Recently, a flier promoting the film “Kung Pow: Enter the Fist” was distributed on MSU’s campus (“Group protests depiction on flier,” SN 2/7). This flier displayed an utter lack of knowledge about Asian culture and promotes many racial stereotypes including the incorrect assumption that all Asians eat dog meat.
Students, East Lansing residents and landlords will benefit when the East Lansing Housing Commission makes revisions to a housing ordinance passed in 1998. The ordinance requires every rental property to have a rigorous inspection by 2009.
In her letter to the editor, Ellen Conser points out a certain widespread stereotype recently used in a movie poster is based upon some fact (“Stereotype contains factual information,” SN 1/11). All stereotypes are based loosely upon some small grain of truth, they are just tremendous exaggerations of these tiny bits of truth. A venture onto the World Wide Web reveals every U.S.
Let’s face it. The crowd at Munn Ice Arena is spoiled. Where else can a hockey team be tied 0-0 for two periods with an unranked team while the crowd is virtually nonexistent?
MSU President M. Peter McPherson has a knack for looking to the future despite present economic hardships. “The economic downturn increases the challenges MSU faces in maintaining the momentum achieved over the years of extraordinary progress,” he said during his ninth annual State of the University address on Tuesday at Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre. “MSU is better able to respond to these and other challenges because we have been working for increased high quality and cost control for a number of years… MSU’s long-term planning is producing long-term benefits.” The next year could prove the heftiest budget crunch McPherson has had to deal with in his tenure at MSU.
I just finished reading Leslie Escobar’s commentary on her favorite show “Friends,” which is also my favorite show (“‘Friends’ is quality money-grubbing entertainment,” SN 2/6). One comment she made really offended me, and I felt it was completely uncalled for.
When MSU police Officer Ann Stahl joins the Department of Police and Public Safety’s Detective Bureau on March 1 as an alcohol education officer, we hope she is up to a tough challenge before her. Stahl will be charged with working alongside Olin Health Center, the Residence Halls Association and mentors to educate MSU students.
If you’ve been keeping tabs on my weekly rhetoric, you’ve probably noticed a theme of faith has been a central thread through each of my columns. This Ash Wednesday proves to be no exception.
This is in response to the article “Diagnosing the Doctor” (SN 2/7) and the Web poll regarding the reduction in the hours during medical residencies.
I have been a hockey fan all my life and I must say I am highly disappointed with the crowd at home hockey games at Munn Ice Arena.
I am writing in response to a prejudicial comment made by Ellen Conser (“Stereotype contains factual information,” SN 2/11). Conser not only suggested that no negative stereotyping was presented on a racially biased flier, she went further to state that Asian American students are “just aching to seek personal advantage or the spotlight,” referring to an incident which took place at Meridian Mall.
It’s important for MSU’s undergraduate student governing groups like the Residence Halls Association and ASMSU to foster relationships with similar organizations from other institutions to address student issues and concerns in the best ways possible. Unfortunately, maintaining those relationship is not easy. On one side, there is ASMSU, which has been involved with the Associated Students of the Big Ten since the conglomerate was formed in 1993.
It’s about time former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic goes on trial Tuesday before a U.N.
In response to U.S. Rep. Nick Smith’s mandatory military service bill, Shaun Reed wrote, “To force young Americans to serve their country in the form of military service is not a democratic policy” (“Duty to country is served every day,” SN 2/6). Why not?
Sept. 11 was the best thing ever to happen to U.S. Rep. Gary Condit. Media attention wandered for much of the summer, focusing mostly on shark attacks and an energy shortage in California.
I wanted to commend Timothy Liss on his letter, “SN report didn’t consider all voices” (SN 2/8). I feel Liss has a much better understanding of what the Residence Halls Association as an organization is there for (“to help improve the campus and the lives of the students living on it”) than people like Case Hall RHA Rep.
People are so concerned about the treatment of the detainees in Guantanamo Bay they forget about how U.S.
When Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., campaigned to become our nation’s chief executive in 2000, he communicated a message of patriotism, hope and an unabashedly fervent belief in the American dream. Hard-core Republican reactionaries feared McCain because he was not conservative enough for their liking.
When officials from around the United States meet with the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators to discuss the possibility of government-issued national ID cards, it is imperative that they consider citizens’ privacy. Debates about ID cards and their distribution have been steadily brewing since the Sept.
Regarding your article “Group protests depiction on flier” (SN 2/7), the complaints about the advertisement for “Kung Pow: Enter the Fist” seem to be the ad is discriminatory against Asian Americans because it 1) refers to consumption of dog meat, and 2) contains exaggerated physical features.