth said. “The editorial on A6 to 18 months. l, t A4SSSHR- NATION / WORLD lanthorn@gvsu edu

GVL DIGEST Michigan in Brief May earthquake kills 19,000 students

Girl, 12, stabs man Chinese goverment acknowledges Friday attacking her mother 19.000 of 90.000found dead were students GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - Police in Grand Rapids By Audra Ang 19,065 was given at a news conference on preparations say a 12-year-old girl slopped Associated Press Writer an attack on her mother for the winter by Wei Hong, by stabbing the woman ’s BEIJING (AP) - China executive vice governor of boyfriend. acknowledged Friday for the Sichuan. The girl woke up early first time that more than 19,(XX) Wei said that millions of those Friday to the alleged attack on schoolchildren were among the displaced in the earthquake still her mother, grabbed a knife dead in the massive earthquake need quilts and repairs to their and stabbed the man in the that struck Sichuan province in homes if they are to survive the arm. May. coming winter, expected to be 1 n vestigators tel I The Grand The earthquake left nearly unusually cold. Rapids Press the boyfriend is 90,(XX) people The being treated at a hospital and dead or earthquake, is expected to be charged with missing, but “ ... we have placed which was the government domestic violence. at the core the work centered in the Police say the girl isn ’t had never said southwestern in trouble because she was how many of of making sure that province protecting her mother. the casualties of Sichuan, were students. thousands of affected displaced Washtenaw County deputy Most died people... will live millions and admits kicking man when their left China shoddily built safely... ” DETROIT (AP)-A struggling elementary suspended Washtenaw to carry out and secondary County sheriff’s deputy WEI HONG reconstruction schools work. has pleaded guilty to using SICHUAN PROVINCE collapsed. Wei said AP Photo / Andy Wong. File unreasonable force against EXECUTIVE VICE GOVERNOR Their deaths Rubble remains: In this May 21 file photo, two Chinese students, who survived the previous week's quake, cry while holding the brother of a man who relief work become a was important a Harry Potter book belonging to a victim, at a collapsed school in Beichuan China's southwest Sichuan province A Chinese died during a 2006 traffic official says 19,065 of the people who died in May’s massive earthquake in Sichuan province have been identified. stop in Ypsilanti Township. sensitive political issue for the because experts were predicting government, with parents of Eric Kelly entered the plea temperatures would be slightly of affected people, especially still needed. More than 1,300 schools dead children staging protests Thursday in U.S. District lower this winter in the area those living in extremely cold Wei said that as of Nov. 12, have been reconstructed or are demanding investigations. Many Court in Detroit. The 38-year- compared to previous years. and remote rural areas, will live nearly 2(X),(XX) homes had been currently being worked on, of the parents have also been old admitted he kicked “During the post-disaster safely and warmly through this rebuilt, 685 .(XX) homes were and site selection had started subjected to intimidation and 33-year-old Bruce Lee while period of relocations, we have wintertime, ” Wei said. under reconstruction, but that for relocating 25 townships, financial inducements to silence trying to arrest him during a placed at the core the work of He said that although millions nearly two million households including Beichuan and them. scuffle with authorities. making sure that thousands of cotton quilts and clothing had still needed to be rebuilt or Wenchuan, two of the most The student death toll of Defense lawyer Ray Cassar been donated already, more was repaired. devastated areas. said Kelly likely reduced his maximum prison sentence from 10 years to between 18 and 24 months w ith the plea. Iraqi Shiites burn Bush effigy to protest U.S. pact Sentencing is March 18. The plea came a day after protectors of Shiites against Sunni militants, a jury cleared Deputy Joseph By Hamza Hendawi and his anti-American message earned Eberle of using excessive Associated Press Writer him and his followers strong nationalist force in the asphyxiation BAGHDAD (AP) - Thousands of credentials. death of 45-year-old Clifton followers of a radical Shiite cleric protested Al-Sadr, believed to be in Iran, was not Lee Jr. a proposed U.S.-lraqi security deal Friday, at the protest, though his representative read Sgt. Shawn Hoy is chained burning an effigy of President George W. a sermon he wrote that called the U.S. “the with using unreasonable force Bush in the same square where Iraqis beat enemy of Islam.” on Bruce Lee. His trial is Dec. a toppled Saddam Hussein statue five years “The government must know that it is 2. ago. the people who help it in the good and the Chanting and waving flags. Muqtada bad times. If it throws the occupier out, all Ex-altar boy claims abuse al-Sadr ’s followers filled Firdous Square to the Iraqi people will stand by it,” the sermon in Detroit archdiocese protest the pact that would allow American read, using common rhetoric for the U.S. DETROIT (AP) - Another troops to stay for three more years. The protesters placed the Bush effigy former altar boy has filed The demonstration followed two days of on the same pedestal where U.S. Marines a lawsuit claiming the protests in parliament by al-Sadr loyalists toppled the ousted dictator ’s statue in one Archdiocese of Detroit failed who disrupted readings of the proposed of the iconic images of the 2003 U.S.-led to stop sexual misconduct by agreement ahead of a debate and vote. invasion. The effigy held a former priest. Despite the opposition a sign that described The lawsuit was filed at least three small “... it is the people the pact as “shame and Tuesday in federal court in parliamentary factions, the humiliation. ” Ohio by James Schultz, a pact is expected to pass in who help ... in the After a mass prayer, AP Photo 'Khalid Mohammed the Shiite-led parliament former resident of Oakland good and the bad demonstrators pelted the Bush burning: Followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr burn the American flag as thousands converge County ’s White Lake when it comes up for a times. If it throws the Bush effigy with plastic at Firdous Square in central Baghdad. Iraq for a mass prayer to protest a proposed U.S.-lraqi security pact Township, against the Rev. vote next week. water bottles and sandals. on Friday. Timothy Szott and the Al-Sadr, who controls occupier out, all the One man hit it in the governing the U.S. tnxip presence. archdiocese. a group of 30 lawmakers services in provinces under their control. Iraqi people will stand face with his sandal. The Iraq’s most influential Shiite cleric. Grand Szott died in August in in the 275-seat parliament, Security wastight for Friday’s protest,with effigy fell head first into Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. said the deal would Arizona. views the deal as a by it.” the area closed to traffic and heavily guarded the crowd and protesters be acceptable only if approved by a wide Archdiocese spokesman surrender to US. interests. by Iraqi soldiers in Humvees. Army snipers jumped on it before setting margin in parliament. Al-Sistani enjoys Ned McGrath said the But supporters say the pact took positions on rooftops overlooking the MUQTADA AL-SADR it ablaze. enormous influence among Iraq's Shiite archdiocese was aware of the will eventually lead to full square. The Sadrists also provided their SHIITE CLERIC The uproar this week majority. lawsuit. sovereignty. own security, searching worshippers as they suggests that the security Al-Sadr ’s movement's popularity suffered The Detroit News reports If al-Sadr ’s group and approached the square. pact could remain divisive with the involvement of some militiamen in Schultz, now 40, claims some other legislators opposed to the pact lose by a Many arrived at the square on foot or as the country struggles for reconciliation protection and black market rackets as well molestation occurred during a thin maigjn, they might attempt to turn their by bus and carried prayer mgs, pieces of after years of war. as the general fatigue from the on-and-off trip to Ohio. anti-American message into a defining issue cardboard or newspapers for the mass prayer. For Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s fighting. Vincent Venturini earlier in provincial elections on Jan. 31 and general They waved Iraqi flags and green Shiite Dawa party and the Supreme Islamic Iraqi But the movement has retained a loyal sued. The newspaper says that elections late in 2(X)9. banners, chanting, “No. no to the agreement Council, its senior government partner, the base of support in Baghdad and across much case was settled for $725000. Al-Sadr ’s influence in Iraq however has of humiliation!” maigin of support is almost as important as of the Shiite south of Iraq, largely because of Szott was sentenced dipped from the days when militiamen loyal If the agreement passes the legislature, it the victory itself. A narrow passage will cast its nationalist credentials and the perceived to 18 months’ probation to him battled U.S. forces and were seen as w ill go to the president and his two deputies doubt on the legitimacy of the new terms failure of rival Shiite parties to improve in 2003 after pleading no for ratification. Each one has veto power. contest to possession of child pornography, and was permanently removed from ministry in 2005. Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells Michigan woman faces Doctors initially thought the signs of rejection and is not taking baby death sentencing By Maria Cheng only solution was to remove the any immune-suppressing drugs, ERIE, Pa. (AP)-A AP Medical Writer entire left lung. But Dr. Paolo which can cause side effects former college volleyball LON DON (A P) - Doctors have Macchiarini, head of thoracic like high bhxxl pressure, kidney player from the Detroit area given a woman a new windpipe surgery at Barcelona ’s Hospital failure and cancer. is due in a Pennsylvania with tissue grown from her own Clinic, proposed a windpipe “I was scared at the beginning, ” courtroom to be sentenced stem cells, eliminating the need transplant instead. Castillo said in a press statement. for suffocating a baby after for anti-rejection drugs. Once doctors had a donor "I am now enjoying life and am secretly giving birth in a “This technique has great windpipe, scientists at Italy’s very happy that my illness has campus apartment. promise. ” said Dr. Eric Genden, University of Padua stripped off been cured. ” Twenty-year-old Teri who did a similar transplant in all its cells, leaving only a tube of Her doctors say she is now Rhodes, of Commerce, 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in connective tissue. able to take care of her children, Mich., pleaded guilty to New York. That operation used Meanwhile, doctors at the and can walk reasonable distances voluntary manslaughter in both donor and recipient tissue. University of Bristol took a sample without becoming out of breath. August and is scheduled for Only a handful of windpipe, or of Castillo ’s bone marrow from her Castillo even reported dancing sentencing Friday before a trachea, transplants have ever hip. They used the bone marrow's all night at a club in Barcelona judge in Erie County, Pa. been done. stem cells to create millions of recently. Rhodes was a sophomore If successful, the prcKedure cartilage and tissue cells to cover Genden said that Castillo ’s at Mercyhurst College in AP Photo / Hospital Clink of Barcelona. HO could become a new standard of and line the windpipe. progress needed to be closely Erie when she gave birth to Stem cell: In this undated photo released by the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona on treatment, said Genden, who was Experts at the University of monitored. “Time will tell if this the full-term baby girl on Tuesday, Claudia Castillo, center, the recipient of a windpipe transplant that used not involved in the research. Milan then used a device to put lasts," he said. Genden added that Aug. 12,2007. tissue grown from her own stem cells, poses for a photograph with her children The results were published the new cartilage and tissue onto it can take up to three years to Prosecutors charged in Barcelona, Spain European doctors have performed a windpipe transplant with online Wednesday in the medical the windpipe. The new windpipe know if the windpipe ’s cartilage Rhodes after learning she tissue grown from the patient ’s own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti- journal.The Lancet. was transplanted into Castillo in structure is solid and won ’t fall rejection drugs searched the Internet for The transplant was given to June. apart. ways to kill her fetus. Claudia Castillo, a 30-year-old “They have created a People who might benefit bowel, bladder, or reproductive for transplants. Police say Rhodes passed Colombian mother of two living functional .biological structure that include children bom with tract. Birchall said. Wamke predicted that doctors a sports physical two days in Barcelona, suffered from can ’t be rejected, ” said Dr. Allan defective airways, people “Patients engineering theirown might one day be able to pnxluce before killing the child after tuberculosis for years. After a Kirk of the American Society of with scars or tumours in their tissues is the key way forward," organs in the laboratory from telling a doctor she did not severe collapse of her left lung in Transplantation. “It’s an important windpipes, and those with said Dr. Patrick Wamke.a surgeon patients ’ own stem cells. “That think she was pregnant. March. Castillo needed regular advance , but constructing an entire collapsed windpipes. at the University of Kiel in is still years away, but we need Her attorney says she was hospital visits to clear her airways organ is still a long way off. ” The technique might even be Germany. Wamke is also growing pioneering approaches like this to in a “huge state of denial. ’’ and was unable to take care of her So far, Castillo has shown no adapted to other organs like the patients ’ tissues from stem cells solve the problem," he said. children.

♦ •. / Grand Valley Lanthorn NATION / WORLD Monday, November 24, 2008 A5 Prosecutor who had Cheney indicted yells at judge

By Christopher Sherman Curious residents packed the Associated Press Writer well-worn pews of the Willacy County Courthouse ’s only RAYMONDVILLE, Texas courtroom for Friday’s hearing. (AP) - A county prosecutor who The defendants were not required brought indictments this week to appear in person. against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney Cheney and others pounded his General Alberto Gonzales were fist and shouted at the judge Friday indicted in connection with during a routine privately hearing. “You can't have run federal Willacy detention County District district attorneys centers in Attorney Juan across the country Willacy. In Angel Guerra particular, it AP Photo / U S Air Force, HO asked Presiding bringing charges Bumblebee technology: In this photo taken from computer animation video Friday, and released by the U S. Air Force, alleges that shows the next generation of drones, called Micro Aerial Vehicles, or MAVs. The MAVs could be as tiny as bumblebees and Judge Manuel against federal Cheney’s AP Photo I Charles Dharapak Vice charges: In this Oct 24 file photo. capable of flying undetected into buildings, where they could photograph, record and even attack insurgents and terrorists. Banales to recuse officials. ” personal U S. military engineers are trying to design flying robots disguised as insects that could one day spy on enemies and conduct himself from Vice President Dick Cheney listens after investment in a closed door intelligence briefing at dangerous missions without risking lives. the case, which T. GERALD TREECE the Vanguard alleges abuse the National Security Agency at Fort CONSTITUTIONAL LAW Group, which Meade, Md A Texas judge has set a at federally run SPECIALIST invests in Friday arraignment for Vice President Dick prisons. private prison Cheney, former U.S. Attorney General Bug-sized spies: U.S. Attorneys companies, gives him culpability Alberto Gonzales and others named in for the vice president and other in alleged prisoner abuse. indictments accusing themof responsibility defendants leapt to their feet in Guerra also indicted judges and for prisoner abuse in a federal detention objection as Guerra pounded the special prosecutors who played a center. table and accused Banales of giving develops tiny flying robots role in the investigation of him. bringing charges against federal the defendants special treatment. T.GeraldTreece.aconstitutional officials, ” Treece said. And “Now all of a sudden there law specialist and professor at the By James Hannah and even attack insurgents and you ask the bumblebee to carry a is urgency, ” Guerra shouted. even in a federal probe, Cheney South Texas College of Law in and Gonzales have a “qualified Associated Press Writer teirorists. video camera and everything else, “Eighteen months you kept me By identifying and assaulting it may not be able to get off the Houston, this week questioned privilege ” that would protect them DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - If only indicted through the election. ” • Guerra’s jurisdiction. adversaries more precisely, the ground, ” Coyle said. Guerra lost his bid for re- so long as they were acting within we could be a fly on the wall when robots would also help reduce Parker envisions the bird-sized “You can ’t have district their jobs. Treece said. our enemies arc plotting to attack election in the March primary and attorneys across the country or avoid civilian casualties, the vehicles as being able to spy on will leave office in January. He was us. Better yet, what if that lly could military says. adversaries by flying into cities record voices, transmit video and indicted last year on charges he Parker and his colleagues plan and perching on building ledges or extorted money from a bail bond 10% even fire tiny weapons? to start by developing a bird-sized power lines. The vehicles would \ifuf That kind of James Bond-style company and used his office for robot as soon as 2015, followed by have flappable wings as a disguise personal business, but the charges 342 State StreetlOff Cherry St.) ...Qff... fantasy is actually on the drawing the insect-sized models by 2030. but use a separate propulsion were dismissed last month. Mon Fri Lunch Buffet S4.99 w/o Ta* & f ree Soda board. 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I Bourbon Chicken “If we Unlike the bird-sized vehicles, 3.99 Beef w Garlic Sauce Buy 3 without risking Banales called a recess so could get the insect-sized ones would Orange/ Sesame Chicken Lunch/ Dinner he could try to contact the chief Roast Pork w Mushroom lives. inside the actually use flappable wings to fly, Get 50% off “The way we envision justice of the state Supreme Court LUNCH S4.25 “The way we Meals Include Fried Rice & Crab Cheese the 4th buildings Parker said. for suggestions on how to proceed, DINNER $5.95 envision it is, there it is, there would be and inside He said engineers want to build would be a bunch and ordered Guerra, who had a bunch of these sent the ax>ms a vehicle with a I-inch wingspan, si ipped out once during the hearing, of these sent out in a where their possibly made of an elastic swarm," said Greg to remain in the courthouse. out in a swarm. ” activities material. The vehicle would have , it ^ p Parker, who helps Guerra first said “I will not are sensors to help avoid slamming obey that order, ” but then agreed WtHge/i'A 8PM ,AM lead the research unfolding, into buildings or other objects. project at Wright- to stay if the judge asked him Bnufinrf tanrA GREG PARKER we would Existing airborne robots are Patterson Air Force respectfully. RESEARCH PROJECT LEAD be able flown by a ground-based pilot, After the recess. Banales Base in Dayton. “If to get the but the smaller versions would $1.(Ml Bowl >1.00 Pop adjourned for the day and >*R(M> Pitchers $ 1.00 Bombs we know there's a kind of fly independently, relying on possibility of bad announced that he would send all intelligence preprogrammed instructions. documents pertaining to the recusal : .V1 • SVvr e. Mixed fUlIlV guys in a certain building, how do • Group Rimer, we need to shut them down, ” Parker said the tiny vehicles motion to the chief justice. He • c all foi.'jprn bow . 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An Air Force video describing to miniaturize the Unmanned Philip Coyle, senior adviser the vehicles said they could Aerial Vehicle drones used in Iraq with the Center for Defense possibly carry chemicals or and Afghanistan for surveillance Information in Washington D.C., explosives for use in attacks. and reconnaissance. said a major hurdle would be Once prototypes are developed , The next generation of drones, enabling the vehicles to carry they will be flight-tested in a new called Micm Aerial Vehicles, the weight of cameras and building at Wright-Patterson or MAVs, could be as tiny as microphones. dubbed the “micro aviary” for bumblebees and capable of flying “If you make the robot so small Micro Air Vehicle Integration undetected into buildings, where that it's like a bumblebee and then Application Research Institute. they could photograph, record.

