With the recent passing of World AIDS Day, I would like to bring attention to a way that everyone with a computer can participate in fighting this disease.
Thank God it's almost over. I know that thought has crossed the minds of some of the kids slaving away at The State News, scrambling to close the books on a semester of stories.
In regard to the incident between protesters and Kyle Bristow at the illegal immigration meeting last Thursday, it is very unfortunate that the protesters resorted to physical violence as indicated in "Protesters crash immigration event" (SN 12/1). Resorting to such measures is a display of serious immaturity, and it has no place at MSU — or anywhere for that matter. These actions also give Kyle Bristow and his band of radicals, the Young Americans for "Freedom," undeserved publicity.
For as woefully inarticulate as President Bush may be, the Bush administration is remarkably good at wordplay. Take, for example, the latest stance on Iraq. For months now, terrorist attacks within the country have grown steadily more violent and bloody — with the number of victims growing exponentially.
Another day, another misguided student protest. Not that, fundamentally, the student protesters who came out to oppose Colorado Republican Rep.
I completely agree with Kyle Bristow, MSU Young Americans for Freedom chairman, who was recently quoted by saying, "The (anti-discrimination ordinance) proposal gives special rights to some people but aren't given to all people.
I was surprised at some of the inaccuracies and omissions in the Nov. 29 article "Living with diabetes." One that immediately stands out is the idea of "counting calories" for an insulin dosage.
More East Lansing residents soon could be calling downtown home. On Tuesday, East Lansing City Council members approved plans for new apartments and condominiums to be built on Grand River and Albert avenues. While these condos, and probably the apartments too, aren't cost effective for most students, they could bring more permanent residents into East Lansing. The new building on Grand River Avenue will have nine two-bedroom apartments for rent, and the building on Albert Avenue will have three one-bedroom apartments and 33 two-bedroom apartments, all of which will be inhabited by owner occupants. Plans like this could help to keep MSU graduates in East Lansing after their four years are done.
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama is finally starting to make a move toward running in the upcoming 2008 presidential race — and it's about time. For some time now, Obama has been evasive when asked if he would run in '08, laughing at the question or dodging it altogether.
While reading "Affirmative action discriminates, not Proposal 2; move on already" (SN 11/21), I was shocked.
In Pagosa Springs, Colo., last week, a couple was told by their neighborhood homeowners association that they must take down a four-foot wreath shaped like a peace symbol and pay a penalty of $25. The official reason behind the decision?
I can no longer bottle up my disdain for Kyle Bristow or the "Young Americans for Freedom." This unpatriotic group claims to promote freedom — heck, it's in their title — but every time I read "gay," "transgender" or "immigrants," sure enough, Bristow and these "Young Americans" are soon to follow in protest. They endorse such activities as the infamous "Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day" and now protest a Lansing ordinance that recognizes gender and sexual identity as nondiscriminatory clauses, as discussed in "Lansing ordinance prompts protest" (SN 11/21). Take a quote from Bristow himself from the aforementioned article: "The whole part where (transsexuals) are identified as a special group and deserve special privileges is just wrong.
Jessica Byrom is sick and tired of hearing about Proposal 2, evidenced in "Affirmative action discriminates, not Proposal 2; move on already" (SN 11/21). I would ask Byrom to venture out of her lily-white world and imagine, just for a moment, how it might feel to be sick and tired every day. She wonders why she can't have her own organization for white students.
'Tis the season for bickering. Every year, without fail, the holidays dutifully come back.
After a wildly embarrassing season, which lead to the further embarrassing public humiliation and firing of former head coach John L.
This letter is in response to Kristin Lucille Robinson's letter, "Byrom might not be racist but is certainly ignorant" (SN 11/22), which calls Jessica Byrom ignorant.
Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you. Well, actually, words can destroy your career and your reputation.
I find it particularly funny when people use the card "there's a black group; why can't there be a white group?" Many of the Black Caucuses have been removing the "black" in the title and have been named their residence hall's Caucus. Culturas de las Razas Unidas is one of the most racially unbiased groups on campus.
No form of power should be abused, and that goes for Taser guns, too. According to a recent State News article, East Lansing police officers have used Taser guns an average of twice each month this past year.
"Pass the turkey, please," my voice carried anything other than holiday bliss as I watched my older brother smear gravy on his face for the pure pleasure of watching me bite my tongue. I sat there, staring straight ahead and fighting the little voice urging me to revert back to my 12-year-old conflict resolution plan: the karate chop. I took a breath while assuring myself it had never really resulted in much more than my body in some variation of the human pretzel and giving my brother the satisfaction that he had pushed the right button. Leave it to the holidays to thrust us back into the family setting where we all learned how to deal with conflict and forgiveness in the first place. Here I am, age 21, and still hashing it out with my 24-year-old brother, confirming that conflict isn't something one can outgrow; rather, it's a human problem. Most of us can dig up some family grudge, but often we don't stop to think about implications of these daily conflicts, especially when we drag them out for weeks, months and even years. A study by the University of Michigan showed that in those 45 and older, forgiveness was linked to better mental and physical health.