Sometimes I really miss Napster. I’d often hear the song that’s been in my head for a week on the radio while driving home from work.
Black students should be able to recognize both their culture and successful graduation during commencement weekend. Based on a program at the University of Michigan, the Black Celebratory will recognize graduating black students’ achievements at a May 3 ceremony. The program also brings attention to the low minority retention rates.
American culture has an unhealthy way of looking to its athletic heroes as demigods who live outside the rules of normal society.
I’m 22 years old and I have a 4-year-old daughter. I found out I was pregnant at the start of my senior year in high school.
I hate when I’m embarrassed to be an MSU student. It almost never happens, but I felt it as I was leaving Thursday’s lecture with filmmaker Spike Lee.
It’s great the women’s basketball team did well this year. But I hope it’s not 100 percent satisfied.
I was dismayed to read the Page One article “Making the Choice” (SN 3/21). Three major aspects of the abortion problem were missing. The first was any consideration for a baby.
I couldn’t agree more with the sentiments expressed by the McDonel Hall residents who are footing a large bill due to vandalism (“U’ irked by hall damage rule,” SN 3/14). Since when does cleaning up other people’s messes constitute a moral obligation?
We attended ASMSU’s town hall discussion Tuesday night. ASMSU has the gall to come to the student body and ask for a $3 tax increase, which will put its projected revenue over $1 million.
This is in response to “Making the choice” (SN 3/21). I was shocked and appalled when I saw this article and the pictures that went with it.
The complexity of human love makes rational discussion difficult. We think we understand what it means to love and be loved.
In Tom Smucker’s letter (“Need for contract affects ‘U’ majority,” SN 3/20), he claims the Graduate Employees Union is supported by a majority of graduate students, and the participation of “hundreds of graduate employees” in union activities is evidence of a majority initiative.
I am writing in response to Marcus Taylor’s decision to go pro or stay in school (“Taylor ticker,” SN 3/20). It really makes me sick, as a Spartan, to see he could be considering turning pro.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Women’s basketball head coach Joanne P. McCallie asked for it during this season’s kickoff celebration, and while it may have taken a while for her to get it, it’s better late than never.
Lame-duck Gov. John Engler should quit trying to play the godfather by making Michigan judges offers they can’t refuse during his final months in office. The chief executive hoped to move an early retirement plan for judges through the Legislature before lawmakers broke for a two-week vacation this week.
If one state lawmaker has his way, MSU could be asked to step right up to become the future host of the Michigan State Fair.
This is in response to the article “Speaker discusses Third World AIDS crisis” (SN 3/19). In the light of cultural understanding, I was surprised to open The State News and read this statement: “Gulick said one major reason Africa has the highest number of estimated cases is because the culture promotes unsafe sex.” I would not expect such a generalization from a highly educated medical practitioner.
Your editorial board recommended the Graduate Employees Union follow the University of Michigan graduate union’s example by settling a contract without a strike (“Good example,” SN 3/19). If U-M’s Graduate Employees Organization was able to win a contract this year, it was precisely because of our ability to strike.
A law signed by Gov. John Engler in December, though meant to make people more patriotic, is not inclusive of all Americans and stands only to defeat Constitutional rights. Most Americans probably don’t blink an eye at the national motto, “In God We Trust,” and a bill passed stating that the motto could be displayed in schools and other governmental buildings.
During the past three years I occasionally have ventured outside of my tea-steeped apartment and tried to experience the near-mythic bar scene at MSU.