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fl CAN’T REMEMBER MY Suicide awareness 6- NUMBER OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. Several organizations ’ efforts should be commended for taking the time to raise THINK I COULD JUST GRAB THE KEY TO awareness or prevent suicide on a daily basis. ROOM 4 REAL QUICK? V -< Several weeks throughout the year are devoted to raising awareness and ending the climbing numbers of suicide rates. But organizations such as To Write Love On Her Amts and Grand Valley State University ’s Counseling and Career Development Center hike as much time as possible to raise awareness that could possibly change the turn of events in somebody ’s life. While devoting a week to suicide awareness is commendable, suicide awareness and prevention should take place every day of the year, which is something the Counseling and Career Development Center has acknowledged with its QPR program. Since 1999. the rate of suicide has increased by almost 16 percent in middle age adults and almost 8 percent in young adults, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. As if those figures weren't alarming enough, the CDC reported suicide as the third cause of death in ages 10 to 24 years old. Suicide numbers are alarming, and it's about time more people start to GVL / Jake Billy recognize just how prevalent suicide really is. It seems as if people do not get involved until they encounter suicide first hand, and that should not be the YOUR INSIGHTS ------case. Rather than waiting until a suicide occurs, more awareness and prevention should take place on a daily basis. Maybe when signs of depression, What is your worst Thanksgiving memory? anxiety or stress are evident, friends and family should step in to prevent the consequences of such symptoms. Any increase, 8 or 16 percent, is floating on dangerous grounds, and it’s about time the suicide rates start to decline. So rather than rushing around this holiday season, get some information about QPR and make a difference in somebody's life. Focus on others and make every day suicide awareness day—it just may save a life. LETTER TO THE EDITOR------This is in response to the “Losing mark the progression. our grasp on reality” column. There were plenty of kids (myself Really, video games have always included) who were skateboarders back been about escapism and anybody in the ‘90s and early 2000s who thought "When I didn't have "One time I got my "One Thanksgiving I "My family burned the "I'm a big Lions fan and who plays them long enough is bound that with enough practice they could any stuffing. We didn't braces tightened got my wisdom teeth turkey and I had to I hate seeing them lose to loose some sense of reality. While be like Tony Hawk. We all played the have the traditional two days before out. It was awful, all I go out to Denny's for every Thanksgiving." your fear of music simulators like Tony Hawk video games and enjoyed dinner, we went out to Thanksgiving. I couldn't could eat was mashed Thanksgiving." “Rock Band ” might be warranted, them, but there were no delusions eat instead and I was eat any solid foods." potatoes." the game is hardly a threat compared that getting good at the game had any crushed." to grindtastic MMORPG's when it correlation to real skateboarding skill. comes to real world impact. “World Besides, even looking at it both ways of Warcraft” alone has destroyed - boarding outside with friends, or Kelly Ewing Nichole Oliver Brittany Marvin Will Hibler Roy Lowing marriages, lost jobs and helped college playing a boarding video game inside Junior Sophomore Junior Sophomore Sophomore kids flunk out since its release and it is - you’re still playing with a toy. Integrated Science Psychology Nursing Political Science Biomedical sciences fPeojjj&$$fcet, interact and "work ” Notji^usiqi^ns,,. )vho play “Rock , Maitaw,an, Mich. . . Lapeer, Mich. • • Pinckney, M^h. , Grand Rapids, Mich,- • Grand Rapid^tyhclv,,. Band ” get a kick out of it because tocajher on a daily basis witji these it^,enhances then rockstar fantasy. GVL STUDENT OPINION ganfts and most have never met in Musicians are in the same boat, but :ij !>■•<• vebfFirl in 1 person (and indeed never will). There there will always be the nagging wasevenamurderawhileback inJapan humiliation in one ’s mind that while over a sword in an online game. That's one "practices” songs on that creaking Please do be thankful this year right: someone took another person ’s plastic toy, one could really be playing poll done by The Associated write openly about how much we like and still get along. Or life because they stole something that the song for real. Greg M. Press on the subject, three in our nation ’s often homophobic at least tolerate each other for doesn ’t physically exist. That’s losing For non-musicians it’s an amusing Schumaker four Americans read at least religious right offends me as five minutes in line at Subway touch with reality. fantasy but for real guitarists the one fxx)k a year. Literacy is a young gay man (only to be or Starbucks. As fun as “Rock Band ” and “Guitar puerile anti-realism of “Guitar Hero ” 0\7. ( olnnmisl definitely a key to keeping your criticized for said hurt feelings Because there’s some Hero ” are, I don ’t think they themselves will always be painfully obvious. country a superpower. in a response to my editor). connection between every one are facilitating a weakening grip on Speaking of which. Yes, there aren ’t many of us Americans, I can feel the real world. Perhaps they merely David Calkins Mostly, I’m thankful for I’m thankful for my liberal places in this world where I it especially now, no matter illustrate it. This kind of behavior has GVSU alumnus the pie. education. First, it has made could jokingly refer to God how weak. I felt it at the been seen before; video games just Pumpkin pie made by my me accept Thanksgiving for as woman and merely be Obama rally two months ago grandmother, that is, loaded the sham it is: A great excuse ridiculed for such blasphemy and dancing with strangers with Cool Whip. It was a for a vacation with our loving by a reader. I tend to be a to Madonna in Detroit last ‘Today Show” segment last families so we can mourn all feminist, which would get Tuesday. <$rmtb gallep %antt)om year that said it’s the healthiest the lives lost by our colonist those of us of that persuasion I feel it with my best friend food on our Thanksgiving ancestors ’ Native American shot elsewhere on this earth. in London, my best friends table. So long, turkey! genocide. Even wilder, in our here in town and my roommate The student-run newspaper of Grand Valley State University Also, I’m thankful for I’m sorry, that’s not what beautiful land the punishment sleeping in the room down red wine, and for my friends you do? OK. let’s go shopping I face for desiring equal rights the hallway. She’s a liberal Editorial Page Board who have given me lots of instead! for every single person is called Christian who 1 didn ’t even it. I’m thankful for Madonna Jokes aside. I’m most “close-minded and ignorant ” have to seek out or awkwardly Alicia Wireman Editor in Chief who played a wicked show thankful we live in a for referencing the obvious stalk (like a reader suggested in Detroit last week. And country now. disregarding lack of support for them in I do) in order to discover that Christine VanderVlies Business Manager I’m thankful that American its questionable roots for a major chunks of this country. some people, no matter how Jenny Whalen Managing Editor voters prevented our assured moment, where we can freely See, in other places you’d few it seems at times, love self-destruction by voting for speak our minds. Especially simply disappear for such Jesus, gays and lesbians and President-elect Barack Obama. my fellow columnists and me. outlandish talk. every other atom in space. Indeed. I’m thankful For there’s not many places This is what I’m thankful Including pumpkin pie. that, according to the latest in this world where I could for the most. 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With the new Iraqi threats, should the Time to re-evaluate our self-worth encouraging the student body Attorney General Michael experiences we're having, what U.S. withdraw from Iraq? Nicole E. to become couch potatoes Mukasey was released from we learn from them and how Avery and spend all their days as if the hospital after having we can better ourselves and the they were on spring break or collapsed while giving a world around us from those Yes: 66.67% No: 33.33% f,\ I ( nliimnisi some never-ending holiday, late-night speech. A justice experiences. But if all we do is but why do we have to be spokeswoman has been work, we’re not experiencing This week’s question: Vote online at doing something deemed reassuring the media Mukasey anything other than how to be With Thanksgiving just “productive ” all the time? is perfectly healthy and after anal, uptight and anxious about Is Thanksgiving still relevant as a Lanthorn.com around the comer, this is the In Walt Whitman’s poem doing a series of tests that day, deadlines. season where we all typically would be released and back in Why on earth after holiday in this day and age? “Song of Myself' he talks think about what we’re about how we should “loafe ” the office that afternoon. collapsing during a speech “thankful” for. around, or in modem day The fact the article I read would you then, little more This holiday is