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.
I cannot believe the State News editorial board took a stance saying that the elimination of the Michigan Promise Scholarship is “necessary” (SN 6/24).
You have one hour to decide between your life and your leg.” No, this is not the plot of the next inevitable “Saw” film. It is a very real situation my father faced almost a year ago.
Before the end of the year, almost 90,000 unemployed workers in Michigan will have dried out their unemployment benefits. The state, which boasts the nation’s highest unemployment rate at 14.1 percent, is struggling to find short-term answers to the state’s larger problems. There’s currently a bill sitting in the Michigan Senate that could do just that.
An ethical election process is vital to the sanctity and reputation of a governing body. With this in mind, I’m asking that the recent election held by the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, be redone.
It’s far from breaking news to say the economy is drastically affecting the way everyone operates, and the government isn’t an exception. When economic conditions go south and taxes aren’t raised, the government has no choice but to cut back spending. That means no program or department is safe from having its budget reduced or eliminated all together.
When I got my first cell phone in the fall of my freshman year of high school, it didn’t have texting and it was for ‘emergency purposes’ only. My little sister’s first phone, which she got just four years later, played music and had an LED light-up screen. That’s not to mention it had unlimited text messaging, which is a good thing considering that in one month last year she sent and received more than 14,400 text messages.
A conflict between state law and public university power might lead to an increase in the presence of guns on MSU’s campus. The MSU Board of Trustees voted Friday to allow concealed weapons on campus, assuming the owner has the proper permits. Any person with a concealed weapons permit might bring a gun on campus, but not into any buildings, such as the dorms.
I know very little about the television industry. In fact, to say I know anything at all would be a lie. Give me a video camera and I’ll give you shots of people’s feet after I leave it recording. Tell me to build a stage and you might be lucky enough to get a birdhouse.
A wrongly convicted criminal serving time might not get access to all the evidence he or she needs thanks to a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision. The court decided Thursday that access to DNA testing for convicted prisoners isn’t a constitutional right, despite at least 232 cases having been overturned by DNA evidence in the U.S.
Have you ever wondered how many students at MSU choose not to have a Facebook.com page? Some of these students may be considered “outcasts” for not joining in on the frenzy, but they might be smarter than we think.