As an individual who attended MSU during the basketball glory years (three Final Fours and an NCAA Championship), I have recently become concerned the mission we have set out on, to become an elite program, is falling by the wayside There has not been enough pressure on our legendary coach Tom Izzo to maintain that standard of excellence which many of us have been spoiled with since 1998.
How sad it is that you missed the point in your article on textbook prices ("Textbook prices withstand slumping economic times," SN 1/8). While the news story is of great value, in reporting on my class, PLS 170, as requiring "16 textbooks and articles totaling more than $225 for new copies," you neglected the important fact that no one has to pay that sum.
It's better than a credit card and better than a friend's wallet - they're ASMSU's $100 interest-free loans available to MSU students. But students are abusing the privilege of their loans by not paying them back on time to ASMSU, MSU's undergraduate student government. Many Spartans don't know ASMSU's $100 loan is available to any person with a student ID.
I gave television news a chance - and it failed. I was looking for informational insight about the threat of war in Iraq and what I saw motivated me to do nothing but turn it off. It's quite cliché to think of the average college student's views on worldly issues as apathetic, but in my case, it's true.
Would it be enough to ask to get some semblance of objectivity in the album reviews section? In the Jan.
Every semester Spartans, along with millions of other university students across the country, watch their minuscule bank accounts drain as textbook costs are tallied by bookstore cash registers.
Jeremy W. Steele couldn't leave The State News without one final shot at the Residence Halls Association, could he?
Thank you Charles Rogers for the two great years you gave us at MSU. Thank you Charles Rogers for all of the records you broke in your time here, including the NCAA mark for consecutive games with a touchdown.
The University of Michigan is leading college campuses in rallies against the war with Iraq. Why aren't we? In light of Army Reserve units dispatching to the Middle East, this weekend an estimated 600 people will gather in Ann Arbor to protest at a two-day conference.
I've always stood in awe of science. Granted, my brain's lack of ability to understand basic chemistry might have something to do with my amazement, but that does not negate the fact man's technological achievements almost never cease to wow me. As for the times when scientific breakthroughs do not inspire my jaw to drop to the ground, I usually find myself sick to my stomach. The most recent "scientific breakthrough" to make my insides twist like a pretzel was the Dec.
Welcome to mini East Lansing. This quickly growing junior-size city is located on a plot of land shared by the college town and Bath Township.
Just a comment on the record reviews. When I saw Sponge with four "CDs," ("Sponge triumphs with new release," SN 1/7) I thought to myself, "Wow, they must have really put out a good album." Then, I saw the review for the "Bright Eyes" album only had 1 "CD" ("'Lifted' leaves listeners feeling everything but," SN 1/7). I then realized that the reviewer doesn't understand the concept of being creative, doing something different and doing something worthwhile.
I would like to thank Salim Bhabhrawala for his brave and honest opinion of Mason's decision on MSU's new football coach ("Mason should have waited for big name," SN 1/6). Isn't freedom of speech just wonderful.
Small pox was declared eradicated from the planet in 1980. Why then has it come into question if Americans should be vaccinated against the disease? There is a potential danger of contracting small pox and dying, but this is less than one in 100.
Fall bills have been mailed out for the new semester, and students are once again forced to take on the burden of loans as they seek higher education.
During former Gov. John Engler's final days in office, MSU lost $700,000 earmarked to build the new diagnostic veterinary laboratory.
As the football team's on- and off-the-field actions tarnished MSU's integrity in 2002, efforts to deny the release of police reports involving Spartan athletes only further smears the institution's reputation. Spartan All-American wide receiver Charles Rogers allegedly pushed an MSU parking enforcer in October, according to the Ingham County prosecutor's office.
While in England, a British gentleman incredulously asked me, "Why do so many Americans drive around in big trucks?" I laughed and said: "Don't try to figure it out - it's just our national insanity." It's an outcome of cheap gas and the quintessentially American culture of extreme consumption.
I admit it - I was one of those kids in high school. You know, the one who was in every club, every group.
Congratulations to Michigan's first woman governor, Jennifer Granholm. Now that Granholm has begun her job she, like John F.