traditionally English, sit around doing about the attorney general than a day later, be back in the GVL OPINION POLICY a time of reflection for nothing but thinking, observing didn ’t say anything but how office after having spent the the American people; a life and appreciating it for healthy he is makes me think night in a hospital? It doesn ’t Ibe ultimate goal of the Grand Valley issue. The limit for letter length is one motivational pick-me up where simply what it is. There’s a he’s actually really quite sick. make sense. [iuithom opinion page is to stimulate page, single spaced. Americans look at their lives, certain line I really like that The person who was This Thanksgiving I’m Jiscussion and action on topics of interest The editor reserves the right to edit and compare if to someone else’s reads. “I loafe and invite my updating the media on his thankful 1 will be home having o the Grand Valley Community. condense letters and columns for length in another part of the world soul, I lean and loafe at my condition was deliberately someone cook me good Student opinions do not reflect those of restrictions and clarity. and say to ourselves, "Thank ease observing a spear of skimming over the details of meals and there will be no he Grand Valley I .anthorn. All letters must be typed. goodness my life isn't as summer grass. ” that night and pumping the Ramen or microwave dinners The Grand Valley l^nthom welcomes The Grand Valley I .an thorn will not be crappy as that guy’s!” And then We should do more of this microphone with names of in sight. What's (he point of ■eader viewpoints and offers three vehicles held responsible for emirs that appear in we immediately pull out our and not give ourselves over tests and their positive results, all that effort we put into all >f expression for reader opinions: letters print as a result of transcribing handwritten Black Berrys and get right back to an impulse to work, work, focusing on how healthy the of (Xjr daily obligations and to the editor, guest columns and phone letters or e-mail typographic emirs. to work. work. Why does taking time attorney general was and responsibilities if we never take ■es ponses. The name of the author may be Shouldn ’t we bathe a little for yourself and enjoying skimming over the truth. the time to pat ourselves on the » letters must include the author's name withheld for compelling reasons. more in reflection? When every aspect of life translate to It’s as if we base our own back and enjoy what we’ve and he accompanied by current picture The content, information and do we breathe? When do we succumbing to laziness? When self-worth on what we’re able accomplished and why we’re Klentificatkm if dropped off in person, views expressed are not approved by ever just sit? I may be making really what is the point of to achieve and how quickly we thankful we accomplished it? letters will be checked by an employee of nor necessarily represent those of the myself sound like an advocate living if you don ’t take the time can achieve it. When really

I / Lauren Sibula, Laker Life Editor Grand Valley Lanthorn [email protected] LAKER LIFE Monday, November 24, 2008 Thanksgiving from a Native perspective What is your favorite -r BvBy Allison Allison Bleeker Bleeker childrenchildren in inelementary elementary schools schools dressing dressing up up in inthe the New New World. World.” ’ GVL Staff Writer as either Native Americans or pilgrims. Henson added many people seem to forget Thanksgiving Day “From a Native (American) perspective, what Thanksgiving is supposed to be about. To many people. it’s easy to feel angry and slighted by what “(This) holiday has all but forsaken Thanksgiving is a time to Thanksgiving represents, and I know there the true struggle and hardship this once tradition? gather with family, eat lots are some who actively protest it, but I pick great nation of multi-cultured people were of food and maybe watch a my battles and this is one 1 mostly choose to forced to endure, ” he said. “Once, we were football game or two. let go, ” he said. a people who celebrated with feasts when While this is a way Several other students agreed with Putnam there was actual cause for celebration, many people celebrate about the stereotypes namely the chance at surviving Thanksgiving, when of Native Americans another winter, the blessing of thinking of the holiday in a historical “From a Native portrayed around a truly tight-knit community, context, the story of the Native Americans Thanksgiving. (American) true Thanksgiving. Now it just and pilgrims may come to mind. “As for negative seems to be another fancy meal Many students learn the story of the perspective, it's stereotypes, I think with plenty of bells and whistles first Thanksgiving between the Native easy to feel angry something must be to appease our easily amused Americans and the pilgrims in elementary said, ” said Adam and slighted by natures. ” schoo. However, some students of Native Henson, a member of Andrea Berkowitz, a member American descent all across the country what Thanksgiving the Native American of the Native American Student feel the story is not portrayed correctly. Student Association in represents...” Association from Los Angeles, “For my family, (Thanksgiving) has Wichita Falls, Texas. disagreed with the way most always been something we largely didn ’t CHARLIE PUTNAM “Perhaps misunderstood children are taught about care to celebrate much, considering the NATIVE AMERICAN STUDENT stereotypes would be ASSOCIATION CHIEF Thanksgiving in school. historical context, ” said Charlie Putnam, a more appropriate FINANCIAL OFFICER “We are taught that this “The chief financial officer for the Native label, especially with holiday is celebrated in thanks Thanksgiving American Student Association. “We do respect to our youth and the associations of a coming together of two cultures, but it Day Parade. not go out of our way to protest it or be that our elementary schools make with the forgets everything that happened after,” she I really like angry but we also don ’t do anything holiday. Quite contrary to the sugarcoated said. “As we celebrate it today, most U.S. seeing all the special. We usually just get Chinese food version pairing the pilgrims and natives in citizens forget the bloodshed, disease and floats and and hang out. I feel like that is what it harmonious, abundant feasting, the first the subjugation of indigenous people that led the marching should be about — seeing your family and Thanksgiving took place among days of us to where we are today. ” bands, and it’s appreciating them.” extreme suffering for the newly-arrived fun to stand in Putnam added Thanksgiving is a time Europeans who were anything but friendly ableeker@ lanthorn .com the bitter cold when stereotypes about Native Americans to the Native Americans upon first arriving and watch it all happen. are more prevalent, especially with Alex Reynolds Freshman Film and video Femdale, Mich. International students enjoy U.S. tradition GVSU students typically consist of a Her friends are going to sweatpants and watch movies would - lots of family and parade and every one in try to introduce her to several or play board tons of food. from outside U.S. the community would be American traditions including games, ” she said. “I’d never seen involved. going to a bar Wednesday “It is just that much food for six to also dig in this “Here, it is night and getting up early nice for all people before, ” she said, about the family,” he to beat the crowds on of us to be remembering her first Thanksgiving said. Black Friday. together. ” Thanksgiving feast table. Most people do She said the Her “I think it is just a really By Brittney Mestdagh not think about Black Friday parents nice tradition where the historic aspect, is what she is join in on people get together to GVL Staff Writer he said. It has come looking forward to the American spend time as a familyl.” Turkey, green bean to symbolize a time the most. tradition because it bmestdagh @ lanthorn .com casserole and pumpkin pie of togetherness with “I’ve never is a holiday, and it is a good are some of the things many family. Some go to experienced it excuse to spend the rest of students are looking forward Thanksgiving meals before, ” she said. the day together, she said. See more: to this Thanksgiving, but because it is the one day of “My friend said it was When Habbel was an what about those who do not the year they see their other like Meijer Madness, but exchange student in El Paso, Go to "Your “Sitting down and celebrate the holiday in their relatives. worse. ” She will be one of Texas, she celebrated the Insights" on A6 native country? The food is also thousands crowding into holiday for the first time like telling my For international students delicious, he said. Paying malls and department stores a real American family what at Grand Valley State education and nationwide. I am thankful University, it is a time off of expenses, it is The holiday for. It’s a good school. Some stay on campus c e to have a home season is a time because while others cooked meal and time when • no one is join in the not have to pay for people fighting. ” festivities it. he added. are friendly b y But visiting toward others, Christopher Thomas visiting numerous she said. It Freshman their U.S. friends and is nice to sit Chemistry friends ’ relatives and back and relax Grand Rapids, Mich. families. attending more with friends and “I’ve been than one meal family. a- invited by in a day can get Rike Habbel of many American hectic, he said. Germany is going people to Irena Zurnic of home for Thanksgiving, join in their Serbia is also looking and her father is making a celebrations, ” said Andres forward to the meal, turkey. Ortiz of Columbia, president especially the turkey. She has “Then we’ll of the International Club. been in the U.S. since August change into This is his third year in the and is eager to celebrate her U.S., and he said more people first Thanksgiving. invite him to their home every “I’m going to a friend ’s year. home,” she said. “All the He noted Thanksgiving international students are is not a big event to him. In invited to American homes.” Colombia, the celebrations Vegetarianalternatives to ai feasting

