It may feel like a cliché in 2008, but it doesn’t seem without merit to critique the ongoing relationship with the media and those who find themselves influenced by it every day.
The Dow Chemical Company is paying Michigan universities to do studies to demonstrate that their manufacturing toxins are doing no harm . We need independent studies that Dow is not funding for objectivity.
It seemed like the idea of telling people where they are allowed to sit ended with the bus boycott but sadly, that might not be the case.
Francisco Jose de Goya taught me something about culture. Visiting his exhibit at the Prado Museum in Madrid last week, I perused the work of a man who acknowledged human legitimization of cruelty.
This November, voters in Michigan may accomplish something incredible that the state legislature has been unable to do: lift the harsh restrictions on stem cell research in our state.
Laptops are a student’s best friend but for some professors, they’ve become their worst enemy. MSU professors are divided on the issue of how to deal with students using laptops during class.
A good friend of mine once said in a song, “They say that black leaders can’t reach us,” a strong assertion that would hold some truth for most of my peers.
Excuse me — do you want to reduce the salaries of Michigan lawmakers and force them to disclose personal financial information? Well, just sign here and we’ll make it happen.
I’ve learned from many women throughout the years, each of whose struggles and accomplishments have taught me that I can pursue and be anything I desire.
While the 1960s and 1970s were full of political activism, the same cannot be said for the 1990s and 2000s. People complain that our generation is apathetic and politically unmotivated by comparison to our parents. By comparison to the baby boomers, it is true that we are not a politically active generation, however that is not a fair comparison.
During this harsh economic period, it wouldn’t be surprising to know that some families have fallen on hard times. Every day, families are losing their homes to bank repossession.
In the midst of another tuition increase, it’s nice to receive some good news regarding MSU. Although MSU’s minority enrollment rates were slightly down in 2007, the minority graduation rate is the highest it’s been in the past 10 years, according to a report presented to the MSU Board of Trustees on Friday.
To grow up in America is to navigate a world where the line between scam and legitimate business is so blurry, it almost doesn’t exist.
Powerless — that is how most students feel when they see that the cost of tuition is constantly rising and it seems nothing can be done about it. If tuition keeps climbing at the rate it’s going, it won’t be long before students look elsewhere to pursue a higher education.
“Mercenaries … are useless and dangerous,” runs a passage in Niccolo Machiavelli’s “The Prince,” “and if one holds his state based on these arms, he will stand neither firm nor safe.” The chapter goes on to seriously caution against the employment of mercenaries, whom the author considers “disunited, ambitious, without discipline,” and liable to change sides at the first opportunity.
Up — that seems to be the direction the price of everything is going. As if inflated gas prices aren’t enough, when faculty, students and staff buy their parking permits next year, they’ll be paying 19 percent more than what they paid this year.
It’s funny how the simple act of your once top-of-the-line phone becoming outdated causes you to re-examine society.
Why is there such a disconnect between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that Clinton supporters are unsure whom to vote for?
As a student on a limited budget, I commute to class by bicycle. Recently, my new $25 U-lock was cut and my bike impounded by MSU campus police due to non-registration.
Everything is just so expensive. The national average for a gallon of regular gas is $4. The cost of food is expected to rise by 5 percent this year — the largest increase since 1990. The housing market is struggling as people are having their homes foreclosed on faster than someone can bid on them. Unemployment rates are up and it won’t be long before our energy bills rise in cost.