More than a week has passed since disaster struck Haiti and its people. International aid has poured in from even some of the poorest countries to provide relief. Extensive coverage of the earthquake’s damage has shown us the true devastation the Haitian people are facing.
There are a few benefits provided by ASMSU that students in East Lansing take for granted. Despite the fact MSU Dubai students pay for ASMSU’s services, they’ve been withheld from those perks.
When I turned on the 24-hour news stations during winter break, I expected to hear the usual rabble about violence in the Middle East and low holiday sales, but instead I was shocked to stumble across what the military somehow viewed as a good idea — jailing women who become pregnant on duty in Iraq.
Smart politicians know that to reach young voters, their campaigns need to institute Web-based social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and YouTube.
I have come to expect over the years that most anything published by the editorial board at The State News will display an amateurish and incomplete understanding of the issue at hand, and Friday’s editorial regarding the ongoing Michigan/Grand River Ave. Transportation Study is no exception (“Transportation study should lead to action,” SN 1/15).
There were times even in the summer when I heard whispers that the local restaurant Brother’s Grill might be closing its doors.
There is an interesting difference between a suspended MSU football player and a suspended student — and it has a lot to do with the parameters of the punishment.
Some of us have lost hope. The economy is in shambles, the population is shrinking and the politicians that run the state are either corrupt, incompetent or both.
The recent letter to the editor, 2010 column riddled with errors and inaccuracies (SN 1/14), was the most hate-filled letter I have ever read in a newspaper.
There is a 14th century parable about a well-respected blind philosopher whose reputation was “accidentally” tarnished by a mistake that he did not “see” coming.
MSU’s greek community is turning a new page this semester following recent alcohol-related deaths of two MSU fraternity members Ryan Rosman and Brian McMillen. The greek community has said all of its members will engage in drug and alcohol abuse prevention plans and in-house awareness programs, as well as revising their social policies in response to the tragedies.
For those of you who pick up on it, forgive me my blatant hypocrisy in this column. Maybe it’s my general life-skepticism, my hyper critical view of the world, or my pure and genuine disdain for the current state of our society as a function of the marriage of individual delinquency and group complacency, but my reading of opinion columns seems to be highlighting, in small doses, what tends to be wrong with people these days.
San Francisco has its iconic trolley system to transport residents around town, but is a similar system in the Lansing area worth saving five minutes of a commuter’s time?
As an alumnus of MSU, I have to wonder if the academic quality has lessened since I’ve graduated after reading the Justin Covington guest column “Naming new decade proves difficult task” (SN 1/12).
Once again an election is around the corner, and this time Michigan will be choosing a new person to lead the state.
MSU students in a multitude of academic disciplines are continuing to come to terms with tight budgets.
As we’re now roughly past the first two weeks of 2010, New Year’s resolutions are in full force. Gyms are packed, cigarettes are being put out and money is being saved.
Many of us have had our families’ wealth looked at in order to determine the financial aid we receive. But imagine an admissions process that takes into account the wealth of a student’s family before allowing him or her to attend a college or university.
I think it is outrageous that students at MSU would condone and excuse the irresponsible behavior of MSU Trustee Faylene Owen and her husband, which resulted in their recent bankruptcy filing and their home foreclosure.
New Year’s Eve always is more exciting when a somewhat significant change in numbering occurs. As we left behind yet another decade, we were instantly handed another pressing question: how to pronounce years during this decade.