I’m pleased to see that the current State News editorial board feels the opinion page shouldn’t be used to foment hatred and intolerance (“Moral choice,” SN 3/1). I wish previous editorial boards had realized that publishing opinion columns and letters expressing negative beliefs about homosexual people is exactly the same kind of incitement to hatred and intolerance.
I was happy to see The State News is covering Ray Ziarno, the Green Party candidate for secretary of state (“Secretary of State race up for grabs,” SN 2/27). It’s good to see The State News covering more than the two major parties.
There are few things in this world funnier than people who try to tear apart something they don’t understand (“‘Damned’ is goth at its worst,” SN 2/25). I do not feel it is appropriate to generalize a group of people as clowns or imply that all “goth kids” are the same.
ASMSU is asking for more money out of students’ pockets, but the organization isn’t providing enough information to sell its plan to the undergraduate population. The organization wants student taxpayers to spend an extra $3 per semester on its services, upping its semesterly per student revenue from $13 to $16.
Your editorial on the publication of the hateful column in Wayne State University’s student newspaper was very well done (“Moral choice,” SN 3/1). It is always important to remind people that along with rights come responsibilities.
I’ve never been a very good politician. When I was younger I could blame my lack of politicking skills on my inability to do anything that required coordination - or maybe it was the glasses and braces.
This is a response to Rebecca Daneff’s letter (“Honors College Ball not worth coverage,” SN 2/28). I graduated from MSU with a degree in chemistry and was a student in the Honors College.
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I thought I had heard it all as far as ridiculous letters to The State News this year, but - as usual - I was wrong.
I agree it is unwise for MSU students to hurt themselves in raising awareness for the Graduate Employees Union (“Strike out,” SN 2/27). I’m disappointed with the union; it seems very selfish they haven’t more firmly denounced this student strike.
Newspapers across the United States have a constitutional right to publish just about whatever they choose.
As a “repressed” member of the Honors College, a resident of the honors floor in Mason Hall and a member of a sorority, I feel the need to respond to Rebecca Daneff’s letter “Honors College Ball not worth coverage,” (SN 2/28). One of the main purposes of The State News is to report on activities that take place on the MSU campus and include its students.
Several months ago, some of my readers suggested my connection with the campus might be strengthened if I started reading The State News on days other than those on which my column is published.
I am writing to express my pleasure of the sorely needed objectivity among liberals provided by Andrew Goetz in his column “Conservative voices refreshing compared to liberal campus majority” (SN 2/25). I, too, am a moderate liberal who grew up smothered by suburban conservatism.
I think it was silly to have the article on the Honors College Ball (“Formal dance offers social event for honors students,” SN 2/20) make the front page of The Loop.
I wanted to respond to Michael Wayo’s letter about the quality of The State News (“SN stories lacking quality, substance,” SN 2/25). I am getting tired of hearing about the downfalls of our campus paper. The people behind these stories are students who take on the added responsibility and hours of producing a newspaper five days a week.
While it’s somewhat understandable that MSU’s Academic Council cut the university’s visual impairment education program on Tuesday, its reasoning was not well explained.
As good and decent people, we would all love to put those guilty of domestic abuse behind bars for as long as possible.
In the Feb. 26 issue of The State News, a headline blares “Online classes linked to poor performance.” Reading on, we find that MSU Professor Carl Liedholm and a colleague compared the exam grades of students in Principles of Microeconomics, some of whom took the course online while others took it in the traditional classroom-style mode. The word “poor” in the headline is inappropriate.