It’s almost that time of year again — after four months of barely glancing at that $100 microeconomics textbook, you take it back to the bookstore to sell it back for a few bucks.
Fifty million users, one CEO, two objectives. Since Facebook.com’s launch in 2004, the social network has undergone a series of face-lifts. Once upon a time the site was simply a convenient way to communicate with friends. Now gifts and applications have helped to turn Facebook into a highly profitable business.
Almost a year after Michigan passed Proposal 2, known as the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, people still aren’t sure how MSU and other universities in the state will be affected.
Finding parking downtown could become a little bit easier very soon — if the City Council approves a proposal to add 45 spaces to the 76-space parking lot on the southwest corner of Albert Avenue and Bailey Street, that is.
The Federal Communications Commission passed a rule last week that banned exclusive contracts between cable providers and apartment building owners.
Even when MSU’s Young Americans for Freedom officials don’t talk, they make news. This time, they’re remaining mum about how they fund their notoriously controversial speakers, who have included British National Party Chairman Nick Griffin and Minuteman Civil Defense Corp. president and co-founder Chris Simcox.
There probably aren’t many people — if any — who enjoy phone calls from telemarketers. The calls always seem to come at a bad time and usually they’re pushing a product on us that we just don’t want.
In what could be a potential blow to the Clinton presidential campaign’s credibility, a Hillary Clinton campaign staffer was caught planting questions during a public question-and-answer session — not once but twice since April.
The results are in, and we’ve all had a little time to adjust to the changes to the East Lansing City Council. Fresh, new faces will replace an incumbent and the mayor. Nathan Triplett, who received 26.8 percent of the vote, is a legislative aid in the Michigan House of Representatives. At 24 years old, he’ll be the youngest person on the council, and he’s a former MSU student.
ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, spent more than $12,000 on new fixings for the organization’s offices and some students believe the organization is using student-generated funds irresponsibly.
As members of the Writers Guild of America step away from their computers and out to the picket lines, we’re forced to face the reality of life without television and film writers — that is, a life of reality TV. That’s right, as the “The Daily Show” airs reruns, Fox is gearing up to run “American Idol” for six of the 15 hours the network has to fill every week.
It’s been said so many times every October and November throughout the years that its meaning has probably been irrecoverably diluted, but that still doesn’t change the importance of the phrase “Get out and vote.”
As Tuesday’s election draws near, three seats on the East Lansing City Council are left to be filled. The State News Editorial Board interviewed three of the four candidates — incumbent Diane Goddeeris could not be reached — and is prepared to endorse three individuals to fill the empty seats. Candidates qualified for these positions are challengers Nathan Triplett and Roger Peters, and incumbent Beverly Baten.
Even though Halloween was right around the corner, no one was prepared for the real scare that happened Tuesday in Berkey Hall.
The Michigan Supreme Court will hear arguments next week involving whether or not public employers can legally offer domestic partner benefits in a case that will set the tone for years to come regarding how people receive and share benefits.
After a brutal 9.6 percent increase in this year’s tuition, the MSU Board of Trustees announced Friday they’ll be giving each student about $60 back. That’s great, but in the grand scheme of things, will it really make that much of a difference? It seems like just a drop in the bucket when looking at the bigger picture.
Since the moment the federal government and the national media realized the spreading San Diego wildfires were reaching natural-disaster scale, the comparisons to Hurricane Katrina began rolling in. The disaster relief and government response was markedly better in California for a number of reasons, but the two disasters are different in so many ways it is irresponsible to compare the two.
Protesters once again gave MSU Young Americans for Freedom, or YAF, exactly what they wanted Friday when they showed up and angrily tried to drown out the message of the student organization’s speaker — British National Party chairman Nick Griffin.
Some people think two ASMSU student representatives sitting on seven of the university’s 20 committees with student seats hold a monopoly on student influence at MSU. But the two students said they want to see more student involvement, and if they weren’t there, no students would sit on such committees.
The State News editorial board would like to announce that we’re officially considering unofficially endorsing Stephen Colbert as the next president of the United States of America.