Sometimes the best thing to do with a little extra cash is spend it rather than give it back. MSU received $1.6 million in additional appropriations from the state Legislature beyond what they expected.
Students don't operate on the same schedule as everyone else. With everything students do in a day, they don't always have time to schedule everything around meals. And now, the university is trying to help out. Bruce Haskell, coordinator of Food Services, proposed a plan on Wednesday that will extend all cafeteria hours from 7 a.m.
I am so glad to see that the East Lansing City Council and Police Department want to review and amend the noise violation policy to involve drinking games.
Fear. I sense the fear and feel it as well. I fear that blind partisan politics will cripple our great nation.
Approaching winter and cold weather is likely to reduce the heat on the noise complaints in Lansing.
This letter is just a thought I had about junior kicker John Goss' comments in "Missed chances" (SN 10/17). Goss said, "When they say 'field goal' I just run out there and do my job — I don't even think about what's going on.
I am writing in regard to Daniel Piedra's letter, "Left, right have a lot invested with Miers" (SN 10/19), supporting the nomination of Harriet Miers to the U.S.
Unsubstantiated belief, also known as "religious faith," can produce unwelcome consequences.
In response to the Drew Robert Winter's column "Branding of creationism as a science shouldn't let it in schools" (SN 10/04) the first thing that comes to mind is "wow." Those are some bold and uneducated remarks about creationism saying it's a theory, not science. What is science then?
Thanks for running the article "Stemming cures" (SN 10/18) about a new, less-objectionable form of embryonic stem cell research.
Last weekend's "Midnight Madness" was a disappointment. Not because I feel the basketball team is going to be a bust or that Tom Izzo is incompetent, but rather the whole thing seemed to have been highjacked by the United Service Organizations. Instead of being an event to kick off MSU basketball, it seemed to be more about celebrating and supporting a military action. As a student at MSU and a citizen of the United States, I do not believe a publicly funded university should so openly and publicly support military action. A university's function is to educate students so that they can think critically and come to their own conclusions, not be a cheerleader one way or the other. In the future, I hope MSU plans events that celebrate MSU and stay away from political commentary. Bruce Nanasy plant biology senior
If I have learned anything from being in a fraternity, it is that image is the most important thing when recruiting season comes along.
I am amazed at the number of students who have written into the State News in anger about police Capt.
I'm writing in response to Mike Ramsey's editorial cartoon with the text, "You've got a great career in politics ahead of ya, kid!" (SN 10/14) directed at ASMSU. For those of us who have had to take a math class in our time here at MSU, I just wanted to let you know that $500 more dollars that ASMSU spent on their retreat this year, divided by approximately 45,000 students who pay ASMSU taxes equals about 1 cent per person.
I think we all need to stand up and give Matt Eckenrode a round of applause. His response to my recent column, "People don't disagree with war to be trendy, they care about lives lost" (SN 10/6), perfectly exemplifies the ignorance and hypocrisy that is the pro-war movement. Let's start off with the Downing Street Memo.
As of Oct. 10, 2,161 coalition soldiers have lost their lives in Iraq. And the number of dead will almost certainly continue to rise.
It's 2005. Finally, MSU is going wireless. Across the state, other colleges and universities have a wider range for students to access their wireless networks. A high-ranking university in diverse fields of research should not be forced to catch up.
A letter, "MSU profs oppose intelligent design as science" (SN 10/5), was published regarding an article about a trial in Dover, Pa., and I would be delighted to answer Kim Beaubien's questions. Scientists are fighting a losing battle in America because of persistent attacks from the religious right, with fewer Americans entering the sciences and the ignorance of the general public.
I was both saddened and offended by the House of Kabobs review (SN 9/23). Your reviewers first made fun of the decor and then turned up their noses at dishes that include cabbage.
Kim Beaubien, who wrote "Intelligent design a scientific possibility" (SN 10/10), should leave the science to scientists. The important point that she misses in her letter is that Intelligent design is not science.