This semester, more so than in past semesters, issues of free speech were ignited by a campuswide discussion about race. It undoubtedly is important for students to learn the difference between hate speech and free speech.
Each Thanksgiving, an estimated 45 million turkeys are thought to be reared and killed in American factory farms, destined to be the holiday centerpieces on American families’ dinner tables.
For years, I’ve claimed that if MSU ever got a consistent winner on the football field and fans’ loyalty was repaid, watch out — the alumni, students and the state would go absolutely nuts and prove men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo right that we are a football school ranking with the best of them.
With the end of the semester sneaking up on students, for some it’s their last few weeks as a Spartan. Although most students dread the thought of leaving, a new MSU report should lessen that trepidation.
No student should feel unsafe walking home at night. Although making that happen is impossible, taking action to empower students to keep them from feeling unsafe is the next best step for MSU.
The holiday season is fast approaching. Come 2 p.m. Wednesday, I am officially free to head home. Home for me is Tecumseh, Mich.
Pennsylvania State University used to represent the pinnacle of morality in college athletics. In an instant, that illusion shattered into a million pieces.
In embracing the concept of brotherhood by accepting responsibility for partygoers, MSU’s Interfraternity Council, or IFC, practices the values held by each MSU fraternity. The accountability system put into place by the IFC, after the untimely passing of a fraternity brother in 2009, was a great step to take.
The Coalition Against Sexual Violence recently gathered to discuss the editorial board’s article, “Commit to stopping sexual assault at MSU,” planning to write a letter to the editor in response.
Tea Party, Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Communists or Socialists — it really doesn’t matter in today’s climate. Everyone seems to want to get out in the streets and scream and yell, camp out in a neighboring park or gather in unwashed groups and rant.
It shouldn’t be a hassle for students to live on campus because of too much or too little security. Having the same security in place across campus is something RHS should have done a long time ago to make the lives of students safer.
Walking gingerly downhill on a narrow, winding street in Cadiz, Spain, paved in incredibly smooth and shiny stones bigger around than softballs, one of my companions, D.G. Schiltz, commented, “There are no championship rollerskaters from Cadiz.”
Now that our bill statements for spring semester have come in, I wanted to remind my fellow students about the fact that our tuition went up again this fall.
When ASMSU passes a bill of this nature, it is important that the university implements it, or it defeats the purpose of having a student government. There is no point in having a student government when the policies they propose that will help students aren’t implemented by the university.
I love social media because it’s the ultimate Rorschach inkblot test; it’s anything and everything users want it to be.
Employees of the Clinical Center are not allowed to park on the adjacent parking lot, which is assigned exclusively to patients, but instead use the parking lot on the other side of Service Road.
It has become apparent to me that this insignificant division, known simply as “parking,” has introduced itself more recently as a nuisance and disease to the populace of East Lansing.
Part of any generation’s responsibilities is to correct the mistakes made by the last. We usually tend to think of this responsibility in the context of examples taught in grade school, such as the woman’s suffrage movement and the civil rights movement.
To help students find the right major, MSU should consider requiring freshmen to come in with no defined major and choose one after one year. This would allow students to take the required courses needed to graduate and help in not letting students go two years into college before realizing they have no interest in their chosen major.
As the attorney representing the city of East Lansing in the pending litigation regarding mailboxes, I can tell you that I was disappointed to read the tone of your editorial “Take alleged illegal mail search seriously” (SN 11/3). It then occurred to me that the editorial was more likely a matter of you being misinformed rather than any lack of due diligence on your part. While there is no doubt that Ann Ezop made a number of allegations regarding conduct of Housing Enforcement Specialist Robert Dutcher, the fact is, Mr. Dutcher specifically testified that he did not, does not and never has looked through the mail of student residents.