During Monday’s Republican presidential debate, CNN moderator Wolf Blitzer posed an interesting scenario to the candidates: If a perfectly healthy young individual without health insurance gets in an accident, who should help pay for his medical care? For the death of another human being through no fault of his own, the Tea Party crowd cheered.
Unfortunately, students are finding it harder and harder to pay for the life-altering college experience after they leave. Nationwide, student loan defaults have risen from 7 percent in 2008 to 8.8 percent in 2009, the highest rate in 12 years, according to the Department of Education. With financial assistance on the decline and defaults on the rise, students should exercise caution when taking out loans.
Every fall, fleets of couches and chairs are left behind on the streets of East Lansing by tenants who don’t know or don’t care about how to get rid of them. Hopefully, that will not be the case in the future.
Although the president plans to release his plan for how to pay for this act next week, one has to wonder how, while our education system has been failing for years, our infrastructure crumbling for years, our police force getting cut for years, we will suddenly be able to afford to fix all of these things.
I was under the impression a public institution such as MSU would be a place of forward thinking, and the administration would take my opinion into account to make decisions that represent the greater good of the Spartan community.
Aug. 26 marked the official beginning of the 2011 Spartan football season. A crowd of more than 75,000 gathered to cheer on the Spartans as they easily defeated the Youngstown State Penguins 28-6.
The MSU Board of Trustees often has to make difficult decisions that affect MSU’s future. Last week, sadly, they chose poorly.
If you are drawn to teaching, consider other states for employment. You should be aware of a side of education in this state that your professors are unlikely to disclose.
When I had heard that MSU chose Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” as its 2011 One Book, One Community selection, I was ecstatic.
Public higher education institutions should have an incredibly limited place in the private lives of the individuals who choose to attend them.
Sept. 11 was a crime, not an act of war. Four women from New Jersey, whose spouses had been killed in the twin towers, forced an investigation.
No wonder we have so many warnings. They really don’t have any logical basis other than the fear that if all the outrageous bases aren’t covered, a lawsuit is sure to follow. Wouldn’t it be nice to take the real fear out of our lives and remove all those 1-800 numbers?
There are very few programs on campus that successfully attract the attention of 70 percent of the MSU freshman class, but that is exactly what has been done through the One Book, One Community program.
The tragic events of Sept. 11 continue to shape American actions and feelings 10 years after that day. The influence of 9/11, though, has waned as the psychological wound heals.
One of my students, recalling his trip to the twin towers just four months earlier, wondered what people in the World Trade Center had thought “looking out the window, seeing a flying bomb coming at (them).” “In seconds, it seemed as if the world and my family were crashing just as the airplanes were,” another student wrote — part of her uncle’s hip was identified a month after Sept.
We would like to take the time to address why we think renovating Chittenden Hall into an expanded graduate school and graduate and professional student resource center is a good idea.
MSU has the nation’s largest on-campus coal plant, and it’s possible a plan could be signed this year to move us to 100 percent renewable energy — that is if MSU’s Board of Trustees will stand with the nearly 6,000 student petitions, (1 out of 10 students on campus); faculty and East Lansing community members who support a 100% renewable energy future.
I don’t mind that Sarah Palin thinks Russia can be seen from her house in Alaska. It didn’t bother me when she thought North Korea is our ally in an interview about our nation’s foreign policy.
According to a report issued by the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan, financial assistance from MSU on average totaled 42 percent of a student’s tuition in 2009-10. In contrast, the average financial aid Michigan universities offered in 2010 was 50.5 percent of a student’s tuition.
Currently, people are being pushed back into the streets to get their medicine, and it is absurd that it has to be this way.