During the past half century, the Western world has, for the most part, prided itself on its acceptance of foreigners coming to its shores and respective cultures. The United States has gone so far as to declare itself a melting pot, where its immigrants’ cultures have a chance to meld and blend.
Members of the MSU community should vote to re-elect Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Cliff Taylor this November. With most of the attention focused on the presidential election, few people will notice this important, nonpartisan position. However, voting for this “down ballot” office still is very important.
The economy of the United States took a stunning body blow Monday when storied Wall Street firms Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch both failed in different ways — Lehman Brothers Holding Inc. was forced to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch & Co. sold itself for pennies on the dollar to Bank of America Corp. — even as American International Group Inc. and Washington Mutual teetered on the brink of collapse.
Technology has gone too far. For more than a century, that’s been the cry of the luddites of the world. Yet even as modern society rejects the call to arms, it still seems to have struck enough of a chord to become a prevailing theme in our popular culture. The Fox network alone has two primetime shows centering around the theme.
Editor’s note: This letter was corrected to fix an error regarding MSU’s affiliation with Illinois’ Argonne National Laboratory. MSU is competing with Illinois’ Argonne National Laboratory to bring the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, to our campus.
After reading that the MSU Board of Trustees voted to tear down Morrill Hall in Trustees approve demolition of 108-year-old Morrill Hall (SN 9/15), I was deeply concerned.
Many MSU students remember their time in high school, counting down the days to graduation and planning their next stage in life. That’s how all of MSU’s students ended up here.
The relationship between politics and hip-hop has been an unsteady one to say the least. You can draw parallels between it and a family reunion — politics being the well-to-do success story families rave about, while hip-hop settles into a role of the talented yet troubled youth whose potential is squandered by several character flaws.
MSU prides itself on being integrated among American students and having one of the largest international student populations among U.S. universities. But how integrated are we?
Misdeeds in a politician’s private life can be bothersome, but not as bothersome as when that politician is hypocritical about them. For example, I don’t believe I have a double standard when I say I’m angrier with the typical Republican when he or she has a sex scandal than when the typical Democrat does.
Thank you for publishing Alice Dreger’s recent letter regarding bicycle-motorist issues, E.L. bikers deserve more respect from city, motorists (SN 9/9).
The second biggest cliché charging political pep talks (behind unqualified belches to vote) is preaching that citizens “get informed.” The only difference in the following argument is that I’m not asking. I’m telling.
For any experienced MSU student, it’s not exactly an unusual experience. A class is going on just like normal when the conversation suddenly takes a turn toward the political arena.
In response to the letter Classroom not forum for professors’ political ideas (SN 9/9), the writer incorrectly assumes that healthy political debate between students and professors will negatively affect their grade in the class and should be somehow disallowed due to the university’s position receiving taxpayer money.
For many people, today’s morning sun brought with it a sense of dread and loss — the same sense it has brought every year for seven years. Odds are good that most Americans will pause at some point today and reflect on where they were when they heard the news that fateful day the nation was attacked.
The Republican Party is commencing its campaign smokescreen, only this year it wears lipstick and high heels. This isn’t me stereotyping or belittling Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at all.
The topic of Republican presidential nominee John McCain came up in my American studies class today. I found it amazing that in a class with absolutely no political background my teacher still found it appropriate to reserve the last half-hour to explain to us why McCain’s vice presidential pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was racist, and why her supporters were chasing a dream of white, 1950s America.
I think I’m already sick of this presidential election. Turning on the TV two months before election day, I’m already finding the airwaves swamped with political ads. Newspaper headlines are dominated by what the campaigns are doing — with The State News as guilty as the rest.
The issue of campus security is consistently on the minds of university administrators, bringing up the question of how to most efficiently alert students. Last year, MSU initiated a system that would alert students of emergencies via text message. Now they are looking for additional ways to bring emergencies to the immediate attention of students.
Even with the renewed push for green energy, the idea of the average home having its very own wind turbine seems straight out of science fiction. It might be time to drop the “fiction” part.