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Editor’s note: MSU Bikes Service Center Assistant Manager Melissa Kwiatkowski contributed to this column.
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Editor’s note: MSU Bikes Service Center Assistant Manager Melissa Kwiatkowski contributed to this column.
Sometimes I find myself guilty of underestimating the power of student organizations. I knew the Black Student Alliance, or BSA, was capable of influencing the campus because it proved that much during the racial incidents at the beginning of the year.
With all the discussion about free speech on campus, I feel now is a good time to give my thoughts on the power certain words have. Words have no power except what you give them.
When a beloved student or friend dies, when a well-respected coach or university — such as Penn State University — loses its way, when terrorists reveal how vulnerable we Americans are, we grieve. The losses might be phases of development, self-images, relationships, separations, beliefs, emotional states, or cultural myths.
It seems like the not-so-subtle rallying cry of many individuals across the countryside in the past few days is that fantastic phrase, “I am ImpOtent!” Now I realize that you may have looked at this a couple of times and thought that the writer is an idiot and can’t even spell “important.”
With the end of the fall semester lurking its way into our lives, the only thing that goes through a college student’s mind is finals.
In the race against global warming and the quest for energy independence, biomass has long been touted as a sort of Holy Grail. It’s easy to see biomass as an infinite resource — plants grow everywhere.
This time of year, living rooms everywhere are marked by large evergreen trees, yet most people don’t really know why. The Christmas tree has a long and controversial history — controversy which today centers mostly on the notorious decision between real or artificial trees.
The economy will be the dominant issue in the 2012 presidential election, and rightfully so. This has been the longest time of unemployment staying above 9 percent since the Great Depression. Although the candidates for president will engage in partisan bickering about the economy, I thought I’d present generational trends that do a great deal to explain why employment is where it is at today.
Waking up to the sweet smell of monkey bread in the oven and the sight of the balloon of Elmo from “Sesame Street” floating through the streets of New York City in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is how I always have spent my Thanksgiving morning.
Each Thanksgiving, an estimated 45 million turkeys are thought to be reared and killed in American factory farms, destined to be the holiday centerpieces on American families’ dinner tables.
The holiday season is fast approaching. Come 2 p.m. Wednesday, I am officially free to head home. Home for me is Tecumseh, Mich. — a city of about 8,500 people without a mall or a movie theater.
Tea Party, Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Communists or Socialists — it really doesn’t matter in today’s climate. Everyone seems to want to get out in the streets and scream and yell, camp out in a neighboring park or gather in unwashed groups and rant.
Walking gingerly downhill on a narrow, winding street in Cadiz, Spain, paved in incredibly smooth and shiny stones bigger around than softballs, one of my companions, D.G. Schiltz, commented, “There are no championship rollerskaters from Cadiz.”
On this week’s Opinion Podcast, there was a spirited discussion about social media and what it is and isn’t good for. It was a fun discourse, but between talking about Twitter hashtags acting as punch lines and one of our reporters confessing to be an 85-year-old man, we lost the point about the impact of social media.
Part of any generation’s responsibilities is to correct the mistakes made by the last. We usually tend to think of this responsibility in the context of examples taught in grade school, such as the woman’s suffrage movement and the civil rights movement.
This week marks the start of one of the most exciting times for many Michiganians and a time of great nostalgia for me. It is the start of the regular deer-hunting season here in Michigan.
Editor’s note: This column has been changed to accurately reflect the odds of a woman being a victim of rape or attempted rape.
Let the replacement games begin! The country of Tunisia, which was the first country in the Arab world to engage in a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests, better known as the Arab Spring, has now elected new leaders of its democratic government.
Math is hard, but we don’t like to admit it. Remember when Mattel got in trouble for programming Barbie to say, “Math class is tough?” Let her dream about size 0 clothes all she wants, but don’t insinuate that the girl can’t solve an equation for “x.”