My best friend, a self-proclaimed musical expert, and myself, an average consumer, disagree on an ethical situation that has been making news since roughly four years ago - downloading music and burning CDs.
The fall was a miserable season if you were a fan of Spartan football. Not much detail is needed because everyone knows the story: high expectations, embarrassing blowout losses, suspensions and terminations.
A balance of ideas and diversity of opinion is important for a prestigious school. Iron is made stronger when forged into steel and combined with carbon.
The rules were meant to be broken - even the unwritten ones. A line needs to be drawn when breaking these rules could hurt someone, or leave one with an unsafe feeling.
This past NFL regular season, millions of football fans were treated to the second coming of one of the greatest athletes of all time. For 15 games, Mike Vick electrified sold-out stadiums and national television audiences with his fleet-footedness and wrist-flicking throwing technique with the same flair of another great athlete. Randall Cunningham?
I gave television news a chance - and it failed. I was looking for informational insight about the threat of war in Iraq and what I saw motivated me to do nothing but turn it off. It's quite cliché to think of the average college student's views on worldly issues as apathetic, but in my case, it's true.
I've always stood in awe of science. Granted, my brain's lack of ability to understand basic chemistry might have something to do with my amazement, but that does not negate the fact man's technological achievements almost never cease to wow me. As for the times when scientific breakthroughs do not inspire my jaw to drop to the ground, I usually find myself sick to my stomach. The most recent "scientific breakthrough" to make my insides twist like a pretzel was the Dec.
I admit it - I was one of those kids in high school. You know, the one who was in every club, every group.
While in England, a British gentleman incredulously asked me, "Why do so many Americans drive around in big trucks?" I laughed and said: "Don't try to figure it out - it's just our national insanity." It's an outcome of cheap gas and the quintessentially American culture of extreme consumption.
Can you really fall in love with your soul mate in six weeks? I guess anything is possible, but let's be realistic.
The campus was blanketed by snow while you toasted eggnog by a yuletide log and a roasting fire with crackling chestnuts.
Two years ago, I decided I never wanted to graduate from college. It wasn't because I hated classes; I generally like them.
So the holidays have finally arrived. I think it is highly probable that some Christmas zealots have been foaming at the mouth and dreaming about this wondrous time for months.'Tis the season for overpriced items, maddening mobs packing shopping outlets, lots of food, mistletoe, wrapping paper and so on and so forth.
What would we do without music? Perhaps a few demented folks would jump for joy and loudly shout a victory cheer, but the majority of us would most likely be reduced to tears and inexplicable sorrow or dejection. You would almost have to be branded a misanthrope to not enjoy or appreciate music.
We at the Graduate Employees Union ask ourselves one question more than any other: Can MSU be a better place?
On Monday, the Supreme Court decided it will hear a case that will consider the constitutionality of sodomy laws in 13 states across the country.
It's the end of the semester, and it's sometimes a condition of that final time that we start to look more intently at a variety of issues.
Seriously, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas everywhere you go. I couldn't help but notice as I walked up and down the aisles of Meijer late Saturday night that the holiday decorations had been up for a few weeks already - countless images of Frosty the Snowman and Santa Claus.
Just more than two weeks ago, I traveled to Indiana University to visit my brother and to watch the MSU vs.
Have you seen the music video for Mary J. Blige's "No More Drama?" At the end of it, she's standing in front of a bunch of television screens depicting the images of the war on terrorism, and she's just going crazy. That is how I feel right about now. As if war with Iraq wasn't enough to deal with, there's another war going on right here, in Michigan. In Detroit, at least 23 youths aged 16 and younger have been killed this year; most of them by gunfire. A study by the Detroit Free Press showed Detroit surpassed 10 other major U.S.