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GVL / Andrew Mills Above: GVSU defender Jenna Wenglmski (left) keeps the ball away from Wisconsin-Parkside forward Shannon Becker (right) during Friday's Regional Championship hosted on the Allendale As the final horn was sounded Campus on the women ’s soccer team’s Left: GVSU defender Caitlm Boyak (left) comforts forward Katy season, players looked around in Tafler (right) after the Laker's season ending loss during Friday's disbelief as an unfamiliar feeling Regional Championship. set in. Bottom: GVSU senior goalkeeper Kristina Nasturzio makes a For the first time in 44 diving save. The Lakers lost 1-0, and hold a record of 22-1-0. matches the scoreboard favored the visiting team on the Laker’s home field. Players collapsed on the frozen turf, hugged their teammates and cried knowing nine seniors had played their last game in a Laker uniform. Many years from now, players and coaches will still talk about what could have been an undefeated season, a national championship and a send-off to a senior class that has transformed the women ’s soccer team into an elite Division II program. But the team is now left empty handed with a very impressive, yet still disappointing 22-1 record. All season the Lakers were Season comes to a close faced with the same problem — finishing. The Lakers missed opport uni ties to put teams away Women ’s soccer season ends short of expectations; Lakers will not advance to finals in Tampa, Fla. by failing to score that extra goal. However, they won every game, By Matt Kuzawa play with less than 22 minutes to play in managed very few scoring chances as each including four GLIAC championships. thanks to a suffocating defense GVL Senior Reporter the match. opportunity was quickly turned away by “We had a great group of girls, and GVSU committed a foul just outside the the opposing team’s defense. Even though and loads of shots. With 22 wins and a No.-l ranking, the we’ve had so much fun together in the four 18-yard box, giving Wisconsin-Parkside the leakers out-shot the Rangers by a 14 But it would be naive to think women ’s soccer team is still vulnerable years,” said senior midfielder Meaghan a free kick. While senior goalkeeper to seven margin, their offense never had a the team could go the entire to errors and missed opportunities Robinson. “We have to look back on Kristina Nasturzio and the defense were chance to gain any consistency. season without making one and because of one quick goal, the positive things. We’re all really close, so positioning themselves “The chances were mistake that would cost them a leaker’s season ended short of a national it’s tough. ” for the kick. Wisconsin- limited, but that’s not game. championship. “That was a tough The Lakers set an NCAA Division Parkside junior why we lost. ” Dilanni “All year we've had more In its first loss at home since Sept. goal to give up, that's II record this season with 19 shutouts. midfielder Meredith said. “They made opportunities than everybody 4. 2005, Grand Valley State University Fleading into the match the leakers were Novak t(x>k a quick shot probably what is most more plays than we did else, and yet we still only win by (22-1 -0) was knocked out of the national ranked first in goals against average to score the deciding today, and that’s really two goals, and that came back tournament losing to No. 8 University disappointing ... Our (.182), shutout percentage (.864) and save goal. how we summed it to haunt us,” said Grand Valley of Wisconsin-Parkside l-O in the kids had a great year percentage (.923). Nasturzio was also Dilanni said the play up.” State University head coach NCAA Division II Midwest Regional ranked first in Division II in goals against caught his team oft ... I'm sad for them.” Dave Dilanni. Championship With less than a average (.192). guard. minute to go, in one The timing could not have “When you get into this point of the DAVE DIIANNI “Our kids had a great year and this been worse for the Lakers, but in “That was a tough last season saving senior class has been fantastic so I’m sad tournament it’s a game of errors, ” said GVSU HEAD COACH goal to give up, that’s attempt .junior forward the playoffs the opposing team GVSU head coach Dave Dilanni. “You for them,” Dilanni said. “They’ve set a probably what is most Irie Dennis fired off a iS'more likely to capitalize on make a mistake and it could cost you, and standard that is going to be tough to reach. disappointing, ” he said. “You almost want shot that would have sent the game into any mistakes than the cupcake we know that. They defended hard and They’ve been the cornerstone of what somebody to sit in front of the ball until overtime, but the shot drifted wide oft' the teams in theGLIAC. Wisconsin- made it difficult for us. We were first and we've done here for the past four years." you're set up and organized. Kristina net. Parkside did just that, which second in the country in goals against, and mkuzawa® lanthorn xrom obviously was trying to set up the wall, The loss was the first shutout at home is why they are moving on in it looked like it.” but not aware that they were sitting on the in Dilanni's five years as head coach at the NCAA tournament, and the The lone goal that denied the leakers a See more: Visit ball waiting to quick kick it.” GVSU. The 2008 senior class finishes Lakers are not. chance for a perfect season and a national In a scoreless first half, both teams their GVSU career with an 81-7-2 record. Lanthorn.com for a slideshow But once these women get championship occurred on an unexpected past the anguish that comes from a season ended by one goal, and an unconventional one at that, they will be able to relive the memories and accomplishments of one of the most successful Ashland humbled by Lakers in playoffs teams in the history of GVSU. The nine player senior class captured four-straight GL1AC GVSU advances to NCAA Quarterfinals with 40-7 win in Saturday rematch against Eagles titles, two consecutive trips to the final four, many all-American By Brian Beaupied awards and an 81-7-2 record. GVl. Sports Editor Senior forward Katy Tafler ends her illustrious college career Who’s scared of who? ranked third all-time in Division Sophomore tailback James Berezik rushed for II in both goals (114) and points a Grand Valley State University playoff record 207 (269). yards — 103 of which came in the Lakers' first two This team will be remembered possessions — and three touchdowns as the Lakers as a great team, anchored by a routed Ashland University 40-7 Saturday afternoon. great player in Tafler. and led by When Berezik heard Ashland wide receiver Joe a great coach in Dilanni. And Horn call GVSU "scared ” of playing Ashland earlier whether it is fair or not, they will this week, it turned out to be all the motivation he also be remembered as the team needed to run over the Eagle defense. that couldn ’t finish. “When I hear that kind of stuff I get really upset,” Even with all of the other Berezik said. “That pretty much got me going and I ran goals, records and wins it still the ball as hard as I could. You don't make those kind came down to one mistake, one of comments when you get beat. It’s not a very smart missed opportunity and one play. thing to do on his part, maybe he'll leam next year.” One loss, I -0. Horn was held to just four catches and 18 yards receiving. tnkuzawa® lanthorn .com Berezik had touchdown runs of 34,26 and 62 yards while junior slotback Blake Smolen added a 52-yard scoring scamper and 83 yards rushing of his own for the leakers (11 -0, No. I NCAA Division II). GVt / Lindsey Waggoner Staying low: GVSU wide receiver No 11 Blake Smolen runs past Ashland defensive back No. 12 Chris Harvey in the playoff game Laker signal-caller Brad Icick completed IO-of-19 on Saturday in Allendale, Mich. The Lakers defeated the Eagles 40 -7. Next week, the Lakers will head into the NCAA Quarterfinals pass attempts for 102 yards and a 4-yard touchdown pass to senior tight end/widc receiver Jonn Mathews. two tackles, a sack and a forced fumble. Mathews led all GVSU receivers with three fought so hard just to keep GVSU from scoring. We are GET YOUR receptions for 38 yards and the touchdown. “He's always on my mind," Skuta said. “Like any not the first team to be humbled by Grand Valley in the other time I’ve got my family in my mind when I’m file leaker defense held GLIAC Offensive Player playoffs and we certainly won ’t be the last.” playing." of the Year Eagle quarterback Billy GVSU held Ashland to just 258 yards of total Cundiff to !3-of-27 passing and 134 “We are not the first Sophomore lineback Justin Victor offense after entering the game averaging more than LAKER yards while sacking him eight times. and redshirt freshman linebacker Brad 440 yards per contest. The Eagles converted on only team to be humbled Howard led the Inkers with seven GVSU head coach Chuck Martin three-of-13 third downs and committed seven penalties said many of the sacks were due to by Grand Valley in tackles each. Junior lineback Gary for 60 yards, including a number of false starts and a Anderson and sophomore defensive great coverage by the Laker secondary defensive facemask call on a fourth down that would the playoffs and we end Danny Richard caused problems NEWS and more urgency in the pass rush. have given the Eagles the ball back. for Cundiff all afternoon. Anderson “You could tell a difference in our certainly won't be The No. I leakers will host Minnesota-Duluth (12- had six tackles and 1.5 sacks and pass rush from the first snap,” Martin the last. ” 0) in next week’s NCAA Division II Quarterfinal. 