Well, here I am. It has been a year since I graduated from MSU. After embarking boldly and blindly into my collegiate years I found myself following paths blazed by information from people around me, my classes, or from the media.
Every once in awhile, someone comes along and represents something larger than themselves. They work and thrive by re-interpreting the world around them.
So the circus that is the criminal proceedings against Kobe Bryant has come to an end. A civil suit remains, but the alleged victim has dropped out of the criminal case. I'm not going to try to guess what really happened on that night last summer.
Two tales of one city. The beginning of this semester marked as a typical Welcome Week. Hordes of students stumbled through the streets of East Lansing looking for that raging party or that anonymous hook-up or bottomless keg.
In an April 2003 column "House resolution relies on prayer to solve U.S.
If you turned on the television last Saturday to engulf yourself in the first full week of college football, you might have noticed that Colorado was missing a key element to its football team. That's because earlier this summer, the NCAA denied speedy Colorado wide receiver Jeremy Bloom's request to continue playing football at the collegiate level.
I wish I could tell you that the Chechen terrorist standoff and subsequent massacre at a school in Beslan, Russia could not happen in the United States - if I did I would be a much worse liar than any politician. In its own way, the event could be seen as a fusion of some of the disasters that our own country has pulled through, the Sept.
Over the last few years, the City of East Lansing has implemented a number of policies to improve our rental housing stock, improve the appearance of our neighborhoods, encourage families to return to our neighborhoods near downtown and avoid sequestering MSU students into run-down homes in older neighborhoods. We pursue these policies in an effort to keep our neighborhoods appealing to a variety of residents and to avoid the density and blight that surrounds many Big Ten universities.
As a young Republican, the Republican National Convention last week gave me great hope for the future of my party.
As the Republican revelry came to a close at the 2004 Republican National Convention last week, the GOP's message was crystal clear: Pay no attention to the man behind the star-spangled curtain.
"More than any other single person, Ralph Nader is responsible for the existence of automobiles that have seat belts, padded dashboards, air bags, non-impaling steering columns, and gas tanks that don't readily explode when the car gets rear-ended," writes Hendrik Hertzberg in "Reckless Driver," a comment piece from The New Yorker.
According to Wednesday night's "inspiring" speech at the Republican National Convention, Vice President Dick Cheney officially has replaced his campaign oration from truth-twisting rhetoric to full-on, lying liar.
This year, I return to MSU a little older, a little wiser. That's right, I'm a sophomore. I went through the trials and tribulations of freshman year to get to this glorified position today.
Since John L. Smith decided not to name a starting quarterback this week - leaving MSU fans in the dark until Saturday - I'm going to take my best shot at reading his mind. Embattled senior Damon Dowdell will be under center Saturday at Rutgers Stadium, taking the first snap for the Spartans' offense this season. Why is Dowdell embattled?
First off, I am not a Democrat. I am not a Republican, nor a hippie, nor white. I've never voted before, and for that reason I take this first time very seriously. I know I'm only one of the millions in America.
Walking up at least three flights of stairs, I found myself blanketed by men and women, their complexions different shades of brown, almond, cocoa and tan.
There is nothing worse for overall party ideology, America and perhaps your brain than unfulfilled political campaign promises.
When I think of fraternities, I see a house filled with party debris while students obliterate themselves with beer kegs.
Political and cultural commentator H. L. Mencken is credited as having issued this caution: "We get the government we deserve." Certainly, most of the blame for our dysfunctional government belongs with "we the people" for not bothering to become educated about important issues and participate significantly in our democracy.
Reckless capitalism is a system grounded only in profit. It is a selfish pursuit of a bottom line inflated beyond what is necessary, and more importantly, what is just.