The strong influence of religion on President Bush is well-known, but it still is a surprise that he recently advocated the teaching of intelligent design alongside evolution in public schools.
After Saturday's Walk To Cure Diabetes on campus, walk organizer Tom Brennan owes Karen Breen a bottle of wine. Breen, executive director of the Detroit chapter of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, or JDRF, bet Brennan a bottle of wine that donations would break $50,000 and won handily when Brennan announced Saturday afternoon that the walk had raised $75,000. The walk, which benefited the international JDRF, kicked off from Ralph Young Field, west of Spartan Stadium, and covered 1.5 miles through campus, featuring head football coach John L.
The new ticket policy is absolutely ridiculous. I bought season football tickets during each of the four years that I was an MSU student.
The last letter I wrote was not intended to insult anyone or trivialize their lifestyle, nor was it an attempt at humor ("Bible says all sin is equal in God's eyes" SN 7/28). Ruben Garza has responded as saying that my comments support the faulty logic that leads to the persecution of homosexuals ("Being gay doesn't equate to all sins" SN 8/1). Garza severely misinterpreted my message. I join Garza in being outraged at the mistreatment and limited rights that homosexuals receive.
I'm a semi-regular reader of The State News. Your columnist John Bice has a narrow mind and an agenda, proving it many times in the article "Homosexuality as a sin one more example of Bible's primitiveness" (SN 8/1). First he uses Bertrand Russell, an atheist, as a reference without an opposing view.
When the MSU Board of Trustees voted July 21 to hike tuition for the 2005-06 academic school year, all but one board member approved.
I need to clear something up. There's a rather common misconception I've become aware of via e-mail and word of mouth.
Sparty has arrived on campus, but he doesn't have a place to go. Four days away from the original completion deadline, the Kalamazoo Street, Red Cedar Road and Chestnut Road intersection is still dug up, unpaved and without the bronze Sparty statue, which arrived Tuesday. The roads, originally expected to accommodate traffic by Friday, will now open by Aug.
In sub-Saharan Africa, it's common for a person to contract malaria as many as five times a year. The disease is so common, medical students in Malawi find it boring, said Dr. Terrie Taylor, an MSU professor who is considered one of the world's leading researchers on malaria in children.
After nearly three months of meetings, the independent commission reviewing the April 2-3 disturbances has not reached a conclusion as to what happened that night. The direction the group is heading is unclear, some members said.
The MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine is lending a hand to cover impoverished children's feet. Heart and Sole is a project that collects moderately worn and new shoes for needy people around the world, project organizer and College of Osteopathic Medicine Graphic Designer Ann Cook said. She said the project started in 1999 after a secretary who returned from a trip to Malawi in Africa recalled the children's desperation. "When she went to the streets to buy trinkets, the kids would do anything for shoes," Cook said. Currently Heart and Sole is collecting tennis shoes and school shoes.
Thousands cheered as they watched community members, from high school marching bands to government officials, march in downtown Lansing on Saturday in the sixth annual African American Parade and Family Heritage Picnic. Hosted by the Capital City African American Cultural Association Inc., this years' parade theme focused on diversity and the celebration of family heritage, said Micheal McFadden, event marketer and broadcast radio personality for WWSJ (1580-AM). "Family heritage is important, and whatever your ethnicity is, you should get excited about discovering your family history," he said. The Lansing Area African American Genealogical Society, or LAAAGS, had an informational tent that offered genealogy information. Mary Agnes Lipscomb, president and co-founder of the society, said the primary focus is to assist black people in researching family history. "This is very important because we need to know where we've been in order to plan where we are going," she said. Lipscomb said sometimes it can be hard to trace family history. "Our history wasn't always written down, and many relatives don't want to discuss the past either," she said.
After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, nearly everybody, regardless of political bent, acknowledged that terrorism is a problem the United States must deal with.
Sparty has arrived on campus but doesn't have a place to go. Four days away from the original completion deadline and the Kalamazoo Street, Red Cedar Road and Chestnut Road intersection is still dug up, unpaved and without the bronze Sparty statue, which arrived Tuesday. The road, expected to accommodate traffic by Aug.
As summer winds down for John Fournier, his campaign for a seat on East Lansing's City Council is just beginning to start. The political theory and constitutional democracy senior said he's been busy finishing up his paperwork to enter his name into the race and expects to have it submitted by Wednesday. Fournier has until 5 p.m.
Last year the annual African American Parade and Family Heritage Picnic attracted more than 15,000 people, state Rep.
As John Bice wrote in "Homosexuality as a sin one more example of Bible's primitiveness" (SN 8/1), religious conflicts do often arise based upon one's exegesis of Biblical texts (the task of drawing, but not reading in, and applying the author's intended meaning). Unfortunately, Bice fails miserably by demonstrating his own lack of Biblical knowledge and exegetical methodology.
On Tuesday, President Bush signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement bill, or CAFTA. The bill had passed Congress by a narrow margin. This agreement between Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic will create a free trade zone similar to the one created by the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA.
The ongoing war between the city of East Lansing and student housing has reached yet another childish obstruction.
It looks like the MSU's athletics department is screwing things up again. Mark Hollis, thanks for giving returning students a "welcome back gift." Also, "brilliant" job not telling students. A lot of students do sell their tickets for profit and for those people who buy them and are denied entry because they do not have an MSU student ID, it will be a black eye for the department and the university. Mr. Hollis, thanks for dropping the ball. Martin Schaupner 2001 graduate