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GRCC
students
to study
in Peru
By Jacqueline Prins
A&E Editor

GRCC zoology professor

Matt Douglas and a field
research team of nine
former GRCC biodiversity
students will be leaving
their textbooks behind this
summer, as they assemble
Ryan Tyrell/Collegiate
firsthand knowledge of the

Going Green
Ricki Oldenkamp enjoys the Mesozoic Era garden new world tropics during a
in the science building. She was recently awarded a three week trip to Peru.
research grant to study Bracken Ferns this summer. “We will split up the
responsibilities of looking
For more, see Green, page 5 at Peruvian biodiversity,”
Douglas said. “I will be
looking at butterflies and

Exam not required

moths, and we have someone
else that will be looking at
birds.”
Douglas said others will
be looking at plants and
primates, among other areas
By Dave Westra “Before I’ve used multiple choice, an essay and
of wildlife. The group will be
News Editor a final paper, but I guess I’m doing it because it’s
easier for me,” Velthouse said. “I know that there going to different areas in the

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is a guideline that tells me what I need to do, but I Andes Mountains.
nd of the year exams are only a few weeks “The big idea here is
away. haven’t really looked at it a whole lot.”
According to Vargo, there are documents though to have
But there is no rule at GRCC on whether firsthand
or not instructors have to give a final that give objectives for classes that professors have
to meet. knowledge,
cumulative exam or even a final assessment at all. not book
According to psychology professor and “There’s a document called the CARP document,
which is Course Approval Review Process, for an knowledge,
psychology department head, Dr. Michael Vargo, but firsthand
there is no set requirement for a final exam for any individual course, which says after you’ve finished
this course, you will have been exposed to this, knowledge
class, only that if there is, it has to be given during of the new
finals week. this and this material, and you will evaluate in
this way,” Vargo said. “Those are the documents w o r l d
“I think it falls under the heading of academic Matt
that the college generates to make sure that there t ro p i c s,
freedom,” Vargo said. “How you’re teaching your Douglas
is consistency within the course and that they meet especially the
course is up to you as the content expert.” Amazon,” GRCC
Student Kelli Warner said that out of the nine the objectives that the college has established for
that particular course.” Douglas said. Professor of
classes she has taken here at GRCC, she has only “The idea is Zoology
had three final cumulative exams. But how professors meet those objectives is
entirely up to them. to get a really
She said that she feels the overall academic good idea of what is going on
atmosphere of GRCC is easier than high school was. “As a department we talk about curriculum
planning and we also talk about how we think down there and integrate it
“I think it’s the same, a tad bit easier maybe into our courses here.”
because you don’t have everything condensed, like classes could be and maybe should be taught,”
Vargo said. “But it’s up to each faculty member Douglas said the trip
you don’t go to chemistry everyday,” Warner said. includes marine sanctuaries,
“It is more relaxed. Chemistry here is easier than to figure out what they want to do to meet the
objective for the course.” the Nazca plains, Colca
what I took in high school.” Canyon, Lake Titicaca, and
Warner said that moving on to a four-year According to Vargo, some schools do set
requirements for final exams. the rainforest.
school later on will be tougher. “We will go to Lake
“I feel like it’s going to be harder,” Warner said. “The lecture outlines and the exams, the
instructional materials, they will all have been Titicaca, which is the
“I think it’s going to be more focused because it’s highest navigable lake in the
actual big papers.” developed by a content expert for the institution,
Psychology adjunct professor Judy Velthouse is and then it will have been given to everybody
giving a cumulative multiple-choice exam to her PY See Taking, Page 6
201 class. See Tests, Page 2

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Tests still given News

Campus Police
Reports Continued from page 1
who is going to be teaching that
particular class,” Vargo said.
Struck with Drill Vargo said that his exams
generally aren’t cumulative and
3/18
only cover content following the
A drill bit struck a student in the face just under his
right eye in the Applied Technology Center. The last test.
“My belief is that when
student programmed the drill machine incorrectly.
students are ask asked to prepare
for a cumulative exam, they just
Backpack Stolen jam as much information in
3/18 their head as they possibly can
A student’s backpack was stolen out of Cook Hall. for a relatively short period of
No suspects time until they can essentially
disgorge it on the exam, and they
Tool set stolen don’t have much of a retention
for it,” Vargo said.
3/19
Communications professor
A professor reported a tool set and voltage tester
stolen from her office in the M-TEC building. No Dennis Sutton is quick to
make a distinction between an
suspects.
assessment and an exam.
“I think it’s important to
Caliper stolen assess, and assessing doesn’t
3/19 necessarily mean a cumulative
A professor reported a caliper in a black carrying final,” Sutton said. “For instance I
case stolen from on top of his desk in the Applied have a final test in organizational
Technology Center. No suspects. communication, but their
final paper to me is their final
assessment.”
Light Shattered
Sutton feels application of
3/20
knowledge is the best way to test
A employee reported two trash cans were knocked
it.
over and the light above was shattered in the
“I think practical application
Bostwick parking ramp. No suspects. proves you’ve absorbed it, not
just memorized it,” Sutton said.
Car door damaged “Sometimes a final exam that
3/22 you cram for is you memorizing
A student returned to her car parked in the Bostwick something to do well on a
parking ramp. She noticed her driver’s side door test. We’re trying to get you to
damaged and parts of it on the ground. No suspects. learn something you can apply
hopefully for the rest of your
life.”
Money Stolen
Sutton said that he wouldn’t
3/22
give tests if he could figure out
A student put his belongings in the locker room of
how to assess students with out
the Ford Fieldhouse. When he returned noticed his them.
lock had been opened and $110 was stolen from his “One of the most frustrating
wallet. No suspects things any teacher can hear is,
‘is this going to be on the test,’”
Hit-and-run
3/24
Sutton said. “In other words, if
A student returned to the Bostwick ramp to find the
rear bumper of his car clipped. No suspects.
Corrections
Trespassing
In the March 24, 2010 issue of The Collegiate, the headline on top
3/26
of page 16 is incorrect. The tennis team went to South Carolina.
A male was in the Ford Fieldhouse weight room
looking in trash cans and hanging his clothes on the
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issue. If you notice an error, please call 616-234-4157 and ask for
club membership card on him. He was told he was
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trespassing without a valid membership card and was
us at grcc_collegiate@yahoo.com
asked to leave.
it’s not going to be on the test it
doesn’t matter.”
Communications professor
Tamara Scott agreed with Sutton.
“Honestly, it’s a little bit
frustrating when my students say
to me, ‘you’re the only one that’s
making me take an exam,’” Scott
said.
But Scott still feels exams are
important.
“I think that’s a really
important piece of learning,
especially if they’re going on to a
four-year school,” Scott said. “It’s
important to learn how to take a
cumulative exam, how to be able
to remember things and know
how to take a test.
She also feels that though
the exams prepare students for
a four-year school, they cannot
replace real life applications.
“I tell our students that their
lab is life, and they need to be
using what they’re learning in
life,” Scott said. “I have them
sometimes report back. Some
of them have amazing stories. I
had a woman this semester that
was totally able to change some
dynamic in her marriage because
of the way she approached a
conflict situation. That to me is
learning.”
Student Lindsey Kort likes
the few number of final exams.
“I’m not a very good test
taker,” Kort said. “I like when we
have assignments due instead,
like papers.”
But she feels that this may
not be good in the long run.
“I feel like maybe I’m not
being prepared as much for my
transfer,” Kort said.
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in the
Students to receive
community service
awards
Tiffany Falcon-
Ewigleben, Lisa Nagel
and Nicholas Wikar will
receive awards from the
Michigan Campus Compact
Award for Dedication to
Community Service.
Tiffany Falcon-
Ewigleben will receive the
Commitment to Service
award. This award is
given to one student from
each member campus
in Michigan for their
community service efforts.
Lisa Nagel and Nicholas
Wikar will receive the
Heart and Soul Award. This
award recognizes students’
time and effort they give
through service.
Every year, the
Michigan Campus Compact
gives students from member
colleges in the state awards
based on their commitment
to service-learning and
civic engagement.
-Dave Westra
GRCC first US wind
farm safety training
center
GRCC is now the first
US training center to offer
the worldwide recognized
safety certification program
for the wind energy
industry, YES/Safety
Technology.
GRCC signed a deal
with Ynfiniti Engineering
Services (YES) based
out of Spain and Safety
Technology based out of
the UK allowing them to
serve as the main North
American training center.
The certification
program will start in May
and GRCC is expecting
300 to 400 students to
participate in the first year
of the program.
-Dave Westra

iPad sets Apple record in sales

GRCC speeds up
refunds
Starting with the
By David Sarno economic malaise and the Calif.,-based research firm. Now, summer 2010 refunds,
iPad by MCT Campus iPad’s hefty price tag, analysts he added, “they’ve got to go get GRCC will be offering faster
warned that questions linger as everyone else.” refunds.

