This just in: News is not objective. Don’t get me wrong; for the most part, news stories are objective in nature, but not the objective described by Merriam-Webster, as “expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices or interpretations.”
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, student bloggers have found themselves officially sanctioned to offer their viewpoints on the school’s Web site.
Last Friday, I traveled into Wells Hall to see Michael Moore’s new “documentary,” “Capitalism: A Love Story.”
It seems lately, every time you open the paper, the hits keep coming. Just looking at the opinion page this week tells a tale of budget problems that seem to overwhelm us all. Today is no different.
As we matriculate through the halls of MSU, it is almost assured that we will sit in a class taught by a teaching assistant, or TA. There is no doubt in our minds that TAs are invaluable resources. They free up time for professors to plan classes and pursue additional professional development opportunities.
In the past week, I’ve had a strong inclination to dust off my old copy of Roman Polanski’s 1974 classic, “Chinatown.” I’ll admit it — Polanski’s recent arrest has brought the film back to my immediate attention. But the film is still great. And the more I think about it, the more I’ve felt a recent kinship with the film’s protagonist, Detective Jake Gittes, played by Jack Nicholson.
Last week, despite a buzzer shot by Chicago’s dream team — starting lineup: Michelle and Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey — the Windy City lost its bid to host the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games to Rio de Janeiro.
Once again, Michigan’s politicians seem intent on proving they are the biggest threat to a balanced budget.
At the beginning of the semester, an MSU student was hit by a vehicle while riding her bicycle across the Michigan Avenue and Harrison Road intersection. The police said it was her fault.
In the article “City Center II still could move forward” (SN 9/16), the mayor of East Lansing, Vic Loomis, is quoted as saying: “The integrity of our process had been challenged … and we withstood that challenge.”
In the past few months, no shortage of ink has been spilled concerning the elimination of the Michigan Promise Scholarship. As soon as it became clear the scholarship could be put on the state budget’s chopping block, politicians, university officials and students all entered a heated controversy about its possible termination.
I’ll get to my point quickly: College costs are out of control. Tuition, the cost of textbooks and room and board are on the rise and financial aid is falling.
As if it weren’t enough MSU is trying to move Health Services all the way to Clinical Center on Service Road, the university also is considering not renewing its accreditation.
If “excavations are precautionary measures to ensure historical remnants on campus are not destroyed,” according to the article Remnants of MSU’s 1st building found (SN 9/24), I sure hope the archeology department is on the job the day Morrill Hall gets demolished.
I graduated from MSU in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts in social relations and policy with a Chicano/Latino Studies specialization.
With the onset of a widely popularized movie “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell,” and its ever-so-delicate quote, “Deaf girls can’t hear you coming,” I find it pertinent to discuss our culture’s density when it comes to sexual assault.
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.