Minority recruitment efforts for faculty and students have been highly publicized in recent years, but another area of university life hasn’t seen as much press, racial inequality in athletics. A symposium organized by MSU athletics director Clarence Underwood at Kellogg Center this week aimed to begin to correct that.
If this week’s column seems more a memoir than usual, forgive me; I promise it gains relevance toward the end. I was raised about 20 miles north of here, in St.
The superintendent of Wayland Union Schools near Grand Rapids recently had a tough decision to make: Turn way the Gideons International’s efforts to give out free Bibles in school or face a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union. Fortunately for the U.S.
I was born and raised a Catholic. Baptized, first Holy Communion, confirmed - you name it, my mother supported it.
U.S. officials are right to warn citizens of the danger of continued terrorism on American soil. Since Sept.
How quickly we forget the horror of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Remember the fear, the astonishment, the utter hopelessness that we all felt watching passenger-laden aircraft decimate the World Trade Center, murdering thousands of men and women whose only crime was to rise with their alarm clocks and journey to another day of work? Now imagine if we had to experience this feeling again, not in another isolated, dramatic episode of terror, but every single day, not knowing which of our friends or family would next find themselves under the murderous ax of militant extremists.
I’d like to correct columnist Jacquelyne Froeber’s column, “New reality shows another sign of TV wasteland” (SN 5/16). In her column, Froeber said that, like most reality shows, the ratings of “Survivor” were down, when in actuality the ratings for “Survivor: Marquesas” are up quite a bit from the last season.
While I support the concept of affirmative action, I disagree with the recent editorial supporting a federal court of appeal’s decision to uphold current affirmative action policies at the University of Michigan (“Positive Action,” SN 5/15). The goal of affirmative action is to assist disadvantaged groups in selection procedures in order to further equality.
I know, I know. The Pi Kappa Phi incidents of April have been debated and analyzed a million times over with opinion letters, articles, editorials and the like.
East Lansing city officials are right to take a closer look at transportation concerns along East Grand River Avenue.
It is a shame that the proposal for the new parking lot in place of the Michigan State Police station is only 1,300 car spaces (“‘U’ may get increase in parking,” SN 5/15). This university takes advantage of students and their families by charging extremely high prices for parking and large fines for illegally parking.
After more than a decade of absence, former MSU President John A. Hannah will soon be seen on campus again. Plans are underway for a bronze statue of the university’s 12th president, a welcome addition to the place so heavily marked by Hannah.
A local group out for their monthly run used a mixture of flour and chalk to mark their route resulting in a quarantine for what police thought was an anthrax scare. Historically, anthrax in powder form has been sent through the U.S.
I am writing in response to the story “Students petition E.L.
It is now clear to me, as it should be to every other member of the University of Michigan community, that affirmative action is headed for a constitutional showdown in the highest court of the land.
You are setting yourself up to be disappointed. In your editorial “Positive action” (SN 5/15), you express hope that the Supreme Court will affirm the 6th U.S.
The ratings of “Survivor” are down, I don’t know anyone who watched “Temptation Island 2,” and “Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire?” was an embarrassing flop.
On our campus, parking has been a hotly debated issue for as long as most people can remember. And while it may be too much to hope for a light at the end of this long tunnel, part of MSU’s 2020 Vision plans for campus development tackle part of the parking problem, even as parking spots are lost for added green space. The proposed creation of a 1,300 space parking lot where the Michigan State Police headquarters is located on Harrison Avenue would be a huge benefit to student commuters and visitors to the university.
The East Lansing School District is facing a dilemma. It must find a way to make up a $3.5 million budget deficit. But to help do so, school officials could choose to close Spartan Village Elementary, acclaimed for its diverse student population.
The ruling in favor of the University of Michigan’s law school, declaring their use of race as an admissions factor legal, is a benefit to both current and prospective students and should be upheld. On Tuesday, a federal appeals court ruled 5-4 to reverse a lower court decision stating that race itself cannot be taken into account when examining collegiate candidates. Most people do not consider themselves to be racist, so they might refuse to give race much consideration or believe that it would be necessary when choosing from a pool of possible students.