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(05/26/11 1:00am)
Why aren’t tax increases more commonly mentioned as a possible solution to America’s debt? I understand no one wants to give up anything; we’re conditioned not to. It’s the American way of life to hold on to everything you have so tightly they have to bury you with it. But we’ve been cutting and hacking and slashing at government spending for the last six months. Has it gotten us anywhere? It doesn’t look like it.
(05/24/11 12:29am)
Through its many sharing instruments, the Internet has allowed all of us to be Promethean. It only takes one person with a little know-how to buy a video or some music and then distribute the entire thing across the Internet to anyone who wants it.
(05/22/11 11:48pm)
Dear President Barack Obama:
(05/18/11 11:32pm)
One weekend I was driving back to campus, and my mind started to wander. I started hearing the voices of the tea party supporters screaming about too much spending.
(05/17/11 12:09am)
There’s a story happening right now. It has all the classic elements of a story Americans should love: sex, power and money. It also has buzzwords Americans have learned to fear: economic decline, bailouts and numbers with a fascinating amount of zeroes after them. Still, the odds you haven’t heard it are good.
(05/16/11 12:28am)
I’ve never been great on first dates. Breaking a life into digestible bits overvalues some things and devalues others, while going into any kind of context or nuance means one has to spend too much time going into detail about something that might mean nothing at all.
(04/27/11 11:49pm)
If every year of college goes by this fast, I need to take more time to appreciate the little things. By the end of next week, I’ll have completed my first year as a college student, which is shocking to think about. It doesn’t seem like so long ago I had settled into my tiny dorm room (away from the comforts of home) and into the vast MSU campus.
(04/27/11 12:33am)
My time at this school nearly has run its course. I am graduating (scary, I know), and as I think back on my four years here, I find myself wishing I could go back and tell my cocky little freshman self what I’ve learned, not only about college and MSU but also tips for making the rocky years from age 18 on to age 22 a little bit easier.
(04/25/11 11:54pm)
Right now, humanity is confronted with a problem — well actually it’s just my problem. With graduation fast approaching — and due dates looming — I feel ever-increasing pressure to refrain from doing anything. Why is it when we are so close to the finish line we want to slow down?
(04/25/11 12:09am)
When I first came to MSU as a high school senior, almost five years ago, I thought animals largely were absent from the academic experience and MSU community in general. I thought we had advanced past laboratory horror stories. I thought animal experimentation (also known as vivisection) as I knew it had ended long ago.
(04/20/11 11:31pm)
My name is Omar Thabet, and I am a freshman at MSU pursuing a career in journalism. I am a Muslim Arab-American from the city of Hamtramck, Mich., a town near Detroit. The first article I wrote earlier in this semester was a poem about the tragedies going on in the Middle East.
(04/20/11 1:13am)
Fellow Spartans, are you hard up for cash? Have college expenses barely left you with enough money for booze at the end of the week? Well, I’m here to tell you your troubles are over! I’ve got the opportunity of a lifetime here, and I’m prepared to let you in on the ground floor!
(04/18/11 11:12pm)
I want to welcome you to a world where power and control have created truth. A world you already might know well. Where clashes over money and religion and society’s inner workings have created a global Hobbesian leviathan with ever-present epilepsy — a seizing giant of scattered information.
(04/17/11 10:41pm)
President Barack Obama’s inclusive tone was part of his appeal to Independent voters in the 2008 presidential election. Obama referred to common causes such as energy independence as collaborative efforts that would need people of different parties to come together.
(04/15/11 12:49am)
ANGEL has been a hassle for most current MSU students at one point or another during their college careers. However, with news this week that a new alternative to ANGEL — Moodle — is being considered by the university, I began to think of a world without the frustrating foibles ANGEL often has provided.
(04/13/11 11:05pm)
It only was a few years ago as a college freshman that my classmates and I were outraged by the artfully depicted injustice in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” — a book commonly found on the reading list of most high school or college students. As part of the discussion, my professor posed the question, “Has slavery been abolished?”
(04/13/11 12:14am)
Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman on a major party ticket during the presidential election of 1984. She died two weeks ago, leaving behind the legacy of a shattered glass ceiling. In her obituary, The New York Times proclaimed she had “ended the men’s club of national politics.” Still, it took another 24 years for Sarah Palin to be next.
(04/11/11 11:06pm)
This week marks the 150th anniversary of the shelling of Fort Sumter that began April 12, 1861, the event that started the American Civil War proper. This week’s Time Magazine cover story “The Way We Weren’t,” mentions some interesting facts about the collective memory of the war in the minds of the public.
(04/10/11 11:08pm)
College students can’t seem to catch a break. In 2009, the merit-based Michigan Promise Scholarship was eliminated.
(04/06/11 11:24pm)
In response to the March 20 burning of a Quran by a Florida pastor, riots have broken out in Afghanistan, leaving 22 dead so far. Among the dead are United Nations, or U.N., aid workers, rioters and Afghan police.