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On Feb. 16, Diane Nash, one of the “true pioneers in the civil rights movement,” appeared in East Lansing. She spoke to an audience attending the annual Slavery to Freedom talks sponsored by the College of Osteopathic Medicine during black history month.
For a journalism project last week, I was interviewing various people about the economy’s effect on local businesses. The people I spoke with discussed businesses shutting down left and right and how some fields have been hurt more than others. Toward the end of one particular interview, I asked the person if he thinks the U.S. economy is headed in the right direction. His response: “No.”
This week, a collection of MSU groups brought two Israeli soldiers to campus in an event dubbed “Israeli Soldiers Stories” as part of a broader campaign of misinformation sponsored by Israel and its allies in the States.
At around 10:30 p.m. on a mid-week evening, MSU College Republicans departed campus en route to the American Capitol.
When I arrived on campus, I had no idea who my roommate was or whether we’d get along.
I’ve lived in a lot of places.
Most students tend to see living in the dorms as an obligation rather than choice when coming to college freshman year. But being from a small town, coming in blind and not knowing many people at MSU, I saw it as a blessing.
Two weeks ago, I was provided with the opportunity to speak to a group of fifth graders celebrating their graduation from the D.A.R.E. program. For those of you unfamiliar with D.A.R.E., it is an acronym representing the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program, a program led by police officers of local communities around the world, reaching more than 10 million students and their families. D.A.R.E. focuses on preventing drug and tobacco use and alcohol abuse and providing students with the skills and tools to resist peer pressure.
Since the end of World War II, the United States kept a tradition of making bilateral agreements with Asian countries. American policymakers have had an incredibly successful track record of advancing our economic and security interests, building upon these relationships to adapt to a fast-changing world.
When I moved to East Lansing as a freshman at MSU last year, I discovered everyone’s favorite icebreaker when meeting new people from Michigan: to show where you lived on the mitten. Typically, someone will hold up their palm and point at it with a huge grin saying, “Show me where you’re from!”
In November 2011, the asteroid YU55 soared between Earth and the moon’s orbit, just over 200,000 miles away from colliding with our planet.
This is the second part of my last article if you haven’t read it, I encourage you to do so.
To meet the requirement of becoming a journalist, I have to complete one English course before I graduate. And since I have a sincere love for poetry, I decided to take the English 129, Introduction to Reading Poetry course offered by professor Maurice Pogue.
If you’re like me, then it’s getting to that point in the semester where spring break can’t come soon enough. As midterms, papers and more creep up, break has become my light at the end of the tunnel. Unlike many students, thoughts of the tropics aren’t what’s pushing me onwards at this point. Rather, 4 million miles of highways and the promise of joining in a great American tradition fill my mind with hope and anticipation. And you can feel the same way if you ditch the vacation norm this year and plan on hitting the open road instead.
Being a college freshman and just turning 19, the upcoming presidential election will be my first opportunity to vote for the country’s next president. I always have proclaimed myself to be a Democrat, so at first there seemed to be no question of who I would vote for: President Barack Obama.
The recent article in The State News (“Are You Employable?” SN 1/27) might have created undue stress for many MSU students who are in liberal arts colleges — College of Arts & Letters, College of Natural Science, College of Social Science, James Madison College, Lyman Briggs College and Residential College in Arts & Humanities. The graphs and graphics alone give the impression that prospects for liberal arts students are dismal, and that pre-professional colleges are the way to go.
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled on an appeal filed by Julea Ward, a former graduate student in Eastern Michigan University’s counseling program.
Our government recently had an opportunity to take a small step toward energy independence. Building the Keystone Pipeline would have allowed oil from Alberta, Canada to be transported down to the Gulf of Mexico. The project would have created thousands of jobs in manufacturing, construction and the possibility of refining some of the oil brought in from Canada.
Sitting in the Meridian Mall food court the other day sipping an iced tea, I witnessed a conversation between a group of middle-aged men discussing the Super Bowl and the case for the 1991 Washington Redskins being the greatest team in Super Bowl history. As the group compared Redskins players, coaching staff and team accomplishments, a young man and woman at a nearby table interrupted.