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(09/03/10 12:33am)
The first days of classes are a blur for everyone. One of the major reasons for this is the disastrous combination of speeds ranging from “Fast and Furious” to “Driving Miss Daisy” on campus and Grand River Avenue.
(09/02/10 12:29am)
It’s the beginning of the semester, so that must mean I’m writing a column about becoming a guest columnist for The State News. The gist is simple — so simple, in fact, I am going to paraphrase it from the column I wrote in the summer.
(09/01/10 12:19am)
While listening to a program about the overturning of California’s Proposition 8 on National Public Radio the other day, a caller brought up a point that has been on my mind for some time, and perhaps is the most important part of the whole debate over gay marriage.
(08/19/10 8:50pm)
“Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization.” — Newt Gingrich
(08/17/10 12:24am)
At the end of spring semester, I told myself I was going to take a step back and learn to relax for a little while. During the summer I had planned to do yoga, read lots of books, enroll myself in an anger management course, look at graduate schools and just breathe.
(08/15/10 11:57pm)
What has been dubbed quite incorrectly by conservatives across the U.S. as the “Ground Zero Mosque,” finally has, amid protests, been approved. As soon as those three words are combined, they create an immediate inflammatory reaction in the average American.
(08/12/10 12:37am)
Oh man, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled California’s Proposition 8 unconstitutional a few weeks ago. I wasn’t surprised. A few months ago, I read that conservative lawyer Theodore Olson would take up the banner for gay marriage and immediately thought, “So, this is a done deal, right?”
(08/09/10 10:29pm)
Wow! The summer of 2010 is just about in the history books as a done deal. What have we accomplished? I always ask this question as a new school year approaches. I seem to forget that for some of us, the previous school year never ended. If one came back to campus to take summer classes, much of what others considered “summer break” was little more than business as usual.
(08/08/10 10:59pm)
It seems we live in a paradoxical society. Our two-party political system has let fall issues — on both sides — that contradict the logicality of their respective philosophies; perhaps that’s why most civilized countries maintain a multi-party system.
(08/04/10 11:43pm)
I recently returned from a six-week MSU study abroad program in Russia. As part of that program, we spent a few days in Moscow. As we rode about the city on the underground subway, there remained a residual fear and uncertainty in the air from the twin suicide bombings carried out by two women, at least one of whom belonged to a group of female suicide bombers known as “black widows” — women who have lost loved ones in the insurgency in the North Caucasus.
(08/02/10 11:07pm)
A new piece of summer reading has become smashingly popular throughout the past week. I’m not talking about a new Stephen King novel or the latest spy thriller from Tom Clancy, but rather the 91,000-page leak of classified military documents detailing nearly every military action in Afghanistan 2004-10.
(08/01/10 11:21pm)
(08/01/10 11:18pm)
(Editor’s note: This column was changed to reflect the correct direction of Marshall, Mich., from Portage.)
(07/30/10 6:21pm)
A lot has happened in the last 1,000 days.
(07/28/10 11:52pm)
As I have said in the past, I am for the smoking ban. I don’t feel it infringes on the rights of property owners because if secondhand smoke is dangerous to others, it can be regulated in situations where smokers and nonsmokers mingle.
(07/26/10 11:19pm)
If we are not friends on Facebook, don’t expect the opportunity to check out my default pictures. If someone enters my name in a search engine, there is a better chance he or she will come across my stories before the tweets I’ve written. If one types in, “Toscano, Cristina” in the MSU “Find People” box, he or she probably won’t know much more about me beyond my e-mail address.
(07/25/10 11:35pm)
We need to think about the younger generation and things that might be useful and, more so, beneficial to the lives they will lead. The things we suggest to them, their parents and teachers shouldn’t be given as sermons or dictates from old “know-it-alls,” but rather as suggestions that could form a foundation for their personal, great new world.
(07/21/10 11:33pm)
Every morning, I log on to my computer and check my Google News feed so I can keep up with the happenings of the world. One thing I enjoy about the news feed is that articles are listed as amalgams of several published pieces from several different sources, providing an interesting breadth of journalistic bias.
(07/19/10 11:32pm)
When I drive by East Lansing High School or MacDonald Middle School, I often have to resist the temptation to pull into the parking lot and seek out my former coaches and teachers. I think it comes from a place I’ll call “The Reunion Zone.” I call it “The Reunion Zone” because I think the only reason to attend a class reunion is to either flaunt what one has become or try to hook up with former classmates.
(07/18/10 11:12pm)
As students, the recession has very uniquely affected us. Thanks to the recession, temporary employment has nearly disappeared, loans have dried up and, due to budget constraints, MSU has had to make significant cuts along with what seem to be endless tuition increases.