Ryan Weltzer’s recent column was one of the best reasoned and crafted pieces on the complexities of student/permanent resident relations the paper has run in ages (“Residents, students can learn from each other,” SN 8/1). As a former Welcome Week edition editor, I encourage you to include the piece in the Welcome Week edition so more students can read it.
In 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer quoted the Bhagavad Gita. “I am become Death,” he said, “destroyer of worlds.” He spoke these words in the light of his fading and false sun, the first nuclear explosion on Earth.In retrospect, he was making rather a big deal about nothing.
In response to Craig Gunn’s column (“ ‘U’ is not to blame for broken guarantee,” SN 7/25), I would like to voice a few concerns.
The U.S. House has taken a dangerous step toward obstructing scientific progress in the United States.
During the past couple of weeks, a series of articles by Jamie Gumbrecht on the proposed South Fox Island land swap have appeared in The State News.
Have you ever been in a relationship where your mate was your best friend? And you could talk to him or her about anything and they’d listen, laugh or be your shoulder to cry on?
Since November, the whole country has been pushing for election reform. Finally, a commission led by former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter has come to the rescue. It has set out a number of ideas, a big step toward improving the election process in the United States.
I’ve lived in East Lansing for the last 13 years. It’s 15 years altogether because of the two years my family lived on Cambria Drive between overseas teaching positions.On Saturday, I spent the entire day wandering around campus and downtown East Lansing.
There are three things nearly everyone remembers from his or her childhood: The name of the barbershop you went to as a kid, the name of the person who cut your hair and the name of your neighborhood bully.
I’m writing in regards to the article “ Karate masters kick their way into Wharton,” (SN 7/26). I studied Okinawan Shido-kan Karate here at MSU for three years.
I hope everyone took time out of their busy day Wednesday to read Tracy Weiss’ column (“People you meet make school more memorable,” SN 7/25). I thought it was wonderful.
Race cars carry corporate names like Pennzoil and Tide. The Detroit Tigers play in the corporate named Comerica Park.
Riding my bike around campus makes me feel like I’m 12 again. I jump curbs I don’t have to.
Public land needs to be protected in the interest of public enjoyment, and South Fox Island is no exception. The island’s territory is split between the State of Michigan and David Johnson, a land developer and 1971 MSU graduate. Johnson’s land, which is interspersed with state land, forms a checkerboard pattern across the Lake Michigan island.
Rishi Kundi recently wrote a piece (“Faith without thought is no faith at all,” SN 7/19) about the continuing battle between creationism and evolution which has been in existence since the Age of Enlightenment in the West (Darwin developed notions which had been brewing for some time). After one studies Eastern philosophy a bit, or the teachings of Plato, this topic becomes rather trite and mundane.
I’d like to respond to Maria Del Zoppo’s column in Monday’s State News (“Political correctness is stifling free expression,” SN 7/23). I’d be more than happy to call you a “liberal-minded lunatic.” You totally misrepresented the Brooklyn Museum of Art incident.
I have been an employee at MSU for 12 years and I am used to the construction during the summer, but finding a way to get to work and home from work has always been a challenge. Coming in from the southwest has presented a special challenge year.
I must write in agreement with the writer who criticized the university for not hiring MSU graduates (“Employment policy upsets graduate,” SN 7/9). I agree it is kind of sad that MSU does not hire its graduates.
The good news is the Kyoto treaty has been signed by 178 countries, a big step for the world’s environment.
When you are young, the number of friends you have can be measured by the amount of valentines you receive every February.