I am not writing in response to anything in particular. This is basically my personal frustration over East Lansing in general and the actions of MSU students at football games.
Am I mistaken, or did the mayor of East Lansing just threaten the students of MSU with not three days in jail but ten years in prison?
First off, Kris Colpean's letter to the editor "Students shunned by E.L.
Recently, 40 percent of our metered parking spaces increased hourly rates from $1.25 to $1.50. This incited much commentary from enraged students who enjoy waking up five minutes before class expecting to rightfully land an open parking spot right next to the building where they have lecture. Yet despite the fact that all my classes are conveniently located at the farthest point imaginable from my house - somewhere near Canada, I think - I could care less about the increase, because I walk to class.
As of this week, it is OK as a student-athlete to take money from an athletic booster, who is looking to launder money out of his illegal lottery business, and lie about it.
It's no surprise that college-age people party, but it's comforting that while MSU officials encourage responsibility, students are paying attention. The Office of National Drug Control Policy released a survey Tuesday which showed 21-year-olds are the leading group of 11 million people ages 12 to 65 who have driven under the influence of drugs.
We were all affected by the new, questionably constitutional policy that was implemented in the city regarding noise violations.
This is in response to The State News column "Booing unnecessary at football games" (SN 9/17). Let's remember one thing - this is college football.
With all of the uproar over the newly approved noise violations, one must ask themselves, 'Self, what is the best way to be heard?' So I did this and came up with a great way.
How about they throw some of those millions going toward the Spartan Stadium renovation into a photocopying and technology budget so students don't have to sit in outdated computer labs reading 200-page course packets that have been scanned onto the Internet?
Poor Kris Colpean, your life is falling apart ("Students shunned by E.L.
There are too many people that speed down the streets of East Lansing. I think it's time to wake people up and do something about it.
When MSU President M. Peter McPherson left East Lansing to help establish a stable economy in Iraq, the university had endured one of the most tumultuous years in its history.
According to the article "'U' students upset about Spartan Stadium addition" (SN 9/17), the proposed addition doesn't make "cents." The addition will cost $61 million of which $11 million is being paid for by the university.
Upon my arrival here at MSU, the one thing I could not wait for were the football games. Sitting in the hot bleachers, yelling at the top of my lungs with my best friends seemed like heaven.
Diversity is one of the thriving attributes of MSU's campus, and it is important for officials to keep this in mind when applications start rolling in. MSU's freshman class is expected to have a lower number of minority students than last year for the four major ethnic groups - black, Asian American and Pacific Islander, Native American and Chicano and Latino.
In response to Fred Sharp's letter condemning liberalism, I have a few things to say. First of all, liberalism is commonplace on college campuses because adolescents are liberal in general, although not all are members of the Democratic Party.
As a young American and a passionate Democrat, I feel compelled to respond to Fred Sharp's erroneous screed "Liberalism doesn't support higher education". Sharp regurgitates talking points from the extreme right wing but never bothers to present an iota of evidence to buttress his claims.
This letter is intended as a response to Fred Sharp's letter "Liberalism doesn't support higher education". I will focus on "liberals and their anti-Americanism" and how the "left" is "anti-education." In the Soviet Union, dissidents were bitterly condemned as anti-Soviet because they condemned their state's crimes instead of marching in parades denouncing the crimes of official enemies.
In response to the editorial "Weapon wisdom", I must say that it matters not whether you believe a person has a reason to have a gun in a public library.