While many questions race through my mind during the average school week, one in particular bombarded me from many angles this week. Do I agree with Kirk? My response: I’m not sure; I will know on Thursday. I know I am a strong supporter of the Constitution and the corresponding Bill of Rights, and I believe in Jesus Christ.
There was a time and a place for the Black Student Alliance, or BSA, to be indignant; that time was in the days immediately following the writing of racial slurs on students’ doors. The organization should have stifled that demeanor when speaking to MSU’s administration.
As an MSU Greenpeace member, I want to thank the State News’ Editorial Board for its praise of the activism at MSU. However, there is more to the story than the board’s comments convey.
Traveling via bus to Washington, D.C., for the dedication of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. monument with some of the Greater Lansing Area Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Commissioners and others, I began reflecting on my memories of Dr. King.
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire; where there’s fire, students can’t afford to ignore basic fire safety.
We graduate from college, expecting to get a job, and if we do not get one right away, panic sets in.
I swear, this column wasn’t even going to be about race. Not because I dislike being black or anything like that; let’s be honest, being black is pretty awesome. It’s more because I don’t want to be become the guy who points out every single example of social and racial inequality until he’s homeless, jobless and gibbering on about how the system kept him down.
Man, oh man, doesn’t it feel right to be a Middle East woman nowadays — figuratively speaking. What I’m referring to is when Saudi Arabia’s 88-year-old King, Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, announced Sept. 25 that the women of his country have the right to vote and stand in elections, an issue which has been going on in that country for almost a half a century now.
The recent revelation of the inflated grades in the music department at MSU is simply a result of the national trend in grading.
Recall petitions have increased this year, and Ingham County’s election commission has reviewed many petitions to remove senators representing the East Lansing community.
A friend of mine recently signed up to be a subject in a sleep deprivation study. I told him he’s a stronger man than I am, and also crazy. For me, sleep loss leads to stress and a bad mood, so I won’t be volunteering myself for testing anytime soon.
The people of East Lansing need to face the truth. City Center II was a huge financial mistake by ambitious officials that has cost us millions.
The activist spirit is alive and well on the MSU campus, but in the case of MSU Greenpeace, it unfortunately has yet to result in any real change.
One step forward, two steps back seems to be the motto taken up by the U.S. House of Representatives when it comes to agricultural funding.
Every generation has a war that defines them; our generation has the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, just like our parents had the Vietnam War, just like their parents had WWII. Today, our generation can share in the relief that our fathers and grandfathers felt because our war is over.
Every year, department stores, pharmacies and even college campuses turn ‘pink’ with companies large and small slapping a ribbon on their products and feigning some interest in breast cancer awareness to woo compassionate consumers. We are encouraged to buy this or that, to wear this ribbon or this pink whatever in order to “support a cure.” As someone who has seen devastating effects of breast cancer firsthand, it has all gotten to be too much.
I always have found the intersection between business and politics fascinating. Most people don’t. Most people think of this link as an unhealthy combination of greed and political self-interest. They assume nothing meaningful can be learned from examining such a relationship.
As a student at MSU — one who is looking into housing off-campus next year — I would strongly encourage and support the East Lansing City Council’s resolution opposing action be taken by state legislators to deny lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered couples from renting property within East Lansing.
When doing a project, you want it done correctly rather than quickly. The East Lansing City Council, though, appears to be in a rush to grab some federal funding for development on East Grand River Avenue. Last week, the East Lansing City Council voted 4-1 to apply for a federal matching grant to assist in the revamping of the section of Grand River Avenue between Collingwood Drive and Hagadorn Road.
I am writing in lieu of the most recent attempt to place our professors on an even higher pedestal than they belong while at the same time demeaning the student population at-large.