Billions, or likely even trillions, of dollars are spent every year to fight diseases, advance medical technologies and teach new crops of graduate students how to treat the injured masses.
As the state’s economy continues to wind itself down, finding a decent job that pays a wage high enough to live on is starting to be thought of as a luxury. Even if someone was to be hired, many companies are only looking for part-time employees, and it would be extremely difficult to live on that income.
Glorious citizens of America, this week is your time to unite and commemorate one of the greatest chapters in our nation’s superior history. This week, just days after we celebrated the birth of our nation 233 years ago, we are allowed to pat ourselves on the back for another one of our country’s accomplishments.
Almost a decade of planning, organization and effort by East Lansing officials was beginning to come together. It finally appeared as though City Center II might actually end up being built after all. But now, before a single bulldozer has been started or a single orange barrel has appeared at the site, the project is suffering another setback.
With the state on the verge of an election as well as a $1.7 billion deficit, a lot of people are trying to offer their solutions to many of Michigan’s problems. Unfortunately, not every idea is productive.
To help with both the city and state’s image problems, Lansing, the state of Michigan and MSU might all be joining forces to update the Michigan Library and Historical Center in downtown Lansing.
President Barack Obama stopped in Warren, Mich., last week to pitch an initiative to enhance community college training programs in order to secure an additional 5 million American degrees. This might have had a familiar ring in places such as Greenville, Mich.
ABC News recently had a special called “Earth 2100,” which was part fictional, animated documentary of the future, part interviews with climate change experts. The majority of the special focused on the real effects that could occur if humanity does not work together to save its future.
Now that the silence has ended and a temporary journalism director has been chosen, the College of Communication Arts and Sciences and its dean Pamela Whitten likely are ready to move on to the next matter of business. But Whitten shouldn’t be too hasty before she takes on another task, because there’s a lot that could have been done differently during this saga.
Every once in a while, I’ve been known to enjoy a drink or two. I turned 21 only about a month ago, so saying that probably won’t shock many people. I’m still a little green to the MSU bar scene, but there’s something that’s already made an impression on me.
Even though people seem to believe the things they do on the Internet won’t be noticed or traced back to them, often they still can be. That’s what happened to two MSU students when some alleged alterations they made to a Wikipedia Web page was met with a libel suit that could end up costing them each $25,000.
If the Pentagon acts on a recent report, the iconic image of the smoking soldier will be lost to the annals of history.
The Humane Society of the United States’ fight for a few inches might be far tougher than one would expect. The national animal rights group has been lobbying the state of Michigan to give more room to certain confined livestock animals, saying that many don’t have room to stand up, lie down, turn around or extend their limbs.
Buried in all the gloom-and-doom news tied to the fall of the auto companies, Michigan is (finally) quietly getting some good news. Basically, green jobs are the way to go.
Have you ever driven down the road and looked with pride at the rear end of a rusty truck or a real beater of a vehicle that sports an MSU sticker in the window or a license plate framed with the name of your alma mater?
It seems most politicians are under the impression that Michigan is having a going-out-of-business sale and the state will accept any agreement as long as it will provide some budgetary relief. Sadly, that assessment might be fairly accurate.
We all know times are tough. Money is tight. Sacrifices and compromises must be made in our personal lives as well as in our academic. We all know that the state has slashed higher-education funding at the same time the economy is tanking and the cost of tuition is going up.
I’m kind of a filthy person. Not filthy like I don’t shower or filthy like Christina Aguilera circa 2002. I mean I don’t really have the ability to censor myself. I drop f-bombs in front of children walking with their parents and I take the Lord’s name in vain in the presence of grandparents.
Researchers Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh have created a formula that can predict the Social Security numbers of many people with considerable accuracy, using only the person’s birthday and state of birth.
In a world where the cost of attending college keeps increasing and paying off tuition loans becomes harder and harder, the federal government is trying to ease the burden. The government has enacted a new plan that will allow college graduates to pay off their federal loans based on their incomes.