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OCTOBER 8, 2012 Grand Valley Lanthorn
BRIEFS
N E W S
GV food pantry seeks
donations:
The GVSU food pantry in
the Womens Center is part-
nering with the program
Access of West Michigan to
host a campus food-drive.
Staff members will get a
paper bag in their mailbox,
which they will be asked
to fll with donations for
the Student Food Pantry
at specifc locations by
Monday, Oct. 15.
Many students on GV-
SUs campus utilize the food
pantry, so every donation
made is crucial. Common
items are Ramen noodles,
pasta, cereal, toilet paper,
shampoo and conditioner.
For more information
about the food pantry, con-
tact the Womens Center at
(616) 331-2748.
Womens Commission
talks mentors
Grand Valley State Univer-
sitys Womens Commission
will have a meeting on Mon-
day, Oct. 8, that will discuss
the importance of mentors.
Patty Stow Bolea, as-
sociate professor of social
work as well as a Pew Fac-
ulty Teaching and Learning
Center faculty fellow, will
host Mentors, Mentees,
and Proteges at noon in
the Kirkhof Center, room
1142. Bolea will discuss the
requirements and expecta-
tions of becoming a mentor.
For further information
on this event, please contact
the Womens Commission
at wcommission@gvsu.edu
or go to www.gvsu.edu/
commission.
Student veterans
donate $2,000
The Student Veteran Organi-
zation at Grand Valley State
University donated $2,000 to
the Wounded Warriors Trau-
matic Brain Injury Project,
which is a collaboration be-
tween GVSU and Mary Free
Bed Rehabilitation Hospital.
This donation was given on
Oct. 3.
The project is supported
with funding from the De-
partment of Defense, which
gives outpatient rehabilita-
tion services to wounded
soldiers with brain injuries,
helping them to recover as
effciently as possible.
For more information,
visit www.maryfreebed.
com/woundedwarriors
Registration available
for leadership reception
Registration is still available
for the Venderbush Leader-
ship Reception, which is an
event that appreciates and
honors student that exhibit
leadership skills on campus.
This reception will be on Oc-
tober 10, at 3:30 p.m. in the
Pere Marquette Room of
the Kirkhof Center. Students
can register at www.gvsu.
edu/leadership. The keynote
speaker at this event will be
John Maura, who is a Grand
Valley College of Education
alumnus. This reception is
named after Kenneth Vend-
erbush, who was an associ-
ate professor at GVSU. Ven-
derbushs strong position on
student leadership around
campus displayed his pas-
sion for students to succeed.
For further information, con-
tact the Offce of Student Life
at (616) 331-2345
GVSU to award
sustainability awards
Nominations for the Sustain-
ability Champion Awards will
be on this Friday, October 12.
The entire Grand Valley cam-
pus can nominate members
of the community that exhib-
its sustainable behaviors and
practices. These sustainabil-
ity champions will be hon-
ored and recognized at a cer-
emony on October 19, from
7:30-8:45 a.m in the Kirkhof
Center. President Haas and
Greg Sundstrom, city man-
ager of Grand Rapids, will
speak at the event about the
signifcance of sustainability
within the community. For
more information, contact
the Sustainable Community
Development Initiative at
(616) 331-7366.
AA meetings to be held
The ACES offce will be
holding a weeking 12-step
recovery meeting open to
students, faculty, staff, and
community members looking
to quit drinking or doing
drugs. The meeting will be on
Oct. 9 from 3-4 p.m.
As the projected 2013 opening of the new Mary
Idema Pew Library Learning and Information Com-
mons approaches, Grand Valley State Universitys
Zumberge library is preparing for a renovation of its
own, creating space for future administrative offces,
according to Matt McLogan, vice president of Uni-
versity Relations.
The Zumberge space will be remodeled from
top to bottom, McLogan said. We want to remove
administration (offces from academic buildings and
return them) to their intended purpose.
The administrative offces that could move to the
old library currently occupy space at AuSable Hall,
Lake Michigan Hall and the Student Services Build-
ing.
James Moyer, associate vice president for Facili-
ties Planning at GVSU, said all the renovations to the
old library will support administrative functions.
Although the exact layout for the Zumberge build-
ing isnt set, arrangements for the space are beginning
to take shape, McLogan said. The foundation for the
plans are in place, but nothing is defnite.
