Here we are, five years later. It was on March 19, 2003, that President Bush ordered U.S. troops to invade Iraq under the pretense that former dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime possessed weapons of mass destruction. As the years went on, so did the reports of successes and failures, bombings and casualties.
If the Final Four were determined academically, things might be dramatically different, according to a new study from the University of Florida’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport.
Well, well, well. Now the Democrats might need Michigan’s help. Our state and Florida — the only states punished by the Democratic National Committee for holding primaries before Feb. 5 — could be the tiebreaker for the now closely matched Democratic contenders, Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill.
Things are looking bleak once again for ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government. Nigel Scarlett, ASMSU vice chairperson for external affairs, was arrested last week and charged with third-degree criminal sexual assault.
Throw around as many Michigan Open Meetings Act exemptions as you’d like. It doesn’t make the MSU Board of Trustees’ actions any less dastardly.
The Graduate Employees Union and MSU are in closed negotiations for a contract to replace the one that expires May 15. Although neither side has released its full bargaining platform to the media, it’s apparent that struggles in the bargaining process have kept both sides unsatisfied.
OK, here’s the deal. When someone asks for input, there’s an expectation that it will be used when making decisions. But when decisions seem to be made already, input has little impact.
Even the Vatican has gone green. Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti, the Roman Catholic Church’s secondary authority on sins and penance, listed “ecological” offenses along with genetic manipulation and drug use as modern sins in an interview last week with a Vatican City newspaper.
President Bush’s veto of a bill banning waterboarding last week emphasized the flexible morals and hypocrisy of his administration. Bush said Saturday that he vetoed the legislation — which would limit CIA interrogations to the 19 techniques permitted in the Army Field Manual — because it would ban practices that have prevented attacks.
Resign. Any way you look at it, there’s no bouncing back from the onslaught of scandals involving Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Sex, money, corruption — it’s all there and it’s made national news.
Looking back on it now, there’s a rosy nostalgia attached to a student’s first few days at MSU. Often forgotten — or repressed — are the actual overwhelming and difficult experiences newcomers face.
No one would consider giving honors to a ruthless violator of human rights. But that’s the position in which MSU has been placed. One of the university’s honorary degrees is held by Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe — a man who is thought to have killed a number of innocent citizens in his own country.
A 28-mile stretch of the U.S. border seems to have become our government’s latest “shiny object” — distracting both lawmakers and citizens from the underlying immigration issue. The stretch of land in the Southwest has been the testing ground for a virtual fence intended to improve border security while reducing personnel.
Before the “war on terrorism,” there was the “war on drugs.” While the former continues to receive more and more funding, the latter is sinking further down the priority list. Funding for the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant — a federal program that supplements state and local governments’ law enforcement efforts and prevention and treatment programs — was reduced from $520 million to $170 million this January.
Even for people who haven’t lived in the area long, there seems to be an obvious exodus of local businesses. And spaces recently vacated by Ria Malaysian Restaurant, 321 E. Grand River Ave., and Burger Down, 529 E. Grand River Ave., remain vacant.
The MSU College of Law has done it yet again. Yet another scandal has broke as word came out that the possible hiring of a law school dean candidate might be a conflict of interest.
It shouldn’t take another full-scale genocide to pay attention. And the current administration shouldn’t take all the time in the world to do the right thing — especially when it comes to Kenya and Darfur. Africa has had its fair share of bloodshed and violence, especially along the eastern portion of the continent where Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia and Sudan are located.
If superdelegates could shoot laser beams out of their eyes, run really fast or fly, things might be different. But apparently few people have heard of them until now. They’ve come under close scrutiny at a time when they could have a definitive say in who will officially be the Democratic Party’s 2008 presidential nominee.
Serbia and Russia stood around like pouting big brothers Sunday as Kosovo declared its independence. Kosovo, which was a province of Serbia, has a high concentration of ethnic Albanians, and has been under U.N. and NATO administration since the end of a war there in 1999.
At a time of year when most college students are busy planning their spring break getaways or cramming for midterms, Thursday’s Northern Illinois University campus shooting had a way of making everyone pause, take a short breath and wonder: Could this ever happen here?