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(02/06/14 11:18pm)
The 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, are about to begin. As always, figure skaters have found themselves in a spotlight that they do not receive at any other point in the four-year Olympic cycle.
This time around, the light has fallen on a 22-year-old military brat who embodies the feisty American spirit: Ashley Wagner.
(02/06/14 1:34am)
What does it mean to be American? Does it just mean pale, white skin? The hard-clipped edges of words in the English language? Hamburgers and french fries?
(02/06/14 1:26am)
This winter has been, to put it as delicately as I possibly can, an abhorrent disaster of monumental proportions. I’m about ready to walk around campus spraying aerosol cans into the air until the CFCs warm up the earth. Anyone with me?
(02/05/14 12:28am)
About one year ago, my best friend Alex told me he is gay. The news wasn’t a huge surprise. I had suspected it for a while, and I didn’t feel like this revelation would change our friendship at all. It wasn’t like he had cancer. He wasn’t disappearing. He still was just my best friend.
(02/03/14 12:49am)
I live on the 200 block of River Street, which is just several hundred feet away from the Cedar Village Apartments, so this shooting literally is as close to home as it gets for me.
(01/30/14 11:51pm)
It was an extremely cold day, just like many of the other days the university has encountered this winter. I was trekking toward South Kedzie Hall around 10 a.m. for my second morning class, while barely avoiding frostbite in the subzero weather.
(01/30/14 11:49pm)
I was a freshman when my two best friends, Abby and Chelsea, took me to The Vagina Monologues on campus. I didn’t know what to expect, but I’ve been an anti-violence advocate my whole life and I was excited to watch the show. After the women’s final bows, I knew we had to be a part of it. I haven’t left the production since.
(01/30/14 12:11am)
Editor’s note: To read the opposing viewpoint, click here.
(01/30/14 12:02am)
Editor’s note: To read the opposing viewpoint, click here.
(01/29/14 12:56am)
This is more of a call to engage than an opinion column. This is an honest inquiry — a challenge, a request, an invitation, a plea, a motion — to act.
(01/28/14 12:55am)
Most girls have an addiction to buying shoes. I have an addiction to buying journals. I have accumulated more of them than I could possibly count. My collection ranges from simple, cardboard books to nice, leather bound pages. I just can’t pass up a good deal on a new, unique journal. But I don’t feel so bad about my journal addiction after recently reading research on how food journaling can be a tool for weight loss and weight maintenance.
(01/28/14 12:50am)
Before Sierra Petersen participated in MSU’s Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Prevention Program, she didn’t realize she was a survivor of relationship violence.
(01/27/14 1:20am)
The definition of love has become a war zone in our modern age.
(01/24/14 12:37am)
Sometimes when I walk across the main lobby of my dorm, I see the community kitchen. At a glance though, the second word only comes across my mind. Despite having an array of cooking utensils and instruments, the kitchen doesn’t seem to be a community one, because I rarely see it full of students.
(01/24/14 12:36am)
The nurse gently reminded me to squeeze my hand for three seconds and release as she stood near my cot.
(01/23/14 12:34am)
It’s that time of year again. The time where the three-letter word we’re all dreading is on the burning to-do list. It’s a word that changes you into a grown-up and confirms, despite our willingness to accept it, your employment status. J-O-B.
(01/23/14 12:27am)
Has the return of the Polar Vortex got you thinking more and more about warmer weather and summer? As you sit and daydream about temperatures rising above 75 degrees and possible new challenges and experiences that may come your way, include doing an internship in your summer plans.
(01/22/14 12:50am)
Last Saturday at Illinois, men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo added another accomplishment to his resume when he recorded his 215th career Big Ten victory, placing him in sole possession of fourth place in all-time conference wins.
(01/07/14 1:50am)
Editor’s note: Because of an editing error, the full version of this column did not appear on page 4A of the Jan. 7 edition of The State News.
(01/07/14 1:46am)
A few days after the Spartans trumped Ohio State in the Big Ten Championship, I received a call from my mother. To my surprise, she asked if I would be interested in going to Pasadena, Calif., to watch MSU’s first Rose Bowl appearance in 26 years.