A
the to when — or if — there will be Some prospective buyers may GRCC has partnered
pple announced
numbers Monday that it sold similar mass market adoption be waiting until the end of the with Higher One financial
more than 300,000 of its of the tablet as there has been month for the 3G version of the services so that students
new tablet computers of Apple’s blockbuster iPod and iPad, which will cost up to $829, can receive their refunds
On the day of iPhone devices. (The iPhone 3GS but allow consumers to use the the same day GRCC releases
on Saturday — a one-day total
its release: that topped the 2007 debut sales sold 1 million units in its first device more like a smartphone. them.
tallies for the original iPhone. three days last year.) That could pose a problem down Students will receive
300,000 units Analysts predicted shoppers They also point out that the the road for Apple, point out a Refund Access Card by
were sold would snap up more than 4 initial rush of customers would analysts, who say the company mail that will act like a
million units by the end of the be dominated by early adopters must also walk a careful line preloaded credit card.
Over year. or Apple enthusiasts, who might with its iPad to ensure the new Students are
1 million The company also said be more forgiving of the fact device doesn’t eat into sales of its encouraged to activate an
apps were that, as of 12:01 a.m. Sunday, that the company may not have popular line of laptops or iPhone. account even if they are not
downloaded consumers users had downloaded worked out all of the technical Nearly 3,300 apps receiving refunds in case
more than 1 million applications kinks — or found a so-called specifically developed for the they will receive them in
250,000 and nearly 250,000 ebooks from “killer app.” iPad are available so far, a third the future.
ebooks were the company’s iBookstore online “Apple reached first base,” of them games, according to -Dave Westra
downloaded marketplace. said Francis Sideco, an analyst Colin Sebastian, an analyst with
Yet, given the country’s at iSuppli Corp., an El Segundo, Lazard Capital Markets.
April 7, 2010
Student finds a new dream
By Brittany Zender
Collegiate Staff Writer
H
e was nine years old and angry. Holding
back the tears, he asked his psychiatrist
why his life was like this, one blow after
another.
What did he do to deserve to be unwanted and
unloved, so different from his classmates?
When GRCC student Alex Wood, 21, was just
three years old, he and his half brother, who is one
year younger, were taken from their parents by the
state of Texas.
Wood was a ward of the state the rest of his
adolescent life.
“Growing up, I knew I wasn’t your average
kid,” Wood said. “My friends and I used to throw
apples at the gym walls, cause fights, and just do
anything we could to get attention. I admit I used
to hang out with the wrong people.”
Wood and his half brother stayed together in
group foster care homes until 1997, when they
were both adopted out of the system to a family in
Brighton, MI.
But in 2000, at the age of nine, Wood was given
back to the state because of his “trouble making
mentality,” while his brother remained with the
family.
On average, from 2000 to 2009, Wood changed
group and foster care homes every two years until
finally graduating from Rockford High School in
2009.
“I was forced to spend nearly two days in that
therapists office when I was nine,” Wood said.
“They wanted to make sure I was ‘okay’ after being
given up. I was just angry. When you’re a nine-
year-old kid, in and out of homes, you don’t know
how to react. Not having a stable family or even a
childhood was a part of my rebellion.”
Wood has recently graduated out of the system
and lives on his own.
He hasn’t seen his little brother in over 10
years.
“I don’t think I’ll ever see him again,” Wood
said. “We have lived two completely different lives
since we were separated. I don’t know if I’d even
recognize him.”
“One thing that bothers me is how kids my
age take advantage of everything they have been
handed, only to want more,” Wood said. “I am
extremely grateful for my life now. I admit I used to
Campus Events
April Student Congress Meeting
2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
8
Student Congress meetings are open to students.
Located in the Multi-Purpose Room on the second
floor of the Student Community Center.
April Student Employee Appreciation
12-16 Week
Student employees are invited to participate in
a week long scavenger hunt. Winners will be
announced on April 16 at the Student Employee
Appreciation Celebration.
April ADHD, Can’t we just give ‘em a
chill pill?
14
1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Psychologist, Dr. George Pommer, will give a
presentation on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder. Located in the auditorium of the ATC.
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piss people off on purpose, but I’ve been through a
lot and am trying to change the best I can and make
something of my life.”
Despite his hardships growing up, he would
face another trial in high school.
On June 9, 2006, the last day of school his
sophomore year, Wood was involved in an head on
collision with his foster care family in an old Chevy
which only had waist seat belts. His foster care
sister, brother and father all had minor injuries, but
Wood suffered major injuries.
“All I remember is that a lady pulled out in front
of us and we hit her, then a car smashed us from
the back causing my seat to buckle,” Wood said.
“I shattered my L3 disk completely in my spine,
and chipped part of my L4 which needed a fusion
surgery. It was a very long and painful procedure
resulting in four screws and bars to reinforce and
stabilize my spine.
“I was devastated when this happened.
Working out, getting my anger out, and being part
of a team were the most important parts of my life
in high school, and when that was taken away, I
didn’t know who I was anymore.”
After almost two years of recovery, Alex is
doing much better, and was granted a six figure
settlement from the accident that he now lives on.
“I don’t know why things happen like they do,”
Wood said. “I know it’s got to be a part of God’s
plan, because without that money, I don’t know
how my life would have turned out.
“I want to play football here at GRCC. I’ve
never played before but I look at sports teams as
a family, one that I want to be apart of. I’m in the
gym almost all day trying to make up for the years
I’ve lost after the accident and in life.”
Wood has to make up for the five years he was Ryan Tyrell/Collegiate
out due to his injury. Alex Wood stands outside the Ford Feildhouse.
“I was cut this year, but that just makes me Wood suffered from a debilitating accident in
work harder for next year,” Wood said. “Doing high school but is working to overcome it.
what I’m doing people call me crazy, but it takes a
crazy person to want to challenge the odds.
“Arguing with my doctor was very hard. He school would not be possible. I would definitely be
told me I couldn’t workout or play sports again. I struggling.
finally proved him wrong and showed him I was “Some people would call me crazy for taking
capable and could handle the physical stress.” the risks of injuring myself again and ending up
One day Wood wants to become a personal crippled, but sometimes the will of someone is far
trainer. much stronger than their power.”
“It all depends on how you look at life; most
people don’t live the life I do because of my
accident,” Wood said. “It’s all because of the money; C grcc_collegiate@yahoo.com
April 8 - April 21
April GRCC Spring Sustainability Series April Cap & Gown
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6:15 p.m. 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
A presentation entitled will be given on how to Congratulations, you’re graduating. Now you have
live sustainably. Located in the auditorium of the to buy one more thing. Purchase your cap and
ATC. gown from the school bookstore.
April Popcorn & Conversation with Stu- April Board of Trustees Meeting
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4:15 p.m.
The Diversity Learning Center invites you to share The Board of Trustees will hold their monthly
your thoughts on cultural diversity. Located in meeting. Located in the Board Chambers on the
room 122 of the Learning Resource Center. fifth floor of the main building.
April Help Clean Downtown GR April Finals Relaxer
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2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Join the Academic Service Learning Center and There will be free food and entertainment in the
participate in a community clean up of downtown Ford Field House.
Grand Rapids. Meet at the Multi-Purpose Room on
the second floor of the Student Community Center.
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April 7, 2010
News 5
Earth Day Series

