Students Promoting Animal Rights was very happy to see The State News editorial Treatment of animals shouldn’t be secretive (SN 4/16), encouraging transparency with animal treatment. Unfortunately, the editorial board made numerous factual errors.
Last Friday, dozens of faculty, administrators and community members joined more than 500 undergraduate students at the Union for the University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum — one of this campus’s most exciting and significant annual events.
Wednesday was the one-year anniversary of the shootings at Virginia Tech. After all was said and done, 33 people lost their lives in what ended up being the deadliest school shooting in American history.
This is so high school. Bomb threats and other warnings were commonplace when we were in high school, especially after the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999. Oftentimes it wasn’t more than a false alarm used to get out of class on a nice day or to skip a test.
This letter is in response to Megan Joy’s letter Smoke-free restaurants, bars a logical step for Mich. (SN 4/16). The issue of forcing all restaurants and bars to become smoke-free is not an issue of her personal preference or of statewide economic concerns, as she would have the reader believe. It is simply an issue of private property, government intrusion and capitalism.
The events of this week especially should make people question what “humane” treatment of animals really means. Students Promoting Animal Rights, or SPAR, took the opportunity this weekend to protest the Royal Hanneford Circus at Breslin Center. Members of the student group claim the circus employs cruel practices and treatment of its animals, despite the circus’s denials.
I support House Bill 4163, legislation that could make all workplaces smoke-free, including bars and restaurants. As a college student, I like to go to local bars and restaurants to enjoy myself. I do not appreciate the overbearing, indiscreet stink of cigarette smoke on dry-clean-only clothing that cannot be dispelled by a douse of perfume. Nor do I appreciate having to inhale clouds of secondhand smoke.
I picked up The State News today with one hope in my mind: Please, let there not be a cover story about Cedar Fest plastered with pictures of police dolled up in riot gear, or a crowd fleeing from tear gas.
It was a tensely silent moment. There I was, sitting in an Olin Health Center examining room a couple of months ago answering the doctor’s perfunctory questions regarding my general health. One question, however, said it all.
Thank you for your article on the invasive and lethal eye experiments that MSU’s Arthur Weber has been conducting on cats, ““MSU prof in PETA poll for worst animal offender”“:http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2008/04/msu_prof_in_peta_poll_for_worst_animal_offender (SN 4/14).
I was incredibly disappointed this morning to find no coverage of the Common concert in The State News. I attended the awe-inspiring concert along with no fewer than 1,000 hip-hop enthusiasts — it was quite refreshing!
On Friday I had the opportunity to see the MSU Men’s Glee Club perform in Traverse City. Eighty members strong and directed by Jonathan Reed, the group was stellar. As an alumnus of the group, it brought back some great memories.
I’ve lost my iPod and my cell phone before. It wasn’t pretty. But worse, I think, was losing both of my hands.
What makes the university system in the U.S. worthwhile is the diversity and variety that each institution offers to prospective students. One school might offer a great engineering program while another may specialize in liberal arts. The variety makes choosing a school an important and exciting decision.
People wonder why I didn’t scream or try to get away. He grabbed me from behind and fondled my breasts, my crotch and my butt. Panic set in. I was in shock, paralyzed in the place where I stood. I didn’t even know what was happening. Ten other men stood around, watching, doing nothing to help me. One of them called out to him, “Hey, do you know this girl? What are you doing?”
Getting into MSU or the University of Michigan is an achievement. And it should stay that way. If a proposed bill in the Michigan Legislature is passed, the top 10 percent of graduating students from every state high school would be offered admission to each of Michigan’s public universities.
Fifteen-year-old Lawrence King was shot and killed Feb. 12 in his school because of his sexual orientation and gender expression. In March, remarks by Sally Kern, an Oklahoma congresswoman, gained attention when she said gay people were more dangerous than terrorists. A transgender woman was recently found murdered in Detroit. Now, right next door in Lansing’s Old Town, home of gay bars Spiral Video Dance Bar and Esquire Bar, 10 separate buildings have been spray-painted with hate slurs such as, “Kill Gays,” “KG” and “Mushroom Militia Kill Gays.”
In a country that prides itself on the separation of church and state, I was surprised to find that the Democratic candidates have turned down an opportunity to discuss science, but accepted one to discuss faith.
As of late, the Olympic torch has looked more like a celebrity being chased by paparazzi or a controversial politician on the run than a historic symbol of a global athletic competition. In Paris, Olympic officials extinguished the flame and put it on a bus to avoid the crowds before they canceled a leg of its tour of Paris. Before the torch arrived in San Francisco, daring protesters climbed the Golden Gate Bridge to unfurl a giant banner that read “One World, One Dream, Free Tibet.”
“Pave paradise and put up a parking lot” seems less like a catchy song lyric and more like a bleak reality. A report from the National Parks Conservation Association warns that Congress must spend about $100 million in land purchases during the 2009 fiscal year to help preserve the beauty of about 55 national parks.