In regards to the gentleman who wrote “Alumni: It’s time for the student section to shape up” (SN 11/10), I would like to hit on some facts. Yes, the student section was fairly empty by the end of the Minnesota game. I agree that fans should not leave until the end of the game, but for students it is different.
Former President Calvin Coolidge wisely stated, “The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.” Today we celebrate Veterans Day — a day to honor all the veterans who sacrificially have served our nation.
MSU’s endowments are up this year from the decrease in value in 2009, and with all the economic tragedies we’ve heard this year, it’s nice to hear some good news for a change.
My dear wife and I attended MSU during the “Duffy” years. We graduated with bachelor’s degrees in 1965, at the height of MSU football’s greatness prior to MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio taking over. Our football season tickets date back to the 1970s.
Playing vertical Twister on a Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, bus or trucking through the snow this winter might not be the only option for getting around campus if Zipcar comes to MSU’s campus this January.
It is a politician’s job to get elected every two to four years. Once elected, constituents re-elect incumbents overwhelmingly. Given that narrative in American politics, our politicians have very little incentive to take a detailed look at policy measures.
The discussion about MSU’s energy policy, specifically its dependence on the T.B. Simon Power Plant, is drawing the attention of many around campus — thanks in large part to the MSU Beyond Coal Campaign.
I love to write. It’s what I want to do with my life, although I’m not sure what or who I want to become; a professor in academia, a journalist, a starving poet, an aspiring novelist?
With its proposed iClicker rental program, ASMSU is taking another step in the right direction — finding useful programs that make student life easier.
A popular trend in hygiene during the past 10 years has been the use of antibacterial hand soap. Most people use antibacterial hand soap on a daily basis. It can be found in households, hospitals, food establishments and schools. People are concerned with spreading flus and other viruses, so they believe using antibacterial hand soap will kill the “germs.”
On Oct. 27, my wallet went missing. Fearing the worst, I immediately had all of my cards cancelled and then headed to the Secretary of State office to get another driver’s license. I did all of this at once, within about two hours, without going home.
It wasn’t too long ago that I sat down and wrote a piece lamenting the lack of letters to the editor. My exact words were, “Unfortunately, no one writes letters anymore. I don’t only mean in the traditional pen-and-paper way, I mean letters to the editor in general.”
Nicknamed “black out in a can,” Four Loko and other alcoholic energy drinks have been banned from Michigan vendor’s shelves. Like other recent Michigan bans, it does little to address the problems in a community with an entrenched binge drinking culture.
In his response to a recent letter on the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture, MSU alumnus Phil Letten makes statements about his view of animal agriculture — statements that are biased, have no factual background and are untrue (“The plight of farm animals extends far beyond antibiotics,” SN 11/3).
As Election Day results dominated the headlines of newspapers across the state of Michigan this week, I couldn’t help but flip directly to the sports section.
The Republican tsunami swelled through Michigan on Tuesday, and cost the Democrats at least one seat on the MSU Board of Trustees. Although we welcome our new Trustees Mitch Lyons and Brian Breslin with a big “Go green, go white,” it’s a shame that Colleen McNamara cannot return for another term
Tuesday’s results should come as a surprise to no one. Republicans firmly are in the driver’s seat in Michigan. If one is a Democrat, Tuesday’s result probably stung more than a little, but really it should be an anger tempered by inevitability. The bad economy had “backlash” written all over it.
For some, asking for help produces the most demeaning and vulnerable feeling possible. It’s difficult to admit we might not know everything, that we aren’t experts in all subjects and to admit fully and publicly that sometimes we simply do not know.
Last week, The State News published a letter written by Dan Schmidt in which he criticized the protestors at the Izzone Campout for “ignor(ing) facts in the attempt to prove a point” (“Protestors at Friday’s Izzone Campout were in the wrong,” SN 10/26).
Joel Sparks did make some good points in his article, “Zoology students’ letter was misleading, accusatory” (SN 11/1). However, he never mentioned why farm animals need antibiotics to stay alive. Virtually all farm animals live out their lives on what are considered factory farms.