Callie David was in her Thursday morning class when she felt the ground shake and heard a loud boom outside her University of London classroom. On her study abroad trip in London, the kinesiology junior unexpectedly witnessed a major event when the city fell victim to four terrorist bombings on July 7.
I was extremely disappointed after reading John Knowles' column "Opposition is trendy, but Iraq war is justified, more popular than most" (SN 9/13.) He really has no clue why the Iraq war is so wrong. This war is not about oil, as he says the media tries to tell us.
There are about 264 more students walking MSU's campus this year. In a preliminary enrollment report presented at Friday's MSU Board of Trustees meeting, expected enrollment has increased from 44,836 to about 45,100. "It is striking that MSU continues to be such an appealing destination for students," Provost Kim Wilcox said. Wilcox presented the enrollment numbers to the board, commenting on how a greater number of incoming students accepted the offer of admission this year. The report also showed that part of the increase is due to a higher number of graduate students coming to MSU. "A master's degree is becoming more and more the norm for a really good career, particularly in a knowledge economy," said Karen Klomparens, dean of The Graduate School.
With everyone's attention focused appropriately on the relief effort on the Gulf Coast, the president is trying to pull a fast one behind our backs.
Dear Dr. D, I'm on the computer again! Some days I find I haven't moved from the screen for three or four hours at a time.
Beside an illuminated crimson and gold cross, Margie Osborn stood in silence, covered in hands. Her head was bowed, her eyes were closed and her lips were curved into a slight, but steadfast smile. All around her, friends, family and parishioners reached out, covering the 54-year-old woman's shoulders, back and arms with their grip.
By Laura Collins | The State News Dave Hamman balanced on the edge of a flimsy canvas wall as dozens of African water buffalo stampeded past him.
Fraternity members don't think a weekend fight, during which a member was hit with a glass beer bottle in the neck, will negatively impact Recruitment Week. "I'm sure there's going to be people with inquiries about it," said Matt Zmijewski, president of Beta Theta Pi where the incident took place.
John Matthew Knowles' column "Opposition is trendy, but Iraq war is justified, more popular than most" (SN 9/13) highlights his lack of respect for other people's lives and their freedoms. While he rightly condemns Saddam Hussein's brutal oppression of the Iraqi people, he ignores that it was the similar ideological conflicts against Shi'a Iran and socialist countries, sold to the American people on half-truths and xenophobia, that provided for Hussein to be armed and supported with the chemical weapons that allowed these crimes to happen. Once again, we are told that we ought to support this war against evil terrorists, and ignore any voices of dissent that sometimes squeak through in the American mass media. How can one claiming to speak for freedom and democracy so callously talk of "pointless dwelling on events in Abu Ghraib." This is about thousands of people tortured, raped and sometimes murdered in prisons that are ultimately under the authority of the American-supported government. Yasir Suhail 2005 graduate
Somewhere in the bowels of the Metro concert hall in the heart of Wrigleyville on the North side of Chicago, Coheed and Cambria's lead singer and guitarist Claudio Sanchez emerges from a backstage hangout, the laughter of his bandmates echoing behind him.
Voters need to decide if they are willing to commit to the same legislator for 14 years. A long-term legislator might be preferable to some citizens, but it might also limit potential government leaders.
An Oak Park man was arraigned in connection to a shooting on campus that has some worried about the influx of non-students causing problems. Mario Deshun Williams was arraigned on charges of carrying a concealed weapon and a controlled substance, marijuana, on Sunday in Lansing's 54-A District Court. The 20-year-old was arrested by MSU police officers in relation to the double shooting outside Fee Hall early Saturday morning that injured two men. People from other communities could see MSU as an easy target, MSU police Sgt.
The Capital Area Transportation Authority was awarded $1,435,833 by the U.S. Department of Transportation Tuesday.
There are few heartbreaks more thoroughly chronicled in the annals of popular music than the painful breakup.
This is a great time of year to be a sports fan. Baseball is heading into the playoffs with tight races.
This summer, I had the amazing opportunity to instruct a critical thinking and current events class for the Kings-Chavez-Parks, or KCP, program.
It's true. Hurricanes are now fiercer than before because of the Earth's climate change, and Americans can, and need to, help. A new study released last week in the journal "Science" showed evidence that the average number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes increased from 10 per year in the 1970s to 18 each year after 1990, with average tropical sea surface temperatures increasing as much as 1 degree Fahrenheit in that same time. This evidence correlates with the idea that global warming might be the cause of increased devastation from hurricanes. We've got the proof.
A Lansing woman who has run for several political offices was featured on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" last week because of her gender experiences. Melissa Sue Robinson, who is transgender and was born male, said she was asked to take part in a special segment on identical twins who have sex changes by a producer of the show. "Somehow they found out about me," she said.