Right now, humanity is confronted with a problem — well actually it’s just my problem. With graduation fast approaching — and due dates looming — I feel ever-increasing pressure to refrain from doing anything. Why is it when we are so close to the finish line we want to slow down?
When I first came to MSU as a high school senior, almost five years ago, I thought animals largely were absent from the academic experience and MSU community in general. I thought we had advanced past laboratory horror stories. I thought animal experimentation (also known as vivisection) as I knew it had ended long ago.
My name is Omar Thabet, and I am a freshman at MSU pursuing a career in journalism. I am a Muslim Arab-American from the city of Hamtramck, Mich., a town near Detroit. The first article I wrote earlier in this semester was a poem about the tragedies going on in the Middle East.
Fellow Spartans, are you hard up for cash? Have college expenses barely left you with enough money for booze at the end of the week? Well, I’m here to tell you your troubles are over! I’ve got the opportunity of a lifetime here, and I’m prepared to let you in on the ground floor!
I want to welcome you to a world where power and control have created truth. A world you already might know well. Where clashes over money and religion and society’s inner workings have created a global Hobbesian leviathan with ever-present epilepsy — a seizing giant of scattered information.
President Barack Obama’s inclusive tone was part of his appeal to Independent voters in the 2008 presidential election. Obama referred to common causes such as energy independence as collaborative efforts that would need people of different parties to come together.
ANGEL has been a hassle for most current MSU students at one point or another during their college careers. However, with news this week that a new alternative to ANGEL — Moodle — is being considered by the university, I began to think of a world without the frustrating foibles ANGEL often has provided.
It only was a few years ago as a college freshman that my classmates and I were outraged by the artfully depicted injustice in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” — a book commonly found on the reading list of most high school or college students. As part of the discussion, my professor posed the question, “Has slavery been abolished?”
Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman on a major party ticket during the presidential election of 1984. She died two weeks ago, leaving behind the legacy of a shattered glass ceiling. In her obituary, The New York Times proclaimed she had “ended the men’s club of national politics.” Still, it took another 24 years for Sarah Palin to be next.
This week marks the 150th anniversary of the shelling of Fort Sumter that began April 12, 1861, the event that started the American Civil War proper. This week’s Time Magazine cover story “The Way We Weren’t,” mentions some interesting facts about the collective memory of the war in the minds of the public.
Michigan’s government has hit students’ wallets with blow after blow. Officials have stressed the importance of students receiving higher education and yet have eliminated any measures that make such an education affordable and therefore attainable. They don’t seem to understand how much students need this help.
In response to the March 20 burning of a Quran by a Florida pastor, riots have broken out in Afghanistan, leaving 22 dead so far. Among the dead are United Nations, or U.N., aid workers, rioters and Afghan police.
If you have been paying any attention to the news lately, you are well aware the U.S. is in a budget crisis. Because of these economic woes, we must cut collective bargaining rights, pensions and health care benefits to public workers, or so we hear. Those greedy teachers, staffers and police officers are destroying the country, right?
Protests in Afghanistan quickly turned violent as protesters stormed a U.N. compound, killing at least seven U.N. workers and allegedly beheading two of them.
There has been a long tradition of historians arguing over the justifications for expansive executive power. Among the main reasons is the idea that during the uncertainty of an emergency, a chief magistrate must carry out certain necessary actions to preserve the nation.
High-speed rail has been criticized as a progressive delusion and a waste of taxpayer money. Conservatives have treated it like communism — a concept that seems utopian, but when implemented only will hurt us further. These are all conservative horror stories, perpetuated by their delusions of economic “truths;” the reality is much more ambiguous than they wish to admit.
Should lying be protected by the First Amendment? Claiming a military honor one actually did not receive is perhaps one of the lowest lies a person can tell, but does that make it criminal?
The American involvement in the international intervention in Libya is drawing a lot of negative attention. A Gallup Poll conducted last monday found only 47 percent of Americans approve of the military role the U.S. is playing in the campaign; 37 percent flat out disapprove.
In the editorial Coalition should diversify protest methods 3/11_), The State News editorial board criticizes the Coalition Against Sexual Violence for the manner in which it engages in activism against sexual violence.
What does Michael Jordan’s game-winning shot against the Utah Jazz in the 1997 NBA Finals, “The Drive,” led by Hall of Famer John Elway and the revolts happening now in the Middle East all have in common?