MSU students paying thousands for an education should be able to call an occasional “mulligan” for less-than-spectacular grades. University administrators should move forward with changing MSU’s current retake policy to allow for students to repeat classes regardless of first-try grades.
I want readers to know the stereotype of all Muslims as terrorists is not true. Every society has its “bad people,” which for Muslims is about 3 percent of the population. So, here is a general idea of how the other 97 percent feels about the problems going on.
A new package of laws to regulate overdraft regulations in state-chartered banks will help keep Michigan-based banks from exploiting their members. If passed, banks no longer will be able to fleece their members’ accounts and roll in the profits.
When the mediocre Michigan Wolverines embarrassed our men’s basketball team at home, I thought karma was at work. Punished by the likes of Syracuse and Texas, struggling in the Big Ten, our gentleman Spartans had finally hit rock bottom.
After working hard for years to receive a bachelor’s degree, graduates could be disappointed to find themselves without a budding professional career. But with a poor job market, internships are becoming a viable option when full-time jobs are scarce.
As you already might know, the ASMSU has recently ratified a bill (Bill 47-19-18) that will merge both assemblies into a single body and therefore cut the size of ASMSU roughly in half.
A people’s struggle is unfolding within Egypt and other Middle Eastern nations. Once again, the U.S. has ignored the suffering of the masses, backing the despotic few who gain wealth and power through the oppression of their people and the promotion of American economic and military interests.
Whether it was spent sleeping, sledding or sloshed, it’s safe to say the MSU community can agree on one thing: Wednesday’s snow day was spectacular. Even though the final accumulation of 11 inches was not quite as impressive as predicted, the mere threat of an impending “Snowpocalypse” was enough for MSU to cancel classes — a good decision by university administrators.
As a retired history professor, I read the column by Matt Korovesis with a certain bemusement (On rage, rebellion and new tragedies, SN 1/26). He assumes that, prior to the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan in 1981, the U.S. was a workers’ paradise.
The Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia began with a fruit vendor who wasn’t operating with the proper paperwork. When he was stopped by the police, the police proceeded to humiliate the man.
A current proposal to make the Michigan Legislature part-time simply is not the correct solution to balance the state’s budget. Michigan’s legislative branch does not account for a significant amount of the state budget and therefore should not be high on the list of funding to consider.
This is in response to the last Friday’s editorial, MSU should move forward on gender-neutral housing, (SN 1/28). The reasons provided supporting gender-neutral housing on campus were: A bare majority (56 percent) of students want it for themselves, transgender students would no longer feel discriminated against and unisex bathrooms would be offered.
At last Thursday’s MSU men’s basketball game against Michigan, I tried to take the challenge issued in The State News by Paula Parker for non-Izzone fans to cheer the team on (Time for rest of Breslin Center to make some noise, SN 1/27).
When it comes to the environment, I am a tree hugger. I believe humanity’s carbon imprint on God’s Earth is both immoral and unsustainable.
The whole process of paying for college is confusing enough without the burden of overwhelming student loans. The government’s higher education funding — or lack thereof — has left students shouldering the brunt of college costs, much of it in the form of student loans (read: debt).
Proposed gender-neutral housing at MSU would be a positive step toward a more inclusive and diverse campus. The Residence Halls Association, or RHA’s, move to make Gender Neutral MSU a sponsored group is the first of many important steps in becoming a gender-neutral campus.
This letter is addressed to all of those who attend the MSU men’s basketball games at Breslin Center
In a fully developed industrialized society such as the U.S., can one live an existential life? When I use the word existential in this context I mean: Can one operate according to one’s free will?
As the East Lansing Police Department, or ELPD, searches for a new police chief following former police Chief Tom Wibert’s resignation in October 2010, it should take its relationship with MSU into consideration.
The decision to merge ASMSU’s Student Assembly and Academic Assembly should not be taken lightly.