(Writer's note: In preparation for this column, I pared my topics down to two: the MSU Board of Trustees' banishment of open-alcohol containers on campus and the confirmation of Howard Dean as chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
What would happen if MSU didn't provide adequate information for students to earn a degree and obtain a respectable job? There would be a lot of angry and undereducated students.
I am writing in response to Amy Davis' piece on Chicano History Month ("Students combine cultures, embrace Mexican heritage" SN 2/15). I feel that just by interviewing someone who does not identify as Chicano, she is doing an injustice to the month.
The teaching assistants and graduate assistants here at MSU are unionized in order to ensure fair working conditions and wages.
It's time to start examining the reasons behind the terror threats that sporadically befall our country.
Recently, I was in California visiting my Marine boyfriend who recently returned from Iraq. During this trip, I was made to feel like a hick because I am from Michigan.
In your editorial "War chest," (SN 2/16) you make the claim: "the fact that (President Bush's) budget inadvertently is calling for restrained spending on a variety of government programs shouldn't be ignored by any means." I don't understand that sentence, and I doubt many people did.
So, it's North Korea again. The communist regime once again shocked the world with a recent announcement that it possesses nuclear weapons.
This is in response to the article on Feb. 16, "Student found dead in E.L." A couple lines in this article confused me a little bit. One, the student's name is not being released because the family has not been notified.
Your editorial about North Korea ("Tact needed," SN 2/14) and how the United States must "get down on our knees," is patently ludicrous.
Somehow, the line that separates church and state - something that should be clear - has a tendency to get blurred. Perhaps it's the religious zeal within people that drives them to want to do away with the principle the United States was founded upon.
I am writing in response to the editorial titled "Tact needed," (SN 2/14). The person who wrote that particular article does a terrific job of presenting one side of a story.
Circle circle dot dot now you've got a cootie shot. Great, that should last through college, the land of sex segregation.
The headlining article in Wednesday's State News ("Student found dead in E.L.") was absurdly insensitive and disrespectful to both the deceased and those in mourning. Articles reporting on serious events like the passing of a member of our student body should not be made into a creative writing piece.
Brent Hodgson should have saved his predictably melodramatic reference to Neville Chamberlain for theater club ("North Korea should not be appeased," SN 2/15). Nevermind the incredible kowtowing to Saudi Arabia, champion of human rights.
I have realized that someday I must come and visit the State News editorial board in their happy, little world full of puppy dogs and butterflies.
What is the cost of war? The figure in President Bush's requested 2006 budget to Congress would put it at $419.3 billion in military funding. An additional $82 billion, added on Monday, was requested prior to the $2.5 trillion 2006 budget Bush initially submitted.
In regard to your editorial "Campus clutter," (SN 2/11) I have a question for you: Are you aware that not a single parking place in the planned parking structure will be available for students during the day?
America is fat, and it doesn't care. It's evident by the lack of concern over the fact that while the government was planning new health and nutrition guidelines, it's paid no attention to the blatant meddling of food company lobbyists in the process. Released in January, the new nutritional guidelines call for an hour of exercise, attention to reducing calories, a large increase in fruit and vegetable consumption and acknowledgment of the value of eating whole grains.
In Monday's editorial, "Tact needed" (SN 2/14), The State News editorial board managed to present a poorly researched, factually incorrect editorial that suggested the United States should be acting more like Santa Claus than a global hegemon toward North Korea.