In light of the frighteningly high number of rapes that have occurred on campus in the last few months, I feel that it would be fitting and perhaps beneficial, to reprint an editorial column that I clipped from your paper.
Regarding Mike Townshend's column "Joe Camel should answer for our generation's tobacco addiction" (SN 10/13). While I agree with your end message - that anti-smoking campaigns should find a new tactic - I disagree with many of your more specific points.
For those who do not know, stem cells are pluripotent, meaning they can become any type of cell in the body from bone to brain.
Joe Camel has done his job. Take a look around. Ask any smoker and check which brand they're smoking.
Editor's note: Each Wednesday, The State News editorial board will address a key issue of the presidential campaign.
The decision not to notify residents immediately upon receiving a report of a sexual assault on campus was poor judgment on the part of university officials. A full day after a sexual assault reportedly took place outside Holden Hall, university officials and hall directors still had not notified residents and other students of the occurrence.
Author Elie Wiesel said it best when he proclaimed the greatest sin of all was "to remain silent and indifferent" and that "the danger lies in forgetting." On Monday, while the country officially recognized Columbus Day nationally and internationally, thousands celebrated Indigenous People's Day.
The price MSU officials paid for a safer tailgating was to, in effect, destroy tailgating as it once was.
In response to the story "Bremer discusses Iraq at Wharton" (SN 10/6), and more generally, his appearance on campus, please allow me the following comments.
On Friday's opinion page, the editorial board of The State News provided a compelling but unsuccessful critique of the student protest aimed at Iraq occupation leader and international war criminal, L.
National Coming Out Days proudly commemorates lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender lives on a nationwide scale.
Regardless of which side of the aisle you sit on, Friday evening's debate made it clear that this country can not handle four more years of the Bush administration.
As a season-ticket holder at MSU, I was appalled by what I heard from the student section. It seems every year, the students add new chants to be more spirited and make a hostile environment for the other team.
It has been American culture to cheer for the underdog in most situations. From America breaking free of British rule to Simba becoming king of the pride in "The Lion King" to the Pistons winning the NBA Championship, we as Americans constantly hope the underdog wins.
On Saturday, millions of Afghan citizens bravely defied the threat of physical harm and death to do for the first time what we here in America have come to take for granted. They voted. When, despite threats of Taliban violence, Afghan men and women stepped out to the polls by the hundreds to participate in the country's first presidential election, democracy took a step forward.
I don't understand why everyone has to be so faithful. OK, wait, let me rephrase that: I don't understand why everyone has to be so faithful for the sake of being faithful. For the past few years, the debates between Republican and Democrat voters have been cheapened and stooped to ridiculously low levels - it makes me cringe. "Tell me this," Bill Maher said on a recent episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher" to a Republican CNN correspondent . "If you truly support your party, then you can explain to me - If you were president, would you have stayed entertaining elementary children for nearly seven minutes while you knew your country was under attack?" As irrelevant as the question was, since it had nothing to do with Republican values or ideals concerning this upcoming election, the correspondent decided to take the popular route and support Bush's choice. Why?
The creation of the MSU LBGT Students of Color Scholarship becomes all the more meaningful when put in context. The scholarship was the product of one student - LaJoya Johnson - standing up to address a real need. A person who is both a racial ethnic minority and lesbian, bisexual, gay or transgender faces discrimination from two fronts.
Thank you for providing further coverage of the protest at Paul Bremer's speech. It was very clear from the written format in which questions would be submitted and pre-screened before going to Bremer that anyone who asked a question that even hinted upon controversy would be ignored. Additionally, one would not realistically expect Bremer to even provide satisfactory answers if he did hear the questions.
The idea of a tailgating "pilot program" cannot tell officials what will or will not work to improve tailgating.
After America was attacked at home, we lived in fear. Fear of being attacked again and fear of doing the unpatriotic.