Last semester, around the time of National Transgender Awareness Day, which is on Nov. 20 each year, I decided to write a column about all the transgender lives lost over the years.
According to The State News Code of Advertising Acceptability, The State News will not intentionally publish advertisements "attacking or criticizing directly or by implication, any race, sex, creed, religion, organization, institution, business or profession without firm justification and foundation." Thus, one might reasonably conclude the right to freedom of speech, at least in this context, is subject to some acceptable standard by which racist, sexist or any other considerably offensive piece of advertising can be decided against and censored.
Forget Enron, WorldCom and Washington, D.C. The real crooks are in college basketball. From NCAA suspensions, violations and infractions to Sunday's Duke-North Carolina late-game fracas, the Division I-A ranks of men's hoops are sporting an ugly black eye of corruption this year.
I'm tired of being scared everyday, whether it is terrorists, war with Iraq, high cholesterol, nuclear missiles, cancer and everything I can't even remember that is killing me.
Muslims are such bad people. Wouldn't the world be such a peaceful place without them? And look at how those Muslims are so violent, they even have this thing called jihad intended to make people's lives miserable.The above sentences are the most untrue garbage you might ever read, yet it is sadly garbage that we as Americans encounter every day.
The quickest way to strip myself of whatever hubris I accrue is simply to enter a bookstore. I've concluded Schuler's is nothing more than a warehouse designed to demonstrate to me that even if I spent every moment of my life reading, I would die knowing a tiny portion of the measure of human knowledge.
It's the most constructive idea I've heard since the American network media jumped on the president's "Showdown with Saddam" bandwagon. And the surprising part is - now brace yourself - it came from Iraq's "evil dictator" himself. CBS news anchor Dan Rather reported Monday Iraqi President Saddam Hussein proposed participating in a debate with President Bush via live radio and television satellite linkup. Rather is the first American journalist to be granted an interview with Saddam in a decade.
Cincinnati - 17,000 Phish fans can't be wrong. Especially when they've traveled from all corners of the nation, spending their last pennies to get from one show to the next because they know each one will be different.
As an MSU alumna, long-time East Lansing resident and diehard champion of education, I would like to provide the technical details surrounding The State News' Feb.
Wow, I am a radical liberal. After a recent letter to the editor branding a number of opinion writers, including myself, as radical liberals, I thought I would sit down and ponder long and hard to get a clearer perspective of who I really am.
Viewers may flock to the TV sets like rabid dogs each time a new reality show comes out, but I have never been one of them.
Most of us Generation-Y kids grew up watching the untouchable and ever-so-alluring, Michael Jordan. We stared at the TV in awe and amazement as the 6-foot-6 guard would fly to elevated extremes and execute a never before seen dunk.
MSU students benefit from the university's reputation. I'm not talking about our reputation for having a good time, but the research that our university is known for.
Some of you more avid State News readers might recognize my face as the soccer columnist who, last summer, trekked across the globe and wrote four stories about my experiences in South Korea and at the World Cup. While there, I encountered some of the friendliest people I have ever met. Frequently my two brothers, cousin and myself would be standing on a train or subway platform as we waited to return to Seoul from other cities all across Korea, often where we had just witnessed a World Cup soccer game. Sometimes we knew which line to take and sometimes we didn't, but no matter the case, a Korean citizen, recognizing we were foreigners, would approach us calmly and ask us if we needed directions or where we were going.
Almost 60 years after World War II ended, France and Germany are again united. No, France did not unconditionally capitulate after a stunning display of military incompetence (again). Instead, the nation that surrenders whenever the weather turns cloudy has forged a diplomatic alliance with the nation that refined systematic genocide, as both France and Germany have vehemently protested American and British military pressure currently compelling Iraq to disarm. Pardon my exponentially increasing nationalism, but do our French and German allies have long-term memories that extend beyond three months? France and Germany insist weapons inspections in Iraq must be given more time, expanded in scope and equipped with more intelligence data.
You know those kids who set themselves on fire to mimic Johnny Knoxville? Remember the kids who heard Beavis and Butthead say "Fire!" and set their neighbor's house on fire?
I've been labeled with many derogatory titles for using this forum to speak out against war with Iraq. I've been branded a traitor to my country and touted as a supporter of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, all for using my American freedoms to champion against an unjust and immoral tide of U.S.
Most of us have heard the phrase "stop and smell the roses," but very few of us have given it a second thought or made a point to do so. I'm one of those people. Hi.
Dotted between the flakes of snow, the images of the downtown mural stand out among the red brick buildings and the stillness of the afternoon: the flag of Puerto Rico, a stylized representation of the Fifth Sun of the Mexica (Aztec), and rows of emerald-colored stalks of corn rise from the cold concrete.
Have you ever heard the phrase, "If only you would " followed by a statement as to how something you said or did, or didn't say or do, has resulted in you being harassed, made fun of, criticized or worse?