I read in the Lansing State Journal on Sunday morning that MSU’s Young Americans for Freedom are again trying to stir up controversy on campus. Instead of bashing immigrants or homosexual people, they are bashing Muslims this time.
There’s no disputing the fact that human rights are a cause worth the fight. The hubbub occurring between China and Tibet is no exception. But in a time when everyone is doing business with China in some way, the world’s reactions to its treatment of the Tibetan people must be carefully contemplated.
GOTV. “Get Out the Vote.” This should be familiar to members of our generation. In 2004 and 2006, campaigns such as “Vote Or Die” sought to get us off of our Xboxes and Facebook.com and into our local polling precinct. Every election cycle, celebrities and political elites get together to encourage us Generation Yers to participate in our democracy.
Ever heard the one about the Hillary Special from KFC? Two fat thighs with small breasts and a left wing. Yeah, it’s funny. And not in a politically incorrect har-har kind of way. Funny as in, wow, deranged sexist morons objectifying anyone with a vagina still roam among us?
Almost two years later, Michigan is still haunted by the supposed “nondiscriminatory” constitutional amendment that, in the eyes of many, doesn’t come close to making everyone equal.
Of the many metrics by which one can estimate the health of a society, one of the more interesting approaches is to compare the amount of public money spent on corrections versus how much is spent on higher education.
This is in response to the article Tickets in Mile High City scarce for MSU students (SN 3/20). Not only were tickets for MSU’s tournament games in Colorado available to the official team traveling party, players and coaches’ families and donors, but also to alumni and MSU students.
Here we are, five years later. It was on March 19, 2003, that President Bush ordered U.S. troops to invade Iraq under the pretense that former dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime possessed weapons of mass destruction. As the years went on, so did the reports of successes and failures, bombings and casualties.
Remember when college was about the free exchange of ideas and challenging pre-existing worldviews? Me neither.
If the Final Four were determined academically, things might be dramatically different, according to a new study from the University of Florida’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport.
As many of you can probably tell by the tone of most of my columns, I do have a political bias. Yes, I’m a Democrat. In fact, I ran for office as a Democrat almost two years ago.
Well, well, well. Now the Democrats might need Michigan’s help. Our state and Florida — the only states punished by the Democratic National Committee for holding primaries before Feb. 5 — could be the tiebreaker for the now closely matched Democratic contenders, Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill.
Fun stuff is happening in the nation’s highest court. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard its first Second Amendment case in about 70 years. The nine justices will decide whether a Washington, D.C., handgun ban currently in effect is constitutional. Or, simply put, whether ordinary citizens have the right to keep a handgun in their home.
This in response to the music review by Matt Flint titled From the vault: ‘Sublime’ shouldn’t stand test of time (SN 3/17).
I wanted to take a minute to say thanks to Drew Neitzel for proving me wrong and playing absolutely great in the Big Ten Tournament. His passes were sharp and his shot was true, but most importantly he played with a relaxed confidence not seen all year.
Things are looking bleak once again for ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government. Nigel Scarlett, ASMSU vice chairperson for external affairs, was arrested last week and charged with third-degree criminal sexual assault.
Imagine this. Geneva, Switzerland: Sabina and Jessica are running to catch a train. Once the girls reach the station they are bombarded by a group of eight to 10 adolescents. The boys start to harass both girls. A boy dressed in a leather coat pushes himself on top of Sabina and kisses her, but all she could do was try and push his face away. In the same instant, another kid creeps in from the side and snatches her purse. The boys start to separate the girls, making a circle around each of them, pushing and slapping them.
There is no cure for the common cold. This is universal knowledge. Yet when a “miracle cold buster” hit the shelves in 1999, Americans snatched it up. Throw in a cute story about a second-grade teacher who invented the product and an endorsement from Oprah Winfrey and you’ve got Airborne, the “effervescent dietary supplement” that made $151 million in 2006.
Throw around as many Michigan Open Meetings Act exemptions as you’d like. It doesn’t make the MSU Board of Trustees’ actions any less dastardly.
I recently learned from an MSU cafeterias employee that they often throw away perfectly good food at the end of the day. “They have to do it,” she said. But they don’t. It’s a waste of food.