As Michigan teachers and students go back to school for another year, it's time for a quick quiz. Here's the first question.
A recent poll found that over two-thirds of those surveyed favored teaching creationism alongside evolution in school.
I'm ashamed to admit my first reaction after hearing about Hurricane Rita. "Oh, man," I said to a few friends as we sat around a bar table.
I recently read Mark Twain's "The Mysterious Stranger," a bitter reflection on mankind, religion and morality.
Here's an idea: girls, go out and get so drunk that you can't see straight, and then go home and leave all the doors to your house unlocked.
It's summer and I'm enjoying the heat as any person would. After looking in my closet, I decide to wear some jeans and one of my tank tops.
I've never been one to surround myself with drugs or alcohol, and I doubt I ever will be. As a freshman, I had preconceived notions of "college life" in terms of drinking and drugs, but I found myself a little ignorant when I saw the reality. All of the stereotypes portrayed in movies and the media about college partying appear to be true, or at least not far from it. About two days after I arrived here, the pressure was on.
"That's part of the reason I sat out there," Susan Drabik said. "So that people like you will start thinking." People like me, who are students. Two weeks ago I went to a party.
Coming out of the closet was one of the hardest things in my life to do. It was also one of the best decisions I ever made. For those not well versed in the coming out process, it's a term commonly used to describe the experience lesbian, bi, gay, and transgender people, or LGBT, go through when they announce their sexuality or gender identity as being different from the status quo.
As I was riding my bicycle away from campus on Saturday after the game, I realized that without a cell phone I was able to entertain myself with a simple conversation with just me. I could think to myself or carry on a two-way conversation that did not require me to have to listen to anyone but yours truly.
This summer I had the opportunity to travel back in time. During my study abroad experience in London, my confidence acquired from being a junior who knows how to work the system disintegrated.
This summer, I had the amazing opportunity to instruct a critical thinking and current events class for the Kings-Chavez-Parks, or KCP, program.
It's tough to please everyone in a column. During the summer semester, an intriguing discussion on sin and homosexuality took place in the Letters to the Editor section of The State News Opinion Page.
For the last two weeks I've seen the same thing over and over again. When I grab the paper, check the Web sites and turn on the television, it's there. Hurricane Katrina and her path of destruction are on the front pages and news stations. Every day there's something new to learn about the destroyed Gulf Coast.
Michigan State University: An institution devoted to quality higher education, expanding opportunities, and promoting cultural, economic and geographic diversity for all its students. Wait, what was that last part?
Did you notice something very interesting and pathetic on television as the major networks filmed in New Orleans during the Hurricane Katrina aftermath? Black looters were shown on every television station running through Wal-Mart and any store that wasn't underwater, stealing whatever wasn't nailed down.
In the few weeks that I've been a member of an online dating service, I've had an interesting range of people contact me. Meet Craig (not his real name). He's a 28-year-old Virgo seeking a lady who is "fun to be around." He says he finished college and is employed full-time.
Iraq is the central front and most important battlefield in the War on Terror, and American forces must remain there until the job is complete. No distortion by the American media has been as offensive as coverage of the War with Iraq.
For the last few days, I've thought of nothing else but Hartland, Mich. I took advantage of the Labor Day weekend to go home and relax before the fall semester obliterates my will to live. During the summer I lived here in East Lansing, I went back to Hartland infrequently.
"Local Terrorist Activity Suspected" (SN 8/30) was an inflammatory, inaccurate article featured in The State News.