With the Democratic National Convention having just passed, and the Republican version coming up, all eyes are fixed on the country's two political powerhouses and their over-the-top, self-patting-on-the-back get-togethers.
As long as there are open polls, there will be flimsy excuses for not visiting them. The lines are too long.
Scientists at MSU say they have discovered a new atom at the Cyclotron on campus, thusly proving for once and for all that the Cyclotron is not an amusement ride for students and run by a carny.
In past columns, I have written about President Bush and his rather bizarre relationship with God. Reports of Bush claiming to receive his instructions directly from the Almighty are distressingly easy to find.
A running contention of our bipartisan system of politics has long been the exclusion of those who lean neither right nor left.
Instead of having the nation circling themselves wondering where, when and how another terrorist attack might arrive, Homeland Security officials said Sunday financial and international organizations in New York, New Jersey and Washington D.C.
Once again, opponents of Michigan's mandatory helmet law are attempting to establish legislation that would greatly reduce its effectiveness.
Detroit is a modern day story of a city with an unspoken duality in stark contrast. The Pistons (who play in Auburn Hills) are champions of the world, but the city of Detroit is only champion of decay and confusion. In a recent article published in Playboy, Frank Owen provides a graphic perspective into the unseen Detroit.
I am concerned that Amber Morris has found yet another forum for her self-righteous views ("Same-sex parenting, lack of scientific support dangerous to children" SN 7/27). What is her beef with gays and lesbians?
Amber Morris, let's get married. And then maybe, um, we could have children? What do you say?
One begins with an "f." The others begin with "s" and "c." They are the three four-letter words that still get a rise out of the American people.
Last fall, a noise ordinance that hoisted hefty fines and possible jail time for party throwers really cramped some students' style.
Imagine the right-wing policies of the Bush administration in a second term when voters can no longer force them out.
In 33 years as an employee of MSU, I have seen acting administrators sit in the seat of power for a few days and then decide that they were made for the job even though they said they had no ambitions for it.
MSU is considering upgrading criminal background checks before offering employment to new faculty members.
Same-sex marriage is certainly a critical issue at debate in our nation today. Issues have been raised on both sides of the debate, and it has become clear that empirical, scientific arguments are most important when discussing this dilemma.
Editor's note: The following column contains graphic details of a sexual assault. "Why didn't she go to the police?" It's one of the most commonly asked questions about sexual assault, and on the surface, it makes sense.
Before drug courts became a method of satellite justice to Michigan's criminal court system, the addict was known as a criminal and a disease was considered a breach of the law.
After the U.S. Congress declared genocide in Sudan, the world police that is the United States is once again stuck in a tough situation, especially in lieu of the disastrous foreign-relation spectacle in Iraq. In the last 15 months, nearly 30,000 people have been slaughtered, and more than 1 million black Africans have found themselves homeless because of the conflict.
According to Lance Armstrong, the color yellow has taught him what it means to suffer. Suffering hasn't come for Armstrong in a 125-mile-long stage of the Tour de France as he chases the customary yellow jersey of the tour's pack leader.