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.
While it is acceptable for people to take actions to avoid unnecessary conflicts, sometimes unnecessary actions are taken when conflict isn’t there, as is the case with a recent decision by the Crestwood School District in Dearborn Heights. Crestwood district officials ordered the removal of an international flag display in the district high school cafeteria, citing fear of a schism between Arab and non-Arab students. Luckily for the high school, its students are not as naive as the district board.
You know how standing in roller coaster lines at Cedar Point can take forever? And after a while you become numb to the fact you’re soon going to get the rush of your life?
I just read the article titled “Fans adjust to new rules at stadium” (SN 9/9). And since I am one of those security guards mentioned in the piece, I felt the need to tell my side of the story on behalf of other security guards.
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.
East Lansing residents taking a stand against a proposed student-apartment complex on Michigan Avenue are sparking the wrong debate.
I am appalled MSU leaders are allowing Jesse Jackson to speak here. I realize Jackson has done some good in regard to minority employment, but he has used this political soapbox for his own advantage. Let’s take his Citizen Education Fund, a charitable organization.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Students here in the United States would be outraged if a campus group were to call itself the Campus Jihad for Muhammad.
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.
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.
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.
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.