In a move to reduce scheduling conflicts for students, MSU is looking to add more Friday classes because, as MSU Provost Kim Wilcox put it, “As class sections become fewer, we can’t afford class conflicts. … Let’s get back to the standard schedule that we all agreed upon.”
The State News has a great tradition of reporting on news that directly affects the student population. In that spirit, I want to bring attention to the local problem of global climate change. With ice caps melting and glaciers receding, hurricanes threatening our southern cities and historic wildfires ravaging the West Coast, climate change poses great challenges to our security and the very stability of our nation.
After reading Officials plan more Friday classes next school year (SN 9/27), I was appalled by Provost Kim Wilcox’s comment on the seriousness of students at MSU.
Most ordinances are designed to keep citizens safe. But when a hardly enforced ordinance has little to no value and penalizes citizens, action needs to be taken.
Here’s a fact I believe will be well-evidenced by the end of this column: Nobody loves talking about journalism more than journalists.
College is amazing. Not just the experience, but the expanded opportunities afforded to us.
After enticing hundreds of thousands of veterans with new benefits, the new GI Bill is experiencing major problems.
As the Student Assembly chairperson of ASMSU, I felt it was my responsibility to write in response to the opinion cartoon that was published on Wednesday. I feel it is important to let students know the truth behind the ASMSU team building and leadership retreat by explaining why and where we had it, as well as what it has done and will continue to do for our student government.
Four state representatives have proposed an audit of the Bridge Card system in an attempt to stop what they consider fraud: Students claiming to have “low-income” status while still being listed as a dependent on their parents’ tax returns.
In no way did I expect to see what I did during my travels this past weekend. Fishnets, helmets, skirts and knee pads were abound when my friends and I stumbled upon a large crowd Friday night.
The State News editorial board recently commented on the upcoming Patriot Act renewal (Patriot Act deserves review before renewal SN 9/21), saying that it deserves to be reviewed. I agree and will do the dirty work to state why it should be abandoned altogether for the preservation of our rights.
Earlier this week, university officials and members of the Chicano/Latino Studies program met in a tense and emotional meeting about the performance of CLS Director Sheila Contreras.
With the state of Michigan in the middle of a very difficult budget crisis with no clear, long-term solution on the horizon, news media outlets are full of differing views about what our state’s leaders must do to secure Michigan’s financial footing for the future.
A bill that potentially could save lives is inching closer to reaching the floor of the state House of Representatives in the next few weeks.
I commend Kris Turner for his thoughtful critique of professor Fred Fico’s letter, Conservative faculty seek to protect America’s freedom (SN 9/4).
Attention everyone: I have a confession to make. It is with regret and remorse that I admit to you all that I have never read “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain.
A new piece of legislation announced last week could make the spotlight shining on our nation’s same-sex marriage debate a little brighter.
Oh, technology. You feed me a constant sweet nectar of news and pop culture minutia. You allow me to look up the most stupid stuff on Wikipedia.
Three sections of the U.S. Patriot Act — the infamous piece of legislation that expanded government surveillance — are set to expire at the end of this year.