At the beginning of spring semester in 2001, a smart-alecky freshman chemistry student contacted the opinion editor of The State News, inquiring about an editorial columnist opening.
As a wide-eyed freshman, armed with a pen and a notepad, I frantically walked along Harrison Avenue searching for the site of my first story as a State News reporter. Fighting the dark, cold air and wet January sky, I paced back and forth along that long, foreign road.
I was wondering, how exactly did Condi Rice get the nod to speak at commencement? Clearly our impartial, unbiased President M.
The letters concerning students with children on campus have raised an interesting debate. What is the environment for families here?
As a recent graduate now in the real world, I just had to shake my head when I read Professor June Thomas' rebuttal ("SN Needed to Print Counterpoint to Lala" SN 4/28) to Jim Lala's opinion piece.
The column in The State News by Jim Lala, "Liberal students' silent protest doesn't need words to be whiny" (SN 4/26), had no reason to be printed.
Excuse us. Please, give us a minute. We're not good at goodbyes. We don't need to tell you - today is officially the last day of spring classes at MSU. It's the last day of school, and Alice Cooper couldn't be prouder that school is, in fact, out for the summer.
It's been almost a year since frustrated students had to drag their makeshift lawn furniture into their houses.
The day after members of MSU Students for Bush chalked the campus to announce our kickoff meeting, we found our messages across campus and especially at the Union erased and replaced with "No Rice" chalkings protesting MSU's commencement speaker. It is shameful that students who are working to elect someone other than President Bush must try to keep students from engaging in political activism to further their cause.
MSU's administration needs to remember to mind its manners when dealing with the people who comprise the majority of this university. The administration enraged the faculty by announcing plans for an academic rearrangement before consulting the academics themselves.
The Michigan Life Sciences Corridor is nearly five years old, just enough time for researchers and private industries to begin seeing the benefits of its early inception.
On Tuesday, Patrick Walters wrote a column ("Journalistic saboteurs beware: There's still time to improve" SN 4/27) in which he made the outrageous claim that I had implied that "rape education is a bad idea." My stance on rape education is that it is fine but not foolproof.
In response to June Thomas' letter ("SN needed to print counterpoint to Lala" SN 4/28), I think she fails to realize that The State News has a decided left-wing slant.
After reading Jim Lala's column, "Liberal students' silent protest doesn't need words to be whiny" (SN 4/26), I was utterly appalled.
It will be a lesson of hard knocks that every city will learn when the state Legislature hammers out what cuts will come from, well, everywhere.
It's official. At ASMSU, MSU's undergraduate student government, the inmates finally have assumed control of the asylum. In a move that ranges from empty threat to all-out insubordination, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Representative Bruce Serven has asked the MSU Board of Trustees to revoke university recognition of ASMSU as the official undergraduate student government.
In response to Jim Lala's column ("Liberal students' silent protest doesn't need words to be whiny" SN 4/26), I would like to pose to him some simple thoughts.
According to polls, our generation is more pro-life than our parents' generation, a trend demonstrated by the differing views stated by older abortion supporter Louise Kazarinoff and pro-life MSU sophomore Molly Pappas.
Ben Baker, I first must recognize your right to your opinion ("Realistic-looking rifles need to go" SN 4/20). But I must rebut it.
The phone number has been dialed, and my heart is pounding. It's a familiar number, one that appears numerous times on my phone's call history.