I would like to tag John Bice as “beleaguered and perpetually confused,” as he so easily labeled the American automotive industry in Senate bill positive for environment (SN 10/31).
Even though Halloween was right around the corner, no one was prepared for the real scare that happened Tuesday in Berkey Hall.
I just finished reading the sports blog Reporter sticks with U-M alliances (SN 10/30) by James Andersen. I, like many others, am upset that this article was published.
There is one other thing that is invariably lost to me every time I donate blood on campus — two hours or more of my day.
I was in Berkey Hall on the third floor when the pops, crackles and booms were heard. I was sitting in my desk during lecture as the floor started shuddering.
An incident involving firecrackers happened at Berkey Hall. Since then we have learned that the incident did not involve gunshots but rather firecrackers.
The Michigan Supreme Court will hear arguments next week involving whether or not public employers can legally offer domestic partner benefits in a case that will set the tone for years to come regarding how people receive and share benefits.
Michigan and its residents are facing a difficult time. Unemployment is close to an abysmal rate of 8 percent, the budget in Michigan is currently facing a 1.75 billion shortfall, and more than one million Michigan residents do not have health care insurance.
In June, the U.S. Senate passed an energy legislation package requiring the first significant upgrade to the nation’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE efficiency standards for cars since 1975.
I am writing in regard to the article Dalai Lama honor brings problem to light (SN 10/28) by Liz Kersjes.
It has claimed 200,000-400,000 lives. It has displaced millions. It has tortured countless millions more. And it continues to this very day — with no end in sight.
After a brutal 9.6 percent increase in this year’s tuition, the MSU Board of Trustees announced Friday they’ll be giving each student about $60 back. That’s great, but in the grand scheme of things, will it really make that much of a difference? It seems like just a drop in the bucket when looking at the bigger picture.
I read a Lansing State Journal article titled Protesters shout down anti-Islam speaker at MSU (originally published online Saturday) about how protesters once again disrupted a speaker on campus because they don’t like what the speaker has to say.
Much has been made of the similarities between Iraq and Vietnam, both by anti-war proponents and, more recently, by the Bush administration. At the surface, they are certainly compelling. Both were a thinly veiled attempt at imperialism that ended with the superpower at the mercy of the guerilla; both resulted in bloody chaos once the superpower left.
Many liberals and conservatives use Martin Luther King Jr., or MLK, as the epitome of color-blind ideology. In fact, those same conservatives and liberals reference MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech so much that it is a wonder why he is so revered. In addition, MLK is used by those against affirmative action as a tool to discredit the entire black liberation struggle from the conception of this so-called democratic country.
Since the moment the federal government and the national media realized the spreading San Diego wildfires were reaching natural-disaster scale, the comparisons to Hurricane Katrina began rolling in. The disaster relief and government response was markedly better in California for a number of reasons, but the two disasters are different in so many ways it is irresponsible to compare the two.
Nick Griffin, the controversial British politician, and his speech on our campus Friday are matters of grave concern. While we respect the First Amendment and right to free speech, Mr. Griffin goes against some of the very basic principles that are at the core of MSU.
Who would have guessed it would take a foreign religion to bring the Democratic-run Legislature and President Bush together? Not me, but it happened in one of the most positive political moves of the Bush administration yet.
I agreed with most of Michael Stevenson’s column Blackwater USA actions alarming (SN 10/25), and I’d like to add one of my concerns. He argues that history has shown the fallacy of hiring mercenaries, but these aren’t the mercenaries of Rome — they’re worse. Blackwater represents a privatization of the military, a concept that doesn’t exist prior to capitalism.
Protesters once again gave MSU Young Americans for Freedom, or YAF, exactly what they wanted Friday when they showed up and angrily tried to drown out the message of the student organization’s speaker — British National Party chairman Nick Griffin.