Green for more than a day

One student finds ways to a doctorate in zoology. To finish her undergraduate
studies, she will transfer to Northern Michigan
help the environment on a University in the fall.
“I want to continue to research the many
daily basis species we are losing each day in the rainforest,”
Oldenkamp said.
This summer, Oldenkamp will be visiting the
By Jacqueline Prins rainforest in Peru with GRCC zoology Professor Matt
A&E Editor Douglas, along with eight other former biodiversity
Oldenkamp said. This May, the club is also
planning to take a trip to the Shedd Aquarium and
the Field Museum in Chicago.
“The Biodiversity Club is in the process
of deciding what Earth Day
project we would like to tackle,”
Oldenkamp said. “We are eager
to make a big impact and have
not found the group that we

F
or GRCC student Ricki Oldenkamp, everyday
is green.
Last month, Oldenkamp won a $3,500
undergraduate research grant from Pierce
Cedar Creek Institute (PCCI) for 12 weeks of study
at the institute.
Her 11-page proposal, “Arthropod Defense
Communities of the Bracken Fern, (Pteridium
aquilinum),” was rated fourth out of 14 proposals
submitted.
Among the other entries were students from
Hope College, Calvin College, Aquinas College,
Western Michigan University and Michigan State
University.
“Through the experience of creating the goal
of submitting a proposal, then working tirelessly
on it, and now getting the opportunity to do the
research project, I have gained so much confidence
in what I can accomplish,” Oldenkamp said. “I look
forward to the hard work ahead of finishing this
project and my degree because I know I can do it.”
Oldenkamp said her ultimate goal is to pursue
students. The group will travel through different could best do that with.”
parts of the Andes Mountains. However, Oldenkamp said her
“In Peru I will seek to catalogue the insects that and her boyfriend have made a
are associated with the Bracken Fern because there commitment to themselves to
has never been a study on what relationship the plant 100 trees in honor of Earth
Ricki
insects there have to the fern,” Oldenkamp said. Day this year.
Oldenkamp
This will be her second time visiting the rain “I will also be raising
forest in Peru. monarch butterflies again this
Biodiversity
She hopes to publish a paper about her research year to be released at Dr. Douglas’
Club
when she is finished. second annual monarch release
President
“I feel very lucky to be able visit such a at John Ball Zoo this fall,”
magical place before it may disappear,” Oldenkamp Oldenkamp said.
Won $3,500
said. “Because a football field size piece of the research Douglas said his monarch
rainforest is being leveled every second, and since exhibit will open at John Ball
grant
the rainforest only covers two percent of the earth’s Zoo on May 31.
surface it might not be around for much longer, Oldenkamp said all the hard
unless people can stop the deforestization.” work she put into her 11-page proposal has paid off.
Until then, Oldenkamp has some local activities “I am starting to learn more about the grant
planned with the GRCC Biodiversity Club, which writing process and really hope to continue to
she is the founding member and president of. apply for other summer research grants while I am
“On April 10, the club will be working with completing my degree,” Oldenkamp said.
The Land Conservancy of West Michigan to help
build turtle habitats at the Lamberton Lake Fen,”
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By Christina Kim
With Jodi Desrosiers, roller derby player
Editor-in-Chief
Michael Cook/Collegiate
Jodi Desrosiers prepares for a bout
against the Derby Dames during the
Grand Raggidy Roller Girls (GRRG)
Skate for Charity Night on March 24.
Desrosier skates for the GRRG All Star
team.
Q&A
Jodi Desrosiers, or Hodi Chitt
as she’s known in the roller derby
world, is a former GRCC student
who has found a love for a sport
that’s a little off the beaten path.
According to the Derby
News Network, modern roller
derby was started in 2001 in
Austin, TX. Now governed by
the Women’s Flat Track Derby
Association (WFTDA) the sport
has set rules, safety regulations,
regions, and tournaments. Hodi
Chitt answered some of The
Collegiate’s questions about the
sport:
Who do you play for?
I play for the Grand Raggidy
Roller Girls League’s All Star
team. The League is made up of
two different teams, the All Stars
and the G-RAP Attack!
What’s your position? They
have those, right?
The Grand Raggidy Roller Girls will be skating against the
Cincinnati Roller Girls on April 24 at Rivertown Sports.
Tickets are $15 at the door.
For mor information, visit grandraggidyrollergirls.com
Yes, there’s a jammer, a back,
inside, and outside blocker, and a
pivot. I usually am the jammer or
the back blocker.
What’s your favorite part about
roller derby?
I think that my favorite part of
this is the rush you get when
you’re skating in from of a
crowd. It adds so much more into
playing! I also have enjoyed the
friendships I’ve made through
it. All the ladies that play are the
nicest ever; I’m the youngest in
the league, so they all look after
me.
What are the teams like?
Our teams are so amazing. We
have so much fun together and
can just let loose and be ourselves.
It’s the best feeling ever.
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April 7, 2010
Taking
in Peru
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world, and there we will swim,”
Douglas said. “There is this frog
up there, the scrotum frog, that is
very interesting. It is a large frog
and kind of endangered.”
Other wildlife specific to
the area includes the condors of
Colca Canyon.
“Colca Canyon is apparently
quiet and beautiful, and then
these big condors come sweeping
in, like pterodactyls flying in,”
Douglas said. “It’s something
you’ve got to see; you can’t read
it in a book.”
This is Douglas’ first trip to
the area, and says he hopes to
continue to do a trip like this
every year. He also said he hopes
to include New Zealand and
Indonesia in his future trips.
“I can talk all day in zoology,
and the students appreciate it,
but you just learn so much more
by experiencing it,” Douglas said.
“Even a casual observer on a trip
like this will know more than a
lot of people who have Ph.D.s,
just because they have seen it.”
Douglas said the trip to Peru
helps give students hands-on
observation to accompany the
formal education they learn in
the classroom at GRCC.
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News 7
8 Opinion
Earth day celebrates
Cumulative exams ensure that 40 years in 2010
students retain knowledge
In the “Exam not
required” article of this
issue, News Editor Dave
Westra explored GRCC
exam regulations, or
lack thereof.
While it is not
necessarily bad that
final cumulative exams
are not required, the
vague and subjective
rules for end of year
assessments are taken
for granted by some
teachers.
Final exams are not
only a way for teachers
to determine what
students achieved in the
long weeks of class, but
also a way for teachers
to assess themselves.
If students do not
do well on an exam
that a teacher believes
is an accurate test of
the knowledge that
should have been
gained, perhaps there is
a flaw in the teacher’s
methods.
It is also true that
many of the universities
and colleges that
students will transfer
to will have major final
exams.
If GRCC students are
Google avoids censorship in China
By MCT Campus
The price of doing
business in China always
has been steep for Internet
companies: Play by the
repressive rules dictated
by China’s communist
government or else. For
Google, the price grew too
steep.
Google moved its
Chinese search engine,
Google.cn, to Hong
Kong last week, ending
a frustrating four-year
experiment that tried to
demonstrate how Internet
openness could coexist with
repressive government.
The demonstration is over.
Peaceful coexistence is not
possible. So Google struck
a blow for freedom of
speech in a land that won’t
recognize it.
This was inevitable,
given the untenable position
in which Google found itself.
The company announced
in January that Google.
cn would stop filtering
out anything the Chinese
government deems politically
sensitive, described then
by a journalist colleague to
Chicago Tribune columnist
Clarence Page as the four
T’s: Tibet, Taiwan, torture
and Tiananmen, along with
Editorial
not forced to hone and
perfect their study and
exam skills now, the
likelihood that they will
have success on future
exams is low. A GRCC
student gets used to the
lack of final exams, and
then when it is time
to transfer to a stricter
college, the study habits
supposedly learned at
GRCC are lacking.
By having a
cumulative exam at
the end of a semester,
students have the
ability to see if they
have actually retained
the knowledge, not just
memorized it for the day
of the tests. Only then
violence and pornography.
The Chinese government
responded this month
that Google would face
“consequences” if it did so.
What tipped the balance
from uneasy trade off to
confrontation? Chinese
hackers launched cyber
attacks in January aimed at
Google’s source code and the
Gmail accounts of Chinese
