The Enron Corp. scandal is dominating print and broadcast news, and every day, developments in the matter are announced with ever more shocked voices, in ever more ominous tones. But the Enron scandal, like most ongoing news, is a little bit like “Rex Morgan, M.D.” or “Judge Parker” or any of the serious comics nobody reads.
After spending years singing and dancing, or at least lip-synching and dancing, there seems to be one thing that no pop star can resist: movies. They flock to them in the hopes of leaving their oh-so-hard lives of learning dance moves and rehearsing the songs that people have worked so diligently on to get the kids moving and buying records. And then, the movies really, really stink. I can already picture dozens of teeny-boppers running to the nearest computer to write up some letter telling me I’m an idiot and that I should just stop criticizing pop stars, or that I’m just jealous. But the issue here is not the music.
Shannon Houghton For The State News I’m irritable and mopey. I have dark circles under my eyes, sluggish movements and may be heard mumbling, “Need to get home.” I haven’t gotten my nap today.
MSU women’s head basketball coach Joanne P. McCallie is in the midst of doing what most coaches wouldn’t be able to do. She is turning around the women’s basketball program.
Shannon Houghton For The State News I’m irritable and mopey. I have dark circles under my eyes, sluggish movements and may be heard mumbling, “Need to get home.” I haven’t gotten my nap today.
Now that Super Bowl XXXVI has come and gone, the sports world can turn its attention to the Winter Olympic Games. With that, the world spotlight pivots to focus on Salt Lake City - the Mormon Mecca of the United States. I make that reference because it seems I have yet to see an Olympic preview about the host city in which its dominant religious influence isn’t mentioned. Through this second point, I have found the inspiration to write this column.
Sometimes the clock drives me crazy. It just doesn’t stop. We are so controlled by time that I find myself wasting too much precious time or trying to kill time while I’m waiting to do something more exciting. But what bothers me more than the endless ticking of my watch is wondering if I’m making the wrong choices.
Many contend, and with good reason, that your stay at college will be the best years of your life. This is supposedly the time when everything is carefree, exciting and full of fun.
I hate columns about abortion - along with brochures, pamphlets, speeches and signs - for two reasons.
I have been told that in this existentialist age in which we live, nothing is funny anymore. I cannot help but be saddened by such a bleak outlook on the state of humor in modern times.
While reading an Associated Press news story Monday, I learned a popular version of the Bible is being revised to include gender-neutral wording.
I have been told that in this existentialist age in which we live, nothing is funny anymore. I cannot help but be saddened by such a bleak outlook on the state of humor in modern times.
It’s hard for people like me not to be skeptical of the new Student Support Division created by the MSU police.
When the religious right tries to bring the Ten Commandments into public schools, two vivid images appear in my mind: Charlton Heston and Sunday school.
As I was sitting at my computer contemplating what to write about, my first inclination was to put together an objective piece about campaign finance reform. With Congress returning to session this week, there is a discharge petition pending in the House to force a vote on the Shays-Meehan campaign finance measure.
My father is bald. My father is as bald as the day is long. There is so little hair left on his pate that, from a distance, his remaining mane appears to be a strap keeping his glasses from falling off of his head. What’s terrifying about Pop is that in photos from the early ’70s, he has a thick, shiny mop.
I thought Monday was supposed to be a day to celebrate the life and message shared by civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
A corporation is not at all like what you’d normally think of as a business, where owners start their own enterprise, pay their workers and are held responsible for the actions and successes or failures of their own company. A corporation is owned by members of the public - its shareholders.
Youth have always been the voice of change. I am not saying that we don’t have a lot to learn from our elders.
Anyone who knows me could tell you that I’m not a sports fan. Actually, anyone who sees me could tell you that.