Taking a year off before enrolling in college can be viewed as either a significant challenge or an opportunity depending on how the student plans to spend the year. However, a recent proposal by President Barack Obama could give students added incentive to wait.
As an American, I implore my fellow citizens to stop what they are doing. Stop cooking. Stop working. Stop driving. Just stop. Stop and count out 15 seconds and feel how long those brief moments in time truly are.
As students go green for St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, they shouldn’t forget to go to class today or Wednesday, either. It is every student’s right to do what they please with their money — and let’s be honest, there is a tremendous amount of deals today at bars across East Lansing.
Political discourse in our country, sadly, is often no better than what one would find in middle school children, where the shortage is not in the quantity of opinions, but in concrete facts on which to base those opinions. It is far easier for politicians to resort to demagoguery and rhetoric than to actually educate themselves on the issues they face.
I am not a big fan of bottled water, but I would suggest that professor Rick Bernsten, who wrote the letter University should only sell environmentally safe bottles (SN 3/6), and others stop for a moment and think about it before they clamor for a ban on water sales.
The editorial East Village project could hurt community (SN 3/4) and article Student housing at stake in E.L. redevelopment (SN 3/2) continue to recycle the same misrepresentations of the East Village project as earlier articles and editorials.
Almost two years ago, I wrote a column in The State News about a few days I spent in Washington, D.C., with 150 kids and teens with type 1 diabetes who were advocating for federal funding for a cure.
The U.S. middle class has felt the crunch of college for many years. With middle class students being too well off for federal financial aid but without the ability to pay for college without taking out loans, more assistance has been needed for a while — but any actions to improve the middle class situation must take the rest of society into account.
Cory Connolly’s articulate column Bottled water not worth cost, harm (SN 2/26) accurately enumerated the many negative environmental impacts of the explosion in bottled water consumption.
Daily reports describe the struggle to improve our nation’s health care while controlling its cost. Among the trillions to be spent, surely there is room for a cost-effective form of alternative medicine that has been scientifically established to aid patients’ physical as well as mental health.
Institutions can seem like scary things. When we think of an institution we think of big, immovable structures that exist whether we like it or not. But despite the aura we typically get from the faceless concepts of university and policy, there are real people behind them, and we can and should have the power to influence them.
The East Village project. It’s a name that brings skepticism among some students and residents.
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.