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?”
The State News editorial board would like to announce that we’re officially considering unofficially endorsing Stephen Colbert as the next president of the United States of America.
It never ceases to amaze me how many students, staff and visitors suffer from a lack of common sense.
Last year, MSU’s chapter of Young Americans for Freedom was identified as a hate group — a charge it denied. Now the group’s members are proving their detractors correct by bringing a known Holocaust denier to speak on campus.
It seems allowing Meijer Inc.‘s gas station project on Lake Lansing Road to be called “environmentally friendly” is a label that doesn’t really get to any point.
It’s the place you go for a late-night beer run. It’s where you finally drag yourself to buy groceries after staring at an empty fridge for two weeks. And now, it’s the place you can go for eco-friendly fuel.
If you watch the news today with any frequency, you cannot help but get a feeling of déjà vu. There are several issues which the news media delights in discussing — abortion, gun rights, Iraq, immigration and same-sex marriage are examples of a few — and a vastly disproportionate amount of time is spent on them.
What is this trash video that introduces our football team to the field on game days? Honestly, it is horrible.
Liz Kersjes is correct in her column “Eating raw for better health” (SN 10/22) to say that we can learn much from raw food vegetarian diets. ... However, some of the statements she made regarding the benefits of an all-raw diet are a stretch.
The act of traveling the “friendly skies” is just not an activity to take lightly anymore. So what has happened to air travel across the nation? Over the past 40 years the great flightless population of the U.S. has gravitated from the large dogs of the roadways, Greyhound, to this new Greyhound for the skies — United, Delta, Northwest and all the various “no frills” or “cheap” carriers.
Regardless of what the Republican Party does, it usually has been able to count on support and votes from wealthy capitalists.
For some people, the thought of eating nothing but raw foods is preposterous. To others, it’s the ticket to a healthy body and lifestyle, with very few illnesses and a general sense of complete wellness. So who’s right?
This is in response to the article titled, Unknown suspects assault MSU students (SN 10/18). Anyone getting attacked like this is never a good thing.
Thankfully, MSU didn’t have to worry too much Thursday evening as the storms rolled through town. I live in Spartan Village and after seeing the TV weather warnings, I realized that if there was a tornado, I would have no clue where to take cover.
From one teacher trying to fondle a fifth-grader’s breast to another filming his molestation of a boy, children are increasingly becoming victims of sexual abuse in schools. While one in 10 victimized children report some kind of abuse to someone who can do something about it, often teachers, administrators and some parents frequently don’t do anything to acknowledge the crime.