As president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, I am concerned that students are allowing their parents to play too much of a role in their decision making. Many students I have encountered have a strong interest in joining the greek community, but when Rush Week comes to an end and they have to talk to their parents, they are hitting a brick wall.
Having attended Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s speech on the environment, I came away from the event incredibly motivated to work even harder to help protect Michigan's forests, rivers and lakes. One of Kennedy's most compelling points, and one that bears repeating, is that environmental issues are not Democrat or Republican issues.
Fate has opened up a couple of options for MSU President M. Peter McPherson. On Jan. 1 McPherson will be out on a job search that might end at the White House.
Oh come on, Patrick Walters, do you really expect people to believe that your column,
In a previous column, "Bush supporters share common thread with fundamentalists" (SN 11/10), I mentioned a study by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), which found that majorities of President Bush voters were profoundly uninformed, and held erroneous beliefs about election issues and their candidate's policies.
This is in response to the letter "Munn shouldn't be as loud as library," (SN 11/17). I have been a member of Slapshots for the last three years.
We know a lot of you are skipping class tomorrow. We won't rat you out. We will, however, take advantage of Tuesday's readership to offer some advice for the long Thanksgiving weekend. Alcohol, and binge drinking in particular, gets blamed for a lot of the less-than-desirable acts we see.
In response to the editorial that portrayed the Spartan's football season as commendable (SN 11/22), I say it was disgraceful.
In response to the slew of editorials that have been all over the news about Friday's incident between the Detroit Pistons and the Indiana Pacers, has anyone stopped to think that this is being blown out of proportion?
A lot of men need to rethink how they perceive themselves and take into account the biology behind their behavior. In recent years, the number of scientific articles and books relating to genetic influence on human behavior has exploded.
I am writing in response to many editorials - not just in The State News - that have been accusing liberals of being especially hypocritical lately. There is an old saying that says "if you are not confused, then you are not thinking clearly." While I will not hesitate to admit that liberals have been especially belligerent in recent weeks, I urge everyone to consider the true source of their concern. I will admit that it took me a lot of soul searching and critical thought to come to the conclusion that I am an independent.
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives changed a rule they had on the books that would allow Tom DeLay, R-Texas, to keep his leadership position, even though he will soon face an indictment in Texas.
Thursday night, my girlfriend and I settled into our seats at Munn Ice Arena looking forward to watching the Green and White skate against Michigan in an early-season Central Collegiate Hockey Association match-up. We sang the fight song, urging the Spartans to "fight for the only colors, Green and White." Since it was a rivalry game, there was even a bit of a "Go Green, Go White" chant echoing off of Munn's venerable walls. So, you can imagine our surprise when the Spartans took the ice clad not in green and white, but in, well, some pretty dingy looking grayish-silver uniforms not unlike the ones the men's basketball team sported against Duke last season.
How could your reviewer give the movie "After the Sunset" four stars? The movie was horrible with bad acting, a bad storyline and it seemed to be more about how many times we could see Salma Hayek take her shirt off and make out with Pierce Brosnan, or how much she was skimping around in a thong bikini. Those two attributes seem to be the only things that gave her an acting career because the lines and the presentation are weak by all of the characters in the film. Ben Nemeth journalism sophomore
Last summer, The State News ran an editorial commending the Detroit Pistons and their fans for putting a blue-collar stamp on the otherwise-glitzy and egomaniacal world of professional basketball.
The Spartans total offensive package was not delivered Saturday at Penn State. Although there's the depressing realization that the Spartans will not advance to a bowl game, we have to acknowledge this was by no means a losing season. If MSU prevails in its Dec.
East Lansing and MSU police have become crazy with the number of minor in possession tickets they are willing to distribute when there are many other problems they could focus on. Police around campus want to blame drinking as the problem for numerous crimes committed on or near campus.
There is no practice more inane, no tradition more vapid and no photo opportunity more whorish than the annual Thanksgiving "pardoning" of the White House turkey. Each Thanksgiving since the days of Harry Truman, the president "pardons" a turkey to a presumably pastoral life of pecking at the ground and looking at things around the farm or forest that move.
Are homosexuals and bisexuals human? Are they American? Do they deserve to coexist peacefully without oppression?
This is in regards to the University of Wisconsin junior's comments regarding fan behavior in Spartan Stadium. I don't condone rude behavior at football games by adults or students.