This past Wednesday, the second annual Act Out was organized as part of National Coming Out Days. As various people stood around campus in dark clothing, slurs taped on their chests and backs and made up to look as if they had been beaten up, the message the event sent out was a simple, but very important, one: Hate words lead to hate crimes.
As a permanent resident in a "mixed" neighborhood, I've listened to neighbors lament that they've been unfairly issued a noise violation when they were merely talking on their front porch.
Recipe for "cool" - mix East Lansing with a heaping scoop of housing, a little nightlife and a dash of class.
I would like to take a minute to thank Kirsten Nielsen for writing perhaps the most truthful and insightful column yet this fall ("Finding a middle ground still allows people to be individuals" SN 10/10) and The State News for taking the risk of publishing such a Christ- and truth-oriented piece.
An apology doesn't mend every situation. The two MSU students involved in selling anti-University of Michigan T-shirts with explicit content apologized Monday for offending people but said they will continue to sell the shirts. Students should teach their peers a lesson by not purchasing the offensive apparel.
We keep seeing references to this wonderful accomplishment of a new Iraqi currency, such as in "McPherson shifts priority from Iraq to presidency" (SN 10/9). Meanwhile, the Washington Post on Oct.
Thank you, State News, for publishing Nate Allen's cartoons. The State News not only shows that it has a sense of humor, but it also believes in what is great about this country: Freedom and free speech.Maybe people should not get so upset at Allen for making a simple black-and-white drawing.
Spartan football head coach John L. Smith and his team are on their way to making comeback history - only the comeback is for much more than a game.
Eva Bohler recently wrote a letter supporting the monument of the Ten Commandments in Alabama, a letter demonstrating the hysteria and siege mentality characteristic of the Christian right ("Columnist wrong in religious debate" SN 10/6). The removal of the monument was not a restriction on Christians' rights to freedom of speech and religion.
How do you prove that your school system is fine and that choice isn't needed? Cancel classes for a day, impede student learning and engage in a shameful political protest at the Capitol.
As an atheist, I feel compelled to clarify something that Eva Bohler seems to misunderstand ("Columnist wrong in religious debate" SN 10/6): The United States was founded with a secular government and the presence of the Ten Commandments in a government building is illegal - period.
If some Michigan lawmakers have their way, students might want to save their drinking money for court fees and bail.
I can't tell you how wonderful it was to see a full-blown article about depression ("Looking Forward" SN 10/9). There are so many of us on campus, both girls and guys, who suffer from it in silence.
I live in Spartan Village and I pay my $536 a month for a one-bedroom apartment. My rent includes all utilities just, like the dorms, except I don't get cable.
I was appalled to read The State News column "Even without reason, there's a time, place for everything" (SN 10/6). It's hard for me to understand why some people insist that God causes people to die - that "God just takes people when he sees it to be necessary." God doesn't kill people.
It seems as if MSU students are all talk, no walk - some stumble. Well, at least almost no voice. That's right, most of you are part of the silent majority. In an effort to offer students an opportunity to voice their concerns over the new noise policy that can lead to jail time, ASMSU hosted a forum Thursday night in Wonders Hall Kiva.
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Arnold "The Austrian Oak" Schwarzenegger has been named California's new governor, another ready-made politician with virtually no relevant political experience, save for the parodies of fighting "crazy terrorists killers" in the Hollywood action thriller "Collateral Damage" and vilifying an Arab population in "True Lies." Normally, I would lament upon the horrific state of public elections and the overwhelming ignorance of most voters, but because I believe that no amount of political fervor and effort will ever reverse this trend of apathy, I won't.
Sen. Alan Cropsey, R-DeWitt, and Rep. Triette Reeves, D-Detroit, seek to lower the number of people in Michigan with health insurance.
As an organization that values First Amendment rights to the utmost degree, it is not often that we would criticize people for exercising them.
I thought Kirsten Nielsen took a dangerous approach, arguing in her recent article "Even without reason, there's a time, place for everything" (SN 10/6) that God has a reason for allowing people to die.