human rights activists.
Google wanted to protect
itself and its users from a
hostile state.
Google always knew
that opening an Internet
site in China would be
challenging. The Web thrives
on openness; China thrives
on control. The country’s
relatively open economy
twins with a secretive and
repressive political system
that demands obedience to
government and harshly
punishes dissidents.
Google weighed all this
when it launched Google.
cn and determined that “the
benefits to increased access
to information for people
in China and a more open
Internet outweighed our
discomfort in agreeing to
censor some results.”
Google prided itself on
being relatively more open
than Baidu on sensitive
can a student draw on
that information later in
their career.
A cumulative
final exam shouldn’t
necessarily be required,
but some standards
should be set.
It’s not right that
some teachers take
easier, not necessarily
better routes to assess
students’ knowledge.
While no one really
enjoys the stress and
time it takes to do
proper end-of-semester
exams, both students
and teachers benefit
from them.
There is a reason
why most major
universities have distinct
and qualitative final
exam policies, and GRCC
should join the ranks.
Only then will GRCC
live up to the potential
of its mission “to provide
the community with
learning opportunities
that enable people to
achieve their goals.”
Students need
to actually learn the
knowledge they are
paying for, in order to
achieve their goals.
topics. Google, which
employs 700 people in China,
also operates a research
and development center,
advertising sales offices and
a mobile phone business
there. Now that Google.cn
has relocated to Hong Kong,
where China still abides
by the “one country, two
systems” scheme allowing
for more openness of
expression, it’s unclear what
will happen to Google’s other
Chinese business interests;
China reacted angrily to the
company’s action.
Google will survive
without China. The real
losers will be China’s 1.3
billion citizens, many of
whom are Web-savvy and
pushing against boundaries
set by their government.
Some of them even laid
flowers at Google’s Chinese
headquarters during this
conflict to demonstrate
support. Those people
deserve unfettered access to
information.
The Bottom Line:
Google did what it had
to do. Conducting business
as usual would put Chinese
users in jeopardy.
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April 7, 2010
Hippie. Flower child.
Tree-hugger. Activist.
“Going green” has
always come with good and
bad connotations. People
who conserved energy and
recycled used to be called
hippies or tree-huggers. If
you’re unsure what a hippie
is, just ask a baby boomer. StephanieSicard
The first Earth Day was
in 1970, and was created celebrating Earth Month and
by Senator Gaylord Nelson. featuring stories, shows and
Shortly after Earth Day came movies about global climate
the formation of EPA, the change.
Environmental Protection So how can the average
Agency. 2010 marks the person make a difference, or
fortieth anniversary of Earth would it even matter?
Day. Going green used to
Before 1970 there was mean going broke as well
no way to legally punish but now thanks to the wide
factories that spewed toxins spread demand companies
into the air or rivers. are making affordable
Although EPA has been products. Meijer Stores
working for over 40 years, it even carry products made
wasn’t until recently, within by Seventh Generation, a
the last decade or so, that the company specializing in
green movement has become affordable green organic
not only a necessity but dare products.
I say, chic? Buying local produce
With celebrities such is always a plus, albeit a
as Leonardo DiCaprio and difficult feat to pull of in
Natalie Portman flaunting Michigan winters. Try as we
their eco-friendly lifestyle, might, Michigan has never
the younger generation been known for its pineapple
has someone to look up crops. However with spring
to besides Al Gore, or Ed in full bloom, the farmer’s
Begley, Jr. markets return and fresh
Magazines and news Michigan produce abounds.
networks have started Besides buying energy
efficient light bulbs and
appliances, something as
simple as unplugging the cell
phone charger when not in
use can save energy as well
as lower the electricity bill.
The Bottom Line:
If enough people do
these little things to help,
maybe in another 40 years,
there won’t be a need for an
Earth Day.
C
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StephanieOpinion@yahoo.com
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interested in your opin-
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journalism centers on the
long-standing tradition of
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Nick
Westgate
“I don’t really
know, I’m not
really a green
guy.”
By MCT Campus
The primary obstacle
for young adults seeking to
complete a college degree
isn’t that their public schools
failed to prepare them or
that their colleges somehow
alienated them to the point
of dropping out. It’s money.
Even solidly middle-class
families can seldom cough
up the more than $160,000
that private college will cost
over four years. Working-
class families must struggle
to send their children to
public colleges, which cost
anywhere from several
thousand dollars a year for
live-at-home commuters
to $25,000 a year for
students at the University of
California.
The federal government
has spent extraordinary
sums each year for student
loans that helped put
more Americans through
college. But much of that
Congress should update electronic privacy laws
By MCT Campus
In 1986, cell phones
were an expensive novelty,
GPS tracking was only a
dream, texting had yet to be
invented and only 30 million
computers were in use in
the United States. That’s the
year Congress passed the
Electronic Communications
Privacy Act, establishing the
standards in effect to this
day for government access to
e-mail and other electronic
communications in criminal
investigations.
The law has been
changed only slightly
over those 24 years and
desperately needs an
overhaul. The only people
defending the status quo are
those still using their Apple
What do you do to “go green”?
Eric
Williams
“I do because of
the money but
not really for the
enivronment.”
Opinion
money, it turns out, has
been wasted. Unbelievably
enough, the government has
spent billions on interest
payments to private banks
instead of on needy students.
This wasteful and at times
scandal-plagued expenditure
of taxpayer money finally
ended with the approval this
week of the federal budget
reconciliation act. The
new law will eliminate the
private-lender subsidy and
have the government make
loans directly to students.
The change is expected
to save more than $60 billion
over 11 years, money that
will be plowed into more
student aid.
Up to now, the federal
money was used to subsidize
interest payments to the
private lenders who actually
made the loans. The
government also guaranteed
the loans. This has been
a lucrative, risk-free profit
center for private lenders, so
Mac Plus, which also was
introduced in 1986.
Congress at long last
is taking this on at the
urging of a broad coalition
of technology companies
and advocacy groups. They
Photo by MCT Campus
Carolynn
Gay
“I don’t, but my
grandparents to recycle when I
recycle.”
Graphic by MCT Campus
desirable a business that they
at times provided kickbacks
to universities that would list
them as preferred lenders.
In some cases, financial aid
officers at certain colleges
held stock options in lending
companies. After accusations
by the attorney general of
New York, several lenders
and universities paid fines
and agreed to a new code of
conduct.
Any smart business
leader knows that to cut
costs, you cut out the
middleman, yet this system
persisted for years after the
public became aware that
can help lawmakers set a
clear standard that balances
the right to privacy with
law enforcement’s need
to protect the public. The
law now is a muddle of
inconsistencies that befuddle
service providers and law
enforcement alike.
For example, today
police and other agencies
need a search warrant to
access e-mails less than
180 days old, but e-mails
older than that or stored
on an Internet “cloud”
service do not. A court
order should be required
for all e-mails, GPS tracking
information, monitoring
of text messages and any
similar activity. These
proposals should not affect
government investigations
Leonardo Travis
Beiter Talsma
“I do care, I try “I ride the bus to
school.”
can.”
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billions of dollars were being
spent to create banking
profits rather than a better-
educated nation. The profits
in the student loan business
were good enough for
lenders to invest in lobbyists
and campaign contributions,
largely to GOP congressmen
who now complain that the
new law is a killer of private-
sector jobs. In fact, the jobs
were private sector only in
name; they were paid for by
taxpayers.
What the private lenders
did provide was a range
of loan packages to meet
individual students’ needs.
The Bottom Line:
There’s no reason the
federal government can’t
