MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon is stepping in the ring to fight for Michigan's economy and environment. Last week, Simon spoke at the state's first bio-economy summit about MSU's role in building Michigan's bio-economy. "We do not have either a strong manufacturing economy or a strong agricultural economy — they're not mutually exclusive.
I'm writing in response to Ryan Kimball's depiction of the pope in his cartoon, (SN 9/20). What Kimball fails to realize is that Pope Benedict XVI did not make an insensitive remark at all but simply quoted an emperor from the late 14th century.
Although it is against the law in the United States, online gambling has reached a peak that even rivals the popularity of Las Vegas.
The State News article, "2K protest ban on some Mich. affirmative action practices" (SN 9/18), was substantially inaccurate and biased against supporters of affirmative action.
After watching our football team blow yet another second-half lead to a major opponent, when are the students, fans and alumni going to call for Ron Mason to fire John L.
I am writing to correct a number of misrepresentations and inaccuracies in a recent article, "Firm may have misled city about work history," (SN 9/21), regarding our firm, The Pierce Company, the city of East Lansing and the proposed East Village development. We take pride in the culture and values of our company, namely our integrity and forthrightness.
On Thursday, The State News printed an article on the East Village project that stated city officials have been misled regarding the background of The Pierce Company — a developer involved with the redevelopment project in the article "Firm may have misled city about work history," (SN 9/21). The article went on further to suggest The Pierce Company failed to disclose its involvement in eminent domain acquisitions in their San Diego State University redevelopment projects and the potential for doing so with the East Village project.
"Some relationships just need to end." The professors of my COM 225 class said this during the first week of classes, but it took almost a month for me to let the words sink in and really think about what this means.
By now, everyone knows Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called President Bush "the devil." Everyone knows you should be scared of spinach.
The letter that communication major Molly Megargle wrote to The State News, "East Lansing doesn't acknowledge students," (SN 9/15), in which she argued for greater acknowledgment of MSU students in the crafting of the East Lansing housing policy, lacked perspective. First, while Megargle probably will have to endure the real or imagined slights by the city for no more than four or five years, families and professionals will be affected by its policies well after she's moved away.
"The devil came here yesterday," Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday. "He came here, talking as if he were the owner of the world." That's how Chavez reacted to President Bush and the U.S.
I look at the front page of The State News and see coverage of the recent E. coli spinach scare in "Spinach expelled from dining halls, stores after E.
Corruption and politics have been bedfellows for as long as people have struggled with maintaining power, and those now in office still fall prey to the same temptations.
In the editorial, "Ideas for recruiting are embarrassing," (SN 9/19), the State News editorial board claims the idea of having a "Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day" on campus is "appalling." What I find really appalling, however, is the fact that five years after the Sept.
MSU's Black Caucuses have meetings to address issues that affect minority students. People of all races are invited — and are encouraged — to attend their meetings. Opportunities like attending Black Caucus meetings should not be passed up.
It is wonderful to live in a world where we are completely tolerant and free to speak our minds, despite offensiveness.
There was a time when university life was cultured. People from all over the world would come to the monolith of education that was a university and discuss politics and love over a cup of coffee. It was a place to expand and mature, to become better acquainted with the inner workings of the world from both the outside and within.
Friday's decision to extend MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon's contract by three years was another unanimous one by the MSU Board of Trustees, but the unanimity was really no surprise — the board's meetings are just public relations junkets with little discussion and no dissent. It's not that Simon isn't a satisfactory president or that she's being paid too much; our quandary is not with her.
I know most students probably do not really know the history behind Bubba Smith, or maybe who he even is.
I'm writing in response to Andrea Byl's column, "Adoption proposal allows for more freedom of religion," (SN 9/19). One paragraph in the column stood out: "So now what's putting more adoptions in jeopardy?