Steve Japinga's letter, "Special treatment for coaches waste of money" (SN 7/31), was way off base. Our tuition is not increasing because of courtesy cars or country club memberships for coaches and athletic administrators.
My grandparents own a farm four hours north of East Lansing, outside of Boyne City. Growing up, every holiday break from school or a birthday meant another trip to the farm.
Rupert Murdoch's recent acquisition of Dow Jones & Co. marks a scary time for the nation and for the distribution of information as a whole. The Wall Street Journal, published by Dow Jones & Co., which is owned by the Bancroft family, is one of three remaining national, well-known, family-owned U.S.
I am writing in response to the letter "DeVos should serve time for Quixtar scam at MSU" (SN 7/16). This is like asking expert advice about running a restaurant from someone who has never been in the restaurant business, let alone been in any business.
The United States is the fattest nation in the world. Diabetes affects more than 20 million Americans, 90-95 percent of whom have Type 2 diabetes, which is preventable through healthy diet and exercise. The most economical alternatives for a meal are usually fast food franchises which are, by anyone's standards, incredibly unhealthy.
My hopes for future generations of MSU students were lifted when I read "SAF to play smaller role without Corner Blitz" (SN 7/30). I always laughed at the name Student Alumni Foundation because anyone involved with the organization knows it is run by its dictator and adviser, Bev VandenBerg. It's been this organization that has systematically taken the spirit out of MSU's spirit sections.
I am writing in response to "Cost of school should be same for all" (SN 7/30). Charging engineering students more for tuition has been standard practice at this university for quite some time.
An MSU group recently received a $175,000 grant to publicize its findings regarding alcohol consumption by college students. The idea behind the group's research is that students enter college with misconceptions about their peers' drinking habits.
On Friday, The Detroit News reported that not only does MSU pay for courtesy cars for athletic coaches and athletic administrators, but "Michigan State hands out another perk reserved for the highest echelons of private business - a country club membership." According to the report, the memberships cost the school around $35,000 a year.
For a very long time now, Christianity has been marketed as a religion of love. Not only is it a religion of love, we're told, but also it is a religion of redemption and forgiveness.
A tragically mistaken war in Iraq is not going to be fashioned into any kind of victory worth winning.
In a state as dependent on automobiles as Michigan, the price of gas will always be an issue of large public concern. Two Michigan representatives are attempting to change the way the state taxes citizens at the pumps.
Many students will soon pay more for choosing a certain major at public universities across the country. High professorial salaries in certain fields, expensive specialized equipment and waning state funding for public universities are driving some state schools to charge higher tuition to students in fields like business, engineering and journalism. Such majors focus on learning a task, and students paying more for a certain major may focus on taking classes only within that major to get their money's worth.
This is to respond to John Hayden's letter "Non-Christian teachings cause of world tragedies" (SN 7/26). In it, he states his belief that the Bible is the guiding path to glory.
As a representative of virtually all the facilities nationwide that collect blood and 80 percent of those that transfuse blood and blood components, I wanted to bring to your attention inaccurate information included in "Mich.
Despite veto threats from the president, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a new and improved version of the multibillion-dollar farm bill, the core of the country's government farm program that sends subsidies to U.S.
Enjoy a dive into Lake Michigan this summer. Before I do, I'd like to thank Richard Librizzi for pointing our attention toward British Petroleum Co. Ltd.'s attempts at increasing the daily garbage it heaps into Lake Michigan in "Corporations polluting Michigan's water sources" (SN 7/26). BP wants to increase its daily ammonia discharge by about 1,600 pounds, while it would bump up its daily release of suspended solids, like lead, by about 5,000 pounds, according to The Chicago Tribune. This is all while BP advertises it actually gives a damn about the environment.
Because of No Child Left Behind laws, schools are spending less time teaching history, science and art to focus on reading and arithmetic for annual tests. Since the 2001-02 school year, when NCLB was enacted, 44 percent of U.S.
The summer of 1967 - some remember it as the Summer of Love. For others, the thoughts of a carefree, idealistic summer are pushed aside by thoughts of a more somber nature. Those thoughts center around burning buildings, police brutality and violence based primarily on race. This week marks the anniversary of the civil disturbance in Detroit. The flash point of the riot occurred when police shut down an after hours club, or a "blind pig." But the reasons for the riots run much deeper than that. Racial discrimination, segregation, poor housing and disenfranchisement all played important parts in the city's explosion that July. For years before the riot, Detroit was undergoing a drastic change.