do the same, and for a lot
more students with college
dreams.
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involving national security
or terrorism, which are
guided by a different set
of laws. But for routine
criminal investigations,
Congress should give private
electronic information and
communications the same
level of protection as paper
ones, regardless of the
platform in which they were
created or the time that’s
elapsed since they were sent.
The Bottom Line:
It’s about time that
Congress reevaluates the
privacy laws around the new
and growing technology.
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Student Soapbox
Mary
Miller
“I always recycle
my papers, and
reuse bags.”
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Looking back through Alice’s Wonderland adventures
Critical Review By Jacqueline Prins
A&E Editor
S
now White quietly awaited her prince
to come, Cinderella found a way to hers,
and Alice fell down a rabbit hole. Unlike
the Disney princesses that preceded her,
Alice had a unique childlike curiosity based on
Lewis Carroll’s classic “Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland.”
Carroll’s writing makes the possibilities for
taking Alice to the big screen endless. Imagine
falling into a hole in the ground, and passing
cupboards, doors, and jars of orange marmalade.
Picture yourself in a garden where the flowers
tower above you, a blue caterpillar stares you in the
eye as a hookah alphabet evaporates into the weeds
and butterflies have wings that resemble loaves of
bread.
With scenes like this, interpretations of the
classic seem filled with infinite possibility, which
is why there have been so many versions of the
classic tale.
“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” was
published in 1865, after first being titled, “Alice’s
Adventures Underground.” John Tenniel is the
original illustrator.
“Through the Looking Glass” was published
in 1871, and follows Alice’s journey back to
John Tenniel is the original illustrator of Alice from Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland.” The book was published in 1865 and six years later “Through the
Looking Glass” was published.
“ ”
‘Would you tell me, please,’
said Alice, a little timidly, ‘why
you are painting those roses?’
Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Wonderland. Both of the Disney “Alice in
Wonderland” movies combine elements from both
of the books to create a unique vision of Alice’s
adventures.
Even before Disney took Alice to the silver
screen, “Alice’s Wonderland,” a Disney short film
was created. It is a silent film released in 1923, in
which Alice is played by Virginia Davis.
The black and white film narrates with
short sentences here and there, such as “What
Alice saw would make any young girl’s heart
flutter so that night, when the sandman came…”
Where the words left off, the combination of
live action and animation pick up. The film was
only ten minutes long and chronicled Alice’s trip to
a cartoon studio and her dreams after.
Illustration by John Tenniel
April 7, 2010
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“ ”
Ages of Alice
1865
In the 1930s, Mickey Mouse took a trip to Instead, she finds the Dodo bird and of course,
Wonderland in a short piece titled, “Thru Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. Originally “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
the Mirror.” He jumps through she does not meet them until The Hatter opened his eyes very
his living room mirror where “Through the Looking Glass.” is published by Lewis Carroll and
he meets and dances with the The rabbit then, as he does in wide on hearing this; but all he illustrated by John Tenniel. Six
Queen of Hearts. the book, mistakes her for a years later, “Through the Looking
In 1951, Disney’s “Alice in housemaid, and Alice finds said was ‘Why is a raven like a Glass” is published and Alice
Wonderland” begins with a herself in trouble when returns to Wonderland.
blond-haired and blue- she outgrows the small writing desk?’
eyed Alice chasing cottage on the shore.
a curious rabbit
down a rabbit
Disney
adds
then
another
Lewis Carroll
hole. Kathryn twist from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 1923
Beaumont “Through
plays Alice, t h e Virginia Davis plays a young
and also Looking Wonderland” is the way it breathes life into a Alice in the ten-minute short film,
p l a y s Glass,” child’s imagination, but also intrigues people of all “Alice’s Wonderland.” This silent
ages.
with the
Alice’s curiosity shines through in many of her
film depicts Alice’s trip to a cartoon
garden studio, and the dream she has
a n d conversations. Even when she meets the Five and
Two who are painting the Queen’s roses red, she afterward.
does not hesitate to speak her mind.
“‘Would you tell me, please,’ said Alice, a
little timidly, ‘why you are painting those roses?’”
Lewis Carroll writes in “Alice’s Adventures in 1936
Jacqueline Prins/Collegiate
Wonderland.”
In the 2010 “Alice in Wonderland,” director Tim Mickey Mouse goes to Wonderland
Burton creates a stark view of Wonderland since in “Thru the Mirror.” He dances
Alice’s first visit. Although even in this version she
does not go through a looking glass, she still falls
with the Queen of Hearts and
down the classic rabbit hole we have come to know quickly faces the king’s wrath.
and love.
Alice is older now, and after the death of her
father she is facing an unwanted marriage proposal.
talking Luckily, her escape to Wonderland provides her, 1939
flowers. once again, a release from the mundane reality
T h e facing her. David Hall illustrates “Alice in
advice Johnny Depp’s portrayal of the Mad Hatter fits Wonderland” for Disney’s animated
from the his whimsical yet magical disposition. She meets a motion picture. The illustrations are
dark and grim Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum and
Wendy in c a t e r p i l l a r,
a Red Queen who hopes to destroy her with the
deemed very dark. Interrupted by
the Disney the Cheshire World War II, production is halted.
animated film cat, and the terrible Jabberwocky.
“Peter Pan,” mad tea party Anne Hathaway’s White Queen character
which was being are all from seems distant and removed, however her vow to do
filmed at the same “Alice’s Adventures no harm fits this aloof attitude.
time. in Wonderland.” What The 2010 “Alice in Wonderland” is truly eye 1945
One of the songs wonderful characters they candy, however it cannot compete with Disney’s
originally made for “Alice in are for a place like Wonderland. 1951 version, which provides Aldous Huxley writes an
Wonderland,” titled “Beyond the Imagine what it would be like if much more depth into Carroll’s unsuccessful screenplay of “Alice
Laughing Sky,” was cut from the everyone spoke their mind like lucid characters, and is overall a in Wonderland” that is ultimately
better adaptation of the classic.
film and while the melody stayed the March Hare.
The truth is no matter which
rejected by Disney.
the same, the words were changed to “I have an excellent idea, let’s change
fit in “Peter Pan,” according to Disney.org. It is the subject!” Said the March Hare in Disney’s version of Alice you prefer, any
called “The Second Star to the Right.” 1951 version of “Alice in Wonderland.” tale that has Mome Raths, rabbits
An orange, not black, Dinah watches her “The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on in waistcoats, or rocking horse
flies is my cup of tea. 1951
disappear. hearing this; but all he said was ‘Why is a raven
Within no time, Alice is floating in a bottle like a writing desk?” Said the Mad Hatter in Lewis White Rabbit
Disney releases “Alice in
in her pool of tears, but she never encounters the Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”
Wonderland.” Ed Wynn plays the
mouse as she does in the book. The best quality of “Alice’s Adventures in
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Mad Hatter, and Kathryn Beaumont
plays Alice, and also Wendy, from
Disney’s “Peter Pan.” Filming for
both pictures overlap. “Beyond the
Laughing Sky” is replaced with “In
a World of My Own.” The melody is
“Twas brillig, and the slithy toves used in “Peter Pan” instead, in the
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; song “The Second Star to the Right.”
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
2010
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that Disney releases “Alice in
catch! Wonderland.” Mia Wasikowska
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun plays Alice, Johnny Depp plays the
The frumious Bandersnatch!” Mad Hatter, and Helena Bonham
Carter plays the Red Queen. Tim
Burton directs Alice’s return to the
From “Through the Looking fantasy realm.
Glass”
Illustrations by John Tenniel
These are some of John Tenniel’s original illustrations. Left, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum meet Alice
in “Through the Looking Glass.” Right, the playing cards are painting the queen’s roses red, from “Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland.”
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Allen spins southern charm