When the new library opens, the current Zum-
berge employees will be transferred there, according
to Lynell DeWind of the Zumberge library.
All positions currently working for the Univer-
sity Libraries in the Zumberge building will move to
Mary Idema Pew Library, DeWind said.
Along with the retention of Zumberge staff, there
will also be opportunities to hire workers for other
positions within the Mary Idema Pew library. Staff
members are currently preparing for the new infux
of potential workers, DeWind said.
We have made new hires in anticipation of the
new spaces and programs we are planning for the
new space, DeWind said. The people are already in
place to help us execute our plans.
Though the building will no longer be a library,
it will maintain the name Zumberge, according to
McLogan.
Its not (getting) a renaming, he said, confrm-
ing that the building will continue to carry the Zum-
berge name.
Zumberge library, named after GVSUs frst pres-
ident, James H. Zumberge, was built in 1969, provid-
ing GVSU students with a study space for over 20
years.
khaight@lanthorn.com
Renovations planned for Zumberge building
BY KARA HAIGHT
GVL STAFF WRITER
Homecoming is soon ap-
proaching, and with it comes
the Student Senate-spon-
sored Battle of the Valleys
fundraising competition to
see which school Grand
Valley State University or
Saginaw Valley State Uni-
versity can raise more
money for a charity. This
year, the donations are going
to the Mental Health Foun-
dation of West Michigan.
The Mental Health Foun-
dation is a small organization
in Grand Rapids that works
to bring awareness about
issues of mental health and
provides resources to fami-
lies and those affected by
mental health problems.
They really are just a
wonderful organization with
a ton of passion, said Jen-
nie Hlady, who is on the po-
litical affairs committee of
Student Senate and is one of
the senators helping to orga-
nize fundraising events for
homecoming. Everyone
involved pours their heart
and soul into their work. It
hits home with the GV com-
munity.
The organization impacts
GVSU students because
many students on campus
have been affected by a
mental health issue in some
way. Hlady said one out of
four people know someone
who is or has been affected
by a mental health disorder.
The organization does
a lot of awareness activi-
ties such as the Stomp Out
Stigma campaign, which
aims to get rid of the stigma
surrounding mental health
disorders. They do a lot for
families that have been af-
fected by suicides or mental
health issues, said Sarah
Hay, who is also on the
political affairs committee
and planning fundraising
events.
The Mental Health Founda-
tion also does a lot with suicide
prevention and awareness, like
going to high schools to talk to
the students there, Hlady said.
They give grief counseling
for families that have been af-
fected by deaths or some sort
of mental illness.
The Foundations slo-
gan is Live Laugh Love,
its good for your mental
health, which goes along
with its Be Nice campaign.
Student Senate is host-
ing a 5k run on Oct. 13 to
raise money for the founda-
tion. Registration starts by
the clock tower at 7:15 a.m.
with a $20 registration fee,
and the actual race begins at
8 a.m.
I would just like to em-
phasize to the students the
importance of an event such
as the 5K because it reaches
out into the community,
said Lindsay Viviano, vice
president of the public rela-
tions committee. Not only
would students be helping
the Mental Health Founda-
tion, but so many people
within our community.
The senators are also
planning Peppinos and Pie
a Senator fundraisers. Sen-
ate has been mentioning
Battle of the Valleys in its
meetings since the begin-
ning of the semester and is
determined to beat SVSU
not only at the football
game, but also with their
fundraising.
Get excited for Battle
of the Valleys, Hlady said.
We need all of Grand Val-
ley to get involved and re-
ally help out this amazing
organization.
shillenbrand@
lanthorn.com
Student Senate prepares for Homecoming
BY SARAH HILLENBRAND
GVL STAFF WRITER
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Meeting of the minds:The Student Senate meets on Thursday night to discuss homecoming events.
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Slugger: Jaclyn Frey, GVSU freshman, holds up the fraudulent check she recieved in the mail.
W
hen Grand Valley
State University
freshman Jaclyn
Frey received an email from
a company that claimed to be
hiring for secret shoppers,
she didnt think much of it.
I never really questioned
if this job offer was real or
not because all of the emails
seemed professional and the
details about the complaints
for each company seemed
plausible, Frey said.
She emailed the contact
back with her name, her ad-
dress and phone number and
after a few weeks worth of
correspondence, she was told
shed received the job and that
she had two assignments: one
at a Wal-Mart and one at a
Western Union Bank.
