Forget baseball: Cars, booze and cigarettes are the real American pastime. The rule of thumb is if there's not a significant risk for severe injury or death, it's not fun. For instance, consider diving boards at the pool.
Although the members of the MSU Board of Trustees are well into adulthood, they could use a little motherly advice.
After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, nearly everybody, regardless of political bent, acknowledged that terrorism is a problem the United States must deal with.
I need to clear something up. There's a rather common misconception I've become aware of via e-mail and word of mouth.
I'm a semi-regular reader of The State News. Your columnist John Bice has a narrow mind and an agenda, proving it many times in the article "Homosexuality as a sin one more example of Bible's primitiveness" (SN 8/1). First he uses Bertrand Russell, an atheist, as a reference without an opposing view.
The strong influence of religion on President Bush is well-known, but it still is a surprise that he recently advocated the teaching of intelligent design alongside evolution in public schools.
The last letter I wrote was not intended to insult anyone or trivialize their lifestyle, nor was it an attempt at humor ("Bible says all sin is equal in God's eyes" SN 7/28). Ruben Garza has responded as saying that my comments support the faulty logic that leads to the persecution of homosexuals ("Being gay doesn't equate to all sins" SN 8/1). Garza severely misinterpreted my message. I join Garza in being outraged at the mistreatment and limited rights that homosexuals receive.
The new ticket policy is absolutely ridiculous. I bought season football tickets during each of the four years that I was an MSU student.
Contrary to the statement yesterday by Chris Larmore, I think it is important during the past couple of weeks that there has been discussion about what it means to be gay ("Letters leave out big campus issues" SN 8/1). The diversity of ideas reflected in the opinion section indicates that a lot of people care very passionately about religious issues and public policy related to homosexuality.
Strange ramblings in East Lansing … I find myself wanting to impart a few random observations and comments as the semester draws to a close: • Damn, it's muggy out.
It looks like the MSU's athletics department is screwing things up again. Mark Hollis, thanks for giving returning students a "welcome back gift." Also, "brilliant" job not telling students. A lot of students do sell their tickets for profit and for those people who buy them and are denied entry because they do not have an MSU student ID, it will be a black eye for the department and the university. Mr. Hollis, thanks for dropping the ball. Martin Schaupner 2001 graduate
The ongoing war between the city of East Lansing and student housing has reached yet another childish obstruction.
On Tuesday, President Bush signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement bill, or CAFTA. The bill had passed Congress by a narrow margin. This agreement between Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic will create a free trade zone similar to the one created by the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA.
As John Bice wrote in "Homosexuality as a sin one more example of Bible's primitiveness" (SN 8/1), religious conflicts do often arise based upon one's exegesis of Biblical texts (the task of drawing, but not reading in, and applying the author's intended meaning). Unfortunately, Bice fails miserably by demonstrating his own lack of Biblical knowledge and exegetical methodology.
The new ticket system for this fall is great. As a previous season ticket holder, I can say there is nothing more frustrating then seeing those little specks of maize interrupting our sea of green on a big game day because some MSU "fan" bought season tickets just to sell them all.
I am registering my displeasure with the new sports ticket policy ("New ticket system in place," SN 7/28). The release of the information falls just one week after tickets went on sale - too late for patrons to make a fully informed decision whether or not to purchase tickets.
The letters into The State News are humorous. Why don't we address more important issues than infringing on others' freedom?
A seemingly universal media phenomenon is the farther away from home a story hits, the bigger it has to be to receive coverage.
Robert Frost penned a few lines that have struck me in the last few weeks as important. "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." What struck me as important in such lines is in regard to the state of American society.
I think it's interesting to read the reaction that people have to their actions being called a sin.