Lanthorn, Vol. 51, No. 40, February 6, 2017 Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley State University ScholarWorks@GVSU Volume 51, July 11, 2016 - June 5, 2017 Lanthorn, 1968-2001 2-6-2017 Lanthorn, vol. 51, no. 40, February 6, 2017 Grand Valley State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol51 Part of the Archival Science Commons, Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation Grand Valley State University, "Lanthorn, vol. 51, no. 40, February 6, 2017" (2017). Volume 51, July 11, 2016 - June 5, 2017. 40. https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/lanthorn_vol51/40 This Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Lanthorn, 1968-2001 at ScholarWorks@GVSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Volume 51, July 11, 2016 - June 5, 2017 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ALLENDALE & GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN STUDENT-RUN PUBLICATIONS // PRINT • ONLINE • MOBILE // LANTHORN.COM MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6 // VOL. 51 NO. 40 Unch fli ed Colo GV community celebrates annual Presidents ’ Ball A NIGHT TO REMEMBER: Lyndsie Hosang and Jenny Bailey dance together at Grand Valley State University ’s 2017 Presidents ’ Ball: Uncharted Color Friday, Feb. 3. The Presidents' Ball is an annual event at GVSU, where thousands of students gather at the DeVos Place Ballroom in lavish gowns and crisp suits to dance and socialize with other students. GVL I LUKE HOLMES BY DYLAN GROSSER “Uncharted Color” was the celebrate the brightness of differ was given to JonathanWhite, pro Laker of the Year Award to Ash [email protected] first of its kind for the GVSU Pres ent color schemes and the differ fessor of interdisciplinary studies ley Schulte, victim advocate in idents’ Ball themes. After “007 ” in ent elements color brings in terms in the Frederik Meijer Honors GVSU’s Women’s Center. Schulte our thousand Grand Val 2014, “The Grand Gatsby ” in 2015 of artistic value,” Watsa said. College, who Watsa said “embod talked about ways she will always ley State University stu and “Olympus: A Night in the Various musical and dance ies the virtue of the student body” be a “Laker for a lifetime” and dents and alumni filled Clouds” in 2016, Nikhil Watsa, performances were given White spoke to students about the show her GVSU pride. the DeVos Place Ball student senate vice president for throughout the night, followed impact they will have on the world Schulte, who is also a part of Frooms with vibrant dressesexternal and relations, said the plan by the presentation of awards to after they graduate. the “It’s on Us” campaign, took suits Friday, Feb. 3. Parties swayed ning committee for the Presidents’ select faculty and staff members. “You are going to change time to address her role as a victim and danced under the massive 40- Ball wanted to do something Watsa introduced the Student the world, and the world needs advocate, saying she will speak up inch disco ball with hair, dresses, more colorful so people could get Award for Faculty Excellence you, ” White said. against bias and confront issues shoes, ties, belts and nails match creative with their outfits. (SAFE). The SAFE award recipient Malayna Hasmanis, student ing one pervasive theme through “Essentially, we just wanted to is nominated and decided by stu senate vice president for edu out the night: color. take some time to celebrate color, dent senate. This year, the award cational affairs,, presented the SEE COLOR | A2 GOVERNANCE STUDENT ORGS Little Hats, Big Hearts GV Stitchcraft club knits red hats for national heart disease awareness campaign CABINET: Jeremy Turnbull at a student BY MEGAN WEBSTER tory information on the program, ple that want to donate to the mission Stitchcraft, said he discovered the senate meeting. GVL I LUKE HOLMES [email protected] along with health information for of the American Heart Association, Little Hats, Big Hearts campaign the baby and mother. This infor but maybe they ’re not going to go to a purely by accident but was on board Student senate In honor of American Heart mation provides new moms with ticketed event,” Bouma said. “This is a with making the hats as soon as he Month this February, the Stitch the resources they need to promote way that they can participate.” learned the program’s details. discusses craft club at Grand Valley State heart health in their families. The members of the GVSU “I was scrolling through my University is participating in the The Center for Disease Con Stitchcraft club are actively partici Facebook and saw an article about cabinet stipends American Heart Association’s Lit trol reports that heart disease is pating in the campaign this year by it,” Garety said. “I clicked on it and tle Hats, Big Hearts campaign to the leading cause of death in the knitting hats. Founded two years realized that the design was rela BY JESS HODGE [email protected] bring awareness to heart