So I'm sitting in the bar the other evening, enjoying a smart cocktail with an old associate I hadn't seen in some time.
Upon reading Monday's paper, I notice a distinct lack of any reasonable assertions held by the participants of Saturday's "celebration" (or that of The State News' defense). There were numerous complaints about the conduct of the police officers.
I was disappointed to once again see pictures of some MSU students behaving like juvenile delinquents following the loss to North Carolina on Saturday night. What should have been a special weekend for the university, current students, alumni, and Spartans fans has turned into yet another embarrassment for MSU. I consider myself a proud alumnus of this great university.
Although the fire of winning a National Championship was blown out Tuesday night when the MSU women's basketball team lost to Baylor in Indianapolis, the embers of a momentous season are still burning brightly. The Lady Bears outplayed the Spartans the whole 40 minutes of the contest, beating them by more than 20 points (84-62), but they didn't steal their class.
Maybe if students acted like adults and went home following a big loss, we wouldn't have the same "riot" issues every year.
In response to the people who are still bitter toward the police: What do you want them to do? Here's a solution: Next year, the police all get in formation again.
I attended MSU for four years and I don't recall our basketball team having the success that this team has had.
As a former MSU student some 40-plus years ago, I was, to say the least, a little embarrassed by the students' behavior in the 1999 riots.
This is in response to Ashley Harding and Holly Newland's letter titled "Red Lake travesty warrants concern" (SN 3/30). Although I agree that this school and the town of Red Lake, Minn., need continued support for the recent school shootings, I disagree that the media needs to highlight the spectacle in more depth.
I was in East Lansing Saturday night, meeting up with some old college buddies for the Final Four game.
Students have been up in arms about the excessive police force that followed Saturday's basketball game, and rightfully so.
In response to the actions of the police on Saturday night, we as citizens have to stand up for ourselves and not let things like this happen.
As a resident of the Cedar Village area, I had a firsthand look into the progression of the events on Saturday night.
I am writing in regards to the police actions this weekend against MSU post-loss crowds. I am sick and tired of all the people out there vilifying the MSU student body.
As I was walking across campus on my way to class Wednesday, I was utterly appalled to see a melee near the Administration Building on the banks of the Red Cedar River.
Life without a familiar computer is no cakewalk. I learned that lesson the hard way recently, after a small brush fire in my PC fried my motherboard, hard drive and possibly my flux capacitor. Unless it was homework time on my roommate's computer, I was forced to end my compulsive away-message-checking ways and find a new hobby.
Here's the scenario: You're walking home from the game, a little upset about the loss, but not enough to light a couch on fire.
I see that Lee June has made statements to The State News about this past weekend's riot-turned-civil disturbance.
Congratulations are in order for the student groups that have campaigned diligently for almost five years in an attempt to get MSU to join the Worker Rights Consortium.
As I sit down to think and write about Saturday night's events, the familiar lines of the Creedence Clearwater Revival song "Who'll Stop the Rain?" keep replaying in my mind. Frontman John Fogerty's line, "Clouds of mystery pourin'/Confusion on the ground," typify the experiences of soldiers who went to war in Vietnam and faced enemies they couldn't find and gases they didn't understand.