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Ravines cleanup behind GVA, A3 Soccer remains undefeated, B2 Gmih I Vtilley State University www.lanthorn.com Thursday, October 25, 2007 Grants roll in for wheelchair tennis By Alicia Wireman with the Christopher Reeve ’s Foundation GVL Copy Editor and the United States Professional Tennis Registry. “If we get those grants, they will Two grants totaling $2,700 are helping probably go to things like a banner and the first collegiate wheelchair tennis team promotion for the organization, ” said at Grand Valley State University pay for WTT Vice President, Bryan Wilkinson. travel expenses and team uniforms. “Because (the team) is new, our biggest GVSU’s Wheelchair Tennis Team, the thing is getting out there and passing fliers Rolling leakers, received their most recent around to gain support and recognition. ” grant from the United States Professional Wilkinson said although he and the Tennis Association last week. The team other team members have been applying applied for the grant several months for the grants, the team ’s ultimate goal is ago and received a check for $2,000 on to get able-bodied students involved with Thursday. The money will go specifically the organizational aspects of the team. toward travel expenses for the team ’s first “A person doesn ’t have to be a player collegiate competition in February. to make the executive decisions of the “We applied and requested funding team, ” he said. because (wheelchair tennis) is a new Bender agreed with Wilkinson and program at Grand Valley, ” said Lynn hopes the students and the university Bender. WTT program director. “We itself will become more involved and don ’t have any pre-existing funding, so supportive, she said. we are basically starting from scratch. ” “Our goal from Grand Valley is to get The USPTA grant came shortly after the student funding from Student Life,” the West Michigan Tennis Association Courtesy Photo / Don Kern Bender said. The competitive travel grant awarded the team with a $700 grant. The Making large strides: Neil Sauter, a GVSU graduate, will walk in the Grand Rapids Marathon on stilts to raise money for the United Cerebral Palsy from the Office of Student Life would WMTA is a local program of the United Association of Michigan help cover the team's traveling and States Tennis Association. Bender said. tournament expenses, she added. The smaller grant was used to purchase The OSL travel grant is available to the team ’s uniforms. GVSU sports clubs. To be eligible for "The students are working really hard Graduate to don stilts for funding, the team must submit paperwork to get fundraisers together to raise a few to the OSL within four weeks of the hundred dollars here and there, ” Bender tournament dates, so the first application said. “They ’re making the effort to go for the WTT will not be due until January, the extra mile, because grant money isn ’t Bender said. always a guarantee. ” All of the team ’s “Somehow, somewhere, something work from the summer is finally paying marathon to raise money will come through, ” she said. “We off, she added. have a great program and a great cause. For members of the team, the grants The team benefits the university by represent more than just financial encouraging students to play the first assistance. Alumnus will walk on stilts to generate money forcerebral palsy research disabled collegiate sports team in GVSU “The money helped us gain support history. ” to become united, ” said Jessica Sporte, By Michelle Hamilton the United Cerebral Palsy of Michigan. Services is what inspired him to The WTT will continue to raise WTT president. “We ’re finally becoming The program assists people with fundraise for UCP. he said. funds for future expenses. Bender said. GVL News Editor official.” disabilities in purchasing technological Sauter ’s younger sister Renae, a Students or organizations interested in Although the two grants have equipment. junior at GVSU, had forgotten about her helping the WTT raise funds can contact A 2006 alumnus of Grand Valley provided financial support for traveling “People with disabilities should be brother ’s disability until people started WTT President Jessica Sporte via e-mail, State University will walk on stilts this and uniforms, other expenses still need to weekend to raise money for people with given every opportunity they can to be talking about it because of the race, she [email protected] . able to work,” Sauter said. said. be covered, Sporte said. disabilities. Tire WIT recently applied for grants Neil Sauter, 24, hopes it is not windy He has worked with people who have Other than a slight limp when he [email protected] walks, Sauter has never let cerebral this Sunday when he attempts to walk disabilities at the Hope Center in Adrian, the Grand Rapids Marathon on 36-inch- Mich., and Sauter has a mild case of palsy get in his way, Renae said. high aluminum stilts. cerebral palsy himself. In Sauter ’s “My brother is a headstrong person, ” Sauter is stilt-walking to raise money case, the cerebral palsy affects his calf she said. “If he wants to do something, for a loan-fund program offered through muscles, he said. It restricts them from he will.” developing and makes them tight, he A five-person relay team from the See more: visit www. added. UCP will walk alongside Sauter to lanthorn.com after the A college scholarship he received marathon Sauter's results through the Michigan Rehabilitation See Marathon, A2 ^Internet memorials create online afterlife Z By Dana Blinder Profiles commonly feature information on the cause of Z GVL Copy Editor death, links to related news articles, pictures of the deceased and a link to his or her former Myspace page. Discussion forums also allow visitors to talk about details * Online personal pages like Facebook and Myspace are the of the lives and deaths of those with profiles on Mydeathspace. crave among the living. Courtesy Photo / Lynn Bender, Collegiate Wheelchair Tennis Director com. • But what happens to your page after you die? Good grant: Tom Daglis, on behalf of the United States Professional Tennis Association, presents A large map of the U.S. posted on the site pinpoints the city Web sites such as these now allow us to remember loved a check to the GVSU wheelchair tennis team organization. The $2,000 grant will go toward the connected with each profile. The profile map-markers are grim ones by keeping up with their Web pages or by creating team's travel expenses cartoon figures, mostly black and a few in red. Red figures memorial sites for them. signify a homicide or suicide. Scrolling over any figure shows the photo and partial profile of a dead person. After Myspace — Mydeathspace.com Mydeathspace.com has run into a few problems with Mike Patterson, creator of the Mydeathspace.com, has made Student launches worldwide peace day posting inaccurate information and accidentally linking a place for the spirits of the dead to stay alive though online profiles of the deceased to the wrong Myspace account. postings. It is a Web site dedicated to posting information on heard, ” Kirin said. “Silence seems to GVSU junior, Elizabeth Leskovar heard about By Danielle Arndt the deceased. be the most effective tool.” Mydeathspace.com in a class that discussed the physiological GVL Staff Writer aspects of death and dying. Silence draws attention to the problem and creates awareness, she “From what I know, I don ’t think it’s a good Web site, ” Grand Valley State University she said. “Certain information is disclosed that I’m sure the student Veronica Kirin ’s idea to said. Speaking has become essential in family is not notified about being posted. ” host an international Day of Silence society and someone who is willing to Online memorials are a positive method of remembering promoting peace spread rapidly. See Silence, A2 loved ones, but only information disclosed by the family “It became its own kind of wildfire, ” should be available, Leskovar said. Kirin said. “Sure I started a spark, but "I learned in class that some Web sites or online memorials people have just taken it and run with arc trying to get a copy of the death certificate from doctors it — done absolutely everything they (posted on the site), ” she said. “I think that ’s way too far.” can to spread the word to their friends and other schools. ” Facebook Memorials The Peace Movement, as the Facebook now hosts several memorial applications organization is now called, is a particularly designed to be online memorials. grassroots group Kirin created to “Tribute, ” an application created by Shawn Plew and Noah motivate young people around the Coffey, allows users to add a small memorial box to their world to take action in a cause they Facebook pages with the name and information of a deceased believe in, she said.