disease United States. In response to this, ago, the Stitchcraft club is dedicated tively simple for making the hats and congenital heart defects. volunteers from across the country to crafting of all kinds. Not only do and that there was, conveniently Conflict: every student organi For this program, volunteers knit are participating in the Little Hats, the members craft for their own pur enough, a location in Grand Rapids zation experiences it, including the little red hats for newborn babies Big Hearts program. poses, but they also try to contribute that we could donate them to.” highest body of student govern born in February at participating “This is about the information we to a couple of philanthropies. hospitals in order to honor moms, give to the babies, but it’s also the peo Carson Garety, the founder of ment at Grand Valley State Uni SEE HATS | A2 versity - the student senate. Dur their babies and heart-healthy lives. ing their general assembly meeting Started three years ago in Chicago, Thursday, Feb. 2, members of the the project has now spread to forty senate brought forward the issue of states, and 5,000 hats will be delivered transparency within the body. throughout Michigan this year alone. The week prior, senators found out Cindy Bouma, the communi members of the senate’s cabinet are cations director for the American paid stipends each semester for their Heart Association Midwest Affili work. The stipend includes six of the ate, saidthe program took off quick seven vice presidents receiving $700, ly when it was first introduced. the vice president of finance and “I was really worried when we the executive vice president receiv first started,” Bouma said. "We were ing $900 and the president receiving very fortunate because it really got a $1,500. This prompted the members lot of pickup on social media. After to discuss why senators were unaware that point, we starting having peo of this and the problems and riffs it ple not only locally, but through has created within the body. out the U.S. and overseas locations, Many people felt passionately deliver hats to us. We were getting about the issue at hand, both those them by the thousands.” who didn’t mind cabinet members After they ’re knitted, the little getting paid and those who felt differ- red hats are washed and either de livered by mail or in person to par ticipating hospitals. Along with the KNITTING FROM THE HEART: Promotional image for the American Heart Assocation’s "Little Hats. Big Hearts ” program. SEESENATE | A2 hats, the moms receive introduc GVSU’s Stitchcraft club is participating in the program this year by knitting hats. COURTESY I A merican heart association 1 FEBRUARY 6, 2017 GRAND VALLEY LANTHORN NEWS aGVLNEWS & NEWS BRIEFS andthe ball itself are important iHiiimiiiMimiiHiHinHiiMimimiiiinimimiiHiiiiiiimiHHimiiiiMiHimHiiiiiHiiHiiimiiiiii COLOR to GVSU’s tradition and are ex CONTINUED FROM A1 amples of how GVSU is Amer ica’s “smallest large university^ ‘BUS BANK’ SPARE CHANGE DRIVE TO HELP RAISE that are above her pay grade. “(The Presidents’ Ball) is MONEY FOR STUDY ABROAD “In my role as victim ad predicated on creating great Starting Monday, Feb. 6. and running through Monday, vocate, 1 wish to reflect on my relationships amongst stu Feb. 20, the Grand Valley State University Padnos story, give graciously for what dents and is one of those International Center will be holding a spare change fun is mine, to seek the truth and points in time during the ac draiser in an effort to raise money for students looking defend it always, ” Schulte said. ademic year that we can en for study abroad opportunities. Students, faculty and “I will take time to advocate joy the connections that we staff can donate at the 20/20 Desk in the Kirkhof Center, for those who have not yet have made throughout the the Padnos International Center in Lake Ontario Hall and had their voices heard.” university,” Haas said. several other offices across campus. The Presidential Appre LeaAnn Tibbe, associate Students who donate will receive a 'bus bank, ’ a coin ciation Award is given to director of student life who bank that resembles the GVSU Campus Connector buses one GVSU faculty member helped organize the Presi operated by The Rapid that shuttle students between the each year by GVSU President dents’ Ball, said the event Allendale and Pew campuses. Students, faculty and staff Thomas Haas and the student exemplifies one of the four can donate online as well at www.gvsu.edu/pic/give . senate president, currently tenets of being a Laker for Ella Fritzemeier. Both said the a lifetime, which is to show FORMER MICHIGAN REPRESENTATIVE TO GIVE decision this year was “easy, ” students’ “Laker pride.” TALK ON CYBER SECURITY awarding Gayle Davis, who “I think it is a great night Mike Rogers, former FBI special agent and former is retiring as provost and ex to show support of your fellow U.S.

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