No speech, especially speech deemed offensive, should be silenced through coercion or intimidation. Its message must be allowed to succeed or fail based on its own merits. If that kind of speech legally can be silenced, then there is risk of a universal silence.
What does 25 feet mean? Is it how far we’ve walked to the cafeteria before remembering the ID left behind in our room? Is it the distance when we realize we’re higher off the ground than we originally thought? Or is it the length of the mythical sea creature haunting our dreams?
Ann Arbor businessman and Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder seems to have charmed potential voters with his outsider appeal. In the latest poll released by Lansing-based polling firm EPIC-MRA, Snyder has 53 percent of the vote and the Democratic candidate, Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero, has 29 percent. The reasons for the separation stemmed in part from Snyder’s business experience.
A new federal financial aid policy will require students to enter a university-conducted appeal process to maintain their financial aid benefits if their GPA drops below a 2.0. Several hundred MSU students are expected to be affected by this change, said Rick Shipman, Director of the Office of Financial Aid.
Republican gubernatorial candidate and Ann Arbor businessman Rick Snyder and Democratic candidate Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero will participate in a debate at 7 p.m. Oct. 10 in Wixom, a city northwest of Detroit, according to their campaigns.
ASMSU chairs expressed their excitement for the group’s upcoming fall higher education rally at Academic Assembly’s Tuesday night meeting.
A report listing MSU as one of the top 25 schools with “big gaps” between retention rates of white students and non-white students, has led MSU officials and student groups to look into ways to create change. MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon stressed reducing the gap as one of her main priorities at the start of the semester.
Sophomore tight end Dion Sims has been suspended from team-related activities following charges of receiving and concealing stolen property, MSU Athletics said in a statement released Tuesday. The incident involved eight other men, including Lyman Briggs sophomore Nicholas Tisdale, the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office announced Tuesday.
Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III will not seek charges against the suspect who allegedly burned an Quran in front of the Islamic Center of Greater Lansing. Dunnings said there was no criminal offense he could charge under Michigan law for the incident, in which a burnt cover of the Quran was found outside the front door of the building.
As MSU head coach Mark Dantonio recovers at home from his Sunday heart attack, many people in the college football world are discussing the stress that comes with coaching a major college football program.
Several Notre Dame fans allegedly assaulted a 21-year-old male after MSU defeated Notre Dame in a football game, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
A proposal to formalize a decades-old program devoted to providing adult day care services to local residents was approved at East Lansing City Council’s Tuesday night meeting in the Union’s Gold Room A and B.
Six different faiths came together Tuesday night for “Voices of Faith and Reason: Pathways to Peace,” an interfaith celebration of the International Day of Peace. The event, sponsored by the Shalom Center for Justice & Peace, 215 N. Capitol Ave., and the MSU Campus Interfaith Council, included speakers representing Baha’i, Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Muslims and secular humanists. Each representative spoke on their approach to peace and their traditions’ perspectives.
Michael Nyika was depositing his paycheck at the Union last Monday when he spotted a man working on a gray machine Nyika had never seen before. His curiosity was piqued. The foreign machine was a Laptops Anytime kiosk, a station that holds eight 15.4 inch Dell laptops and six 10.1 inch Dell Netbooks that are available for students, staff or campus visitors to rent starting at $1 for the first half hour, and $3.95 for each additional hour for students and $7.95 for non-students.
When East Lansing City Councilmember Nathan Triplett was bullied as a high school student in Portage, Mich., it started a fire in him to fight against bullies across the state. Triplett was assaulted with a textbook in his high school’s locker room, knocking him unconscious. “The school’s response was ‘Boys will be boys’,” he said.
The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday not to open debate on military spending authorization bill that included amendments on the controversial DREAM Act and “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal. In order to reach discussion, and thereby a final vote, the Senate required 60 favorable votes, a three-fifths majority.
When the No. 25 MSU football team takes on Northern Colorado at noon Saturday at Spartan Stadium, offensive coordinator Don Treadwell won’t be assuming his usual seat in the coaches’ box.
With the Big Ten Conference opener against Northwestern looming on Sunday, the No. 15 MSU men’s soccer team is looking to tie up some loose ends when it plays Duquesne on Wednesday in Pittsburgh.
During a season in which it has often struggled to score goals, the No. 7 MSU field hockey team has been able to count on keeping goals out of the net thanks to redshirt freshman goalkeeper Molly Cassidy.
The MSU men’s golf team finished 12th at the 17th annual Adams Cup of Newport on Tuesday at Newport National Golf Club in Newport, R.I.