When I read Joe Wu's letter about MSU instructors not having polished communication skills ("Educators should have English Skills" SN 2/24), I am reminded of the adage about people who live in glass houses.
There's an NCAA commercial that pops up every now and again during college sports broadcasts. The ad shows a wide variety of student athletes who play a wide variety of sports.
As leaders, it is the responsibility of the Izzone directors to make decisions that best serve the interest of all of the members of the Izzone and to stick to these decisions.
It was on the third bite of my vegetarian lasagna that I realized I loved Lansing - it was really good lasagna. I was sitting in Emil's, 2012 E.
If one recent report has it right, HIV-infected teens are taking some scary risks these days. A study conducted at the University of California, Los Angeles Center For Community Health found that the advent of powerful AIDS-delaying medicines has caused HIV-infected teenagers to increase the chances they are taking when engaging in risky sex and drug use. Since the 1996 introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapies, or HAART, which fight the transition from HIV to AIDS, young people have come to see HIV as a disease they can live with.
Several campus organizations - including the MSU Red Cross Club that I am a part of - wasted their time on Friday for the Party at the Aud.
The State News editorial board appears surprised that there is a massive discrepancy between graduation rates for black students and white students.
I live in a home on the 700 block of Burcham Drive. It's a quaint house, nestled in among pine trees with enormous apartment complexes rising on either side.
I believe there is much more to the shutdown of Channel 12 than meets the eye. I personally believe that management has systematically devalued the channel and marginalized its staff.
Animal science Professor Sam Varghese's return to the university after assisting tsunami victims in India should boost efforts here.
On the same day the story of family mourning 1st Lt. Adam Malson, a 2003 MSU graduate slain while serving in Iraq, was shared, 125 people were killed in Iraq by an insurgent suicide bomber in the single deadliest terror attack of the Iraq war. We know a great deal about Malson.
Your editorial on the Academic Senate meeting ("In session" SN 2/28), which appears to criticize faculty for their lack of participation in governance, reflects a lack of understanding of the circumstances and importance of the meeting.
Editors of The State News on Monday took note of the failure of the university's Academic Senate to have a quorum, and remark that "faculty should take advantage of the opportunity to make this university a better place." MSU students will be pleased to know, if they don't already, that their faculty have important work to do: teach, research (so our teaching is the best possible), and do service to the public, their profession and the university. If faculty are to accept attendance at an Academic Senate meeting as a responsible use of their commitment to university service, they must expect such a meeting to have a useful function. Functions of the senate are described in university bylaw 3.1.2: to act on amendments to the bylaws referred to it by Academic Council, to act on other matters referred to it by Academic Council and Faculty Council, and "to serve as a forum for the dissemination and exchange of ideas and information between the faculty and the administration." Actions of the senate, indeed, are "restricted to approval of the recommendation or referral back to the originating council for further deliberation." The only action on the agenda for Friday's Academic Senate meeting was a routine and uncontroversial matter, indeed of doubtful propriety as it had not been referred by either Academic or Faculty Council.
I was listening to the radio a couple weeks back, and there was a clip of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan talking about how grateful he was for the support from the United States and other countries in the aid to tsunami victims. But he didn't stop there. He went on to say that he hopes the tragedy opened people's eyes to situations across the world and that, in the future, it won't take a natural disaster like a tsunami to move people to give their time and money to those who are being victimized around the world. The movie "Hotel Rwanda" tells the story of a hotel manager whose hotel was transformed into a refugee camp for Rwandans during an intense time of rebellion and genocide in 1994.
The Academic Senate met Friday to discuss university issues that affect faculty members. I was the body's first meeting since April, when 700 senate members convened for the first time in eight years. The Senate failed to reach a quorum, making it impossible for anything beyond discussion to take place.
David Thompson has had some bad columns before, but his Feb. 25 "Conservatives, liberals both have their fair share of shortcomings" is a poorly reasoned piece.
In your editorial "Poor reception" (SN 2/24), you have misrepresented the situation surrounding Channel 12 and the role of the Residence Halls Association.
I am writing in response to your editorial "Two's company" (SN 2/22) on the proposal Rep.
Although affirmative action might be helping black students and other minorities get in to institutions of higher learning, it isn't necessarily keeping them there. For a variety of reasons, less than half of black students in the nation aren't making it through college.
Aaron Foley's column in Wednesday's The State News entitled "Hackers create headaches, celebrity break-ins" (2/23) was the most hateful piece of juvenile trash I have ever read in The State News.