The city of East Lansing is know for its time-tested, effective system of representative democracy, but some residents — bent on circulating petitions that could force a costly special election on the City Center II project — are flirting with the chaotic California-style “government-by-referendum” that has paralyzed that state.
What place does politics have in the classroom? It’s a topic this page has addressed before earlier in the semester, but it’s reared its ugly head once again. A New York City teachers’ union has filed a federal lawsuit alleging a policy mandating “complete neutrality” while on duty is violating teachers’ rights to political expression, such as wearing political buttons or hanging up political posters.
Proposal 2 is for the legalization of human embryonic stem cell research. In order to perform embryonic stem cell research, an unborn embryo has to be killed — an embryo that otherwise would one day grow into a human life just like you and me.
A woman has the basic right of controlling her own body — a typical argument for pro-choice supporters. If this statement should be held true, then it also should be extended to “an adult has the basic right of controlling his or her own body.” Furthermore, this also must include controlling all of one’s own body, not just abortion.
As a medical student and future doctor, I think that Catherine Fish’s description of the conscience laws (New regulations harm patients SN 10/13) as the “most backward rhetoric of the year” is disappointing hyperbole. As a secularist and future medical professional, I’m very sympathetic to the desires of women seeking contraception and abortions and have no moral convictions that would impede my performing these procedures.
There are 21 days left until Election Day. Do you feel like you know about the candidates, their policies, their priorities and their storied histories in the Senate? Tonight, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate John McCain will take the stage for the last time before the election to discuss domestic issues.
Students should know the truths of commercial livestock production before naively signing petitions regarding vegan food. In response to Drew Robert Winter’s column, More vegan food needed in dorms (SN 10/10), it is clear Winter’s sole concern is not providing an increase in food choices to MSU students.
In a perfect world, the headline above this column would be “How I learned to stop worrying and love the economic collapse.” When the world around you is falling apart, what’s the proper response? That’s a question that has been troubling me for a while now. It might be a question that’s troubling you, too.
I feel I must point out vegan food is expensive and difficult to get in the quantities needed to have a constant supply that would meet the demand, as mentioned in More vegan food needed in dorms (SN 10/10).
Chances are you won’t vote. You might have registered and you might have even cheered or protested at the recent rally on campus for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. None of that will matter on Election Day, though, when classes probably will keep you too busy to hit the polls. Or maybe you’ll decide your candidate will win whether or not you mail in that absentee ballot.
I read in the Lansing State Journal that MSU’s chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, or YAF, is planning to organize night patrols on campus to deter rape and violent crime. I would normally applaud students for such initiative, but I don’t think YAF members are good candidates for the job.
They should practically be in the welcome package. Every student is most likely familiar with the mountain of credit card solicitations that inevitably arrive in the mailbox after enrollment to MSU.
As a doctoral student and graduate assistant at MSU, I am allowed to purchase a GA permit for $106 per semester. No discount is given if purchasing multiple semesters at once, nor is summer a discounted rate. So, I assumed my investment of $318 per year would allow me to park anywhere south of the Red Cedar River, as ascribed in the rules and regulations of the permit.
Hold on to your morally reprehensible hats. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is spearheading regulations to protect religious rights in the medical field. And the ones left without a defense are the patients.
This November, along with helping select the next president, Michigan voters will be given a chance to voice their opinion on the issue of medical marijuana. Currently, 12 states have legalized the drug to assist patients with both appetite and pain control.
Many students think of Parkinson’s disease as the “shaking disease” and associate it with Michael J. Fox from “Back to the Future.” This “shaking” is known as a tremor that can be amplified by medications. The reality is that it is a serious disease of the nervous system that causes people to lose control over their muscles and affects one in every 250 people over the age of 40.
I would like to write a letter to the editor in response to the letter titled Proposal 2 surrounded by hype, voters need facts (SN 10/6).
In the current economic climate, if one thing has become clear for Michigan it’s that it must branch out beyond the auto industry. Various ideas of how to do this have sprung up along the way, from the idea of turning the state into the leading green energy producer to Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s Cool Cities program.
Although each resident complex on campus offers some vegan options, most dining halls don’t offer a varied and healthy diet, forcing students to put on a coat and boots just to eat a meal.
A special interest group is a political organization set up to influence political decisions in a way that is beneficial to the members of that group. These agendas can be ideological, such as the National Rifle Association, or they can be corporate, set on pushing agendas beneficial to a company. They also can be set up to support issues considered relevant to a specific demographic of the population like the AARP. Basically, if you can think of an issue, it probably has at least one interest group.