When the religious right tries to bring the Ten Commandments into public schools, two vivid images appear in my mind: Charlton Heston and Sunday school.
As I was sitting at my computer contemplating what to write about, my first inclination was to put together an objective piece about campaign finance reform. With Congress returning to session this week, there is a discharge petition pending in the House to force a vote on the Shays-Meehan campaign finance measure.
My father is bald. My father is as bald as the day is long. There is so little hair left on his pate that, from a distance, his remaining mane appears to be a strap keeping his glasses from falling off of his head. What’s terrifying about Pop is that in photos from the early ’70s, he has a thick, shiny mop.
I thought Monday was supposed to be a day to celebrate the life and message shared by civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
A corporation is not at all like what you’d normally think of as a business, where owners start their own enterprise, pay their workers and are held responsible for the actions and successes or failures of their own company. A corporation is owned by members of the public - its shareholders.
Youth have always been the voice of change. I am not saying that we don’t have a lot to learn from our elders.
Anyone who knows me could tell you that I’m not a sports fan. Actually, anyone who sees me could tell you that.
So let it be said. I need help. I’m not a good columnist. Well, I don’t exactly mean I’m not good.
Here lies the 53-game home winning streak of the MSU men’s basketball team at Breslin Center. Thanks for the memories - Nov.
Have you ever seen that episode of “The Simpsons” in which Homer Simpson and a group of townspeople, after searching for buried treasure, are sitting at the bottom of a large hole in the ground, pondering how they will escape?
Staying in Seattle with friends during the semester break, I had the opportunity to watch the movie “Get Real.” This British film is an exquisite portrayal of the struggles of Steven Carter, a closeted gay teen in his senior year of high school.
New Year’s Eve is the second most popular day to propose. That is why I was not too surprised when one of my best friends called me to tell me her boyfriend proposed to her.
As much as I would like to write one of my typical columns in which I quote political leaders and shove facts and statistics down your throat to prove my point, I think I’m going to lay off this week.
Everyone on campus had a few more choices when they went out to pick up a newspaper this morning. With the start of the new semester, the Lansing State Journal and USA Today began distributing copies of their newspapers as part of the MSU Readership Program, which already includes The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
My watch read two minutes to midnight when I turned my attention to the TV and anticipated the coming of a new year.
It’s this time of year that reminds me just how old of a 21-year-old I am. Graduation. I guess it’s been happening slowly for the past three years - I’ve been creeping up the seniority ladder as my elders at The State News have vanished off into the real world.
While driving around the rainy streets of Detroit a few weeks ago with one of my best friends, I learned something new: Kid Rock makes punk rock.
Obviously you might have thought this opinion piece was going to be a guided tour of all the things you should or should not do when it comes to preparing for those evil days of the semester - finals.
Editor’s Note: Mary’s been an emotional mess lately, and as she is graduating, begged for a goodbye column.
I was somewhere in the third hour of my LSAT when the words began to lose focus. They began to dance around, disappearing into the page only to pop up again in other places.