I find it pretty amazing the ruckus that has developed regarding the Young Americans for "Fascism" being labeled a hate group, both because I find it completely unsurprising and because it has taken the campus community and The State News so long to figure this out. Of course MSU's YAF chapter is a hate group!
I am a huge fan of displaying diversity and different cultures of the world in a university setting.
Imagine that. A radical, liberal organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center, throwing the label of "hate group" at a conservative organization it can't compete with in the arena of ideas.
I am a third-year student at MSU. Yesterday was the third time I had to empty all the e-mails I have sent in my MSU e-mail because of its limited storage. Instructors and university officials choose to use MSU e-mail to contact students.
After having my Internet connection taken away, MSU's rules regarding music downloading became a reality to me.
"This Campaign is About You." Simple words, but sincere, honest and packed full of meaning, promise and hope.
Ryan Dinkgrave's column "Second time around" (SN 3/28), is a gross untruth about stem cell research.
More than a month after Gov. Jennifer Granholm's pledge to invest in higher education, a delay of $73 million in funding is looming in the distance. The state faces a $344 million cut if Granholm's executive order to reduce Michigan's combined $3 billion deficit is approved by the state House Appropriations Committee. If passed, Granholm has proposed to postpone higher education payments — totaling $73 million for Michigan schools — until the next fiscal year, which starts Oct.
I just finished reading the article "Money matters" (SN 3/23), about how the three biggest universities are asking to be treated differently from the other 12 universities in the state.
I found that veteran Matt Patton's letter, "Protests are not only way to voice opinions" (SN 3/22), implied frankly that the methods of the anti-war protest March 20 on Grand River Avenue were not only incoherent, but also disrespectful to the troops.
From both sides of the political aisle, and from all across the country, people are speaking out with urgency in support of embryonic stem cell research. Last week, the National Institutes of Health's director, Elias Zerhouni, testified before a Senate appropriations subcommittee, where he was asked if scientists would have a greater opportunity to develop new treatments and cure chronic diseases if President Bush's harsh funding restrictions were lifted.
I wish to retract and clarify part of my letter, "Letter writer's history harms black community" (SN 3/16), in which I accidentally stated that Gary Glenn, president of the Michigan American Family Association, or AFA, referred to an American Indian official's religion as "animism." The conservative Web site Americans for Truth ran an excerpt from Peter R.
Since MSU women's basketball head coach Joanne P. McCallie has arrived at MSU, she's changed the face of the team.
So Clark Ruper claims that Young Americans for Freedom isn't a hate group in "All chapter of YAF abide by same set of beliefs" (SN 3/26)? That's news to me.
"Police: Rape on campus reported" (SN 3/14) is the last article that disappointed my continual hopes for responsible and sensitive reporting about sexual assault.
As the weather begins to warm up in the next few weeks, more people will spend more time outside — including smokers.
On an otherwise beautiful afternoon one fateful spring day, thousands of students went about their day-to-day tasks, whether it was listening to a lecture on molecular biology or spending a day in a warm bed. Some students made a personal choice to publicly protest an immoral war, a wrong to be redressed — a right guaranteed to them by the First Amendment to the U.S.
Exerting the power of their newfound congressional majority, Democrats in the House of Representatives passed legislation that aims to end the Iraq war.
MSU is the largest campus in the nation with more than 5,200 acres, 2,000 acres in existing or planned development and a large network of sidewalks.
I urge faculty to attend the vitally important meeting of Faculty Council to be held today at 3:15 p.m.