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Poll finds dissatisfaction with msu.edu

Slightly less than half of MSU students, faculty and staff reported they were more than satisfied with the university’s official website, according to the 2011 MSU Internet Use and Opinion Survey results released last week.

MSU

LBGT goes overseas with new program

For the first time this summer, MSU will be offering study abroad dealing with issues of sexual orientation and gender identity, the first study abroad to focus on these issues in the university’s history.

COMMENTARY

Professor’s work not pornography

The State News recently published a story about a retiring photography professor, Professor Danny Guthrie and his latest project photographing himself with his current and former students as well as his colleagues. Guthrie specifically comments on these photos, “(The photographs are) about my loss of youth and impending doom,” he said. “Once you give up when you get older, you don’t live in a sexual arena anymore.” This quote, however, did not protect him from attacks from faculty as well as students — specifically Mitch Goldsmith, who wrote a scathing column painting Guthrie as a sick older professor exploiting his students — somehow intimidating or forcing his female students to pose with him.

COMMENTARY

Discriminatory bills need to be stopped

When confronted recently with issues of racial discrimination, MSU students and officials agreed to work together to make campus a comfortable environment for all. State Representatives must have missed that lesson because a series of bills that appear to encourage discrimination now are making their way through the legislative process.

Josh Sidorowicz ·
NEWS

Signing on the line

When psychology sophomore Elena Brennan scribbled her signature on a lease for a house in East Lansing late last week, she was more relieved than anything.

NEWS

City Council to vote on LBGT bill resolution

East Lansing landlords and employers might obtain the ability to openly and legally discriminate against students and members of the LBGT community if a recently introduced bill gains enough support from Michigan lawmakers.

NEWS

Police Brief 10/18/11

A 26-year-old male student reported $1,900 worth of vandalism to his car between 2:30 p.m. Oct. 10 and 6:30 a.m. Oct. 11, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.