Respect. Where is it? Apparently it wasn't at the rock on Farm Lane on Sunday around 4 p.m. While a group of MSU students held a vigil for Julie Koivisto - an MSU graduate accounting student killed in a car accident over winter break - their gathering was disrupted by members of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. The fraternity paints the rock each year on Jan.
In response to Matt Bishop's column "Pistons hurting due to loss of Mehmet Okur" (SN 1/11), the only thing more asinine than Okur only playing "3.3 more minutes per game than he did during his rookie campaign" is the assertion that the Pistons are struggling because of the loss of a man relegated to mop-up duty during the championship season. With Okur playing a minuscule role in the Pistons' playoff march to the title, a point that Bishop asserts several times, how can the blame for this year's lackluster showing be blamed on Okur's absence?
It wasn't meant to happen, but it did. You are not quite sure what to do next. It's hard enough just to get over the shock and confusion.
The beat-up van bumbled over the cultivated soil as we drove away from the dairy farm toward the forest. My friend, John, parked near a thicket skirting the denser wood.
This letter is in response to the student writing "Retribution will not right past wrongs" (SN 1/11). Whether or not a rapist should be punished is by far one of the stupidest comments I have ever read.
Before I get started, I would like to acknowledge that the Business College has probably heard this all before, and it's the same old story to them.
What happens inside a girl's bathroom, anyway? Besides the obvious, I mean. I ask this question not to shock you, dear readers.
More than 200 years ago, a group of fresh-minded revolutionaries decided they didn't quite like the way they were being governed.
If Chad Halsey wants to talk about partisan voting problems "Ohio election needs to be investigated" (SN 1/10), he need not point fingers without taking a deep look into his own party as well.
The three letters to the editor on 1/10 regarding the rapist article "Listed students: Stigmas result from public sex offense registry," (SN 12/9) all have valid points, but I think they missed the purpose of the article.
Have you seen that new film, "MSU Football Players Gone Wild?" Although it doesn't exist, given the pace at which players are getting into trouble with the law, it won't be long before Hollywood considers making it. Two freshmen wide receivers, Miles Williams, 18, and Hugh D'Imperio, 19, have been charged with unarmed robbery and assault with intent to rob while unarmed.
In response to "New university president offers thoughts, insights on coming years," (SN 1/10), President Simon's "thoughts" are devoid of meaning and are contradictory. First, President Simon addresses broad issues and facts we have read about in the daily newspaper for years.
We at The State News want to start off the semester by welcoming former Provost Lou Anna Simon to her new role as president of MSU.
I really enjoyed your tremendously biased piece on sex offenders ("Listed students: Stigmas result from public sex offense registry" SN 12/9/04). I think you are right, sex offenders should not have to make it known that they have raped, molested, exposed themselves or threatened children/women to the public they will be living with.
Accusations by Republican lawmakers that their colleagues who objected to certification of Ohio's electoral votes are "sore losers" are off-base and disingenuous.
In response to "Listed students: Stigmas result from public sex offense registry," (SN 12/9/04), there are so many things that need to be said in regard to this article. You set the article up to pity sex offenders, to try and help them move on with their life and forget about the people they have hurt.
Dear Friends and Colleagues: It's a new year, a new semester and the beginning of a new period in the history of Michigan State University.
Your article on sex offenders at MSU ("Listed students: Stigmas result from public sex offense registry" SN 12/9/04) was incredibly one-sided.
More than 150,000 bodies, about a third of them children. About five million people without homes. The numbers from the tsunami disaster in South Asia and Southeast Africa are staggering. But to the average American they are just numbers.
I wish you could see what I see every day. I wish you could see that there's a whole wing of the Student Services building where the lights burn late and the police scanner is always on.