With the imminent closing of Barnes and Noble Booksellers at 333 E. Grand River Ave., residents and students can’t help but begin to worry about how downtown East Lansing will soon look. As city officials work to fill that hole, they should consider smaller businesses.
Most students would frown upon decreasing the number of days in winter break, but adding those days to a weekend in October might be worth the sacrifice. The fall break university officials have been considering could prove to be beneficial to students and their study habits.Research has proven that for optimal memory retention, sleep is a necessity.
A new state law aimed at irresponsible keg use likely won’t do much to curb the problem of underage drinking. The law requires the keg buyer to attach his or her name and information to the keg as of Nov.
A lack of dialogue between students and the city could sour the relationship. There has to be balance. The next manager has to stay tough enough on student residents that permanent residents are satisfied. He or she also must understand the student perspective well enough to attract students to live in East Lansing.
Adding unnecessary, unwarranted bureaucracy for public universities is just another day for the state government.A bill was introduced in the Michigan House last month to create a single 11-person board to assess the efficiency of state universities. The bill primarily is sponsored by State Rep.
As college students live away from home for the first time, they might choose to make more adult decisions, such as becoming sexually active. Young people generally understand some of the unintended consequences of sex, such as unwanted pregnancies and HIV.
The image of the college student doing homework in the library with a mountain of books in front of them might soon disappear. This week, the Oxford University Press launched a database of academic works exclusively for e-readers.
It’s sad to say, but racism, sexism and homophobia still exist in this country and on this campus.
Forget speed dating, blind dates or eHarmony.com. Students who are set to graduate in the spring should look at another matchmaking service: Venture for America.
The stereotypical view of a college student is they are either out downing shots all the time or they are clinging to their religion, rattling off Bible passages at the mention of sin.
ASMSU is working its way back into MSU’s collective consciousness by launching its new, more student-friendly website. The organization deserves credit for realizing it wasn’t doing an effective job of communicating with the students it represents and taking steps to remedy that situation. By enunciating the services it provides for students through the website, ASMSU is proving its worth to students.
Despite many barriers preventing a more diverse campus, officials should constantly be striving to diversify MSU.
Voting organizations wish young adults would say, “OMG, like, Obama just tweeted at me to go out and vote, and, like, I can’t wait to now.” Unfortunately, that reaction only happens in their dreams. Interest in voting doesn’t stem from any politician telling youth to go out and vote — it stems from friendships and family.
Apathy, unfortunately, has become the status quo for millennials. It’s true this is not the 1960s and the time of Civil Rights protests, or the 1970s and protests of the Vietnam War. Those protests were social events that changed the course of our nation. That doesn’t mean there aren’t issues going on in America that should concern students to the point of peaceful protest.
There were bullies before the Internet. But the advent of social networks and online anonymity is making it easier for students to be bullied. According to a recent poll by The Associated Press and MTV, 71 percent of participants 14-24 years old believe slurs are more common digitally than in person. Younger people don’t realize the potential ramifications of bullying on the Internet, and that might explain the rise of bullying online. In this day and age, more and more of our everyday communication is digital.
Students can’t make it from one class to another without encountering new construction and expansion by MSU, but every expansion isn’t laid out with students in mind.
MSU officials and state lawmakers are once again playing the blame game with state funding. Around and around the blame will go, and no matter where it stops, students will lose. Last week, House Republicans introduced a bill that would take $18 million in state funding from MSU.
If the university is seeing a rather constant increase in the student population each year, the MSU police and the university should be prepared for possible bicycle thefts on campus.
Today, the U.S. military policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” or “DADT,” ended with a whimper for most of America’s youth, instead of a bang.
Last week, ASMSU did something that will benefit students in a tangible way. ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, announced the cancellation of its annual retreat in favor of investing the $5,000 in a mobile application. The potential app would track the location of Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, buses and would be based on an similar app used by Indiana University. This editorial board has been critical of ASMSU’s actions in the past — with good reason.