I read your cover story for last weekend's edition ("People behind the podium" SN 11/3). I was under the impression there were more than two political parties in the United States. I could have sworn several more parties ran for office in Michigan other than the Republicans and Democrats.
I was delighted to read The State News' "Dirty Jobs" (SN 11/7) article which features many of our hard-working students who devote their lives to the care of animals.
While the MSU football players look for who is to blame for the dismissal of their beloved head coach, I hope they will admit to themselves that they are the reason head coach John L.
"Long live the people! Long live the nation! Down with the occupiers! Down with the spies!" This doesn't exactly scream, "I just got sentenced to death," but those are the exclamations Saddam Hussein shouted after he received his court punishment — death by hanging. After 24 years in power and almost three years after his capture, the Iraqi court has finally found Saddam guilty of crimes against humanity.
At what point does human life begin? The question is consistently debated around the world. The answer, however, is fluid and has changed throughout history.
This is in response to the grossly inaccurate editorial published in regard to the proposal being discussed by ASMSU in, "ASMSU bill won't halt cheating" (SN 10/25). First, nowhere has this appeared in bill form yet — not in the University Committee on Academic Policy, not in ASMSU, MSU's undergraduate student government, and nowhere will it appear in bill form for at least another two weeks.
Go vote. This year's midterm elections are important. Not only is it possible for the Senate to tip Democratic, but also according to The Center for Information and Research on Civil Learning and Engagement, this year's midterm elections follow a presidential election in which the highest amount of students and young adults turned out to vote in more than a decade. It's the perfect time for students to prove everyone wrong and show up to voice their opinions during this heated midterm political season. In Michigan, the youth voter turnout — people ages 18 to 29 — ranked 12th overall across the country for the 2004 presidential election.
Tuesday has to be the most forgettable day of the week. At least Monday inspires dread, and Wednesday gets you over the hump.
I have had the remarkable privilege of serving on the Lansing State Journal editorial board this year.
This letter is in response to Amy Boersma's letter, "Reconsider voting against MCRI, will end racist policy" (SN 11/1). First off, I would like to address the statement that Asian Americans "lose points on the affirmative action scale." This is not true seeing as it is now illegal to use a point scale for affirmative action, and that argument is not valid when trying to argue in favor of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, or MCRI.
Correction: The editorial should have said state representative candidate John Knowles is voting yes on Proposal 2. Governor: Jennifer Granholm Jennifer Granholm is the obvious choice for Michigan governor.
Congratulations to staff writers Alex Altman and Ashley A. Smith for their brilliant article depicting a freshman's version of what recently took place in Wonders Hall, entitled "Student: 6 mentors terminated for drinking" (SN 11/1). Altman and Smith are well on their way to becoming excellent writers … unfortunately, I don't keep up with US Weekly or The National Enquirer.
Everyone seems to be losing their jobs: mentors, football coaches, politicians — the election is Tuesday.
Put down your pen. Stop typing. You can finally stop writing letters urging the university to fire MSU football's head coach John L.
Proposal 2 may have the right idea. Ending affirmative action is something that has been declared by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor as being a necessity.
After Iraq, the Bush administration now has found itself in another place where it has no right to be: the bedroom.
Andrea Byl, in her recent attempt to merge science and faith, "Christianity, belief in God based on rational thinking, evidence" (SN 10/31), missed the difference between religious and scientific beliefs. Religious "truths" are predetermined, believed with certainty and accepted without reliable supporting evidence.
Lauren Fox highlights the deteriorating condition of our society in "Raising kids today is scary prospect" (SN 10/23). She also wrote, "Church seemed to be the only sanctuary to survive the moral decay of modern life." It then dawned on me that the secular part of society lacks strict personal morals that a religious society maintains.
I have really enjoyed many of Jessica Byrom's columns because they tend to have such a fresh viewpoint, which is why I was particularly disappointed with the one that ran last Thursday which compared abortion with casualties of war in "Casualties of war mourned, not those killed by abortion" (SN 10/26). Planned Parenthood doesn't receive funding from taxpayers, as Byrom implied.
Whenever I turn on the news about the upcoming elections, I often hear — no matter if it's CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, whatever — that it's possible the Democrats will come out on top this year because of people's dissatisfaction with the Republicans' war performance.