Now that we have serious third-party challenges, we need an instant runoff ballot to avoid dilemmas like “spoiler,” “wasted vote” and winners by plurality.
Extensive reforms at national and local levels must be made to the election process.Tight elections across the country have caused close inspection of the election process, which has revealed discrepancies that have been ignored in landslide elections, but could have affected the outcome of several close races.
For English senior Naveen Singh, the film he and interdisciplinary humanities senior John Versical are working on is not a completely profound work of art fit to engage the intelligence of the audience.
Amidst controversy and accusations of problems at the polls, voter turnout this year met standards many expected.In a written statement, Michigan Secretary of State Candice Miller said Michigan’s overall voter turnout was close to 62 percent.
Members of Students for Economic Justice, a campus group devoted to battling for improved labor conditions in factories overseas, will paint the rock on Farm Lane tonight in an effort to spread knowledge about the anti-sweatshop movement.Adam Szlachetka, an SEJ member, said the rock painting goes hand-in-hand with the group’s efforts to get MSU into the Worker Rights Consortium, a labor monitoring organization that several universities, including the University of Michigan, belong to.
During the MSU-Purdue football game on Saturday, I found out why students and East Lansing police do not get along.
Riding on a six-game winning streak, the hockey team jumped from No. 4 to No. 1 in both the USA Today and U.S.
The male gender could be dwindling - at least on college campuses.English and theater education freshman Patti Wheeler has noticed the change, too.
Seven ASMSU representatives and a student activist will be traveling to Washington, D.C., today for a summit at the World Bank.
Boiler Room Can’t Breathe (Tommy Boy Music) Imagine Incubus’ little brother.
When Matthew Kurko first saw the Chicago-based band Bumpus last year at the now-closed Small Planet Food & Spirits, he was so impressed he decided to start a band with the sole purpose of opening for them. Kurko and his band, Funk Bucket, will have that opportunity when they open for the funky groovesters from the Windy City at 9:30 tonight at Rick’s American Café, 224 Abbott Road. “We formed this past summer and basically added members as we went on,” the business graduate student said.
MSU-Detroit College of Law knows that after the elections are finally decided, there will be certain effects on the U.S.
The voting problems some students faced last week have now become challenges to solve for future elections.Long lines and precinct misdirection were only a few of the nuisances students complained about on Election Day.
Republicans elected state Rep. Rick Johnson of LeRoy as the next speaker of the Michigan House on Tuesday. Johnson, who was elected to his second term in the House this month, will become the most powerful member of the legislative body and will preside over House sessions.
With help from Mother Earth, a giant polar bear and many volunteer hours, ECO worked this past semester to spread awareness of global warming.And in an effort to continue informing students about the issue as well as the United States’ position on the Kyoto Protocol, the campus environmentalist group’s work will be put to the ultimate test later this week.The group will officially announce Thursday that it is sending one of its members - an MSU student - to a United Nations summit in The Hague, Netherlands, on Friday.
Ruth Hubbard, a Harvard University professor emerita, will be visiting MSU on Thursday night. Hubbard, the first woman to be awarded a tenured biology professor position at the university, will be lecturing on “How the Genome Became the Book of Life.” The speech will be the third of five McPherson Professorship lectures - a series that MSUPresident M.
PRISM, a residence hall caucus group for lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgendered students living in South Complex, hopes to make allies of LBGT students more visible in residence halls. The group has initiated an Ally Sign campaign outside of cafeterias in South Complex halls.
East Lansing police Capt. Juli Liebler wants to make sure residents know the difference between real police uniforms and vehicles and those of a man posing as a police officer in the area.A female MSU student was stopped near Albert and M.A.C.
The notion that because Vice President Al Gore won the popular vote he should be elected to the presidency is an ignorant view.