The dairy industry is in trouble again for another ludicrous advertisement. Its latest "Got Milk?" television ad depicts a baseball player getting pulled from a game "after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance." In the next scene, a coach pulls a carton of milk from the slugger's locker.
The permanent residents in East Lansing who complain about student noise should stop whining. Let's look at this realistically. You are a potential home buyer and are considering purchasing a home in an area highly populated by students.
When my roommates asked what I thought of Chris Barsotti's "Sox success irks Cubs fan" (SN 10/25), I sat down to read it. All four of us are avid sports fans and — between two of us — hold three sports column awards from the Michigan Press Association in the last three years.
Undergraduate student Peter G. Ashmore's response to my recent letter, "Columnist correct, court case unlawful" (SN 11/01) is disappointing (to say the least), although he has succeeded in baiting me into a response. While he is apparently able to regurgitate the talking points of gay rights opponents and critics of the legal community, I'm disappointed his reactionary fervor has made him unable to discern that my letter simply laid out the facts of the Romer v.
Each of the East Lansing City Council candidates has his own vision for the city's future. The State News met with all four candidates and grilled them about relations between permanent residents and students, the April 2-3 disturbances, housing and other issues East Lansing has potential to improve on. We've done the research and made decisions about what we think is best for the city. Agree or disagree, it's now left in your hands to vote on Tuesday. You can learn more at www.votesmart.msu.edu and www.youvote.msu.edu. Don't waste the liberties given to you as an American citizen. Out of four leaders, we need the two most capable of helping the city grow. Those two are John Fournier and Vic Loomis. Fournier's campaign is professional and mature.
On the front page of Wednesday's Washington Post read the following large, bold words: "CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons." According to the article, suspects held in these prisons are subjected to interrogation techniques such as "waterboarding," whereby a victim is submerged into a vat of water until drowning is imminent, revived and nearly drowned again as necessary.
This is in response to "Rally opposes war in Iraq" (SN 10/27). The best way MSU College Republicans' Second Vice Chairman David Coogan can support U.S.
Like most of his previous diatribes, John Bice's recent column, "Consequences in afterlife prevent promotion of contraceptives" (SN 11/02), about belief in an afterlife, points out the ill uses to which religious beliefs can be put. Such a belief, however, is what makes it possible for rational beings to endanger their own lives to protect others, even though they are not close biological kin.
A professor runs 1.45 miles to class in 33.7 minutes. What is the professor's average speed in meters per second? Or how much force, in newtons, does it take to hold a 113 kilogram man completely underwater in the ocean?
As an MSU alumna, I am very disappointed to see the lack of trust and disciplinary role the city is continually taking toward college students.
I sincerely wish that passing this Iraqi constitution will do everything President George W. Bush claims it will. I would love nothing more than to be proved completely wrong on every assumption that has led me for the past two years to look at my newspaper every day and think to myself: "I told you so." I'm willing to give up my pride and my frustration with this administration just to see something that resembles peace happen there. I'd also like to win the lottery. I'm wary, to say the least, because Bush and his supporters have a kind of twisted optimism bordering on willful ignorance that is extremely disturbing.
When elected officials spend money, those who elect them need to see results. ASMSU, MSU's undergraduate student government, plans to spend the $11,000 it recently allocated for updating office equipment, software, signs and insurance.
At least President George W. Bush is being proactive. Bush's announcement of a $7.1 billion plan to research, develop and stockpile vaccines to prepare the country for a possible flu pandemic is a preemptive approach to protecting the country. Many scientists believe a deadly flu outbreak is one of the greatest dangers for the United States and the world.
As the East Lansing City Council election draws near, it is becoming increasingly clear that incumbent City Council members Bill Sharp and Vic Loomis have a vision for East Lansing.
John Fournier is running for one of the two open seats on East Lansing's City Council. After meeting Fournier at a Democracy for America "Meetup" this summer, I urge voters to choose him. Fournier is a student at MSU.
I feel backstabbed by Joseph Ryzyi's letter "'Fashion show' does nothing significant" due to the lack of research used in attempting to ruin the reputation of Students for Economic Justice, or SEJ. To correct his largest error, as a member of SEJ, I guarantee you that MSU has joined the Worker Rights Consortium, or WRC (see for yourself www.workersrights.org). And despite Mr. Ryzyi's claim, we were only able to get our university to do this after five years of creative, determined actions and demonstrations. The fashion show that Mr. Ryzyi discusses was an action geared toward education and it accomplished its goal.
In response to Steven Irlbacher's letter "Writer carries too much hope for football coach," I have only one thing to say to him — get off your high horse, man. He complains that Coach John L.
Nobody did anything. A crowd of 3,000 people gathered in the streets and were met by police with tear gas and pepper spray.
I am appalled by the "restitution" being charged to students illustrated in the "Students upset with $1,733 fine" (SN 10/28). Why should those students pay for the overtime of the overzealous police that tear gassed innocent bystanders? I do believe the guilty parties should foot the bill for all damage done, but having to pay for the cops that a vast majority of us agree acted in a heinous manner is ridiculous. What are the consequences for the cops that provoked the students and made unnecessary arrests?
A friend came to visit me recently and made the grave error of leaving her car parked on the street.