GVSU 50th anniversary viral video!

I haven’t posted anything lately, but this requires it!  My mother caught a clip on the national news today and we went hunting the whole video.

Now, I was a student at Grand Valley State from 2000-2005; that’s where my BA in history/anthropology is from.

Interesting facts that you wouldn’t catch from the video:

  • Grand Valley State University hosts the only student run and organized Renaissance festival in the country. IN THE COUNTRY. Hence the swordfighting! The festival turned fifteen years old this year.
  • What you see in the video is actually a big loop around the center of campus, which is marked by the clock tower, which is a carillon tower, complete with working bells that play four times an hour.  The video works its way from the front of Kirkhof Center (which passes as GVSU’s student union) around and across the ravine until you see Kirkhof Center from the back at the end of the video, where the students are arrayed in the GV symbol on the lawn.
  • The crew team was about to crash into the shore of Lake Zurmberg at the end of the video: it’s a reflection pond and water collection area at the low point between several buildings.
  • There is not a whole lot to the campus.  In the video, you get glimpses of about 75% of the main, non-residential buildings on campus.

 

Very cool video and kudos to the students who made it!

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One Reply to “GVSU 50th anniversary viral video!”

  1. Erin, this was wonderful. Thanks for sharing it with those of us who need to know of the versitility and talent of our younger generation. I am sure you are proud to have attended this University.

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