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By Jared Greenleaf place with a time of 1:52:16, too, ” Maceratini said, who led GVI. Staff Writer finishing with a score of 102 — 23 the Lakers finishing in 14th place points short of national champion with a time of 22:15. In the final race of the Adams State University. Maceratini was one of six season, the leaker men ’s and Grand Valley State University Lakers to earn all-American women ’s cross country teams sophomore Megan Maceratini honors for placing in the top 30. were able to perform well at said it was disappointing not to “(This year) we really worked the NCAA Division II National win a national championship, but together as a team and we were Championships held Saturday in was still happy finishing second. rewarded for it,” she said. Slippery Rock, Pa. “It was tough for us because Rounding out the Lakers were Fighting through tough we really wanted to win a sophomores Katherine McCarthy weather conditions, the women national championship, but (18), Rebecca Winchester (29), were able to take home second coming in second is awesome. Amy Kolin (43), junior Lynsey Ardingo (23) and seniors Kelly Gibbons (21) and Sarah Kulczyki (26). With the Laker runners all breaking the top 45, GVSU head coach Jerry Baltes said he was Courtesy Photo / Jerry Baltes pleased with the overall effort of Pack play: The Laker women run at the GLIAC Championships in Sault Ste Marie on Oct 25. They advanced on to the National Championships and competed in Slippery Rock, Pa. Saturday The women came in second place behind Adams State his women ’s team. “I was really happy with the way we ran,” On the said. “We were ranked ninth, senior Chris Hammer (44). Baltes said. men ’s side, l()th and 11th for most of the Hammer said he was proud of “Although we “We started off a little Baltes’ goal for season, so I was really happy we the way the team ran on the big did come up a slow in the beginning, his team was to were able to get fifth place.” stage. at least finish in The young Laker team had “We started off a little slow in little short, our but we were able to women went the top eight. five freshmen running in their the beginning, but we were able out there and get it going. A lot The men first national race, two of whom to get it going, ” Hammer said. “A were really of the young guys were able to were able to make an instant lot of the young guys stepped up achieve that impact in their debut. and that helped us in the end. A competitive. stepped up and that We were very goal, taking Freshmen Tyler Emmorey lot of our young guys were able much in it until helped us in the end.” fifth place and Ryan Toth were able to earn to gain experience running in this about the last with a time of all-American honors by finishing type of race, and they’ll be able 2:41:44 and a 24th and 27th, respectively. to take it into next season. We’re 1,000 meters, CHRIS HAMMER score of 190. Finishing for the Lakers were looking good for the future.” GVI Archive / Cheslie Reuwer but (Adam ’s GVSU SENIOR Full speed: GVSU men's cross country team leads the pack during the Laker Kickoff State) started “I was really freshmen Paul Zielinski (56), classic on Aug 28 They ran in the NCAA National Championship on Saturday in to pull away proud of our Anthony Witt (72), Jeff Nordquist jgreenleaf@ lanthorn .com Slippery Rock, Pa The men won fifth place in the championship from us.” men,” Baltes (73) junior Ross Faasse (39) and Volleyball moves on in Midwest Regional By Kenneth Cotto “Coach Scanlon gets really mad, ” she said. “She since their match against Northern Michigan on Nov. GVL Staff Writer knows our potential. It fires us up and makes us show 12. her what we can do. ” Whitney Tremain has been one of the standouts of JTie volleyball team kept up its intensity in taming Young added the team knew what to expeet from the playoffs, stepping up offensively and averaging the University of Indianapolis Greyhounds after being the Greyhounds and were not worried at all during the close to nine kills in the past seven matches. bitten early on in the match. match. Every player stepping up is w hat the Lakers need as After sweeping Northwood University 3-0 in the Saturday’s match was deja vu for the Greyhounds, the team looks to return to the NCAA Elite Eight. opening round of the Midwest Regional Tournament as they fell to the Lakers in four matches on Oct. 17 “(We just need to) keep playing as one and building on Friday, Grand Valley State University defeated during the GL IAC/GLVC Crossover Tournament. on each others’ confidence," Tremain said. “(We need Indianapolis in four competitive sets. The Lakers also improved to 5-3 this year upon to) just keep sticking together. ” The Lakers have been known to drop the third set losing the first set. something that has not happened k( otto@ lanthorn xotn of a match, but Saturday the Lakers found themselves in a different situation. Indianapolis came out strong, taking the first set 25-19, keeping the Lakers hitting percentage at a low .108. “It was definitely a kick in the butt," said junior Whitney Tremain. “We didn't play good. It gave us a reality shock.” Hiat shock brought the Lakers back to life, as they came out of the second set with a 10-1 lead. From then on. the Greyhounds could not match the dominance they had in the first set again. Blocking was the major focus. “The biggest thing is that we started touching the 2009-2010 ball at the net and they couldn ’t swing away as much,” said GVSU head coach Dcanne Scanlon. Keeping that in mind, the leakers ended the match with a total of 13 blocks. But blocking was not their only focus. During the second and third sets, the lakers saw a lot of balls hit the ground. GVSU struggled trying to get digs on a number of Greyhound kills. “We just weren't getting good reads and we weren ’t moving our feet,” Scanlon said. “We were sitting there waiting for the ball to come to us versus going and attacking it.” After the lakers made adjustments, the fourth set showed the Greyhounds were not ready to go away Providing Grand Valley State Students The yet. The Lakers needed one more point to take the match with a 24-20 lead, but IU cut the lead to 24-23. A service error by IU ended any hopes of a comeback. GVI / Becky Reaver Junior Meredith Young played a big part of the Drive-thru: lunior Whitney Tremain completes one of her defense, tallying a match-high 21 digs. She said coach if SHORTEST Walking Distance eight kills during GVSU's playoff match against Northwood Scanlon motivates the team to be their best when they Friday. 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Laker women defeats head coach Janel Burgess. “We’re still putting 40 whole minutes together, and trying to figure out how to play a complete that’s something that we’ll need to work Kentucky Wesleyan 57- game, but in this game we had some good on. When we can do that, then we’ll be 50 Friday, loses 73-62 tough plays and made some free throws doing pretty well.” that helped us along down the stretch. We The game ended with the Lakers on the to Drury on Saturday did a great job of maintaining the lead. ” wrong side of a 73-62 score. Veach led the team with 14 points, six "We had a seven-minute stretch where By Emanuel Johnson rebounds and two steals. we couldn't put a shot in or get any GVL Staff Writer Crawford followed close behind with defensive stops, ” Burgess said. “We had 13 points and six boards. some foul trouble that we were dealing With its first two wins already under The next day GVSU set up to tip off with as well. But it was a good effort by our its belt, the Grand Valley State University against Drury, but these team. There wasn ’t one women ’s basketball team took its act on the Panthers were not as “We didn't do a time when they weren ’t road for the first time during tbe weekend easy to deal with. playing their guts out. ” at the Drury Classic tournament. good job of putting The game began as Veach led the team The Lakers managed to split their a back and forth affair 40 whole minutes with a double-double success against a pair of Panthers as they through the first seven together, and that's of 18 points and 12 defeated Kentucky Wesleyan College 57- minutes of play, but the rebounds. Burgess said 50. but were overcome by the host Drury something that we'll Lakers were able to put Veach sets the tone for University 73-62. together a 9-1 run to need to work on.” what she wants out of GVSU controlled much of the