This is in response to James Wade's letter, "Civil, gay rights separate issues" (SN 3/4). First off, even though I don't agree with the letter, I'm happy to see that we finally get to see the other side of the gay rights issue.
On the morning that MSU students watched airplanes flown by madmen topple the World Trade Center buildings and the Pentagon, first blush was an ugly feeling. One student watched the television, rolled into a stuffy Berkey Hall corridor and spoke, when all others were transfixed to the screen and sullenly silent. "Well," that person said.
The State News editorial concerning the teaching assistants who held teach-ins at the Administration Building was not entirely accurate. In "Wrong Rally" (SN 3/3), The State News stated that by holding classes in the Administration Building, the teaching assistants were "sabotaging" the educations of their students.
East Lansing doesn't have a sniper lurking atop Beaumont Tower waiting to target unsuspecting students as they scurry about during the wee morning hours. While there have been some scary things taking place near campus in the last few weeks - one man died when two Lansing residents were shot on Feb.
Despite what breakfast cereals and a horrible Jennifer Aniston movie (pre-nose job) will tell you, leprechauns are not real. As a people, the Irish have had a rough go of it.
As the glimmering pillar of wisdom that is Craig Gunn, he once again is the personification of the shortcomings of this newspaper ("Gay marriage opponents twist Bible's message to fit agenda" SN 3/3). Poor research and poor understanding of this issue seem to etch their way into the mind of my fellow Christian brother.
So, because you, as chemistry graduate students, have better wages and more job security, you don't need the Graduate Employees Union; you can be complacent and let teaching assistants less fortunate than you fend for themselves ("GEU representation not needed for all" SN 3/3). That's like saying you're rich; you don't need any of the public services people pay taxes for, so you should not have to pay taxes.
There has been much ado lately about a small Caribbean nation called Haiti. Perhaps you've read about the rebellion taking place and the president who has resigned (or was he "kidnapped"?). Admittedly, it would be difficult to altogether miss this, considering the amount of press coverage Haiti has received in recent weeks. What has proved disheartening to me, however, is that it took a revolution to put Haiti in the news.
First, the entire basis for your editorial ("Wrong rally" SN 3/3) regarding the Graduate Employees Union organizing the Arts & Letters teach-in is factually incorrect.
Spring break! Whooo! Sparty on! I've totally got mouth herpes! This week, a good number of us will be traveling for yet another spring break.
President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney's new campaign ads use the usual political campaign tactics: pictures of hardworking, blue-collar Americans, images of American flags, and then, maybe not surprising, images of Ground Zero and the hollowed-out area where the World Trade Center once stood.
In my tenure as a student, I have had little more to be proud of than the Michigan State basketball program.
Has it come to protesting legitimate United States intervention? Last time I checked, Haiti was in the middle of a coup.
No one expected President George W. Bush to protect a woman's right to choose - he's been explicitly anti-choice since 1994.
I am not uneducated. I am not evil. I have faith. I am an atheist. I am an atheist for myself, not because of the beliefs or actions of anyone else.
This letter is in response to all the people out there who think gay-rights issues can be compared to the civil-rights issues of the '50s and '60s.
Whose idea was it to hang a Big Ten Championship banner before we actually won a championship? Didn't the athletics department learn its lesson from 1998, when we unveiled the championship banner and then went on to lose to Purdue?
Hey, you. Yeah, you. Everyone knows it's you - you anonymous hacker sitting in a darkened room by yourself, rubbing your hands together evilly while plotting mass destruction through your Internet viruses. Stop it.
If you find piles of elephant mess around Jenison Field House, don't be alarmed and certainly don't step in it.
Each month, we're robbed by the Graduate Employees Union. Yep, the very organization that claims to represent all graduate student teaching assistants robs us of approximately $25 each month.