I was intrigued by the article “Voters to place billions in tobacco money,” (SN 9/9). As a nonsmoker, I never thought much about smoking or smokers for that matter.
I commend The State News for picking up the article on the food crisis in Zimbabwe (“Hunger takes toll in Zimbabwe” SN 9/9). The plight of 1.2 billion people throughout the world who live in absolute poverty is normally overlooked in the news.
A year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, America is on the highest security alert it has experienced under the new homeland security department’s codes Although the country is on a heightened state of security awareness, Americans should not fear for their safety and go on with their daily lives normaly. On Monday, the Bush administration raised the country’s terror alert to code orange - the second-highest state of alert on the five-level, color-coded system.
On the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, there is no better time to educate ourselves about what is really going on in the world.
While new rules released by MSU President M. Peter McPherson are meant to protect campus political and social activism from undercover investigations, we’re forced to wonder how effective they will be. These new guidelines, released Monday, define the “extraordinary circumstances” under which the MSUBoard of Trustees will allow such an investigation.
It was with great interest that I read about the Sept. 15 visit to MSU by the Rev. Jesse Jackson (“Jackson to visit campus” SN 9/6). Even more exciting is the topic of his talk that day - peace.
For the past year or so I have been arguing with myself, and others, about whether I have the right to express my opinions on all things American.
Students here in the United States would be outraged if a campus group were to call itself the Campus Jihad for Muhammad.
I would say I was truly moved by the words of Melissa Sanchez in her column, “Destroy Earth, kids will thank you” (SN 9/6), but then I would be guilty of the same criminally incompetent use of satire. While I do not wish to belittle her concerns and opinions, a courtesy she did not extend to her readers, I found the column trite and lacking in any suggestion of a constructive solution to what she obviously feels are pressing issues. She is offended by sports- utility vehicles, but what good does that do anybody?
Shortly after noon on New Year’s Day, halfway through our first volunteer shift at Nino’s Restaurant on Canal Street, a group of angels appeared.
Two days after the terrorist attacks on the United States last fall, I added another possibility to the second assigned essay in my first-year writing course at James Madison College.
No one needs to be reminded what this day means. Yet wherever we look today, those reminders will be there. This was the day, one year ago, a generation’s innocence was shattered by the worst terrorist attacks on U.S.
On the one-year anniversary of the worst terrorist attacks the world has ever seen, it is essential that we, the students of MSU, remember that more than 3,000 individuals lost their lives simply because they upheld the democratic way of life. Americans have ignored the threat that terrorism poses to the world’s democratic societies for far too long.
I can remember everything about where I was, what I was wearing and the emotions I felt on Sept. 11, but I really don’t think I want to relive them.
Just three weeks into the semester, and it’s happening already. Despite my feeble attempts to resist, I’m slipping into the abyss of college ignorance. I’m not talking about stupidity.
This week, the university community will gather to remember and reflect on the terrible events of Sept.
It’s pretty much a fact of life - things don’t often work out the way people expect them to, especially the first time around.
Tomorrow is Sept. 11, but I will not be joining the blathering voices flooding the media with calculated sentimentality.
MSU will benefit from a visit from another prominent figure as students might have the chance to have their fears and concerns about life after the Sept.
Dan Julian’s article “Left out” (SN 9/4) made my afternoon. Being a girl, a Filipino and a lefty amongst friends who are white righties gives me a lot of material to rip into.