A few days later I re-
ceived a letter in the mail the
give step-by-step instructions
for the jobs, and a check made
out for $975, she said. I was
to cash the check and send the
money to a man in the Philip-
pines.
Though the check looked
real, she thought it seemed a
little fshy to send so much
money to a man that seemed
not only unrelated to the com-
pany, but was located com-
pletely out of the country.
She took it to the Grand
Valley Police Department,
where offcers confrmed her
suspicions.
I am just glad that I was
not tricked by this scam
and was able to save myself
from losing out on almost a
$1,000, Frey said.
Capt. Brandon DeHaan,
assistant director of GVPD,
said the police have received
four reports from students
since Sept. 25 concerning
Nigerian email/letter scams,
a blanket term for these types
of email-based schemes.
Between the amount of
time it takes to complete
correspondence, the effort
put into making a fraudulent
check and the money spent on
postage, Dehaan said its clear
that theyre putting quite an
investiture into getting this to
the students.
Be cautious of com-
munication with people you
have no made any positive
I.D. for, DeHaan said. If it
seems to good to be true, it
probably is.
At GVSU, John Klein of
Information Technology said
they get a number of students
who call with concerns over
emails that appear to be sent
from an IT Help Desk asking
students to click on a link to
reset their login password.
However, Klein said that
though they look very con-
vincing, they are never from
GVSU.
We dont do that, he
said. We will never do that.
We will never send an email
message that says we need to
confrm your login and pass-
word information. We will
never do that via email.
Since people tend to use
the same password for multi-
ple accounts, Klein said pass-
words can act as a gateway for
hackers or scammers to infl-
trate a persons privacy from
all angles.
So what theyre looking
for is that one password that
gets them in, he said. And
then theyre going to other
web sites. Theyll go to the
Best Buy web site or theyll
go to the Amazon web site and
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE
Following
student reports
of email scams,
GVPD,
IT Help Desk
offer tips for
protecting
against fraud
BY ANYA ZENTMEYER
GVL EDITOR IN CHIEF
PROTECT YOURSELF
FROM FRAUD:
theyll try that same login and
password and say well, Ive
got Joe Smiths email address
at Grand Valley, because they
fell for one of the scams, Im
going to try Joe Smiths email
address on Amazon, now.
Okay, now Ive got the dig-
its to Joe Smiths credit card
numbers.
From there, scammers get
access to PayPal accounts,
bank information and then
specifc account information.
It all daisy-chains from
one account to another, Klein
said. And people have used
those methods to actually hack
peoples accounts.
Klein, like DeHaan, said
the whole point of these emails
is to gather information, and to
establish a relationship with
the victim. The probability that
someone is going to pick you
out of the millions and billions
of people out there to help
them smuggle money out of
the country is slim. And once
a students money is gone, its
gone.
The challenge for law en-
forcement is that its next to
impossible to get your money
back, DeHaan said.
Klein said a lot of these
scams are going mobile, too,
and becoming increasingly
harder to identify. However,
there are steps students can
take to minimize the risk like
keeping a log of your resumes
who you sent them to, when
you sent them, and what infor-
mation you included, be wary
of unsolicited communication,
look for poor grammar, or
inconsistencies in language,
releasing information on a
need-to-know basis and using
multiple passwords for differ-
ent accounts.
DeHaan said students who
feel they may have been vic-
timized or may be at risk of
being victimized by one of
these scams are welcome to
visit with the police depart-
ment and have a conversation.
Currently, GVPD is forward-
ing any information they re-
ceive on these scams to the
FBI, who are tasked with In-
ternet fraud crimes.
Both Klein and DeHaan
agreed, however, that there
is one sure-fre indicator that
students should keep in mind
when treading the tumultuous
waters of online communica-
tion.
(DeHaan) probably told
you the same thing, Klein
said. If it looks too good to be
true, it probably is; in fact, it
almost always is.
editorial@lanthorn.com
Keep a log of to whom
and to where you send a
resume
No legitimate employer
will ever ask for your Social
Security number over the
phone
Dont put your Social Se-
curity number on documents
Be wary of unsolicited
communication (know who
you are talking to)
Look for poor English,
punctuation and grammar

Do not try to deposit any
anonymous checks
Use multiple passwords
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