Some students might question this move to increase the budget of any university department when program cuts are being made and tuition is on the rise, but with careful consideration of many contributing factors, they should be relieved of any worry.
I do think the U.S. and Russia should have a small but substantial stockpile to keep each other and the world in check, but more than 3,000 each is a tad overkill. But I suppose this isn’t Hollywood, and Superman can’t just toss all the nuclear missiles into the sun all at once.
Transparency with the public about what could happen and being up front with the numbers involved with projects also would be preferred. The city has a plan in place and should provide residents with regular reports on how it is doing in paying back the debt from the bonds.
The open nature of the Internet has allowed it to become the most important development in collective human knowledge since the invention of the printing press. The Internet has changed how we consume content and allowed ideas to spread much faster than any point earlier in human history. A ruling by a federal appeals court significantly could change the way in which the Internet works in the future.
The T.B. Simon Power Plant burns 250,000 tons of coal each year, providing heat and electricity to the university. However, the plant produces harmful greenhouse gases — much to the dismay of many on-campus student groups and other local environmentalists. There has been a flurry of protests and campaigns to raise awareness of this fact and convince the university to switch to alternative, less harmful energy sources.
Do you fill out the SIRS forms to evaluate professors and classes?
As a journalism major living in Michigan, I know how difficult it can be in today’s economy to find not only a job, but also a suitable internship beforehand — especially an internship that doesn’t involve just going on coffee runs for the staff or taking out the trash in exchange for college credit.
Students pay for an education. They do not pay to evaluate professors. A new pilot program will require students to respond to a survey or wait a week before receiving their grades.
Race to the Top is a contest for money based on which states can best formulate a plan to conform to the federal government’s wishes. But the federal government doesn’t necessarily know what’s best for children’s education, and asking states to change in exchange for money rather than for what might be in the best interest of students is not right.
A few universities are now outsourcing grading in a shallow attempt to provide a supposedly more thorough evaluation for students. Recently, the University of Houston has fallen into this educational debacle. With a lack of TAs in classrooms, the institution has resorted to e-mailing students’ homework to India, where their work is graded by a team of professional reviewers, educated to give a sophisticated analysis of a paper.
Beginning May 1, Michigan will become the 38th state to ban smoking from all workplaces, restaurants and bars. Exceptions include gambling floors of casinos, cigar bars, tobacco specialty stores, home offices and motor vehicles. This bill is a milestone in recognizing the importance of minimizing exposure to secondhand smoke for everyone.
I love this school, and I consider it my new home. And it’s for that reason I feel a responsibility to pressure the university to make the choices that it needs to make in order to make this campus healthier and stronger in the future.
A teen in Alabama recently was suspended for having too “skimpy” of a prom dress. Initially, this seems like a typical story and a common occurrence in the springtime when eager high school students cast away their pants and coats for shorter, more season-savvy choices. Yet the striking thing in this story is the punishment offered for the crime.
Once composed of mostly men, veterinary education now is nationally dominated by women. However, this reversal of gender dominance in the field is a general trend. Before the 1980s, veterinary classes at MSU were composed of mostly male students.
The iPad is one of the coolest things I’ve looked at and played with in the past couple of years. The new Apple gadget is so much fun to toy with, it makes me want to run out and buy one. But the iPad has to be one of the most useless new pieces of technology in a long time.
As the numbers of unpaid internships have grown, so have the concerns about whether employers are abiding by labor laws. The future of those internships rests on the need for new legal limitations on what is right and wrong in the unpaid workplace.
As I approach the final month of my undergraduate career at MSU, like so many others, I am reminded of the things since my freshman year. The experiences I have gone through will no doubt impact the rest of my life — whether positive or negative.
I never thought to compare presidents Obama and Nixon before reading Mr. Duffy’s letter. Upon reflection, a number of similarities do appear…
Although the most recently publicized threats are coming from radical right-wing groups, threats come from all directions. Each threat needs to be taken seriously, regardless of political ideology. A group might not act on a threat, but law enforcement should act like the threats are real to ensure everybody’s safety.
My brother is a United States Marine. He is a proud soldier, and although I’ve had my reservations about watching him go, I am proud of him too. So that’s why it infuriated me to read about a court ruling forcing a fallen Marine’s family to pay attorney’s costs to a church that protested its son’s funeral.