One weekend I was driving back to campus, and my mind started to wander. I started hearing the voices of the tea party supporters screaming about too much spending.
The Michigan Senate recently passed legislation that eliminated the Michigan Business Tax, replacing it with a 6 percent corporate income tax on businesses in Michigan.
There’s a story happening right now. It has all the classic elements of a story Americans should love: sex, power and money. It also has buzzwords Americans have learned to fear: economic decline, bailouts and numbers with a fascinating amount of zeroes after them. Still, the odds you haven’t heard it are good.
Nothing happens in a vacuum. If an MSU student sexually assaults or harasses another student in an off-campus venue, that action should be taken into account if the behavior continues on-campus.
I’ve never been great on first dates. Breaking a life into digestible bits overvalues some things and devalues others, while going into any kind of context or nuance means one has to spend too much time going into detail about something that might mean nothing at all.
When voters chose to make Gov. Rick Snyder “CEO” of Michigan, they also signaled support of Snyder’s philosophy toward jobs and government investment. At the moment, it is one particular concept — return on investment, or ROI — that unfortunately threatens to leave film tax credits on the cutting room floor.
Well, this is it. Just another semester for some, the culmination of a college career for others and an ending (of sorts) for all. When something ends, people choose to look in two directions: backward to the progress that’s been made and forward to prepare for the unknown and what lies ahead.
The State News fired me up earlier this week with the front page headline Queer Christians (SN 4/25). This is the second time in recent memory “Queer (something)” has been attached to some story in order to do … I am not sure what. In fall 2006, The State News ran a story about the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community celebrating National Coming Out Day.
If every year of college goes by this fast, I need to take more time to appreciate the little things. By the end of next week, I’ll have completed my first year as a college student, which is shocking to think about. It doesn’t seem like so long ago I had settled into my tiny dorm room (away from the comforts of home) and into the vast MSU campus.
ASMSU will find itself with a little extra money for next school year after a program for tailgate clean-up turned a profit. That’s good to hear, but having money isn’t the same thing as using it wisely.
The recent column by guest columnist Mitch Goldsmith, “The Darker Side of Animal Testing,” (SN 4/25) not only is horrifying but also left me completely bewildered by the obscene skewing of MSU’s poultry and mink teaching and research farm.
My time at this school nearly has run its course. I am graduating (scary, I know), and as I think back on my four years here, I find myself wishing I could go back and tell my cocky little freshman self what I’ve learned, not only about college and MSU but also tips for making the rocky years from age 18 on to age 22 a little bit easier.
As the year winds down, students have to begin thinking of housing for the fall. Choosing where to live is a huge decision students have to make, and they need all the help they can get to make the decision that suits them best.
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?
With Earth Day come and gone, some still might be in the mood to help the Earth and their community (or assuage their guilt over contributing to the current state of the environment as a whole).
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.
Panels of the skeleton of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum were vandalized by red spray paint on April 15. The irony is palpable. An unfinished art museum — what some might consider a work of art in and of itself — has a few panels redecorated by artwork of the street variety.
Earth Day is one of those faux holidays that either make people feel guilty for not celebrating or overly proud for doing their part. Earth Day, like many other semi-holidays, has potential, but most people don’t take advantage.
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.
Although you might be striving for the top, MSU seems to be striving for the middle of the pack when it comes to graduate student compensation.