The Alliance of Lesbian-Bi-Gay-Transgendered and Straight Ally Students exist to educate MSU about issues that affect our community. We reach out through activism and activities, and promote awareness and understanding.
People like Sarah Zeld seems to believe diversity is being thrust upon her (“‘U’ goes too far with diversity issue” SN 10/30). She wrote that she has been made to feel left out, discriminated against and guilty. I find it ironic that her feelings parallel many of those in the lesbian, bisexual, ga y and transgender community. I find it ironic that these feelings forced her to act by writing a letter to the editor, yet she doesn’t want anyone in the LBGT community to take action. She wrote, “There are no student groups trying to educate the members of the LBGT community on why they believe their lifestyle is wrong, so why can’t it have the same common courtesy?” Last time I checked, no one was attacking heterosexuals’ mate choices or civil liberties.
Students must vote against Proposal 4 to save their pocketbooks. Tuesday is the time for students to vote. Students make up the most apathetic sector of the voting population and many experts agree this is due in large part to a feeling that government doesn’t affect them. This year, government will drastically affect students.
Today is Halloween, and I’m here to give all the little kids reading this a warning: Don’t get addicted. See, kids, I’m a fairly boring and unsurprising person, and if you were to come to my apartment, you’d see almost nothing but evidence supporting this.
After 12 years of Gov. John Engler’s often iron-fisted rule, it is time Michigan changed direction.
All of the talk about how hard it is to register to vote is hooey, and nothing more than making excuses for bad behavior. Let me tell you how I, a resident of the far off locale of Marquette, came to be an East Lansing resident.
The job of Michigan secretary of state encompasses much more than renewing driver’s licenses and registering cars at 173 branch offices.
There you go again. The State News has endorsed Virg Bernero and Gretchen Whitmer, and urges MSU voters to pass up their chance to elect two fine candidates: Paul DeWeese and Larry Ward.
The Michigan Attorney General’s Office has a long tradition of being the people’s advocate on consumer issues.
I have been a proud Spartan fan for 20 years. I continue to support the student-athletes on our football team.
The bill proposed to ASMSU to lobby MSU leaders to get the school off of “party lists” is a big mistake. Undergraduate student government officials seem to think being on Playboy magazine’s “Top 25 Party Schools” will deter prospective students from coming to MSU.
In response to TJ Jourian’s column, “‘U’ should support equality for students” (SN 10/29), the university already goes too far out of its way in trying to create and promote diversity and in the process, makes a bigger mess out of things. I have been made to feel left out, discriminated against and guilty when reading signs about National Coming Out Days and other various awareness events that supposedly promote unity.
It doesn’t surprise me that Carrie Hoover cannot understand issues of racism on this campus, (“Separation doesn‘t promote unity” SN 10/25). On a campus of 45,000 students, only 3,600 being black, not only is it imperative to build support networks, it is necessary for student survival. There has never been a student organization of color prohibiting white students from attending.
On Saturday thousands of Americans will march in Washington, D.C., in hopes of drawing attention to the injustices suffered by more than 25 million people.
Thank you, The State News, for once again showing your typically biased reporting. The article “Gore rallies ‘U’ voters” (SN 10/29) spends one whole sentence mentioning the five protesters inside. Your reporters must have missed the nearly 25 additional protesters right outside the entrance - 30 total people showed up, most of them skipping class to protest and The State News was not even interested in the opinion of a single one of them.
Of course MSU would be labeled as a party school (“‘U’ should sweat ‘party’ list status,” SN 10/25). That label is practically begged for. Tailgating is encouraged, which is nothing more than one huge party; alcohol rules are extremely slack; planes carrying banners with Déj
For two years, incumbent Rep. Gretchen Whitmer has worked to establish herself within the chambers of the state House, getting experience with higher education funding issues.
Time has run out for Paul DeWeese and his tenure in the Legislature. Voters should elect Virg Bernero to the state’s 23rd District Senate seat when they take a minute to go to the polls Nov.
I almost didn’t respond to Nathan Top’s letter to the editor and Carrie Hoover’s column regarding black groups on campus (“Columnist brave to make honest points” SN 10/28 and “Separation doesn’t promote unity” SN 10/25). I was having a peaceful day and did not want to have the burden of thinking my white brothers and sisters are unhappy with support systems for people of color. I do not understand how some whites pretend as if there is no racism and that our experiences do not shape who we are.
Lansing Community College made Michigan history last week by becoming the first community college in the state to provide domestic-partner benefits for the same-sex partners of its employees, according to the Human Rights Campaign. The policy was approved with only two of seven trustees putting in dissenting votes.