“
Review By Stephanie Sicard
Opinion Editor unusual attire aside, Win hides a family
secret that everyone seems to know, but

M
ysteries and secrets abound
‘I was going to keep it from no one speaks of. Yet Win has chosen to
let Emily into his life, and perhaps if she’s
in Mullaby, North Carolina. you because you were better lucky, into his secret world as well.

”
The enchanting novel “The Allen’s novel is a creative, descriptive
Girl Who Chased the Moon” off not knowing.’ masterpiece and each chapter ends with
written by Sarah Addison Allen follows a gasp, enticing you to continue on. Each
the main character Emily Benedict. Emily Sarah Addison Allen character has a rich past full of secrets
moves to Mullaby after her mother dies, The Girl Who Chased the Moon they’re not willing to share with the reader
and attempts to piece together a life in a just yet.
town that already knows her. You can’t wait to find out what Courtesy of Bantum
Or maybe the main character is Julia figuratively and literally, standing about happened between Julia and Sawyer, what Books Publishing
Winterson who was the high school outcast eight feet tall. in the world the Mullaby Lights are, and
of Mullaby over a decade ago. Julia moved Grandpa Vance can sum up the story why the Coffey family doesn’t venture out Sarah Addison
back to Mullaby to sell off her father’s in one quote. “I haven’t spoken of it in after dark. Allen’s third
restaurant and is constantly trying to elude 20 years,” Vance said. “And I was going to And eventually you discover just what novel, “The Girl
Sawyer, the devastatingly handsome former keep it from you because you were better it was that Dulcie did and why she left Who Chased the
classmate who seems smitten with her. off not knowing.” town for good, and whether or not she was Moon,” is set in
However in reality the story centers Emily also meets Win Coffey, a actually to blame. North Carolina,
around Dulcie Benedict, Emily’s late charming and peculiar boy who although Rush out and buy “The Girl Who where she was
mother. Dulcie left Mullaby shortly after he is still in high school is often seen in Chased the Moon” by Sarah Addison Allen. raised. Allen is
high school and moved to Boston where linen suits with a bow tie. H i s You’ll instantly be captivated by the people currently resid-
she became a philanthropist, activist and of Mullaby North Carolina and won’t be ing in Asheville,
NC and work-
Emily’s mother. Although this is how Emily able to put the book down until you
ing on her next
remembers her, she soon finds out that know all of Mullaby’s secrets and novel.
the residents of Mullaby have a much magic.
different view.
Dulcie Benedict did
something awful in Mullaby,
something that no one Allen wrote two
really wants to tell previous books
us Emily as she struggles entitled “Gar-
to form a relationship den Spells”
with her and “The Sugar
grandfather who up Queen” and are
until recently she available at your
didn’t even know local bookstore
existed. Grandpa or library.
Vance is a giant
in the town
of Mullaby,
April 7, 2010
New trend
emerges in
facial hair
By Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz
MCT Campus
David Petersen, a barber
for 25 years, has seen countless
facial hair trends come and
go. Yet he’s perplexed, in an
envious sort of way, by the scruff
he’s seeing on today’s young
professionals: Clean, tight beards
showcasing two days of growth
--a perfect two-day shadow.
“I cannot keep my own facial
hair as neat as these boys are,”
said Petersen, co-owner of Seattle-
based Rudy’s Barbershops,
which also has locations in
Los Angeles and Portland, Ore.
“Where are they learning to
groom themselves so well?”
The longer whiskers
popular a few years ago — the
neat-yet-full beards that pop
sociologists credited to a metro
sexual backlash— are rare
today, Petersen said. From the
architect to the coffee barista,
clean, shadowed facial hair is in.
“The look is a David Beckham,
with shorter hair and a shorter
beard,” said Hannah James,
a barber and cosmetologist.
The reasons for the shift to
carefully kept fuzz are anyone’s
guess: Maybe today’s young
professionals are yesterday’s
bearded hipsters all grown up,
or maybe they’re neatening up
in anticipation of an economic
rebound. Petersen speculates
that professional men today may
just have more time for grooming
than they did during the
workaholic ‘90s and early 2000s.
Petersen said older men also
are sporting the two-day shadow,
and showing off their gray hair.
Short and clean may be in,
but the possibilities are endless.
“I was once told by a
friend that women invented
fashion because they can’t
grow facial hair,” James said.
For more on how to
achieve this look, visit
www.thecollegiatelive.com.
Matt Den Boer
“Facebook.”
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Gallery
from the
HSO hosts Fashion
Show
The Hispanic Student
Organization will be
holding a fashion show on
April 15. The event will be
held from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
in the Raider Grille.
Rainbow Carpet Affair
StandOut will be holding
its third annual drag show
Stephanie Sicard/Collegiate on April 9. The event will
Fashion merchandising student Raven Jones demonstrates which colors and take place in the Raider
patterns look best on GRCC student Demarius Warren at the What Not to Wear Grille starting at 6 p.m.
seminar, part of Love Your Body Week presented by Womens Issues Now.
Fashion student teaches
Free parking on
Earth Day
style through demos On Earth Day, April 22,
students who carpool will
be able to get free parking.
Students will need to
take a ticket at either the
By Stephanie Sicard
Opinion Editor Bostwick parking ramp
A great or the Lyon St. parking
A
s part of Love Your Body Week at GRCC, a wardrobe can ramp, sign it and give it
to the parking attendant
special What Not to Wear seminar helped
women understand what clothing is best
begin with a when they leave. You must
for their body. few basics have more than one person
Raven Jones, a Fashion merchandising student in your car upon exit to
Basic black trousers with a qualify.
at GRCC, discussed work place attire, and how to
chose which color is the best for your complexion. straight leg
“If you put on something and you notice it more A line skirt or pencil skirt Grand River Winds
than you notice yourself, it’s not a good choice,” in a neutral color
Fitted blazer
Jones said. The Community Winds
Jones said that often times women wear too Ensemble will perform a
many accessories, and need to pay attention to If something doesn’t fit you
free concert. The concert
what they are wearing. Jones also explained how properly, have it tailored for
will be held at the St.
a person with a larger frame can pull off a larger a proper fit.
Cecilia Music center on
print, whereas a person with a shorter stature April 18 from 6 p.m. to 7
would need to wear a smaller print. Add accessories and make
p.m.
“Avoid plunging necklines at work, or too short sure you don’t wear too
many at once!
of a hemline,” Jones said.
According to Yirssi Bergman, GRCC student and
Girl Scout Cookies
member of Women’s Issues Now (WIN), last year
WIN presented a Love Your Body Day, but this year Girl Scout cookies will be
the event was expanded to a week.
“Fashion fades, available for sale by the
“This week is to teach women to celebrate their only style remains Black Student Union from
bodies,” Bergman said. April 5 to April 8. They
Love Your Body Week also included free belly the same.” will be available out side
dancing lessons, a lecture entitled Women and the ~Coco Chanel Winchester Alley from
Media by Dr. Frank Conner, and a viewing of Chris 9:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Rock’s documentary Good Hair.
Student Shoutout
What do you read besides textbooks?
Olivia Mundwiler Jaimeeka Cody Cramer Melissa Slater Cory Johnston
Jackson
“I’m reading “I read books “I read the “A little bit of “Magazines like
‘Fight Club’ right from the newspaper.” everything.” ‘Sports
now.” library.” Illustrated.’”
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Clothing makers expand
their recycling efforts
By Susan Carpenter
MCT Campus
Most people wouldn’t be caught
dead wearing a shower curtain in public.
Few would cover themselves in spent
coffee grounds, or wrap their bodies in
old fishing nets, at least knowingly.
But there’s a growing trend among
clothing manufacturers who are turning
all kinds of trash into fashion these
days. Literally.
Dated audiotapes. Old signs and
office chairs. They’re all being recycled
into clothes that are sold by well-known
retailers.
“Our evolution toward using trash
as our supply chain came through
our desire to reduce the impact our
clothing has on the planet,” said Jen
Rapp, director of communications
and public relations for Patagonia, the
Ventura, Calif.-based manufacturer that
is largely credited with creating, then
mainstreaming the trash-to-fashion
trend.
In 1993, Patagonia began recycling
old plastic water and soda bottles, and
then combining them with a small
amount of virgin polyester to make
polar fleece jackets. More recently it’s
expanded the concept with old shower
curtains, recycled garments, cutting-
room floor scraps and polyester signs
that are broken down to their molecular
level, spun into threads, and woven
into textiles. Then they’re cut into long
underwear, technical gear such as rain
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jackets, and other items that give no
hint of their junky past.
Recycling plastics into clothes “is
nothing new and it’s a good idea,” says
Gregory Unruh, director of the Lincoln
Center for Ethics in Global Management
at the Thunderbird School of Global
Management in Phoenix and author
of the book “Earth, Inc.” “The trick is
that the material recovery costs are cost-
effective, and usually they are. It makes
a lot of sense, and a lot of companies are
trying to move in that direction.”
Unruh cited Patagonia, Capri Sun
and Coca-Cola, the latter of which has
long recycled its soda pop empties
into its own branded clothing line.
H&M, Sears’ suit maker EcoGir and
the handbag line Matt & Nat also use
recycled plastic bottle textiles in their
designs. According to Unruh, recycling
waste uses less energy and creates
fewer greenhouse gas emissions than
sourcing virgin materials.
“There’s new technology to make
apparel out of recycled products other
than plastic bottles,” said Harris Liu,
president of Southern California apparel
broker Caerus & Muse.
Liu is hoping his Asian textile
manufacturer, which fuses spent coffee
grounds with yarns made from recycled
plastic and spins them into athletic gear
that controls odor and blocks UV rays,
will expand its contract with Starbucks
in Taiwan to coffee and fast food chains
in the U.S.
16 Diversions April 7, 2010

