“Student engagement” is mentioned as an ASMSU goal every year. And, each year it is lost in the shuffle of events and falls to the bottom of the to-do list. By allowing this to happen, we lose our greatest resource — students.
I want to welcome you to a world where power and control have created truth. A world you already might know well. Where clashes over money and religion and society’s inner workings have created a global Hobbesian leviathan with ever-present epilepsy — a seizing giant of scattered information.
Now that ASMSU essentially has been forced to move its money to on-campus accounts, it’s clear MSU officials are using their power to impact MSU’s student government negatively.
President Barack Obama’s inclusive tone was part of his appeal to Independent voters in the 2008 presidential election. Obama referred to common causes such as energy independence as collaborative efforts that would need people of different parties to come together.
Higher education international programs should be just about the last sector to suffer federal funding cuts. In an increasingly globalized world, foreign relations absolutely are vital to successful American economic growth. College students, businesses and even government officials need to be trained in international language and culture.
ANGEL has been a hassle for most current MSU students at one point or another during their college careers. However, with news this week that a new alternative to ANGEL — Moodle — is being considered by the university, I began to think of a world without the frustrating foibles ANGEL often has provided.
When deciding how to allocate state funding to Michigan universities, legislators must take time to find factors that distibute appropriations in a fair way.
In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln, having led the nation through a year of bloody war, wrote, “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.”
It only was a few years ago as a college freshman that my classmates and I were outraged by the artfully depicted injustice in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” — a book commonly found on the reading list of most high school or college students. As part of the discussion, my professor posed the question, “Has slavery been abolished?”
It would make sense that, when a city council passes an ordinance, it would take effect relatively soon afterward. Oddly enough, that is not the case with East Lansing’s recently passed medical marijuana ordinance.
Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman on a major party ticket during the presidential election of 1984. She died two weeks ago, leaving behind the legacy of a shattered glass ceiling. In her obituary, The New York Times proclaimed she had “ended the men’s club of national politics.” Still, it took another 24 years for Sarah Palin to be next.
Students under the age of 21 sneaking, tricking and haggling their ways into bars should be no surprise in a college town. And last year’s 10 reported violations of bars serving underage and inebriated individuals seems low, if anything
Although last fall only was my first semester at MSU, I was as excited as anybody to watch our football team make a run at the Big Ten championship that included a third-consecutive win over Michigan.
This week marks the 150th anniversary of the shelling of Fort Sumter that began April 12, 1861, the event that started the American Civil War proper. This week’s Time Magazine cover story “The Way We Weren’t,” mentions some interesting facts about the collective memory of the war in the minds of the public.
The U.S. cannot “win the future” without footing the bill. Last week’s slapdash, shutdown-avoiding budget thankfully spared cuts to education and Pell grants in particular. But the future is not quite as bright.
Michigan’s government has hit students’ wallets with blow after blow. Officials have stressed the importance of students receiving higher education and yet have eliminated any measures that make such an education affordable and therefore attainable. They don’t seem to understand how much students need this help.
East Lansing never will be as vibrant and eclectic as New York City, but its new street vendor policy might be a small step in that direction. East Lansing City Council recently passed a resolution to allow local businesses to set up street vendors and sell merchandise.
Casinos always are buzzing. With flashing lights, rolling dice, clanging slot machines and laughing crowds, there is constant activity occurring inside a casino’s walls.
Yesterday’s State News front page was headlined with a story about an MSU/Lugnuts baseball game, a local homicide and a litter ordinance. A small header mentioned a story on page seven about a benefit concert.
In response to the March 20 burning of a Quran by a Florida pastor, riots have broken out in Afghanistan, leaving 22 dead so far. Among the dead are United Nations, or U.N., aid workers, rioters and Afghan police.