first half give them position over her players. against KWC. EMMA VEACH the Panthers. “We need to get three The team opened up the first five GVSU FRESHMAN DU answered back or four players playing minutes of the game with a 12-2 run with its own 12-4 run to at that level, ” she said. powered by point contributions from tie the game at 22. By halftime GVSU held “For the most part the kids are doing what sophomore forward Kara Crawford and a 32-31 lead. we ask them to do — we just need to try freshman guard Emma Veach. After taking a one-point lead on a to make sure we don't those big voids like Through the next 10 minutes the team three-pointer from senior forward Kim that long drought. ” expanded its lead from six to 15. Wyngaard, GVSU went on a seven-minute Burgess said the team will have the By halftime the Lakers held a scoring drought in which the Panthers held opportunity to work on details as it will commanding 14 point lead. GVSU to only two points. not see action again until its home matchup The Lakers maintained their lead DU took full advantageof Laker miscues with Ferris State University next week. through most of the second half en route to GVL Archive / Becky Reaver while scoring 13 points of its own. a 57-50 victory. Jump shot: Freshman Rachel Woodruff puts up a shot during GVSU's game against Lake Erie last “We had a few lapses defensively, ” ejohnson @ lanthorn t om “It was a solid win for us,” said GVSU Wednesday. The women defeated Kentucky Wesleyan 57-50, but lost to Drury University 73-62. Veach said. “We didn't do a good job of Swim, dive teams topple Division-1 Ball State

By Grant Wieman rounding out the field. times. GVL Staff Writer Boyce said both teams had their “Everyone is really tired, but best races in session three, showing we’re all ready," he said. dust as the two-day, three- him the teams’ conditioning and gwieman @ lanthorn t om session. 40-event Doug Coers toughness. Invitational came to a close, junior "They are really ready to taper off Matt Witkowski looked up to see and come down with times,” Boyce GVL Archive / Katie Mitchell Guarding goal: Junior Grant Lyon deflects a shot on goal from the Pioneers. GVSU beat William Paterson University in a his victorious men ’s 4(X)-yard said. “I’m excited to see what they game this past season. The team defeated Indiana University on Friday, 10-0, but fell on Saturday with a 7-5 defeat. freestyle relay team. can do. They definitely have the But victorious was an endurance there understatement. and when we go The win “For us to beat a D-I into Wheaton gave Grand Hockey feels weekend divide school, that's the should really see Valley State their times go University ’s most exciting part. By Jared Greenleaf “We came out hyped on Welch. “It was a lack of focus. ” down." Friday,” he said. “We remembered m ‘ e n ’ s Just knowing that we GVL Staff Writer McLean said the Lakers were Tapering in what happened (last season), and not able to capitalize on their swimming and Salvaging splits has become can compete with practice meansthe we really took it to them.” opportunities. diving team a a common theme for the Laker Lakers will rest Everything went the Lakers “We had a lot of chances to take total of 765.5 Division I schools is a men ’s hockey team as it split up and give their way as they scored two goals in the lead but it just wasn ’t our day,” points and the a weekend series with Indiana good way to end this bodies a chance the first and second periods to take McLean said. “It’s a mental game invitational University, winning 10-0 Friday weekend.” to reenergize a commanding 4-0 lead. and we really need to improve title. topping night, but falling 7-5 on Saturday before the Dec. 5 “It was an outstanding effort mentally if we want things to go host Ball State afternoon. Wheaton College (Friday),” said GVSU head coach our way." University, MATT WITKOWSKI It was the third time in four Invitational , Denny McLean. “Everybody was Despite the disappointing whose 756.5 left GVSU JUNIOR weeks the Lakers have split a which Boyce said able to chip in and contribute and loss, the Lakers received another thAlkaline Trio concert, featuring Rise Against. East Coast band has a sound live multiple times. Yet please such as “In Vein" and “Love When I first heard about the Dani Although the band is more than that channels Bruce Springsteen don ’t let this sway from the also Love, Kiss Kiss.” Also included show, my initial reaction was in Willcutt capable of selling out a venue (that is, if Bruce Springsteen had amazing talents of drummer were the politically charged “War wonder how Rise Against could like the Orbit Room, supporting a punk-rock aggression). Their Derek Grant and bassist/vocalist Brain” and the gorily tragic “This headline a show with Alkaline M /._ I.V/ l bands Alkaline Trio, Thrice upbeat energy was a great start to Dan Andriano. Could Be Love." Trio supporting them. and Gaslight Anthem definitely the night. Whether it was “Agony and Granted, this is coming from Despite the release of two helped ticket sales. Following Gaslight Anthem Irony” or Asian Man Records ’ the girl who loves the raw sound recent mediocre albums. Rise Kicking off the night was was the forgettable Thrice. Their re-issue of “Goddamnit! ” piquing of Skiba’s coked-out vocals Against ’s stance as a great Last Saturday night, the Orbit Gaslight Anthem, a band set was bland, and even included your Alkaline Trio-based interest on "Good Mourning, ” but the band is undeniable. Maybe I’m Room opened its doors to the relatively new to the scene. The a god-awful attempt at covering most in 2008, the Trio delivered. Trio turned the clean-cut songs saying this because of their early lucky ticketholders of a sold out Beatles’ classic “Helter Skelter.” They played a set comprised of from “Agony and Irony” and releases (namely “Revolutions Moving on. songs from all of their decade- “Crimson ” into dance-worthy live Per Minute ” and “Siren Songs of There is never, never, enough spanning catalog. This includes rock songs. the Counterculture ”). No matter good to be said about Alkaline reaching back into the ‘90s Closing their set was “Radio. ” the root of my statement. Rise Trio. Guitarist/vocalist Matt to bring out fan faves such as Not the best Alkaline Trio song, Against spent their set proving Skiba’s stage presence alone “Clavicle ” and “Nose Over Tail,” yet it never fails to pull the crowd they are a great headlining band makes the band worth watching while also including the new, in. Maybe since it’s the one song Many were excited for the the Trio chooses to close most all three previous bands, but there of their sets with. was not a single person in the Headlining the show was Rise Orbit Room whose full attention Against, a band which has been was not on the guys of Rise gaining momentum since the Against as they drove through 2003 release of “Revolutions Per songs from all four of their Minute. ” So much momentum, albums, including “Black Masks in fact, that they have found and Gasoline. ” themselves signed onto a major In conclusion, 1 think a record label (Interscope Records). changing of the guard has taken place. Alkaline Trio has been a cult favorite punk band for the better part of a decade. In fact, since the release of “Good Mourning, ” the possibility of them becoming slightly too big has been a secret fear of mine. Yet, there 1 found myself last Saturday, watching a lineup of bands I'd seen countless times, realizing bands like Rise Against just may be to many what Alkaline Trio had been for me. Fortunately, Rise Against is a band with a positive social message and well-crafted songs. If Rise Against is the right now and the tomorrow of punk rock, GVL / Kim Miller I am definitely not yet ready to Sweet solo: Guitarist Zach Blair of Rise jump board. GVl / Kim Miller GVL / Kim Miller Against lays down a guitar solo during arts@limthom com Word power: Tim Mdlrath, of Rise Against performs at the Orbit Room Saturday. Riffs: Guitarist Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio performs at the Orbit Room Saturday. a concert of the Orbit Room Saturday. Strange, but true ROXBURY, Vt. (AP) - When “I look at this as God telling me you gotta go, you gotta go. But for to put my cell phone in that pocket, decades, when you had to go in the and I’m grateful and humbled,” he Roxbury Free Library, you really said. had to go — somewhere else, that Doctors told Richard the bullet is. came at an angle, which along with The one-room clapboard the cell phone probably prevented building, a beloved small-town serious injury. gathering place since 1923, had Deputies are investigating the no restrooms. When nature called, case, St. Tammany Parish Sheriff patrons young and old either had to Jack Strain said. He said the case hold it, do their business next door at should serve as a serious warning the Roxbury Union Congregational that people should consider the Church or go home. consequences before firing a gun. Never mind that the library However, Strain said has such modem conveniences as investigators don ’t believe the wireless Internet access. shooting was intentional. No more: Construction is under way on a small addition that DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - includes a 6-by-8-foot restroom Her husband just signed a smoking with a sink and toilet. The toilet ban into law in April. Now Iowa was installed Nov. 14. first lady Mari Culver admits she Originally built as a tea room , the