American Gothic
By Ryan Barnes
Comics
Collegiate staff

Puzzles
Across
1 Anti-fur org. 41 Classify
5 Ambassador’s forte 42 African with pierced lips
9 Eggs on 45 Terminates
14 Oft-palmed cards 48 iPhone, e.g.
15 Prefix with cultural 49 Anaheim players tripping over their own
16 H.H. __: author known as Saki feet? 52 Longhorn State sch.
17 Conks 53 Word in an oxymoronic Michael J. Fox
18 Central Chinese tourist city movie title
19 Tall tale tellers 57 Pittsburgh players from old Algiers?
20 San Francisco players not paying atten- 62 Omega’s opposite
tion? 63 Eye, on the Eiffel Tower
23 Haberdashery accessory 64 Anchovy containers
24 URL ending for 52-Across 65 Trig function
25 Minnesota players from old Bangkok? 66 Double Dutch need
32 Hot time in Alsace 67 Slurpee alternative
35 DH’s stats 68 Adjust a little
36 Artist M.C. known for illusionary work 69 Overwhelms
37 Snacks at the bar 70 Crows’ cries
39 Robert E. Lee’s org.

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Down Answers on page 17

1 Blue Ribbon brewer 9 Mötley Crüe duo?
26 Voice amplifier,
2 Bacteria in rare meat 10 Destroy
briefly
3 Plains dwelling 11 Pesky biter
27 German steelworks
4 Balance sheet heading 12 Throws wide of the base,
town
5 Hack with a meter say
28 English johns,
6 Backwoods “anti” 13 Sailor’s “Mayday!”
briefly
7 Jagged rock 21 Duo
29 Chain restaurant
8 Faint hues 22 __ fixe: obsession
with a blue roof
30 Dweeb
31 Mlle., in Barcelona
32 A sufficient amount,
in slang
33 Oompah brass
34 List shortener: Abbr.
38 NBC show where
Chase, Belushi, Radner
et al. got their big
breaks
40 Director Lee
43 Recoup
44 Machu Picchu
builder
46 Makes dirty
47 Derogatory remark
50 __ borealis
51 Radio interference
54 City on the Erie
Canal
55 Take again, as vows
56 Mountain curves
57 Huff and puff
58 Church section
59 Emu cousin of South
America
60 Cry of pain
61 Sherlock Holmes’s
smoke
62 Perform
April 7, 2010
Diversions 17
Horoscopes

io
orp
Aquarius
ius
Sc i t t ar
Libra Sag Capricorn Pisces
Sept. 23-Oct. 22 Oct. 23-Nov.21 Nov. 22-Dec. 21 Dec. 22-Jan. 19 Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Feb. 19-March 20
Go sniff the flowers, All polar bears are School’s almost Go dance in the Hey, what’s your Ostriches can grow
unless you have left “pawed.” over, you can do rain, but not the sign? up to nine feet tall.
allergies. this! lightning.
Taurus

Gemini

Virgo
s
rie

Cancer Leo
A

March 21-April 19 April 20-May 20 May 21-June 20 June 21-July 22 July 23-Aug. 22 Aug. 23-Sept. 22
Never smile at a Free parking at Elephants cannot Wave to the parking “Tigers love pepper, Did you know an
crocodile, just keep GRCC if you carpool jump, and are the lot attendants on the they hate armadillo can hold
your distance from on Earth Day! only animal with way out today! cinnamon.” its breath for 6 min-
crocodiles in four knees. utes?
general.

Solutions
Puzzles on page 16

Courtesy MCT Campus

18 Sports April 7, 2010

PressBox
from the
Running with Kevin
By Aaron Barber
Men’s Baseball Collegiate Staff Writer

