Do police officers use force improperly? Are police officers justified to shoot an unarmed subject? When is a police officer allowed to shoot someone?
I'm 20 years old - going on 40. I'm an old soul stuck in a college student's body, but I'm determined to turn it around. While walking through the grocery store the other day, shopping for the perfect batch of apples and humming the tune "Build Me Up Buttercup," I realized it's time for me to rekindle my youth - or at least find it for the first time. Rather than walk up that hill to age 30, dodging birthdays on the way, I'll get a few things done, so that when I'm 90 and stuck knitting and reminiscing about the "good ol' days," I'll actually have something cool to reminisce about. The only way I ever get things done is by making little lists for myself.
Would you mind if I wrote a column that only asked questions? Would it be fair to look at the world and not try to provide answers but instead, ask questions where we might begin to seek answers?
I have a tradition with Christmas movies and the holiday season as a whole.On Christmas Eve, I make my-self a nice English highball (brandy, gin, sweet vermouth and five ounces of carbonated water) and watch "It's A Wonderful Life" while everyone else is asleep.There is nothing flashy about how I spend my holiday season.
It was an honor for me, an East Lansing native and MSU graduate, to have worked with Illinois Gov. George Ryan and his Commission on Capital Punishment over the past three years.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas — already? This weekend, I had the good fortune of receiving a long-awaited paycheck.
For someone who made bringing dignity back to the White House a central issue to his campaign, President Bush has failed miserably on a number of fronts.Dignity is the state of being worthy.
This semester, I started doing something I haven't done on a consistent basis during my college career - I started attending my classes, and I don't really know why. Maybe I was nervous about graduating and wanted to make sure I heard every word uttered from my professor's mouth.
As the sun beamed down over Ohio Stadium on Saturday afternoon and Buckeyes quarterback Craig Krenzel took a final kneel to run out the clock, another loss was tallied next to MSU's name. Now, a dark reality blocks the sunshine lighting up East Lansing.
You've had exams in your morning classes that count as a quarter of your final grade. You went to work and nothing seems to go right.
I'm deeply troubled by what seems to be a growing abuse of the word "opinion." Take it from me, the opinion writer at The State News.
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, every year around 30,000 people commit suicide in the United States alone, where it is the 11th-ranked cause of death.
Two months ago, I got a whole lot of money deposited into my bank account from loan and class refunds.
The idea that environmentalists are strictly whiny, picketing vegetarians who listen to Grateful Dead music is misguided.
Each year, we celebrate a day that remains marked in history forever, a day that changed the lives of millions and millions people.
Halloween is the first of many holidays that occurs in the months to come. The holiday season means family, food and general merriment.
My downloaded Halloween screensaver politely informed me that today is Oct. 31. I quickly flashed back to the tacky costumes I adored making for Halloween during my childhood.
It's not sexy or scandalous. Nor does it incite the political pundits to rant and cant and blow the political house asunder.
I've always been taught that the best way to solve a problem is to tackle it head on, not ignore it.
It is impossible to discuss a situation as dire as the Israeli/Palestinian conflict when you are ill-informed.