already broke it. building was converted to a library The wife of Gov. Chet Culver in 1934, its shelves chockablock released a statement Thursday with best-sellers, children’s books saying she quit smoking last year and knickknacks. but started again a few months ago It has hosted pruning workshops and smoked in a state vehicle. Courtesy Photo / Interscope Geffen A6M and travel programs, author visits The ban outlaws smoking in Rise against: Members of the band Rise Against pose for a photograph. The band recently released its new album "Appeal to Reason" and toured through Michigan. and local history nights. most workplaces, including cars of But it always did so without a employers. toilet, which wasn ’t required when The first lady's admission the building was constructed. followed a report in The Des Rise Against’s Barnes discusses Sometimes, library patrons Moines Register that she was seen rushing out to use the john next smoking in a sport-utility vehicle door made it. Sometimes, they the state provides to her family. didn ’t. A trooper was driving, with Mari new album, tour, positive word Thanks to a private fundraising Culver in the passenger seat with campaign that raised $22j000, a the window down. $14,900 Vermont Arts Council A spokesman for the first lady By Dani Willcutt Also, all of us are vegetarians, so we We try to pick new bands to get them on grant and the work of volunteers did not comment about whether GVl. Staff Writer have a PETA booth at all of our shows. We the road. (Gaslight Anthem) was on our list want to let the people know where their of openers we wanted playing with us, and and local tradesmen, the church will she would be fined. A few weeks ago the Lanthorn spoke with McDonald ’s cheeseburger is coming from, they wanted to do it. no longer have to put up with the Rise Against drummer, Brandon Bames, because it’s not good. We put together a list one drawback to its potty-sharing PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) about their new album, current tour and arrangement: well-read squatters. - A Florida man is accused of “We want to let of bands who we think the tide of change in our country's political Lanthorn: What has we would like to play “Every so often, we have to tossing a sandwich at his girlfriend structure. The interview was conducted made you guys use your, people know where with. knock after an hour or so, and as they cruised down an interstate, prior to the presidential election and at the for lack of a better word, their McDonald's when the (bathroom) doors open, knocking off her glasses and nearly beginning of their tour in promotion of it’s someone who’s been reading causing her to lose control of the “celebrity, ” for good? cheeseburger is Lanthorn: How their newest album, “Appeal to Reason." Barnes: Celebrity, would you describe your a book. ” church deacon Claire car. In conjunction with promoting their album. huh? (laughs) coming from, because new album, “Appeal to Chomentowksi said. Police say 19-year-old Rise Against has spent their time spreading it's not good.” Reason?" Emmanuel le Rodriguez is charged their message of a nation based on equal Ixmthorn: Popularity, Barnes: I think this COVINGTON. La. (AP) - R J. with domestic battery for Friday’s rights and void of problem-solving through maybe? album shows growth. Richard says he doesn ’t normally sandwich-tossing incident. use of force. Their new album is fifth in the Barnes: Well, I think We’ve been playing for put his cell phone in his chest According to police, Rodriguez Chicago band ’s repertoire, but their sound BRANDON BARNES pocket. But he says it saved his life became angry during an argument that when you have an RISE AGAINST DRUMMER awhile, and we’re all has stayed true to their roots. opportunity to reach out pretty much veterans at the one time he did. as she drove and threw the sandwich to all of these people, our instruments at this The 68-year-old man from at herbecause he didn't want to hit Lanthorn: You guys seem to have a pretty you can spread the word. point . The vocal melodies Covington, La., was mowing the her. strong social and political consciousness. Instead of going to strip clubs and riding in are stronger. It still has elements of Rise lawn on his 5-acre property when A police report didn ’t specify What issues are the most important to limos, we can spend our time and energy Against to it. but it also shows growth. a stray bullet from nearby woods what type of sandwich was you? educating people and spreading the word. struck that cell phone. He figured involved. Barnes: We’ve been trying to talk about Rise Against is currently on tour with a rock kicked up by his tractor hit Police also say Rodriguez ripped the campaign. We really need a major Ixmthorn: How did you decide on the Alkaline Trio,Thrice and Gaslight Anthem him. That is, until he took out the off the rearview minor and used it change right now. All of us are voting for lineup for your current tour? The tour swept through Michigan over the phone and a 45-caliber bullet fell to break the windshield. (Barack) Obama, so we talk about that. At Barnes: Before each tour, we come up weekend, stopping first at Grand Rapids ’ from its case. Rodriguez was released each of our shows (on this tour) we have a with a list of bands who we would like to Orbit Room on Saturday and Detroit ’s Richard told The Times- Saturday on $7,500 bail. Court booth with Iraq veterans against the War in play with. For this tour, we wanted to put Fillmore on Sunday. For more information Picayune of New Orleans he records show Rodriguez did not Iraq. We try to inform everyone that (John) together a package that the fans would like. on the band, visit their Web site at http:// doesn ’t think it was a coincidence, have an attorney as of Thursday. McCain wants us to stay there for 50 to 70 It’s all guys we like as people, and who we www.riseagainst.com or MySpace.com/ either. more years. The Iraq veterans share their like to play with. Luckily, they all wanted riseagainst. experiences and tell the truth about what s to do it and were willing to do it. 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By Erika Stack received a bachelor’s degree from word can be fascinating in its Rapids cityscape are brushed GVL Staff Writer Grand Valley State University isolation, ” Gray-Hildenbrand onto enlarged playing cards with in 2005. has his ceramic pottery said in his artist’s statement. “The the work of Carolyn Fehsenfeld, The holidays are quickly available for sale during the dictionary is the great warehouse of a Western Michigan University approaching, and panic to check off exhibit. words in isolation.Text is not added graduate, and many more artists those gift lists may be setting in. “I make art to try to remember to my work to clarify or describe, it add even greater variety to the LaFontsee Galleries,on Monroe past lives is there to add exhibit. Avenue, hopes to help alleviate the and forgotten “(The pieces) are texture and “1 discover beauty through holiday gift-giving stress through habits,” Near fresh, witty and pretty dimension. a focused examination of my the “Small Works by Enormously saidinhisartist’s whimsical. (They are) by The reverence surroundings: My neighborhood Talented Artists” exhibit. statement. “I for the and the city and its streets, as well Heidi Hudberg, a sales reference these many artists who work dictionary led as the various relationships and consultant and frame designer at abstracted on larger scales me to dissect shapes that interest me,” Fehsenfeld the gallery, said the annual exhibit memories by two antique wrote. is meant to feature smaller, original pay ing homage as well.” dictionaries. ” The pieces featured in “Small pieces, because this means a smaller to traditional HEIDI HUDBERG Renee Works by Enormously Talented price tag. vessel forms or LAFONTSEE GALLERIES Hartig, a Artists" start at about $ 150. “(The pieces) are fresh, witty aged surfaces graduate SALES CONSULTANT “It is a really colorful, fun and pretty whimsical,” Hudberg and also by of Kendall show,” Hudberg said. “We think a said. “(They are) by many artists developing a College of really nice gift is to get someone who work on laiger scales as relationship with the objects. ” Art and Design, features tiny oil- started on an art collection. ” well.” Another GVSU graduate, on-canvas landscapes that swirl The exhibit is on the second floor The exhibit features about 15 Saul Gray-Hildenbrand, offers his with color, while the mixed-media and runs through Dec. 31. For more local artists, most of whom are in “locally famous (7-by-7) dictionary illustrations by Christy DeHoog, information on the exhibit, or for their early to mid 20s, and a few series’” in which he draws his also of Kendall College, enliven gallery hours, visit the LaFontsee GVL / Kim Miller who are graduates of Grand Valley inspiration for his illustrations from walls with vibrant circus animals Galleries’ Web site at http://www. Gift exhibit: Freshman Andrea Traver looks at a piece of artwork at the LaFontsee State University, Hudbeig said. pages of vintage dictionaries. and scenes from road trips. lafontsee.us. Art Gallery Friday. The gallery's winter exhibit featured pieces that were small and Andrew Near, a sculptor who “A common phrase or single Familiar memories of the Grand eshtck@ lanthorn lom affordable so they could be bought as Christmas gifts.

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