When it comes to money, cold, hard cash is what we like to see, not the earmarked variety that has recently found a new home with the Capital Area Transportation Authority.
Let me start by helping The State News decide if the "Your Voice" thing is for "us" or not ("Graduates do not represent 'voice'" SN 4/16). Who is "us?" I didn't realize once you left MSU you were no longer affiliated with the university.
It seems city and university officials are constantly trying to prevent bad things from happening, and while their well-intentioned efforts are often understandable, there are some aspects of life that boil down to personal responsibility. Responsible drinking on a 21st birthday or any day of the week is one of those aspects. Still, on Tuesday, East Lansing's Responsible Hospitality Council passed new management policies to curb 21st birthday accidents.
Nobody on this campus should let the actions of a few hundred people affect the way that he or she values his or her degree or his or her reputation as a Spartan.
This letter is in response to the "I agree with Darrell" chalkings bashing the Boy Scouts of America.
While file-sharing on MSU's network is widely practiced, that does not make it legal. If MSU is punished by movie and record executives for students' behavior, those students who continue abusing the university's high-speed Internet connection deserve punishment. MSU students are being affected by increased efforts among music and movie industry executives to track down college students with shared files on their computers.
I agree with Darrell. For those of you curious about this message, which has appeared in numerous places around campus, Darrell Lambert is a 19-year-old former Boy Scout.
Gary Herbert, you are a fool ("Graduates do not represent 'voice'" SN 4/16). The fact of the matter is that until you actually prove yourself and graduate, you cannot distinguish yourself from the thousands of wannabe students that come to MSU and leave without a degree.
I used to think our president wasn't a bright man. But he's really not the word-bumbling buffoon we often see on television.
We would like to say thank you to all the students at the rally and Board of Trustees meeting on Friday("Students demonstrate against 'U' policies" SN 4/14). We are proud to stand with you.
Officials in charge of the safety hazards plaguing the Northern Tier community should quickly finish up planned construction and put students' fears to rest. After nearly five years of existence, the Northern Tier is only now constructing new sidewalks and installing lights that should have been in place when the community first opened.
This is in response to "Protesters were wrong on Iraq; now it's time to help out" (SN 4/14). I am one of the "anti-war agitators," but I never said things such as "Saddam Hussein should remain in power," "Hussein's crimes were illusory" or "We won't be welcomed into Baghdad." I have never said Saddam is a good man or a good leader, and I would never protest to keep him in power. Instead, I was questioning Bush's motives for going to war.
"Get it together children," "You should be ashamed," "Grow up," "You're embarrassing us." Wow, I guess flipping to the Your Voice section in The State News really does get more interesting everyday. Except wait, that isn't our voice - these are comments printed and signed by our very own 1998 and 1999 local alumni ("Perception of 'U' goes down with riot" and "All students hurt by campus disturbance" SN 4/14). Are these people serious?
In his recent column, Jason C. Miller would like to announce his victory in the ongoing pro-war/anti-war debate ("Protesters were wrong on Iraq; now it's time to help out" SN 4/14). I can picture him writing the column while pumping his fist in the air and occasionally exclaiming, "Boo-ya!" Did Miller have money riding on this war? Miller makes a valid argument when he calls liberals "hippies," which is a term you really never hear in regards to liberal-minded people.
The pain and embarrassment that was the Spartan 2002 football season just won't seem to stop haunting MSU's reputation. It was revealed on Monday former MSU star Charles Rogers used a substance to dilute his drug test at the NFL combine in February. It's now highly possible the consensus top-three pick in the April 26-27 NFL draft will be subject to the professional football league's drug evaluation program upon signing a contract with an NFL team. MSU doctors say urine-diluting substances are often used to hide the presence of illegal drugs.
In response to Jason C. Miller's column about the anti-war liberals being wrong, I must point out that Miller makes many mistakes in criticizing the liberal stance ("Protesters were wrong on Iraq; now it's time to help out" SN 4/14). Just because liberation of the Iraqi people is the shoe that fits, that does not mean it is the shoe the Bush administration was shopping for.
Now that Iraq has safely been turned over from Saddam Hussein's regime to liberated looters, it seems the United States is setting its cross-hairs on Syria. In virtually the same breath the White House declared the fall of Iraq, Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer labeled Syria "a terrorist state." And The Associated Press reported that President Bush laughed when he was asked whether Syria was a good candidate for his "axis of evil," saying, "We will deal with each situation as it comes." It's troubling that Bush feels such delicate foreign affairs are a laughing matter.
A recent editorial by The State News has asserted that our office is involved in an "overbearing witch hunt" with regard to student riots ("Seize the day" SN 4/14). I strongly disagree. The State News editorial states that "police are flirting with limits of the Fourth Amendment." It quotes the Fourth Amendment, stating "the rights of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, shall not be violated, but upon probable cause." In this case, we secured a search warrant to obtain evidence, which is precisely what is required by the Fourth Amendment.
Jason C. Miller remarked tongue-in-cheek in Monday's paper that he was "tempted to write a column that says, 'See, I told you so' to all the anti-war leftists at MSU" ("Protesters were wrong on Iraq; now it's time to help out" SN 4/14). It seems like "The State News' conservative writer" got what he wanted from his tirade.
As the war with Iraq is in a phase that could be described as consolidation, we who originally opposed the military invasion find ourselves in a bit of a pickle.