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.
In the fast-moving swirl of world events, the most vulnerable of oppressed people are easily forgotten. However, we would do well to remember “the least of us” and stand up for justice. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.”
Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus” is the official motto of the city of Detroit. Translated from Latin, it means “we hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.” I hope it is true that better things will come, as the city has been a smoldering fire for years now and we are up to our knees in ash.
It’s the universal problem every student, regardless of his or her background or major, has been forced to deal with at some point: how to acquire and then dispose of the inevitable mountain of textbooks that is required for classes.
Human biology senior Amanda Keedle, psychology graduate student Rome Meeks and dietetics senior Amanda Marie Lange express their concerns about MSU’s new concealed gun policy. MSU now allows concealed weapons on campus — but not in buildings — assuming the holder has proper permits.