Your editorial touched my heart, knowing that Iraqi men, women and children are dying for a noble cause ("Hard numbers" SN 3/1). I understand your deep concern for the Iraqi people, but I don't have a clue as to why you need to write and print stories about this issue.
This is in response to Thursday's "Assault coverage slanted the issue" (SN 3/3). I would like to start off by saying the fact that the assault made the front page, and was reported so quickly after the incident, is a small victory in itself.
Journalism is defined as the work of gathering news, so why does The State News think that anyone wants to hear the opinions of the editorial board who, behind their anonymity, espouse opinions on matters they have not earned the right to speak about? Specifically, the recent editorial "Hard Numbers" (SN 3/1) asks readers to remember that Iraqis are dying for their freedom.
By honoring one of our own we are in no way minimizing others' loss. The opinion in "Hard numbers" (SN 3/1) questions why we don't hear about all of the Iraqis killed.
A photo on Page One of Thursday's edition of The State News depicted a situation that many probably view as undesirable.
You probably felt pretty grown-up at 16 or 17. Perhaps you even thought you knew everything. Given what you know now, maybe you realize how short-sighted you were.
A few times a week, I go to a place where wheelchairs carry and walkers lead their aged owners down freshly waxed linoleum floors.
Joseph Blaim's argument against affirmative action literally made me laugh out loud ("Affirmative Action causes grad rates" SN 3/2). I've come full circle on this issue.
The word "reify" means to treat or regard an abstraction as if it had a tangible existence, and it's more relevant and pervasive than you might suspect. The topic of abortion, with the vague concept of personhood at the crux of the conflict, provides a real world look at reification.
Two e-mails sent out by the Izzone student section directors on Monday changed the policy they adamantly stuck to all season. The first e-mail opened up the lower-bowl seats to any Izzone ticket holders, lower bowl or upper bowl, on a first-come, first-serve basis for Saturday's basketball game.
Channel 12 defenders really need to come up with better reasons why the service should continue. I write in response to Mr. Leo Sell's letter to the editor concerning Channel 12's demise ("Channel shutdown has hidden reasons" SN 3/1). Mr. Sell believes that hidden motives are at work, and that the "management has systematically devalued the channel and marginalized its staff." Interesting charge.
You know the moment you've had too much to drink. It's the moment where everything begins to feel more dazed than funny - as if those two things could be interchanged.
I was absolutely disgusted by Tuesday's sexual assault article ("Sexual assault reported in Holden"). Although it may be important to put the event into perspective by labeling it the third sexual assault in Holden Hall, it is not important to mention that one of those reports was falsified.
When I read Joe Wu's letter about MSU instructors not having polished communication skills ("Educators should have English Skills" SN 2/24), I am reminded of the adage about people who live in glass houses.
There's an NCAA commercial that pops up every now and again during college sports broadcasts. The ad shows a wide variety of student athletes who play a wide variety of sports.
As leaders, it is the responsibility of the Izzone directors to make decisions that best serve the interest of all of the members of the Izzone and to stick to these decisions.
It was on the third bite of my vegetarian lasagna that I realized I loved Lansing - it was really good lasagna. I was sitting in Emil's, 2012 E.
If one recent report has it right, HIV-infected teens are taking some scary risks these days. A study conducted at the University of California, Los Angeles Center For Community Health found that the advent of powerful AIDS-delaying medicines has caused HIV-infected teenagers to increase the chances they are taking when engaging in risky sex and drug use. Since the 1996 introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapies, or HAART, which fight the transition from HIV to AIDS, young people have come to see HIV as a disease they can live with.
Several campus organizations - including the MSU Red Cross Club that I am a part of - wasted their time on Friday for the Party at the Aud.
The State News editorial board appears surprised that there is a massive discrepancy between graduation rates for black students and white students.