I would like to make a few comments about the column by Bob Romashko (“Tax cut plunders surplus,” SN 8/30). His unfair and unfounded characterization of President Bush’s tax plan leaves me puzzled. Mr. Romashko insinuates Bush was the sole participant in passing this historical tax cut.
It’s gratifying to see the labors and trials of so many beginning to pay off as people become more aware of those who come from different social backgrounds. A recent survey of high school seniors - next year’s college freshman class - found students more tolerant of lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgendered people than ever.
“Caf-II-Go is now completely takeout!”Sounds like that might be a good thing, doesn’t it?
While representatives of the undergraduate student government work through university bureaucracies, a unique and valuable program remains idle for new enrollment. Representatives from ASMSU are fighting to reinstate the visual impairment program in the College of Education.
A peculiar alliance continued to develop during Labor Day weekend. President Bush visited Michigan on Monday - his fourth stop in the state since he took office - to visit Teamsters in Detroit.
On a campus where women have memorized the exact location of every green light phone, the issue is not whether Eric Knott deserves a second chance.
Once again, MSU’s faculty will receive an increase in their salaries in October. But the question many are raising is if this increase will be enough. Despite lower-than-average state appropriations, for the third year in a row, the university has increased faculty salaries by 5 percent across the board.
He got into television because he hated the medium. Children, he felt, were allowing their minds to decay because of it.
Do you sometimes think you have no power whatsoever, that you are at the mercy of everyone who stands ahead of you in line, that your destiny is pretty much a done deal because you have no way to influence anything that goes on around you? Well, I think we have all had that feeling in our lives at one time or another, and sometimes we have that feeling a lot more than we should.
Do you think going to classes is hard? What about preparing for and taking exams? Every study at this university has dealt with the stress our education gives us.
OK, so now what? The panel appointed to examine the circumstances surrounding last year’s poorly executed undercover investigation of Students for Economic Justice has offered the university its coveted findings. The members - a professor, a former state legislator, a former trustee and a student government leader - say the ordeal was likely carried out inadequately. Perhaps, the panel wrote, MSU administrators need to take a more thorough approach the next time they consider stomping so freely on the liberties granted to student activists. The big finish?
MSU’s campus should champion free speech and welcome an assortment of viewpoints. Unfortunately today, sparked by challenges against liberal thought, university administrators and a minority of their leftist students have acted maliciously to create a culture opposing the virtues of free speech. The campus left has undeniably censored ideas that its ideology opposes.
Whatever the reason, Michigan has become one of the four most segregated states in the nation in terms of education. The origin of this trend ranges from simple misinformation to the more serious threat of residential segregation.
The infiltration of Students for Economic Justice was harassment and intimidation just like during the 1960s and 1970s.
You are not alone in your Trowbridge Road extension complaints (”Reader gets red at Trowbridge Road,” SN 8/29). I personally called the MSU Department of Police and Public Safety on Tuesday last week to complain that traffic was backed up onto southbound U.S.
Another day in the West Bank ends amid tank shelling and the crackle of rifle fire. Having seen the destruction and strife plaguing the Middle East firsthand, Michigan Congressman Mike Rogers has decided the United States needs to take a larger role in peace negotiations. As a respected up-and-coming GOP lawmaker, Rogers, of Brighton, needs to use the influence he’s gaining to prod the Bush administration to take a more active role in the Middle East conflict.
But when you attach the name of a superstar like, oh, say Madonna to that 2,739 square-foot colonial-style house, the price suddenly skyrockets.The blonde bad girl’s childhood home has been listed on the Internet auction site eBay.com.
There is something new about the beginning of each semester that is almost as challenging as finals are at its conclusion.
It’s unfortunate academic trouble has sidelined MSU cornerback Cedric Henry for this season, but his situation teaches an important lesson to all students involved in athletics and other activities. The merchandising management senior was ruled academically ineligible after he failed a summer class, coach Bobby Williams said this week. Henry, who holds a scholarship from the university, will have to sit out this season but could return to play a final year of athletic eligibility next year - if he can fix his academic trouble. It’s a privilege to play football - or any varsity sport - at a Big Ten university.