In response to the State News' request that the United States help the conflict in Sudan, "Peace at last?" (SN 1/11), it appears evident that the State News editorial board is made up of journalism majors, not history majors. How exactly will the United States help Sudan?
Normally I don't do this, but it has to be said. The only thing asinine about Matt Bishop's Mehmet Okur article was the article.
Different flavors of cigarettes hitting the shelves have a lot of people talking. Recently, Michigan Department of Community Health Director Janet Olszewski and Surgeon General Kimberlydawn Wisdom sent a letter to R.
I read in Tuesday's edition of The State News that a student lost her passport in Peru during a Study Abroad trip and could not return home with every other person in the MSU group as scheduled ("Study abroad student left behind" SN 1/11). The story included details about her accommodation being taken care of and an alumni family taking her under their wing to help out. That story must have been false because in Wednesday's paper the same reporter, Margaret Harding, reported that the student was left alone, without money or a place to stay, and could rely only on herself ("Stranded student returns" SN 1/12). Or perhaps that story, too, is inaccurate. "The student's passport was lost or stolen the day they planned to leave, and she had to stay behind," Harding wrote in the earlier edition.
Cost of traveling to Peru on study abroad: $2,262 Cost of the passport application fee: $85 Leaving a student behind, terrified, without money and a place to stay: heartless. MSU's Study Abroad program to Peru did just that to Julie Crane.
For some of us, last semester was a far cry from the academic milestone it could have been. But hey, we studied hard (sort of) and came to class (sometimes). What more can we do?
I am writing in response to Chris Rinard's letter "Admissions Process Overly Selective," (SN 1/11). The business school only has room for a certain number of students.
The SN editorial "Peace at last?" (SN 1/11), is a valuable, rare addition to discussion of the situation in Sudan in the American press.
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.