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For more information, please contact [email protected]. <§mnti galley Jfnntljorn Grand Valley State University www.lanthorn.com Thursday, October 27, 2005 w H vi s 1\SIPF GVSU says farewell to student By A lan Ingram members rotated by, never table. The heaping pile Counseling Center walked grew to about 300. GVL Managing Editor leaving their triangle shape, around with boxes of facial each laid a white carnation Many who attended the tissue. — the fraternity flower — ceremony held small white As stars hung in the sky Jason O’Day, one of candles in their hands. As and those gathered shivered on a nearby table and said, Ripper’s friends, told the the ceremony progressed, in the brisk autumn night, “Rest my brother.” crowd to grab someone the candles began to melt hundreds sniffled away Ripper, 20, was found they love and tell them how until people had nothing their sorrow and wiped dead at the bottom of the much they mean to them. Laker ravine underneath the Little but little stubs of candle and away their tears as they said The bells from the Cook- Life Mac Bridge late Saturday a pile of melted wax in their goodbye to a friend. Carillon Tower rang eerily hand. The new GVSU chess A large black and white night. every 15 minutes, including When the triangle A few stood in front once when the crowd was club checks in with its photograph of Patrick broke, signaling the end of * the microphone, about to begin a verse of first meeting tomorrow Ripper stood at the peakof a triangle formed by his Delta of the formal Delta Sigma sharing their thoughts and “Amazing Grace.” at 7 p.m. in Kirkhof. memories with the rest of Meanwhile, on the Little Sigma Phi brothers at the Phi ritual, numerous other A6 friends and family slowly the crowd. People put their Mac Bridge, people had GVL/ laslvn Gilbert base of the Cook-Carillon In pain: Students mourn the loss of Patrick Ripper who was found tower Tuesday night. As the inched forward to lay their arms around each other as white carnations on the employees from GVSU’s SEE MEMORIAL, A2 dead at the bottom of the ravine on Saturday night. GVSU Battling brain cancer police officer Sports honored Laker volleyball beat North wood and SVSU Saturday though By A lan Ingram lacking one player. GVL Managing Editor B1 For his work toward the prevention of domestic violence and sexual assault. Grand Valley State University Community Police Officer Bruce Momingstar was honored Tuesday evening. Momingstar received his law enforcement award in Holland from the Ottawa County-based Lakeshore A&E Alliance Against Domestic WCKS is preparing and Sexual Violence. The for its “Monster Ball” ceremony also honored concert to be held on other law enforcement officials from around the Halloween night. county. B3 “It’s quite an honor, ” Momingstar said. Jo Ann Wassenaar. assistant director of the Women ’s Center nominated him for the award. The Women ’s Center works with the Department of Public Safety when there is a problem, but also in the prevention and education aspects of the center. Wassenaar said. “Officer Momingstar Rosa Parks’s death has always been one of raises questions about GVL/ Anna Schwattier the key people who have Still on the job: Head Athletic Trainer, Todd lager (right), works with junior football player Eric Fowler, lager has been battling brain cancer since May. Many students, faculty, how to keep her assisted the Women ’s staff, friends and family have come together to help him get through the battle. memory alive. Center." Wassenaar said. It is interesting to be B4 he said. weeks ago. the headaches that Director Tim Selgo. job of keeping everything Todd Jager fights honored for something “I’m supposed to be the initially indicated something ‘Todd is more than just going in his absences. Jager the disease, as his that he is a small part of, guy to help out." Jager said. was wrong returned. While that.” Selgo said. “He’s a man said. Selgo added the way the Momingstar said. He staff fills in and his the tumor bed originally of great character.” athletic training staff has not added that the Counseling amount of presence Fighting the battle appeared clean, tests revealed Jager has not let his health “missed a beat” is a testament Center, the Women ’s Jager was diagnosed a new tumor was growing issues keep him from his job. to how Jager trained his staff. is missed Center and Eyes Wide with a type of brain tumor around it and into a new area He has been back to work “1 don ’t worry about the Open, among others, also — glioblastoma multiforme of the brain. since August, usually three health care of our student By A lan Ingram play a key role. — on May 16. Two days “In my mind, I did days a week, and admits, “I’m athletes.” Selgo said. “I know GVL Managing Editor Momingstar conducts later, doctors cut through his everything I was supposed a lot more active than I should they’re going to get great the Rape Aggression scalp to remove it. to do, ” Jager said. The Duke be with this thing" health care.” Defense training with the He has spent more than Following a University doctors started His hand shakes slightly Assistant Athletic Trainer help of Kathy Ransom of GET YOUR the past seven years making recommendation from doctors him on a second type of as he sits, which he calls Shaina lane has known Jager Pew Campus Security. It friends, gaining respect from from Duke University, he chemotherapy drug that stops a “souvenir ” from his first for a long time, she said. She is specifically designed LAKER his colleagues and ensuring began a chemotherapy drug blood flow to the tumor. surgery. has learned a lot from him and for women and is “an Laker athletes are healthy to and 33 radiation treatments “As long as it doesn ’t coasiders him her mentor, she outstanding program. ” said compete at the highest level. about five weeks after Staying active at GVSU affect my golf game. I’m all said. Capt. Brandon DeHaan. NEWS Now, Grand Valley State his surgery. Since he had When he first came to right,” Jager said. While he The entire staff in the assistant director of DP’S. University Athletic Trainer followed the doctors ’ advice, GVSU from the University still works with the students, department has had to learn a “Bruce has done a lot Todd Jager ’s role as a care he thought he would be fine of Michigan, the athletic he said he spends much lot in his absence. Lane said, ONLINE of training and prevention provider has suddenly and by the time he came back to department knew it was of his time catching up on explaining Jager knows a work in relation to sexual unexpectedly switched to school. Jager said. getting a highly qualified paperwork in his office. www.lanthorn.com care receiver — a transition However, about seven individual, said Athletic His staff has done a good that has been hard to accept. SEE JAGER, A2 SEE HONOR, A2 Speaker discusses Buddhist thought at GV WEATHER Hershock’s speech include “Liberating interdependence as a reality thinks that it is a good includes points Intimacy: Enlightenment in today ’s world. company. ” Update and Social Virtuosity in “The idea that we can Hershock said he noticed about the three main Chian Buddhism ” and separate ourselves from a pattern of relationships Thursday causes of poverty “Reinventing the Wheel: A people a state away or a in his research of family Buddhist Response to the county away is not a reality interaction. Parents H/L By A lex Upton Information Age. ” anymore," Hershock said. generally spend 30 hours 51/36 Hershock first talked “Thequestionthat Buddhists each week talking to their GVL Staff Writer on the issue of poverty. must ask themselves now children, while children He said 25 percent of the is this: How do we orient spend almost 30 hours per world's population lives on interdependence in a week watching television. Friday Peter Hershock spoke less than $2 per day, while direction that will work This, Hershock said, is not to students and faculty on another 20 percent lives on toward the elimination of conducive to a productive H/L Monday about the relevance less than $1 per day. Thirty troubles and suffering?" society. 57/36 of Buddhist thought and percent of the United States’ Hershock also elaborated Sixty percent of our practice in contemporary population lives below the on global interdependence attention, on a daily basis, issues. He elaborated on Saturday poverty line. and family interaction and is exported outside of such topics as poverty, He said the three values. our immediate situation, the economy and family main causes of poverty This is no longer the he explained.