Fraternities, such as Delta Chi, are inexcusably trying the patience of their community by repeatedly violating noise ordinances as well as a long-standing general code. The East Lansing Housing Commission on Thursday suspended the fraternity’s rental license for 180 days beginning Jan.
So much promise with so little results. That is the story of the MSU football program. How does a team that went 10-2 three seasons ago compile records of mediocrity the past two and, now, the possibility of not even making a bowl game.
I was horrified when I read the quote from football head coach Bobby Williams saying MSU’s football woes are the entire team’s fault (“Gridders losing ways continue,” Statenews.com 10/19). This only solidifies the many reasons why MSU should not wait until the end of the season to lose Williams.
Football head coach Bobby Williams must go. Being an effective recruiter - which he is - does not translate into being an effective head coach - which he is not. Williams has had plenty of time to reveal his effectiveness and has failed miserably. This was the year to take the program to the next level.
I never imagined myself saying this, but life is better without television. I have not watched an entire episode of a sitcom, drama, reality series, award shows, or anything else, for that matter, in about two months.
The Vatican’s stance toward U.S. bishops’ zero-tolerance policy on sexually abusive priests is inadequate and raises questions to the papacy’s commitment to combat child molestation by clergymen. The Vatican announced Friday that the policy adopted by the U.S.
Cell phone usage while driving is just one item on a long list of self-centered things people do that are not just annoying to others, but rude, hurtful, insensitive and downright rotten.
In December 1999, about 50 football players gathered at Cowles House to plead the case for their running backs coach to lead the team.
A note to the MSU community: You deserve better, period. After yet another debacle on the field Saturday, the last straw has been drawn.
Football head coach Bobby Williams is a disgrace to Spartan football. We, as Spartan fans, should consider a boycott of football games until he is replaced.
I agree with Matt Treadwell that abortion debaters are looking at the wrong problem and need to dig deeper to uncover the root causes of abortion and deal with the issue at that deeper level (“Abortion debaters looking at wrong problem, need to dig deeper” SN 10/11). I believe one of the more basic issues involved is that women have been taught that abortion is the way to freedom and equality for women. There is another way to look at it - a true feminist perspective. I long for a world in which the amazing ability of women to bear children is celebrated and not despised; a world where men take equal responsibility for the children they help to create; a world where children are loved and treated as individuals of immeasurable value and a world where women have real choices, including things like affordable childcare as they study and work.
Although I whole heartedly agree with the need for better sex education in this country a few of Matt Treadwell’s comments in his column “Abortion debaters looking at wrong problem, need to dig deeper” (SN 10/11) were completely off the mark. Sex is not solely for the purpose of reproduction.
It’s like music to my ears. Well not exactly music. It’s more like creepy attempts to replicate music with sharp piercing notes and flat, drawn-out “bleeps.” Ah yes, the refreshing bleeps from cell phones around the land - the sounds only a truly tone-deaf person could enjoy. In my classes, my dorm and, most of all, in the newsroom, parodies of ABBA’s “Dancing Queen,” the Backstreet Boys’ “Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)” and Nirvana’s “Come as You Are” play continuously as cell phones across the land “ring.” The sounds remind me of the time I had an ear infection and heard everything in distorted and twisted ways. While I find the ringers to be lacking in musical quality, I also find them, in certain situations, to be quite rude.
In response to the letter the editor “Campaigners right to join pro-life rally” (SN 10/8), I would like to thank all of the local candidates who believe that women have the intelligence to make their own reproductive decisions.
The mass e-mail sent out Wednesday telling students there had been syringes left on Brody Hall cafeteria trays was a serious breech of protocol that caused unnecessary alarm to the complex’s residents. The message was sent to Brody Complex residents by its assistant manager, Denise Gerst, using her supervisor’s Pilot account.
The State News editorial regarding the Lansing police officer who was arrested for drunken driving was presumptive and appeared to smear the good work of the majority of law enforcement officers by the alleged wrongdoing of one (“Crooked Cop” SN 10/11). The editorial asked the question, “After Tuesday night’s arrest of a Lansing police officer for drunken driving, how can area police expect people to heed their teaching and demands concerning sober driving?” The answer is the same way readers are expected to believe the veracity of the stories we read in newspapers, despite the fact many journalists have been found to have plagiarized work, falsified information and made up the stories. One person’s misdeeds do not warrant smearing a whole profession. The police officer was arrested, not convicted and until then he is presumed innocent just like any other citizen. Once this incident has been adjudicated in court, then - and only then - should the police department take final disciplinary action. To do otherwise would not be in keeping with the values this country was founded on - due process, freedom of the press, etc. Mentha Manning criminal justice and psychology senior
East Lansing community leaders are responsibly beginning to look to the past to lead the city to its future.
I think it is ridiculous - with the status of the world - nearly every letter to the editor in The State News this week revolved around MSU football head coach Bobby Williams.
After the unimaginable horrors of Sept. 11, never has our country shown such patriotism to the colors of our nation’s flag.
Let’s be honest here. Bobby Williams was “chosen” (not hired) to be MSU’s football head coach for all the wrong reasons. This guy is from former Detroit Lions head coach Wayne Fontes’ school of college football.