I am writing on behalf of all the Izzone members who will be driving down to St. Louis this weekend - especially on behalf of those who faithfully sacrificed time and class Sunday night and Monday morning while waiting in line for Final Four tickets at the Union. We all received great news in our inboxes Wednesday afternoon.
Despite efforts to increase student interest, voter turnout for this year's ASMSU election was once again disappointing.
First and foremost, congrats to both the men and the women on making the Final Four. It is an outstanding achievement for both the men's and women's team, and I know the entire campus is beaming with pride; a pride you can honestly feel and see with all the Michigan State memorabilia worn across campus.
It is great to see that The State News is excited about the issues that ASMSU is facing and what ASMSU is doing to affect the student body today and in the future.
Not only is the men's basketball team splashed across multiple pages in The State News, the boys are seen giving Tom Izzo noogies after the Kentucky game, proudly wearing their Final Four T-shirts after the buzzer sounds and holding up their precious string from the basketball net all across newspapers and screens around the country.
In response to Patrick Walters' column "'R-word best left unused until MSU's tournament bids are complete" '(SN 3/31), I hate to say it, but MSU earned that infamous reputation.
Last April, for the first time in eight years, the Academic Senate convened so hundreds of faculty members could express concern about wide-sweeping changes administrators were planning without their input. At that point, the faculty stood up and voiced their opinions in a process that would, among other things, reorganize the College of Arts & Letters and the College of Communication Arts & Sciences into one large body devoted to the study of the liberal arts and sciences.
Remember how at the end of every "Captain Planet" cartoon that weird, green-haired super hero would stick his face in the screen and give you a purpose-laden epilogue to the plot of the episode? Somehow, through a strange cartoon about teenagers, magic rings and environmental disasters, the cartoon's creators expressed the real-world effects of environmental destruction.
This is in regards to "Area stores meet demand, stock Final Four T-shirts" (SN 3/30). I, for one, will not be lining up to buy a Final Four shirt.
Ms. Trier's article seems to be little more than a whining session ("Cafeterias lack protein options for vegetarians" SN 3/30). She complains about the lack of protein alternatives for vegetarians and untimely service in the dorms. I suggest you take another look and put your attitude in check.
I am writing in regard to the parking structure to be constructed near Morrill Hall. The parking structure, as reported in "City, MSU agree on access to structure" (SN 2/24), is to hold 725 vehicles, solving the parking deficit on north campus. By building upward, this solution represents the easiest way of increasing the parking capacity on campus, a problem that is more troublesome to the university every year. I applaud this move by the university, as it seems a logical choice.
The women's basketball team has made history - again. The Spartans achieved the program's best performance in the NCAA Tournament when they made it to the Sweet 16.
The R-word. It has four letters and can be used in both verb and noun form to describe a particularly aggressive or hazardous manifestation of human emotion.
I am so tired of outsiders coming in trying to bash the city of Detroit. Adam Wright is just an outsider looking in, and all of the information he presented were statistics that he has heard from the media ("Detroit has many faults it must fix" SN 3/30). Every city has its flaws and downfalls.
After leaving MSU, I ended up about as far away as you can get - central Wyoming. People here know about as much about Spartan basketball as I know about cattle rustling.
This is in response to Yvette Lanier's column "Detroit possesses much more than its 'thug'-filled reputation implies" (SN 3/28). I was glad to see that the author was attempting to bring out the brighter aspects of the city of Detroit.
It's not surprising that many students probably perceive the Red Cedar River as filthy and sludge-ridden.
It's been a hard year to be an Izzone member. Between stiff dress codes, tracked game entrance times to determine future membership eligibility, limited absences to retain tickets and other things, the Izzone fan, arguably MSU's most dedicated sports enthusiast, has been put through the ringer. As the MSU men's basketball team advances to the Final Four, fans have weathered the storm to reach the Izzone leaders' goal to become the nation's largest student cheering section.
At one time, it seemed like the purpose of photography was to document social interaction, not create it. But as cameras find ways to stick themselves on almost any device, computers make sharing easier and people become obsessed with self-expression, creating interaction seems to be the norm. This notion came to me the other night when I was running around covering the hundreds of fans who were celebrating the MSU men's basketball team's defeat over the University of Kentucky.
Why haven't the shootings on the Red Lake Reservation been of extreme media importance? Is it because the shootings took place on a reservation?