MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon is putting much-needed pressure on Michigan legislators to make funding for higher education a priority — especially for MSU. Simon met with members of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Friday to argue for more funding for MSU and other universities.
Don't take it out. Totally Takeout, or TTO, is the on-campus meal service that uses a point system to allow students to pick meal items to go.
With all the same old regurgitated pro/anti-choice letters lately, I thought I'd take a third angle at it. I'm pro-abortion, meaning I don't only think that there should be a choice, but that it should be done more often. The hard-core religious right always goes on about the right to life, but what about the rights of the parents (notice not just mother) to life, liberty and namely the pursuit of happiness? Whether the pro-life crowd is willing to admit it or not, unwanted pregnancies ruin lives, especially teen pregnancies.
The column by Philip Moon, "ASMSU is selling out its constituents with Mobile Campus service" (SN 2/09), failed to press the importance of several points about the bill passed by Student Assembly. The most important being that bill 42-60 does not force MSU into a contract with Mobile Campus.
As you sit there in the cafeteria, reading your copy of The State News (hopefully), the pop you're drinking symbolizes a large debate on campus. The Students for Economic Justice, or SEJ, accuse Coca-Cola of treating workers poorly and being anti-union.
I recently walked by the hilariously entertaining Wells Hall preachers and heard one proclaim "the Bible is truth; everything else is lies." After laughing, I remembered that such bibliolatry is disturbingly common.
I think just about everybody who has passed Wells Hall lately has been confronted by the notorious preachers.
Five people will compete in the primary today for the Senate seat vacated by Virg Bernero, mayor of Lansing.
The State News editorial titled "Bad move with MCRI" (SN 2/13) is misleading on two fronts. First, you give too much weight to the fraud claims directed against petition circulators while ignoring the accusers.
As the mother of a 5-month-old beautiful, "baby girl," not "baby fetus," I am disgusted at the carelessness and lack of knowledge of women in our society. I am not going to indulge in the battle of whether aborting your child is wrong or right — you all can make your own moral decisions. My issue here is the ignorance of some people who might in fact disagree with my opinion but have little real knowledge of birth. A baby or "fetus" in the first trimester has a beating heart.
Fred Poston is sorry students were inappropriately teargassed last April 2-3. Poston, the vice president for finance and operations at MSU, made an apology at a joint meeting between Residence Halls Association and ASMSU, MSU's undergraduate student government.
After all the commentary — "Freedom of press must be respected; violence not suitable reaction," "People skirting issues, merely comment on 'tastelessness' of images" and "Danish cartoon depiction inaccurate perception; needlessly offensive" (SN 2/14) — about the Danish cartoons which depicted Muhammad in an offensive light, one question stands out: Should the right to freedom of speech protect offensive or tasteless speech? I must absolutely say yes.
I am writing in response to the letter by Jocelyn Peirce, "Abortion, Holocaust can't be compared" (SN 2/15). We endlessly listen to pro-choicers talk about the rights of the mother, but what of the father's?
This is in response to the letter by Shane Krouse, "Fetus not living until it exits womb, born" (SN 2/08). I'm 20 years old and still rely on my parents for survival. Yeah, this seems like an absurd claim, to compare a 20-year-old to an unborn child, but when do you draw the line?
Stem cell research could find a home in Michigan, creating new opportunities that would help the medical world. Gov.
All this talk of abortion and law confuses me. Why is it, again, that killing a pregnant woman constitutes a double murder, but aborting a fetus constitutes a woman's choice?
Let me be honest — I don't really drink pop (or soda or whatever else you want to call it) on any sort of regular basis.
As a student from the Netherlands visiting MSU for a couple of weeks, my attention was drawn to Mike Ramsey's "People skirting issue, merely comment on 'tastelessness' of images" (SN 2/14). His description of a bigoted, anti-Muslim Europe clearly demonstrates his ignorance of Europe. It leads me to question whether he has ever visited Europe and, if so, I am sure he has not ventured far outside the tourist areas where he might have encountered the truth about the problems he so hastily attributes to European racism. I don't know how much time Ramsey spent researching his story, but he has obviously missed that Europe has provided non-Western immigrants with resources like housing, welfare and health care for more than 30 years without demanding anything in return. Many immigrant communities — first and foremost the Islamic — are now turning on their hosts.
The parking division of the MSU Department of Police and Public Safety serves as a prime example of enforcer-student problems at MSU. Academics at the university are exceptional, the sports are invigorating and the campus is one of the most beautiful in the nation.