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Civil rights hero comes to Grand Rapids for documentary screening
by (jtstoner)
Submitted 05-25-2012 under OPINION
Most of the news coming out of Detroit for the last 50 years has been on a trajectory moving from bad to worse. From the implosion of the auto industry to reports of rampant crime, poverty, failing schools and evacuated neighborhoods, public...
GRCC $98.6 million millage loss, campaigners could have done more
by (emberlyvick)
Submitted 05-21-2012 under OPINION
Neither luck nor charm responded to GRCC’s third attempt to attract favorable voters to the polls. The college experienced its third consecutive campaign loss since 2007, a $98.6 million-bond proposal, in a defeat on May 8th. Potential funding...
Poet laureate David Cope initiates first poetry conference in city
by (LorenaSlager)
Submitted 04-02-2012 under LOCAL LIFE
“Poetry as singing speech” is just one way that Grand Rapids Poet Laureate, David Cope, describes his love for the art. Beginning as a child by reciting the 23rd Psalm and reading William Blake, Cope credits his mother with encouraging...
GRCC students, artists, local hip-hop community team up to make change
by (alexfluegel)
Submitted 03-26-2012 under NEWS
Since 1993, national organization Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education) has been fighting poverty and AIDS by educating young women in impoverished areas of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Ghana and Malawi, and the upcoming benefit offers Grand...
For the record: Vertigo Music
by (GRCC Compositio...)
Submitted 03-16-2012 under OPINION
This article was written by Ben Villar, Itza Suarez, Mikaela Chambers, Lexi Rice, and Matt Nortier for EN 102H: Digital Literacy at GRCC. She vigorously washed her hands, then washed them a second time just to be sure they were clean. Her fingertips...
Gripping air with Aerial 4 Me
by (GRCC Compositio...)
Submitted 03-15-2012 under LOCAL LIFE
This article was written by Shelby Stowe, Sydney Murphy, Stephanie Lara, and Austin Jeltes for EN 102H: Digital Literacy at GRCC. Upside down, the blood rushes to your head. The muscles in your legs tighten as they intertwine with the strands...
Reading towards a brighter future
by (GRCC Compositio...)
Submitted 03-07-2012 under OPINION
This article was written by Samantha Wiers, Kelsey Sterkenburg, Katie Feikema, and Jared Bosveld for EN 102H: Digital Literacy at GRCC. One book. One hundred and forty-four pages. Sixteen hundred...
"Then They Came For Me": Iranian-Canadian political prisoner to speak at Fountain Street Church
by (Rob Cole)
Submitted 11-07-2011 under NEWS
Newsweek journalist Maziar Bahari, who was detained by Iranian security forces and held in solitary confinement for 118 days, brings his story of survival to Grand Rapids this week. In the wake of the contested 2009 elections in Iran, Bahari was in...
Playing for keeps - Eli Rodas' journey to graduation
by (GRPScommunications)
Submitted 08-23-2011 under NONPROFITS
“I love Creston. It’s a great school.” Eli Rodas learned how much he loved his school when he was several states away. After attending Central High his first three years of high school, a family move put Eli in Georgia for the...
GRCC Art.Downtown. 2011 Project at SiTE:LAB
by (DwellingPlace)
Submitted 04-08-2011 under NONPROFITS
Check out what's going on at SiTE:LAB on Friday, April 15 for Art.Downtown. 2011 with this sneak peak by GRCC students and videographer Michael Cook.