Volume 45, Number 61

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GRAND VALLEY
Grand Valley Lanthorn
Thursday, May 12, 2011
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If you ask Peter Wampler,
he will tell you the students
of Haiti are not very differ-
ent from the students you
might find at Grand Val-
ley State University. They
write out calculus problems
on chalkboards, dream of
being engineers and spend
their Saturday afternoons
studying for big exams.
If you ask Wampler, he
will tell you the image of
Haiti depicted by the media
is not quite the same one he
spent the last few years dis-
covering.
The Haiti Ive seen has
people that are hopeful,
people that are ambitious
and people that are really
amazing, he said. I was
just impressed with the
fact, you know, that its not
that different than any high
school you have here. Its
just that they dont have a
real clear route to get any-
where else from here.
However, as an associ-
ate professor of geology at
GVSU, Wampler believes
he has the tools to help Haiti
heal their land through the
Empowering Haiti through
Education Fund, which is
still in the early stages of
its creation.
Wampler, alongside
GVSU admissions offices
Chris Hendree and students
Jared Kohler and Andrew
Sisson, spent some time
during the month of March
traveling to Haiti to talk to
students and administrators
to try to get a better grasp
on how to get students
ready for the still-budding
scholarship.
We often hear about
stories of students in U.S.
that struggle to pay for col-
lege but in Haiti, even go-
ing to college is not really
an option, Hendree said.
I mean, theres just no
money there at all, theres
no financial aid or anything
like that. So providing this
opportunity for Haitian stu-
dents will give those stu-
dents the skills that they
can use to help rebuild their
country.
The Empowering Haiti
through Education Fund
has two main goals. The
first goal of $30,000, which
Wampler hopes will be met
by January, would make
the scholarship permanent,
but it will take $250,000 to
bring the first Haitian stu-
dent to GVSU.
I would like to have
some of the Haitians come
here and see our students
have them get to know the
Haitians so they can see
a different side of Haiti,
Wampler said. So, I think
it would benefit our stu-
dents and it would benefit
them. Its almost equally
beneficial on both sides.
Ideally, he said, there
would be a contingency of
Haitian students every year
and when they complete
their four-year degree at
GVSU like any other in-
ternational student might
they would return to Haiti
to help the next generation
of students. And though
skeptics might argue that
these students wont return,
Wampler has faith.
Most of the students
weve talked to, we asked
them personally would
you go back if you got this
education? And almost all
of them said yes, he said.
They said that they really
wanted a healthy, strong
Haiti that can be there
home. And they realize
that the only way they can
do that is to have help like
this and bring that back to
Haiti to change Haiti so its
not stuck in this rut of dys-
function. They know that
its dysfunctional and not
working and they know that
it needs to change, and I
think they see this as a way
that can help them.
He said he through his
visits to Haiti, he has come
to understand the promise
and ambition of the people
there and believes it can be
a place of great beauty and
promise if Haitians are em-
powered with the skills and
tools to make it flourish.
Wampler recalls the day
he and his team left a meet-
ing with administrators,
when one of the English
teachers pulled him aside
and told him that he was
excited about what they
were doing he wanted to
be a better English teacher,
he told Wampler, but there
was no way he could get the
training.
Before we left, he
looked me in the eye and
he said, Dont forget about
us. Dont go away and for-
get about us. Ill always
remember that forever I
think, Wampler said. Be-
cause thats the thing - a
lot of people go there and
they do this kind of stuff,
but then they forget. And so
Im convinced that Im not
going to forget.
Visit www.gvsu.edu/Hai-
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Professor seeks support for Haitian student fund
BRIEFS!
DTE Energy awards
GV $38,000 incentive

Grand Valley State
University received a
$38,000 from DTE Energys
Your Energy Savings
program for its 2010
energy conservation
projects, which campus-
wide save the university
$1.4 million annually. The
incentive will help GVSU
ofset energy costs.
The check was accepted
by Terry Pahl, an engineer
in facilities services at
GVSU and Tim Thimmesch,
assistant vice president
of facilities services at the
2011 Energy Conference
and Exhibition hosted by
the Engineering Society
of Detroit and DTE Energy.
Pahl and Thimmesch also
gave a presentation on
utility incentives at the
conference, which took
place in Novi, Mich. on May
10.
DTE Energy provides the
incentives to companies
participating in the Your
Energy Savingsprogram
throughout the state
for their energy saving
measures, such as high
efciency heating and
cooling equipment and
energy saving lighting.
Only one other
organization received an
incentive from DTE Energy,
Detroit Media Partnership.
Pahl said that since 2000,
GVSU has saved $1.3
million in one-time energy
saving projects.
GV NEWS
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GV students place second
at Supply Chain Challenge
A team of four Seidman
College of Business
students took second
place at the 2011 Supply
Chain Challenge April 7-8
hosted by Michigan State
University.
Advisors Ashok Kumar
and Vivek Dalela led
students Greg Rotman,
Anna Veldman, Alexandra
VanderMoere and
Allison Whipple through
competition against 75
participants from 16
universities state and
nation-wide.
For the competition,
MSU - along with several
other major corporations
including Chrysler, Dow
Chemical, Flextronics, IBM
and Motorola developed
a supply chain simulation
in which students had to
decide which suppliers to
use and what modes of
transportation to use for
inbound raw materials.
Teams were measured
on total revenue, order
fulfllment, inventory returns
and proft fgure.
In 2009, the GVSU team
took home second and in
2010, GVSU took frst place
in the competition. Teams
from Ohio State University
took frst place at the 2011
Supply Chain Challenge and
MSU took third.
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By Anya Zentmeyer
GVL News Editor
Courtesy Photo / Peter Wampler
Hope for Haiti: Grand Valley State Universitys Jared Kohler, Andrew Sisson, Chris Hendree and Peter Wampler are pictured above in a classroom in Haiti.
Courtesy Photo / Peter Wampler
Laker pride: Haitian middle schoolers fash Grand Valley State University swag outside of a grade school in Haiti.
Because
thats the
thing - a lot
of people go
there and they
do this kind of
stuff, but then
they forget.
And so Im
convinced that
Im not going
to forget.

- Peter Wampler
Associate professor
of Geology