Who would have thought trash could bridge the divide between the permanent residents of East Lansing and MSU students? MSU’s Community Relations Coalition, or CRC, invited MSU students, as well as long-term residents, to clean up the streets and yards of East Lansing on Sunday after MSU’s victory over Notre Dame.
The fear of government encroachment on personal rights and privacy is as old as this great nation. Since a constitution has existed, people have suspected that the government would transgress upon it. The current climate in the U.S. echoes those age-old fears.
During the past year or so, there has been a great deal of talk about illegal immigrants. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has spent plenty of time in the media spotlight defending her state’s relatively new immigration policies against organizations such as the ACLU and even the U.S. government.
This semester, the “Letters” section of the opinion page started out with a bang. First, there was the letter from an MSU alumnus castigating the greek community for paying lip service to what the author felt was a serious problem. A week later, the vice president of the fraternity in question responded in another letter.
MSU has taken heed to the complaints about cafeteria food on campus being lackluster and has provided students with a dining experience known as Brody Square. Attacking the square in droves, students are acting such as a child in a candy store would: “I want this and that. Oh, and that.”
In December 2009 I had a chance to cover an East Lansing City Council meeting where councilmembers rezoned sections of the Whitehills Neighborhood/Rudgate area North of Saginaw Street, south of Lake Lansing Road and west of Hagadorn Road to a R-O-1 designation, prohibiting all new rental licenses within the designated district.
Even though Florida Pastor Terry Jones did not burn any Qurans, his message was alive and well at the Islamic Center of Greater Lansing on Harrison Road where the allegedly feces-smeared pages of a burnt Quran were found.
According to a recent study by MSU researcher Jeff Grabill, texting is the No. 1 form of writing among college students. Grabill, the co-director of MSU’s Writing in Digital Environments Research Center, performed a study lasting from April to June about the writing behaviors of more than 1,300 first-year college students across the nation. He concluded, “The day of traditional college writing instruction are nearly over.”
Simply put, the right to vote is an essential feature of any democratic government. Another essential — although less acknowledged — factor, is that the more people who vote, the more likely the candidate or policies will represent the entirety of the interests of the constituents. Of course, the point is moot if one is not registered to vote.
I wasn’t surprised to hear Matt Lauer proclaim he was “shocked” on NBC’s “Today” show when he talked to Shirley Sherrod about her resignation from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in July over alleged racist comments. He could not believe the “garbage” said about her would lead both the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, and the White House to demand her resignation without any confirmation.
In any story about undergraduate student government at MSU, there will almost always be this sentence, “ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.” It’s there because without it the reader might not know the function of ASMSU.
When it came to the attention of at the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity that a social gathering titled “The Freshman ‘Fifth’teen” appeared to give a misleading impression, the decision was made to immediately cancel the event without question or hesitation.
Everyone in the nation, especially residents of Michigan, can appreciate the idea of repairs and upgrades to roads and other forms of transportation. Ill-kept roads have become a common sight to many, and to see the infrastructure of the U.S. transportation system in such a state can be worrisome.
Two bills that could have a significant impact on MSU students might die Dec. 31 before being able to make a change. One of the bills proposes that the East Lansing Secretary of State office, 400 Albert Ave., and the Lansing Secretary of State office, 108 S. Washington Square, merge to combine a SUPER!Center in the Frandor shopping center.
This Sept. 11, a church in Florida is looking to commemorate the attacks on the U.S. in a unique way: by burning thousands of Qurans.
We are deeply concerned about the lack of support shown for the Spartan football team in the season opener against Western Michigan when almost the entire student section disappeared before the end of the game.
I’m pretty sure everyone has heard of The Rev. Terry Jones “International Burn-a-Quran Day.” The event — by all indications more local than international — is scheduled for this Saturday to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
A new program offered by the MSU police gives students attending Spartan football games the opportunity to alert the department of crimes with an anonymous text message. Though the idea of communication between police and public should be encouraged, it’s hard to think of a situation in which texting the police station would be more appropriate than a call.
I was dismayed at the arrogance displayed in the editorial “Punishment for pie-thrower should be tempered (SN 9/01).” Not only did The State News editorial board members demonstrate their ignorance towards the specifics of (anthropology senior Ahlam) Mohsen’s case, but additionally demonstrated their ignorance toward social justice movements and activism more broadly.
In high school, I remember health class teaching sex education with a specific set of phrases such as, “Say no,” “You could die before the age of 25” and “Children are forever.” Safe sex was promoted to cover all the bases, but abstinence was the main push in a classroom full of hormonal teenagers who recently discovered themselves.