First Amendment still protects lies
Should lying be protected by the First Amendment? Claiming a military honor one actually did not receive is perhaps one of the lowest lies a person can tell, but does that make it criminal?
Should lying be protected by the First Amendment? Claiming a military honor one actually did not receive is perhaps one of the lowest lies a person can tell, but does that make it criminal?
Michigan’s new security improvements for state’s IDs might seem insignificant, but it’s something that needs to be done with some regularity.
Lisa Leppla was looking for something. After her freshman year, the special education junior felt as if she wasn’t contributing to the MSU community and began searching for volunteer work.
With ASMSU’s spring elections approaching, the organization is continuing to work with Denise Maybank and with the university to clear up all confusion regarding its frozen accounts. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government. Accounts have been frozen since March 14, when Maybank, vice president for Student Affairs and Services, issued a memo to ASMSU citing it for violating its constitution.
ASMSU officials are rebooting their efforts to push a medical amnesty bill through the Michigan Legislature. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government. The bill would offer protection for students under the legal drinking age from a minor in possession, or MIP, who voluntarily present themselves for treatment after overconsumption of alcohol, said Steve Marino, Student Assembly’s vice chairman for external affairs. “If I take in an incredible amount of alcohol and I’m really fearful for my life and I somehow make it to the hospital of my own accord and I’m the one initiating contact with them, that’s the only case that (the drinker) is exempt from an MIP,” Marino said. This bill, which will be introduced by Rep.
More Michigan products might soon be popping up on store shelves across Asia, Europe and South America with the help of a new partnership at MSU to promote exports from the mitten. MSU’s International Business Center has partnered with the U.S.
A 46-year-old female reported a woman, driving a 2000 Honda Civic, hit her car at 12:30 p.m. March 25 while it was parked in Lot 100, located east of the Clinical Center, MSU police Sgt.
On Tuesday, about 20 mentors and residents of Hubbard Hall competed to create functional objects using recycled household items that otherwise would be thrown away.
Students and residents who are fans of Mexican fast food might have to look elsewhere in East Lansing because of the recent closure of Señor Georgio’s.
It can be difficult to stay abreast of a conflict unfolding thousands of miles away in one’s homeland, but for Libyan MSU students with families near the front lines, it is life.
A team of MSU researchers is working to determine if an app for Apple products that aims to provide nonverbal children and adults with a voice is doing its job well.
When they’re not having rap battles and jamming together, economics junior Dan Ackerman and Austin Bowen, a telecommunication, information studies and media junior, are turning their passion for music into a business.
To discuss peaceful solutions through mediation, MSU’s Department of Resident Life and the School of Criminal Justice will host a restorative justice symposium today.
MSU has a long, unique history of collaboration among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups. Through the Campus Planning Coalition, leaders of the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, ASMSU and the Registered Student Organization, or RSO, LBGTA groups come together to discuss group events on campus and also to plan large-scale, campus-wide events such as Pride Week.
The American involvement in the international intervention in Libya is drawing a lot of negative attention. A Gallup Poll conducted last monday found only 47 percent of Americans approve of the military role the U.S. is playing in the campaign; 37 percent flat out disapprove.
Unfortunately for Michigan’s microbrew connoisseurs, the Michigan Liquor Control Commission, or MLCC, just isn’t buying the cleverness of Flying Dog Brewery’s Raging Bitch beer.
Extra notes from MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio’s Monday press conference.
MSU hosts struggling Central Michigan in first home game of the year.
The MSU gymnastics team rallied at the end of the season to improve its average score enough to qualify for NCAA regionals.
Hannah Pilarski said she never will look at bullying in the same way. Pilarski will perform music she wrote in “The Bullycide Project,” which debuts at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre. The performance focuses on the lives of 10 individuals who committed suicide due to bullying and was derived from “Bullycide in America,” a book written by mothers of students who took their lives.