It’s time to reconsider “Shop ‘til you drop.” On Black Friday — the day retailers often see their bottom lines climb out from the negative — shoppers often congregate outside their bastions of retail religion for hours upon hours in the late-fall cold. They leave their Thanksgiving dinners early or skip them altogether.
No one can deny that our current political system is plagued by a vicious partisanship that is threatening to tear this country apart. But what else is to be expected when subjective moral values are used as the basis for public policy?
In response to Dan Faas’ column, Love drives same-sex marriage fight (SN 11/24), I would like to lend my enthusiastic support to him. He is a model of Christian charity, as well as orthodoxy: a rare combination these days.
Council of Racial and Ethnic Students and Council of Progressive Students groups have access to student tax dollars.
I am a Christian. I am also a homosexual. I feel the need to state these two qualifiers of my humanity before I take issue with Dan Faas’ column Love drives same-sex marriage fight (SN 11/24).
I read Alex Freitag’s column Student groups overstress race (SN 11/20) with great interest, as a lot of the bullet points remind me exactly how much work needs to be done with bridging the gap in race relations on this supposedly diverse campus.
It may not be official, but the worlds of news and politics are all abuzz with word that Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., will soon be announced as President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee for the position of secretary of state.
This letter is in response to the editorial Race-based groups deserve student tax Funds (SN 11/25). This editorial states, “People also should remember that nobody is forcing students to join these groups.” While this is a true statement, it is not true that nobody is forcing students to fund these groups.
Why didn’t you tell me this sooner? This entire time I have been under the impression (as I’m sure many other members and supporters of the Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgender community were as well) this argument is about bigotry and prejudice, not about love.
I don’t like the way Abby Lubbers adds insult to injury in the police blurb Police: Woman attacked near Hubbard Hall (SN 11/24) by indirectly placing the blame on the survivor of the attack. Reminding readers to plan where to run in case of an attack or to look around the bushes seems to insinuate that this woman obviously failed to form an escape plan ahead of time or to look for villains who might be lurking in bushes.
When I came to college about three years ago, I was extremely different than I am now. Anyone will tell you college is a time when you’re supposed to find yourself, slowly transforming into the individual you want to be and having the courage to stand up for the things you hold close to your heart.
The concept of race is one that has haunted this nation from its very birth. The U.S. has taken tentative step after step forward, trying to reach that mythical future Martin Luther King Jr. once spoke about — a world in which everyone was color-blind, and race no longer mattered.
I find it rather irritating that the social conservatives, despite their victory in the battle for the rights of homosexuals to marry, are writing letters to The State News in which they pose as victims of “intolerance” on the part of those of us in opposition to Proposition 8 and its likenesses. How they can expect tolerance is beyond me.
The passage of Proposition 2 in 2006 outlawing affirmative action in Michigan resulted last month in a publication on faculty hiring practices that puts the educational needs of students first by emphasizing competency more than diversity.
That didn’t take long. President-elect Barack Obama is still two months away from taking office, yet he’s already begun announcing his plans for how to fix the U.S.‘s moribund economy. Observers shouldn’t be fooled into thinking he’s found the magic bullet for all that ails the nation, however. Often overlooked in his various economic plans is the fact that his promise to create 2.5 million new jobs over his first two years is a gross estimate, and not a net projection.
As my mother, my third-grade teacher and the Plain White T’s all used to say, “Hate is a strong word.” And I agree. But I would propose that love is an even stronger word, abused and misunderstood even more by our society. In the past several weeks, a lot of ink has been spilled over California’s Proposition 8, a proposed constitutional amendment that will define marriage as strictly between a man and a woman.
There are several student groups focused on ethnicity that are eligible to receive student tax dollars. Anybody can join these groups. They include such organizations as the Black Student Alliance, or BSA, and the Asian Pacific American Student Organization. Some of these groups wield incredible power with these tax dollars.
This is in response to the letter Carrying guns on campus could work if regulated (SN 11/19) and the slew of other letters that people have been writing in discussing possible changes in policy relating to carrying weapons on campus.
As a graduate student studying mathematics, I was deeply saddened after reading the recent letter to the editor written by my fellow mathematics graduate students in Tolerance needed for those who don’t support same-sex marriage (SN 11/18).
As an avid MSU sports fan, I’m disappointed in The State News’ lack of recognition of the Men’s Water Polo Team.