With Canadian lawmakers recommending legalizing marijuana sales, U.S. officials should seriously engage in the debate to make new allowances for the drug. Earlier this month, a Canadian Senate panel recommended a law legalizing marijuana sales and use for anyone older than 16.
After participating in a three-hour ride-along with East Lansing police Saturday night (part of the eight hour requirement for Citizens Police Academy), I offer a challenge to MSU administrators and East Lansing landlords to sign up for a Thursday, Friday or Saturday night ride-along anytime after 11 p.m.
After reading the Page One story “Drug charges on rise in E.L.” (SN 9/13), I felt an urgent need to add my personal insight and opinions of marijuana use - particularly to the policies of campus police. I am an avid pot smoker and I know of many who also partake in this enjoyable, safe and relaxing activity.
I am responding to the recent columns attacking President Bush and his views on going to war with Iraq.
MSU enrollment is on the ups, which overall is a good thing. But, because of the hidden factors behind the continuous rising figures, there are concerns that the school might be on a road to elitism - not being accessible to the average Michiganian. Preliminary enrollment numbers for the 2002-03 school year were released Friday.
I felt compelled to write to the voice of MSU in response to Saturday’s grossly deficient performance by the purported Spartan football team. I am so disgusted by what I saw that I feel the season is on the brink of being ruined after only week three. Football head coach Bobby Williams should be ashamed and disturbed at what he saw from himself, his players and his personnel on Saturday. They were manhandled in every aspect of the game by a team that, although talented, had no business coming into Spartan Stadium and beating up on the Spartans the way it did. It is outrageously apparent Williams lacks the intangibles to coach MSU to a higher level. Critics and experts said MSU and the University of Michigan both should be undefeated when they meet in November, but longtime Spartan fans knew in the backs of their minds this dream would not be fulfilled. The nation laughed as MSU had assembled a schedule that was so favorable to a glorious season its record would almost have an asterisk next to it should it play out the way it was supposed to. Well, fans don’t have to worry about that because Williams and the Spartans have done it again. I don’t care if MSU comes to play next week and beats Notre Dame, even if the Irish might be a better team this year than in recent years. MSU should come to play every week.
Wow. I knew I was correct. It was a big mistake to give MSU football head coach Bobby Williams a raise.
I’d like to commend the State News staff for providing MSU students with such a wonderful newspaper.
Football head coach Bobby Williams taking the blame in Saturday’s loss does not cover the reputation of our school.
I have to keep reminding myself, “Kevin, you’re not in East Lansing anymore.” Yes, my zip code might be 48823, but the town divided by Christmas light-lit Grand River Avenue that I once knew is no longer.
Whether it be the amount of money you have in a savings account or the grades on a report card, when something goes down, it’s usually a bad sign.
I read this weekend about MSU wide receiver Charles Rogers’ disappointment in the fans for booing the Spartans during their horrendous performance against California. I had the pleasure of going to every game last year - including trips to Minnesota, Wisconsin and California - and I saw the same ugly performance Saturday that I became accustomed to last season.
It was lamentable to see the pains taken by Dan Bravender (“Christian society should change name” SN 9/12) to criticize an organization he apparently knows little about - Campus Crusade for Christ. His primary gripe concerns the use of the word “crusade” in its moniker. Bravender read a myriad of negative connotations into the word from “violence” to “bigotry,” and somehow infers, by reference, some similarities with the Holocaust. It might be suggested that before composing an eight-paragraph rant on the subjective connotations a word brings to mind, it would behoove oneself to open a dictionary to see if that viewpoint holds any validity. One of two definitions used in the dictionary provides the following definition for crusade - “a remedial enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm.” Not only is the use of “crusade” appropriate, it is commendable. Rob Annis Lansing resident
Officials at a Miami hospital are wrong not to allow three medical students to participate in a program there because of a weekend run-in with national law enforcement.
I would like to thank Rishi Kundi for pointing out a few of the frightening transgressions of the Bush administration during this time of national reflection (“American evils forgotten as country remembers Sept.
“What are you?” I have heard that question more times than I would care to admit. I am one of more than 6.8 million Americans who, according to the U.S.
I was privileged to earn a degree from MSU in 1986. I thoroughly enjoyed my college experience, which included attending as many sporting events as possible. My family continues to be ardent fans and supporters of MSU athletics today. After watching the MSU football team lose to California on Saturday, I must say that I was disappointed in its performance.
In response to Rishi Kundi’s column “American evils forgotten as country remembers Sept.
Iraq needs to heed warnings and avoid military attacks by allowing the immediate return of United Nations weapons inspectors. President Bush accuses Iraqi President Saddam Hussein of stockpiling weapons of mass destruction and is right for pushing for his removal from office. The U.N.
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.