COMMENTARY
Keep it cool
No one is optimistically expecting enraged students wreaking havoc and igniting immense fires on Grand River Avenue during this year's March Madness.
COMMENTARY
Work ethic replaced with longer lunch breaks, leaving early
About a week ago, I was making some phone calls to various businesses, banks and my dentist's office.
COMMENTARY
LBGT bulletin boards offensive to some
The article "Same-sex marriage fliers vandalized" (SN 3/5) describes PRISM's reaction to having parts of its bulletin board ripped down.
COMMENTARY
E.L. wouldn't exist without university
In response to the editorial ("Save a seat" SN 3/16), I think The State News is giving too much credit to East Lansing.
COMMENTARY
Bush stumbled after Sept. 11 leadership
Ben Pavlich's letter "Bush presidency defined by Sept.
COMMENTARY
Make room
A new Multicultural Center would be a welcome addition to MSU - everybody agrees. Students could use the space for conferences and events, while the university as a whole could continue to market MSU as an accepting, multicultural environment. While the idea is great in theory, the MSU Board of Trustees needs a cohesive and, most importantly, feasible plan from the students to get the building construction under way. The struggle for a new center has been going on for years with no results, and right now is a bleak time for students to try and propose a new building on campus.
COMMENTARY
Law for 'U'
Each year, hundreds of students walk underneath the brown, brick overhang of the MSU-DCL College of Law building to study for careers in the legal profession. Every year, those same students apply for jobs and are asked where they attended law school. And every year, when the law students answer that question, some employers invariably say, "Where?" A proposal introduced by MSU Provost Lou Anna Simon and passed by Academic Governance on Tuesday could solve that, changing the name of the law school to the Michigan State University College of Law.
COMMENTARY
President's 9/11 ads should be pulled
President Bush recently began his re-election campaign, as we all know. In a few of his ads, there is imagery of Ground Zero and of a firefighter's funeral.
COMMENTARY
Religious faith explains nature of human beings, relationships
We often hear mantras about religion that illegitimize and condemn it for its part in the world's injustice.
COMMENTARY
'U' not for all
College isn't for everybody. Some people make meaningful careers as construction workers, paraprofessionals and mothers and fathers.
COMMENTARY
Residence college nice addition for 'U'
My thanks to The State News ("Living & learning" SN 3/2) for both recalling Justin Morrill College and noting its significance to the current discussions of Provost Lou Anna Simon's call for a new residential program in the "liberal arts and sciences." I heartily recommend that those interested in the new proposals acquaint themselves with the lost college's concept, curricular scope and history.
COMMENTARY
Constant president-bashing getting old
Every time I get a newspaper, I just know that I am going to be able to read how President George W.
COMMENTARY
Homosexuality not predisposed trait
On what basis does Neal Conatser claim that polygamy is a choice but that homosexuality is an inherent trait ("Laws should omit sexual references" SN 3/16)? What about someone who is bisexual?
COMMENTARY
Television has been 'sexified' for years; Jackson isn't to blame
While watching an episode of "The Simpsons," Marge Simpson, speaking in a futuristic vision from 2010, comments, "You know, Fox turned into a hard-core sex channel so gradually, I didn't even notice!" In a related story, last Thursday, the U.S.
COMMENTARY
Big money
Because the MSU men's basketball team finished the Big Ten season with a 12-4 record and was the third of three conference teams selected to represent the Big Ten in the NCAA Tournament, Tom Izzo will have to switch to Kroger-brand canned peaches. In certain respects, collegiate basketball is more of a business than a sport.
COMMENTARY
Arts reorganization devalues humanities
The reorganization of several of MSU's colleges is seen by many to be merely an administrative matter, affecting office personnel primarily, and as we are all quite well aware of, a number of teaching assistantships available to graduate students.
COMMENTARY
Donation allows Welsch to give back
I am responding to the article about organ donation and Peter Welsch ("Give and take" SN 3/15). Going through life, we college students believe we are invincible and nothing can touch us.
COMMENTARY
Legalizing marijuana generates tax dollars, creates jobs
Our government always is embarrassed to admit when it makes a mistake. The Vietnam War and the current Iraq War are prime examples of mistakes made by foolish intelligence.
COMMENTARY
Sciences forced to help humanity TAs
I was unlucky enough to be a graduate student in chemistry during the Graduate Employees Union conception, but I was lucky enough to graduate before its inception.
COMMENTARY
Save a seat
Do East Lansing City Councilmembers believe that students hate them, or is it the other way around? Do the students not understand that MSU and its facilities account for only about 10 percent of the council's business, or is the council still not aware that students believe MSU and its facilities are the only thing keeping East Lansing from being a stoplight and a McDonald's? It seems to us that maybe MSU students and the East Lansing City Council should have a little sit-down to address the beef flying back and forth. Perhaps the students actually would learn the facts about the party-noise violations policy and stop griping.