With ASMSU snagging front-page headlines recently, the editorial board met with Michael Leahy, the organization’s student assembly chairperson, to talk about the recent issues and projects the undergraduate student government is undertaking. Here’s our take on the situations we discussed.
Omg. Don’t text and drive. People engage in distracting behaviors every day when they hit the road — from putting on makeup, drinking coffee, talking on cell phones, grabbing a few spare seconds of last-minute studying to sending a text message.
In the realm of political punditry, this nominating season has been the finest in decades. There’s very little dispute of that. One problem, however, is that much of the commentary begins from a flawed premise.
Reading about MSU’s recent expansion into Dubai got me wondering: What about the students right here in Michigan? Why is it that expansion into other countries seems to be more important to our president than providing an excellent, quality world-grant education right here at home?
I miss my iPod. The little thing literally expired the first day of classes this semester, without a chance for me to say goodbye. After about two years of moderate use, it had a good, long life.
Spring semester tuition: about $6,000-$9,000. Knowing exactly how the university is using those precious dollars: priceless. MSU’s Students for Prosperity, a newly created student group, is campaigning for the university’s budget information to be available online for anyone — from taxpayers to students — to see what the public university is doing with its millions.
I was thoroughly disappointed with the arguments presented in Karren Lewis’ letter to the editor titled Intelligent design has basis, Darwinism still unproven (SN 2/11). First and foremost, I would like to point out that the study of evolution is a scientific work in progress. Although the fossil record is incomplete, new discoveries are being made every year. It is a complex network involving many disciplines including — but not limited to — biology, archaeology and anthropology.
For many, the end of the Cold War marked the end of NATO. As an organization that was built and structured during a time when the U.S. and other nations were fighting communism, its mere existence now seems old fashioned and unnecessary. The alliance’s role is in the headlines again, with its involvement in Afghanistan vehemently supported by Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
If this presidential primary season has taught aspiring political pundits anything so far, it’s that conventional wisdom rarely counts for much these days. In a race that’s shot down the front-runners and brought boosted the second-place candidates on a regular basis, things rarely have been consistent. But with voter enthusiasm at its peak, this primary has been a definite change of pace.
The terror in Darfur shows no signs of ending. Yesterday, countless years of efforts to quell the violence were thrown out the window, when the Sudanese government recklessly attacked three Darfurian towns, displacing thousands more and killing hundreds.
The debate about evolution only proves that Darwin may have been wrong about humans — some of us are still apes. The arguments against evolution have never been about science, but are derived from the unnecessary fears of those who choose to remain ignorant about the natural world.
It’s an event that’s banned in six countries and more than 50 cities nationwide. Use of the implements it employs — poles with sharpened hooks and electric prods — are banned in localities of six states. And it’s coming to Breslin Center this April.
This letter is written in response to John Bice’s column Evolution exists, should be taught (SN 1/7). The state of the evolution and creation debate reminds me so much of the global warming debate.
Evolution continues to be taught in most schools as the sole explanation of creation and the diversity of species. However, many of its claims fall far shorter than those of intelligent design. Darwinism states that a common ancestor connects all phyla because of natural selection caused by variable environments.
The archaic 2007 Farm Bill provides money to wealthy corporate farms while neglecting family farms in the United States, making it impossible for developing countries with agriculturally based economies to compete.
Seems like just yesterday the Michigan Legislature finally settled a balanced budget for this fiscal year. But ‘tis the season for more government budgets, and both the federal and state budgets were introduced just last week.
Every week I walk into a classroom armed with attendance rosters, a lesson plan and, fortunately, pedagogical training I gained while earning my master’s degree from another university.
The way students choose to dine seems like an insignificant detail. But what is being seen in the cafeteria might signify a bigger problem.
America hooked on the Easy Button? I was watching TV when a popular Staples commercial came on. It showcased a man who couldn’t find his Easy Button, and asked a coworker for help. Instead of looking for the man’s missing necessity, she reached for her own button, pressed it and viola — his appeared.
Jessica Byrom’s labeling of the environmental upsurge in recent years as a “bandwagon” marginalizes the unique state the human race finds itself in today. We are seeing a cultural shift toward environmental stewardship that is more on par with the Copernican Revolution than the South Beach Diet.