There are a lot of things scientists can connect, and smoking and suicide are apparently two of them. According to a decade-long research project at MSU, researchers have found a link between smoking and suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
When choosing between fair trade coffee or normal, the answer should be as predictable as, "regular or decaf?" The answer is fair trade. Although many people like specialty flavors and brews, there is equity to consider in every coffee purchase.
It can be hard for some people to get rid of e-mails, but some messages, such as notes from your mother about what your dog had for dinner last night, should generally be deleted from an inbox. ASMSU representatives want the quotas for e-mail accounts and file storage space be doubled.
Tiny and harmless looking, their simple nature causes some to callously regard prescription drugs as "just pills." Perhaps it is society's repeated use of them whenever a sneeze or sniffle appears that makes it seem as though they can't be abused.
Wouldn't it be nice to get a chunk of $14 million that belonged to a former German property magnate who went down in a plane crash in the year 2000?
It's all about heart, and the MSU men's basketball team doesn't seem to have it. Its counterpart, the MSU women's basketball team, does.
A photo on Page One of Thursday's edition of The State News depicted a situation that many probably view as undesirable.
You probably felt pretty grown-up at 16 or 17. Perhaps you even thought you knew everything. Given what you know now, maybe you realize how short-sighted you were.
Two e-mails sent out by the Izzone student section directors on Monday changed the policy they adamantly stuck to all season. The first e-mail opened up the lower-bowl seats to any Izzone ticket holders, lower bowl or upper bowl, on a first-come, first-serve basis for Saturday's basketball game.
You know the moment you've had too much to drink. It's the moment where everything begins to feel more dazed than funny - as if those two things could be interchanged.
There's an NCAA commercial that pops up every now and again during college sports broadcasts. The ad shows a wide variety of student athletes who play a wide variety of sports.
If one recent report has it right, HIV-infected teens are taking some scary risks these days. A study conducted at the University of California, Los Angeles Center For Community Health found that the advent of powerful AIDS-delaying medicines has caused HIV-infected teenagers to increase the chances they are taking when engaging in risky sex and drug use. Since the 1996 introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapies, or HAART, which fight the transition from HIV to AIDS, young people have come to see HIV as a disease they can live with.
Animal science Professor Sam Varghese's return to the university after assisting tsunami victims in India should boost efforts here.
On the same day the story of family mourning 1st Lt. Adam Malson, a 2003 MSU graduate slain while serving in Iraq, was shared, 125 people were killed in Iraq by an insurgent suicide bomber in the single deadliest terror attack of the Iraq war. We know a great deal about Malson.
The Academic Senate met Friday to discuss university issues that affect faculty members. I was the body's first meeting since April, when 700 senate members convened for the first time in eight years. The Senate failed to reach a quorum, making it impossible for anything beyond discussion to take place.
Although affirmative action might be helping black students and other minorities get in to institutions of higher learning, it isn't necessarily keeping them there. For a variety of reasons, less than half of black students in the nation aren't making it through college.
Chalk one up for the MSU women's basketball team. With at least a share of the Big Ten Championship under their belts, the Spartans head to Indianapolis March 4 to compete in the Big Ten Tournament.
The "Where do we put our trash?" dilemma faced by U.S. states and Canadian provinces is a game where the outcome is always undesirable for someone.
Can you hear the sound of taps playing lightly in the background? Wave good-bye to the campus movie channel. At the end of the school year, Channel 12, which broadcasts free movies and student-produced programming to MSU's campus and surrounding cities, will go off the air.
The 23 undergraduate halls, one graduate hall and three apartment villages at MSU have racked up a hefty yearly maintenance bill. The university has spent about $11.5 million a year during the last 10 years to maintain the nation's largest residence hall system.