File sharing, while it might have started out illegally, has the potential to become legal and flourish through network services to universities, and contracts with the reformed Napster. If it can be done within the bounds of the law, file sharing doesn't present a problem. Many people were present for the illegal free-for-all downloading during the beginnings of Internet file sharing.
Recently the United Nations, the U.S. government and the Iraqi people have been discussing what to do with the Iraqi city of Najaf.
Ruined grades left and right, poor sleeping habits and subpar social skills - maybe Internet addiction still is a devastatingly widespread problem and not quite an absolute evil.
Here's a conundrum - how do you ensure your partner will remain faithful to you? If the answer to that isn't complex enough, consider if this was the follow-up question - how do you convince them to inject him or her with a gene that makes them more faithful? These sorts of outlandish questions - particularly the latter - don't simply come to my mind out of the blue.
MSU is a public institution, not the private fiefdom of the MSU Board of Trustees. No weight of padlocks can obscure the pattern of secrecy and dissimulation that has characterized recent board actions, from their furtive handling of the potentially disastrous medical school move - to their inexplicable refusal to conduct a presidential search. The more secrecy that surrounds their deliberation of large policy matters for which they are answerable to the faculty and staff, students and the people of Michigan - the more the trustees invite the unavoidable conclusion that they have something to hide.
In an election that has become less about voting for your particular candidate and more about voting against the other guy, Sean "P.
In Monday's edition of The Contradiction Times, it was reported President George W. Bush is taking a hard line against the tradition of legacy in public universities.
Death can take even the strongest away from us. Roman poet Publilius Syrus once wrote that it is in death that we are all equal.
John Bice summed it up nicely once again ("Bush's godspeak dangerous to country" SN 8/3). I have admit, it sends tingles down the old spinal column to think of the religious wars we are fighting these days.
I commend Amber Morris for almost going beyond her initial beliefs through the use of science ("Same-sex parenting, lack of scientific support dangerous to children" SN 7/27). But in the end, her biases still prevailed.
My sincere congratulations to Dr. David Wright, the outgoing University Intellectual Integrity Officer, for telling it like it is.
Six Saturdays a year, we treat our five senses to the unadulterated magic of college football. In East Lansing, college football Saturdays smell like someone is using sunscreen to extinguish a charcoal fire.
When the MSU Board of Trustees closes itself away in a secret meeting at a yacht club in Petoskey and bars access to the press, it doesn't look good. It doesn't even matter what's on the table for discussion - either trivial or of vast importance - it looks underhanded and makes people distrust their elected public servants.
Ramble on … • The world's a pretty tense place right now. The terror alert has gone from Roy to G to Biv without much insight into why, how or what the hell each code level really indicates as it fluctuates here and there for no publicly known reason.
Four years ago, then-presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush made MSU a priority stop on their respective campaign trails.
George Bush has asked Congress to create a brand new position of National Intelligence Director that would be the main advisor on countering terrorism. This new intelligence czar would try and coordinate all of the U.S.
August. Finally. The hottest month of the year is also the hottest month of the presidential campaign.
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.