With trees budding out all around us, I just want to say thank you to the MSU Board of Trustees, President Lou Anna K. Simon and everyone who has had a hand in planting all the trees around campus.
The environmental movement is an intriguing phenomenon across college campuses. Often the most enticing solutions are those that seem to provide a quick fix, but it is clear that there is no silver bullet to solve the environmental and economic problems deeply embedded in the U.S. today.
Never forget. It’s a phrase repeated for years by people who wish to remind the world of what happened during the Holocaust. More than 6 million Jews perished in World War II Nazi concentration camps, decimating the Jewish population.
I stumbled upon an article in The New York Times that says President Barack Obama wants to replace the system of federally-backed private loans with a directly-funded federal loan program.
I would never call myself a feminist. It’s not because what I think feminists promote is wrong.
Michigan’s economy is in one sorry state. That’s not news to anyone. Daily headlines read that Michigan and the rest of the country are economically spiraling downward, and everyone from pundits to professors are offering their solutions on what should be done.
Let me start this off with a caveat: I’d really rather be working on my studies so I can get a job and become a productive member of society than writing this letter — maybe help pull Michigan out of the red or something.
At Lansing’s Collins Road Post Office on the evening of April 15, informational pickets from the Greater Lansing Network Against War and Injustice and the Peace Education Center raised concerns that our federal government spends too much on the military and too little on human needs.
Though it’s more than 18 months away, the 2010 Michigan gubernatorial election has taken its place among the top political stories in our state. With Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s term limited, making her ineligible to run for a third time, the race has drawn a broad field of prospective candidates from both parties.
Twitter. Facebook. Blogging. There are many ways to keep in touch with each other these days, and the government is making no exception.
Like columnist Zack Colman, my younger brother also was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome. Colman’s column brought a tear to my eye because I know when my brother walks across that stage and receives his diploma it will be the happiest day of my life.
I was very glad to participate in last Thursday’s discussion with Bruce Friedrich from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA. This meeting of different views showed passion that fills both sides.
If the U.S federal government wants to make progress in the war on drugs, it should abandon its policy of prohibition in favor of a policy of legalization. Legalization has become, as the Economist puts it, the “least bad” option.
This week, the lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender, or LBGT, community put on Pride Week at MSU to further the exposure of LBGT students on campus. But is one week enough to end discrimination?
Kudos to MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon for sticking to her guns and refusing to bow down to pressures from the Anti-Defamation League, or ADL. How incredibly rude to even expect MSU to rescind its own invitation to respected Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
The State News missed one critically important fact in its editorial regarding Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s visit to MSU, Archbishop Tutu has right to speak at graduation (SN 4/14).
The happiest day of my life didn’t even happen to me. There he was, my younger brother, walking across the stage to get his high school diploma. He was wearing the same green robe I had just one year before, walking across the same stage I had just the year before, showing a smile so wide it wrapped around the back of his head.
MSU is a school known for its sports. The cry of fans on and off campus is loud and proud, with our alma mater sprawled across our clothing as we let a “Go green! Go white!” escape from our lips. It’s no wonder student-athletes would be deemed the top of the food chain, given benefits like free tutoring and special centers for them to further their athletic and academic success.
I couldn’t help but notice that a recent concert was not reported and was ignored by The State News. Last Thursday, Awesome Color opened for Dinosaur Jr. at The Small Planet, 16800 Chandler Road. I find this quite disappointing, as Dinosaur Jr. was one of the most influential bands of the ’80s and ’90s.
Debating animal rights certainly never is an easy conversation, especially when one side simply dismisses everything as “arbitrary.”