Michigan and its residents are facing a difficult time. Unemployment is close to an abysmal rate of 8 percent, the budget in Michigan is currently facing a 1.75 billion shortfall, and more than one million Michigan residents do not have health care insurance.
In June, the U.S. Senate passed an energy legislation package requiring the first significant upgrade to the nation’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE efficiency standards for cars since 1975.
I am writing in regard to the article Dalai Lama honor brings problem to light (SN 10/28) by Liz Kersjes.
It has claimed 200,000-400,000 lives. It has displaced millions. It has tortured countless millions more. And it continues to this very day — with no end in sight.
After a brutal 9.6 percent increase in this year’s tuition, the MSU Board of Trustees announced Friday they’ll be giving each student about $60 back. That’s great, but in the grand scheme of things, will it really make that much of a difference? It seems like just a drop in the bucket when looking at the bigger picture.
I read a Lansing State Journal article titled Protesters shout down anti-Islam speaker at MSU (originally published online Saturday) about how protesters once again disrupted a speaker on campus because they don’t like what the speaker has to say.
Much has been made of the similarities between Iraq and Vietnam, both by anti-war proponents and, more recently, by the Bush administration. At the surface, they are certainly compelling. Both were a thinly veiled attempt at imperialism that ended with the superpower at the mercy of the guerilla; both resulted in bloody chaos once the superpower left.
Many liberals and conservatives use Martin Luther King Jr., or MLK, as the epitome of color-blind ideology. In fact, those same conservatives and liberals reference MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech so much that it is a wonder why he is so revered. In addition, MLK is used by those against affirmative action as a tool to discredit the entire black liberation struggle from the conception of this so-called democratic country.
Since the moment the federal government and the national media realized the spreading San Diego wildfires were reaching natural-disaster scale, the comparisons to Hurricane Katrina began rolling in. The disaster relief and government response was markedly better in California for a number of reasons, but the two disasters are different in so many ways it is irresponsible to compare the two.
Nick Griffin, the controversial British politician, and his speech on our campus Friday are matters of grave concern. While we respect the First Amendment and right to free speech, Mr. Griffin goes against some of the very basic principles that are at the core of MSU.
Who would have guessed it would take a foreign religion to bring the Democratic-run Legislature and President Bush together? Not me, but it happened in one of the most positive political moves of the Bush administration yet.
I agreed with most of Michael Stevenson’s column Blackwater USA actions alarming (SN 10/25), and I’d like to add one of my concerns. He argues that history has shown the fallacy of hiring mercenaries, but these aren’t the mercenaries of Rome — they’re worse. Blackwater represents a privatization of the military, a concept that doesn’t exist prior to capitalism.
Protesters once again gave MSU Young Americans for Freedom, or YAF, exactly what they wanted Friday when they showed up and angrily tried to drown out the message of the student organization’s speaker — British National Party chairman Nick Griffin.
I loved the article Eating raw for better health (SN 10/22). Raw food definitely has become more popular in this country with various renowned raw foodists/authors traveling the country giving talks on this subject.
In response to the letter titled Use common sense to avoid being attacked, assaulted (SN 10/22), here are enlightening facts to broaden your “common sense.”
Some people think two ASMSU student representatives sitting on seven of the university’s 20 committees with student seats hold a monopoly on student influence at MSU. But the two students said they want to see more student involvement, and if they weren’t there, no students would sit on such committees.
It’s fair to say that the United States, as the greatest democracy in the world, holds those forces accountable who participate in the merciless slaughter of innocent civilians.
After reading the letter MSU officials violate the anti-discrimination policy (SN 10/18), I am distressed to find out that the MSU College Republicans were lumped with the MSU Young Americans for Freedom in the anti-discrimination allegations by the Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives.
I read J. Edward Tremlett’s Campus speaker reinforces YAF’s ‘hate group’ status (SN 10/24) and felt obliged to set the record straight.
If anyone read the letter by professor Frederick Fico, MSU officials violate the anti-discrimination policy (SN 10/19), I bet one could easily say, “He is a Republican, so what is new?”