The assumption of human fallibility, I want to suggest, is a good way to approach the issues of toleration and civility on a university campus.
Lou Anna K. Simon has been a stable, and at times polarizing, figure at MSU for a decade. She has brought record enrollment — and tuition hikes — with her.
A recent hot button topic across collegiate athletics is the compensation of student athletes for play and the use of their likeness.
Rachel Fradette misses the mark badly in her recent opinion piece on MSU’s relationship with SeaWorld.
Today is St. Patrick’s Day. That means just about every student is going to be out in East Lansing, trying to get a Guinness at an overcrowded Dublin Square Irish Pub or waiting in a seemingly endless line for Conrad’s.
At a university with roughly 50,000 students, it can be tough to stand out, especially in a lecture hall with hundreds of people in attendance. Because of this, some students can often go an entire semester without ever speaking to or meeting their professor personally. This is a problem.
The 2014-2015 men’s basketball team is in a transition year. However, despite being unranked, the team is poised to make yet another NCAA tournament.
Not all women, especially globally, have the choice to be a feminist and although women might not want to contribute to their own oppression, they often do so out of not having a choice.
Hipsters have begun to be declared a “subculture” or “movement.” The way I see it is when a culture prides itself on status or having certain things or acting a certain way, it becomes less of a movement and more of a clique.
Monday was one of the saddest and most frustrating days in my college journalism career.
Sometimes, the act of observing a phenomenon can actually change its outcome.
When finishing high school, students are faced with the tough dilemma of figuring out what they want to do with their lives.
Most of us, at the close of January, were probably questioning or revoking our staunch devotion to resolutions made several weeks prior, feigning our commitment to the mantra of really starting this semester off strong this time, counting the days until the ever so elusive Spring Break, or performing an intricately artful combination of the three.
At this time in 2014, I found myself in worse health than I had ever been in my life. I found myself in worse health than I had ever been in my life. But, unless you came into my bedroom and saw me curled up — too worried and anxious to talk to anyone or go anywhere — my sickness was invisible.
I find it extremely disheartening that MSU, a world renowned veterinary college, would choose to participate in any type of partnership with SeaWorld.
During my experience at MSU, I have gotten the opportunity to broaden my perspective and meet students from backgrounds different from my own. In many cases, I found students didn’t have the same opportunities I had, even though they were working just as hard.
I’ll go ahead and admit it right away. I’m considered a food processor.
While the end of my second year approaches, I have been met with a feeling of panic.
Letter to Editor by Jason Porter It’s the middle of the semester, you’re sitting in class completely lost, but you just can’t find the courage to raise your hand and stop a 500 person class to ask a question. Whether the professor is going too fast, you can’t understand the professor, or the material the professor is presenting just doesn’t make sense, you still manage to find yourself confused. Trust me, I have been there, and so have our fellow classmates.
Social media was supposed to bring us closer, not distance us. Unfortunately for many people, it has taken over the idea of having an actual social life with genuine interactions with others.