The air is cold, and a brown slush covers the

April 13 roads. A salty mist from the passing cars hangs in
Vs. Kellogg CC
the air as Kevin Bence makes his way into the Ford
Belknap Park
Fieldhouse.
2 p.m.
Other students are bundled up in their winter
coats and gloves. Kevin just has a light jacket on.
April 17 He’s not cold though. Kevin just finished running.
Vs. Glen Oaks CC Evidence of his dedication comes from the fact
Belknap Park that he just finished a 10 mile run outside while
1 p.m. everyone else was seeking shelter.
The truly impressive thing is that it took him
April 18 just over an hour.
Vs. Davenport JV “I usually run four days a week during the
Belknap Park winter, six in the summer,” Bence said. “Really the
2 p.m. only thing I don’t like running in is cold rain or wet Aaron Barber/Collegiate
snow. I don’t care if it’s snowing, as long as it’s not
like a blizzard, I just don’t like to be wet.” Kevin Bence runs in Grand Rapids, training for the upcoming
Kevin received a Bachelor’s Degree in racing season.
Men’s Golf Mechanical Engineering from Michigan
Technological University (MTU) in the spring of The field was filled with professional runners
April 12 2009 at the age of 20. He’s currently trying to get from around the country, and Kevin Bence finished Kevin
GRCC Invitational into the MBA program at GVSU and taking classes in the top 1.3 percent. Bence’s
Egypt Valley Bence’s training paid off last year. He was able
at GRCC.
to finish in one hour and 33 minutes. That’s an
Stats
Ada, MI Bence gained a passion for running at a young
age. He ran his first race when he was still in average pace of six minutes per mile, for 15.5 miles. Graduated
elementary school. Kevin wants to run faster this year. from Michi-
“It’s been a lot different training without a track gan Tech.
Women’s Softball “My soccer coach told me I should try to run a
season to keep me in shape,” Bence said. “I want to University
5k,” Bence said. “I did it and I really liked it.”
His running career continued while in high keep my mile splits around 5:50 this year.” in 2009.
April 8 school. Bence ran cross country and track for Five minutes and fifty seconds per mile would
Vs. Ancilla College Grandville for four years. He qualified for state in give Kevin a finishing time of one hour and 30 Placed sixti-
Belknap Park cross country his junior and senior seasons. minutes. That time would have been good enough eth in 2009
3 p.m. After high school, Bence joined the cross for forty fourth place overall last year. Fifth Third
country and track teams at MTU, where he “I’m more concerned about time than place,” River Bank
April 13 competed at the NCAA Division II level. Training he added. “Any place better than last year will work Run. He
Vs. Lansing CC at MTU during the fall, winter and spring, Kevin for me. I want to beat more of the professional finished in
Belknap Park really learned to run in the cold. women this year as well.” the top 1.3
3 p.m. “People down here don’t know what a real Aside from the Riverbank Run, Bence competes percent.
winter feels like,” he said. It wasn’t unusual for in numerous running races, varying in distance,
Bence and other runners at MTU to train outside in around West Michigan. This year he’ll try to earn Competed
April 17 victories at the Spring Lake Heritage Festival 5k, in NCAA
Vs. Glen Oaks CC temperatures below zero.
Kevin will put all of his winter training to use and the Gina VanLaar 5k in Allendale. He also wants Division II
Belknap Park to finish in the top five overall at the Ludington cross coun-
1 p.m. in the thirty third annual Fifth Third Riverbank
Run on May 8. Lakestride Half Marathon. try and
The Fifth Third Riverbank Run is a 25 “It’s hard for me to focus on just one race track.
April 20 kilometer, or 15.5 mile running race held in Grand because I want to do well in all of them,” Bence
Vs. Owens CC Rapids. The race is extremely popular because it’s said. “Doing well in the Riverbank Run, finishing Hopes to
Belknap Park the United States Track and Field (USATF) National in the top five in Ludington, winning at Spring complete
4 p.m. Championship for the 25 kilometer distance. In Lake and Allendale, and finishing my first triathlon his MBA at
2009, the race drew in more than 4,600 participants. are things I’d like to do this year.” GVSU.
Kevin raced last year and placed sixtieth.
Griffins Final Home
Game
The GR Griffins Hockey
Duke re-writes Butler’s happy ending
team will have its final home Continued from page 20 Duke shot out to a four-point lead with 12:25 left, but
game of the season on Fri- Butler shot back.
day, April 9. This is the last Bob Knight on the all-time title list and pulled even with Five straight points by Jon Scheyer put Duke up by five
chance to take advantage of Kentucky’s Adolph Rupp. with eight minutes left, but Butler cut it back to three.
dollar beer and hot dog night “I’ve been fortunate to be in eight national Butler was not going away, despite making only 20 of
until next season. championship games,” he said. “And this was a classic. 58 shots and getting out-rebounded.
This was the toughest one and the best one.” Duke vs. Butler was a fitting way to end one of the
It won’t matter to Butler for a long time how close it best tournaments in years, making it sort of silly to think
Whitecaps Opening came to actually pulling this off. Nor that the game will the NCAA is seriously thinking of expanding from 65 to 96
be compared to the 1992 regional-final classic between teams.
Home Game Kentucky and Duke. Duke vs. Butler represented the best of what the sport,
It may be years before Butler players can watch the and the tournament, can be: A fabled program going
The West Michigan replay. against a fable.
Whitecaps minor league But know this: Duke and Butler ended an NCAA You know what some Butler players had to do the day
baseball team will have its tournament to remember with a championship game few of the title game?
opening home game at Fifth will forget. Go to class.
Third Ball Park this Sunday, “I think the thing that should be known about this Butler’s run to the final invigorated a host city that
April 11, at 2 p.m. First 1,000 game is anything can happen in a basketball game,” Butler lives and breathes basketball.
fans will receive free Snug- coach Brad Stevens said. “I know this week I’ve seen more Butler T-shirts than
gies. This sunday is also a The underdog didn’t win, though. The big dogs did. I’ve seen in my life before this weekend,” Stevens said.
Family Day so kids eat free. Butler had not allowed a team to score more than 60 The NCAA is taking a risk in tinkering with something
points in the tournament. It allowed Duke 61 and lost by so magical—especially after the way it ended.
two. “What do my insides feel like?” said Stevens, the Butler
The Bulldogs were as scrappy as their canine coach. “Somewhat empty.”
We want to hear mascot, Blue II, who barked his way through pregame He wasn’t alone.
introductions. Every once in a while you get moments like these in
from you! Duke was the mail carrier trying to shake this pooch. sports and all you can do is sit back and see if the final shot
The longer Duke let Butler hang on, the more the goes in, or doesn’t.
email questions, possibility of an upset lingered. “I’m speechless,” Duke’s Smith said.
comments and concerns to Tied at 36-all with 17:40 left. They’re still in it. He wasn’t alone, either.
grcc_collegiate@yahoo.com Tied at 40-all. Hello, we’re still here.
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The

April 7, 2010
Vol. 54 No.11
Grand Rapids Community College

Orange Crush

No NCAA
title for
Butler
Sports Commentary by Chris
Dufresne
MCT Campus

T
he hard part about real
life, as opposed to movies,
is you can’t edit film on
the two shots star Gordon
Hayward missed in the final five
seconds that would have given
Butler the NCAA title over Duke.
You can’t let Hayward take
the baseline jumper until he
makes it, or do a dozen retakes
on the hold-your-breath half-court
heave at the buzzer that clanked
Alex Carpenter/Collegiate off the rim.
That only works, most times,
A biker cruises down the stairs of the Student Center on March 27. An informal group of riders meet on Wednes- in your dreams, in the driveway.
days to explore different areas of Grand Rapids and the surrounding areas. OK, it worked once, in

Bikers ride in GR
Butler’s gym, for an underdog
Indiana high school team, in
1954, and they made a movie, but
when do sequels ever work?
Duke won, 61-59, not Butler,
and it all came down, along with
the confetti, in front of 70,930
By Christina Kim fans at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Kent trails
Editor-in-Chief Key Fred Meijer M-6 Trail
Down by one in the end,
Hayward’s baseline shot was just

F
long, bounding back toward him
or all those green-minded people who off rim.
can’t afford the latest hybrid-electric- That’s the one he wants back.
runs-off-water car, bikes are a conve- “I thought it was a good shot
nient option. for us,” Hayward said.
GRCC culinary arts student Alex Carpenter Duke center Brian Zoubek
is very familiar with this dual-wheeled mode of was fouled with 3.6 seconds left,
transportation. made one free throw, missed the
“I have been biking ever since I was a little second on purpose, and Hayward
kid, and have always had some type of bike,” streaked upcourt and then let it
Carpenter said. loose.
Carpenter rides with a group of people in Duke guard Nolan Smith’s
Grand Rapids who share in his love of cycling. heart, at this point, was in his
“There is a group of riders throughout throat.
Grand Rapids who meet up on Wednesday “I just thought, ‘please don’t,’
nights,” Carpenter said. “We do a group ride “ Smith said. “It looked good. I
around town. Sometimes we ride out to John was just praying it didn’t go in.”
Ball Park or ride the Kent Trails. Hayward’s teammates also
“Mostly we just watched, and hoped. They were
get out to ride with too young to remember an even
our friends. The rides longer shot Los Angeles Lakers
are put together by star Jerry West made against the
Commute GR bike New York Knicks in the 1970 NBA
shop owner Daniel Finals. That one sent the game
Koert, and anyone is to overtime, although the Lakers
allowed to ride. It’s a lost.
very relaxed ride.” “I thought it was going in,”
Carpenter rides forward Matt Howard said of
for fun and for prac- Hayward’s heave. “That makes it
tical reasons, as well. even a little more devastating. You
Alex Carpenter “I usually bike think that shot is going, and then
for fun, but during it rims out like it did.”
GRCC the summer I try and Hayward knew the odds, but
Student bike as much as pos- there was something about the
sible for transporta- shot when it left his hands.
tion.” “Felt good,” Hayward said.
There has, however, been a problem with “Looked good. Just wasn’t there.
theft. ... Just didn’t go in.”
“This has always been an issue with me Butler didn’t win its first
and part of the reason I don’t bike to school,” national title.
Carpenter said. “It is something that will al- Instead, Duke won its fourth
ways happen unfortunately and I don’t really championship under coach Mike
see any options in fixing it without spending a Krzyzewski, who passed mentor
lot of money.” Two popular biking trails are the Kent Trails and the Fred Meijer
Carpenter has already earned an Associates M-6 Trail. The routes are depicted in the above map.
degree from GRCC in photography. See Duke, Page 18

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