Thank you for your coverage of Steve Japinga's campaign for chairman of the Michigan Federation of College Republicans, or MFCR, in "Preparing to run for political office" (SN 2/5). Japinga is going to be a fantastic chairman of this important group. Japinga represents a remarkable MSU story.
"I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father but by me." These could quite possibly be the most powerful and most offensive words ever spoken on Earth.
As we enter ASMSU's election season, the organization has 32 vacant seats — leaving every MSU college except James Madison and Social Science underrepresented in the Student and Academic assemblies.
I am writing in response to "Definition of human life needs to be determined" (SN 1/30). The logic of the presented argument is deeply flawed.
I was on campus when the IM Sports pools opened, and they were state of the art, but that was almost 50 years ago.
I must commend your paper on the recent article "Unlikely threat from China may not be improbable, far-fetched" (SN 1/22), by opinion columnist Pete Nichols.
I must say that Alex Lishinski wrote an interesting criticism about people of faith in his letter to The State News, "Belief in god wasteful, necessitates blind faith" (SN 2/1). A letter in which he completely degrades anyone who isn't as socially enlightened as he has proclaimed himself to be.
I am writing in response to the letter "Recycling does not save resources, reduce costs," (SN 1/22) by Steve Sutton.
Another blow was delivered to same-sex couples Friday, with the state court's decision to ban same-sex health care benefits. The ruling follows the state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage from the 2004 election — it passed with 59 percent of the vote. According to the court, when Michigan voters approved the ban on gay marriages, they also banned domestic partner benefits as well. During the run-up to the election, proponents of the gay marriage ban stated early and often that same-sex couples retain all the rights afforded to them.
With every issue I have an opinion about, I make a concerted effort to understand those who disagree with me — their motives, feelings, reasons — because without mutual understanding, I do not believe problems can really be resolved or gaps ever bridged. However, there are a few issues of which I truly do not understand the "other side." I try, but I cannot seem to find a common ground on which I agree with, or at least understand and appreciate, the views of those who disagree with my opinion.
Much has been written lately in The State News about atheism and Christianity. To me, Christianity and atheism are like two bars of metal. The surface of the atheistic bar is golden, shiny and aesthetically pleasing while the Christian bar appears soiled, dirty and unattractive.
In response to "Tax plans could start political feud" (SN 1/30), I think The State News is both hypocritical and a bit confused.
Thanks for your editorial, "Israeli use of cluster bombs unjust" (SN 1/29). Indeed, Israel always has been renowned for using excessive force and extreme measures of brutality.
If you followed the 2006 elections, you witnessed a few "ceilings" fall. If you watch the 2008 presidential election, you'll hopefully see what's left of the "marble ceiling" crash to the ground. As Nancy Pelosi, the first female speaker of the House in United States history, so proudly proclaimed after the Democratic majority took over, "for our daughters and our granddaughters, today we have broken the marble ceiling." The United States is unmatched in political inequality in terms of racial and gender under-representation.
The University Student Commission, or USC, of East Lansing serves as a venue for students to gather together and express their viewpoints on the policies and legislation in the city.
During the past few years, there has been unceasing banter back and forth about whether or not embryonic stem cell research should be conducted.
I am writing this letter in response to "Definition of human life needs to be determined" (SN 1/30). Though I would without a doubt be considered a liberal, I can normally understand and respect where the other side of a debate is coming from.
Sometimes, a story comes along that is at once indicative of an era and so gleefully idiotic it would almost be funny — if it weren't so pathetic. Case in point, the now-infamous "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" bomb scare. The gist of it goes something like this: A couple of guys working for an advertising agency started a guerrilla marketing campaign for Adult Swim's "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" movie by putting up lit signs depicting two of the show's characters giving the finger to passers-by in major cities such as Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Boston. After seeing the signs, which were placed anywhere from the sides of buildings to bridges, Boston residents did their patriotic duty and terrified themselves into action, calling the police and eventually summoning the bomb squad to come along and destroy the offending neon signs.
I am a resident at Twyckingham Apartments, and I would just like to speak out against your nothing but overly sensational and disgusting coverage of the incident at Twyckingham Apartments this past Monday morning, "Off-campus apartment robbed" (SN 1/31). Was it really necessary to state that "a 26-year-old Twyckingham Apartments resident felt the cold pressure of a gun fixed on the back of his head, and saw his blood soaking into the beige carpet of his first-floor apartment during the early hours of Monday morning"? A simple "victim was threatened at gunpoint" would have been plenty good enough.
Like most students at MSU today, I was still in high school during 2003 — the year John Bice reports there were abundant pro-war letters in The State News, "Supporters for Bush's Iraq war have mysteriously disappeared" (SN 1/30). Apparently, according to Bice, there have not been nearly as many since.