After reading Katy DeSantis’ letter Board members should keep promise of banning circus (SN 2/27), I couldn’t help but notice that she mentioned the only humane circuses are ones with only humans.
As a relatively recent graduate of MSU, I can honestly say that I have read through The State News plenty of mornings. And one thing I never became too fond of was the type of “diversity” coverage The State News applies on its pages, such as the centerpiece Progress in diversity (SN 2/27).
It has not been a good week for our traders on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average tanked once again Friday, closing at just over 7,000 before dropping another 300 points on Monday.
In a way, knowing that the average amount of debt is $18,482 for U.S. public university graduates, according to Project on Student Debt, is oddly comforting.
The homes of thousands of MSU students are apparently not as important to project coordinators as building an “exciting urban neighborhood” near campus. Pierce Education Properties is 12 months into a 30-month deadline to acquire all the property it needs to build the proposed East Village, which would include entertainment venues, restaurants, retail and housing units.
The statement “Higher education appeared to be one of the winners in a national budget proposal Thursday that was full of spending cuts” in Student aid, research priorities in Obama’s budget (SN 2/27) is a poster child for the failure of journalism today in that it pays more attention to what President Barack Obama said was in the budget rather than what is actually in the budget.
When I wake up every morning and grab my perfectly healthy newspaper, I can’t help but think of how soon this helpless, defenseless thing will be lying on its deathbed. I can hear the persistent “beep, beep” of the heart monitors, see the slow trickle of fluid from IV bags and smell the pages of the newspaper decaying into a deathly yellow pallor.
I am writing about the Lent article that Kate Jacobson wrote titled Students find new approach to Lent (SN 2/25). In the article, she stated that Lent is a religious observance of Jesus fasting for 40 days before his crucifixion. That is absolutely not correct.
As a participant in this Legislative Education Day, I was able to meet with not only my senator and House representative, but also other concerned legislators. Being an MSU student and Sterling Heights resident, I was one of the student participants from different colleges and universities.
It was not long ago that I thought there couldn’t possibly be a more backward City Council member in our state than one found in Lansing’s City Hall, where Councilmember Carol Wood seems to make her living by building coalitions to oppose common sense initiatives.
MSU is home to the nation’s largest public university study abroad program, sending 2,801 students to more than 250 programs in 60 countries. In an increasingly globalized world, it is admirable that the university can boast such a strong reputation for giving its students the ability to experience how other people live.
The economic recession that has the nation and world reeling right now has been felt in Michigan for most of the past decade. During the past six months in particular, news stories have focused on the fate of the automobile manufacturers that we used to call The Big Three.
I couldn’t agree more with Cory Connolly’s column on the wastefulness of buying bottled water, Bottled water not worth cost, harm (SN 2/26). Here we are, lucky enough to be living in a landscape full of freshwater, wasting our money buying water imported from elsewhere.
I saw “The Vagina Monologues” last Saturday (2/21), and I could probably take another week and still not think of everything I’d love to say about the show.
The state of Michigan has had a difficult enough time holding onto luxuries, and the possible transfer of wetland regulation to the federal government shows basic necessities also might be sacrificed.
It was cold Tuesday, with a high of 31 degrees — just below freezing. It had been warmer before, though, and you could tell. High temperatures had been teasing the 32-degree mark for several days after a week of uncharacteristically balmy February weather.
“When from these scenes we wander and twilight shadows fade, our memories still will linger where light and shadows played.” So begins the second verse of MSU’s alma mater, a phrase that stands as a constant reminder that one’s time at MSU, like all good things, must eventually come to an end.
I was very excited to learn earlier this year that the Royal Hanneford Circus would not be returning to Breslin Center. This decision was considered a victory to me and many other MSU students as we fought hard last year to discourage the circus’ return.
If students and residents of East Lansing had known what was coming, maybe they would have savored that last spinach and artichoke flatbread sandwich with corn bread and tortilla chips.
We’ve all heard them: “All gay men have fashion sense.” “Lesbians don’t shave their legs.” “If you listen to Cher, you must be gay.”