I watch movies. Lots and lots of movies. It’s my job - as the film reporter here at The State News, I have seen nearly every movie that has made its way into theaters in the past four months, and I’ll probably see everything coming out in the next few months. But I have a problem. Most of the movies I see stink.
Do you sometimes think you have no power whatsoever, that you are at the mercy of everyone who stands ahead of you in line, that your destiny is pretty much a done deal because you have no way to influence anything that goes on around you? Well, I think we have all had that feeling in our lives at one time or another, and sometimes we have that feeling a lot more than we should.
OK, so now what? The panel appointed to examine the circumstances surrounding last year’s poorly executed undercover investigation of Students for Economic Justice has offered the university its coveted findings. The members - a professor, a former state legislator, a former trustee and a student government leader - say the ordeal was likely carried out inadequately. Perhaps, the panel wrote, MSU administrators need to take a more thorough approach the next time they consider stomping so freely on the liberties granted to student activists. The big finish?
MSU’s campus should champion free speech and welcome an assortment of viewpoints. Unfortunately today, sparked by challenges against liberal thought, university administrators and a minority of their leftist students have acted maliciously to create a culture opposing the virtues of free speech. The campus left has undeniably censored ideas that its ideology opposes.
There is something new about the beginning of each semester that is almost as challenging as finals are at its conclusion.
With Welcome Week - or Welcome Weekend, as it was - over, 40,000 students at this university are slowly recovering. Hangovers are being drowned in bottled water.
Less than a year ago, we told each other it didn’t matter if we elected George W. Bush or Al Gore and then proceeded to make sure we’d never be able to tell who actually got elected - thus saving the trouble of having either one of them as president. Unfortunately, George W’s daddy’s friends on the Supreme Court handed him his daddy’s old job, screwing people out of the “neither of two evils” situation. Seeking to legitimize himself as the rightful heir, George W.
If I had retained all the weight I have lost during the last millennium I would probably weigh a cool 10,000 pounds.
Drunk hillbillies with mullets, motor homes and beat-up pickup trucks. They’re all stereotypical images of NASCAR fans who follow a sport condemned by a large portion of suburban America. But the sport’s following is fanatical, and there may be good reason why. You might as well just cue in Rosco, the General Lee, the Duke boys and Boss Hog, cause this is gonna get rural... It probably won’t settle well with many closed-minded traditionalists, convinced that a true sport has to be played with some type of ball. But it’s the largest spectator event in the nation, like it or not. And it deserves respect. Yeah, laugh if you want, call me a redneck, tell me I live in a trailer park, say I drink Pabst Blue Ribbon and listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird” all day.
Being a superstar in today’s society is tough. Look at any tabloid and you’ll see some pathetic-looking star with dark circles under her eyes and her belly hanging out of pants a couple sizes too small. Singer Mariah Carey knows that scenario all too well these days. Life can be stressful, and Carey is certainly feeling the heat recently after working on two different movie sets for “Glitter” and “Wise Girls,” as well as completing a soundtrack for “Glitter.” The effects of these projects caused her to recently check into a hospital \'because of mental and physical exhaustion. The consequence caused Carey’s release dates for the soundtrack and movie of “Glitter” to be set back to September 11 and 21, respectively, so she could re-energize. What’s more entertaining than seeing stars at their worst?
If you’ve been a somewhat regular user of an e-mail service, then you’ve probably received them.
I’ve always considered myself a sort of maverick of the First Amendment. “Congress shall make no law...” Y’all know how it goes - at least you should.
I weep for the carrot, for its rights are without a champion.Some people don’t like the taste of meat.
This week MSU added to its football team a convicted sex offender who served jail time before he could earn playing time.
The university’s undergraduate required courses are a joke.I’m not the first person to say this, but bear with me for a moment.