Chalk one up for the MSU women's basketball team. With at least a share of the Big Ten Championship under their belts, the Spartans head to Indianapolis March 4 to compete in the Big Ten Tournament.
It is with my deepest regret that I learned this weekend of 1st Lt. Adam Malson's death. Adam was not only a fellow soldier, but a best friend. I first met Adam four-and-a-half years ago as a freshman at MSU.
A note on the political climate in the United States: None of us have it right. Don't assume from this sentence that I think I do, but it serves well to reflect time and again. Since the election last November, liberals have complained and conservatives have rejoiced. Liberals think the world is going to hell and that America is largely responsible.
Your "The face of poker" article (SN 2/23) just cost us our life savings.
The "Where do we put our trash?" dilemma faced by U.S. states and Canadian provinces is a game where the outcome is always undesirable for someone.
What an excellent article ("Learning mother" SN 2/22). As I read it, the only thing I could say is "wow." It's about time a single mother's voice was printed in The State News, instead of the usual football, basketball or tailgating "dilemmas." I am also a single mother, full-time student and part-time employee at a bookstore.
MSU head coach Izzo celebrated his 50th birthday on Jan. 30, the same day I turned 25. Do the math; I popped out nine months after Magic Johnson brought home our first title.
I sang the national anthem for the Lions in 1998, where I made eye contact with Barry Sanders. We gave each other the "cool" nod just before I sang.
The "Point Counterpoint" (SN 2/22) doesn't work in this situation. Matt Bishop (SN2/22) and Esther Gim (SN 2/22) both have good points as to the problems leading up to the lockout.
In regards to Kris Turner's excellent article ("The changing face of a college town" SN 2/22), here's an interesting thought experiment: Pick up MSU - the whole thing - and take it far away from East Lansing.
Something must be done about faculty, teaching assistants or whoever wants to teach who are not fluent or proficient in English.
Can you hear the sound of taps playing lightly in the background? Wave good-bye to the campus movie channel. At the end of the school year, Channel 12, which broadcasts free movies and student-produced programming to MSU's campus and surrounding cities, will go off the air.
The 23 undergraduate halls, one graduate hall and three apartment villages at MSU have racked up a hefty yearly maintenance bill. The university has spent about $11.5 million a year during the last 10 years to maintain the nation's largest residence hall system.
The prospect of making less money than my parents after I graduate is frightening - especially considering they never went to college. After subtracting all the rational thoughts about money not mattering and doing what makes me happy, I am worried.
This is in response to Kristi Jourdan's article about California and Michigan ("Mitten state does not deserve its redneck-riddled reputation" SN 2/18). I found the column to be lacking in any decent information.
Not counting course-assigned materials, have you picked up any great books written by an MSU faculty member lately?
Remember when games such as "Mortal Kombat" and "Doom" first emerged? They were some of the most violent, blood-ridden titles gamers ever had in their hands, and they were immensely popular.
I am writing to express my utter disgust with the MSU Multicultural Heroes Hall of Fame Case competition held Thursday.
I am very disheartened by the way the article on Bill Ayers, former member of the Weatherman, was presented in Tuesday's edition of The State News ("Visit by former member of 1970s radical group causes stir" SN 2/22). The bold quote and front page header, "Students shouldn't look up to people who bombed the Pentagon," was an uneducated and misleading statement.
This is in response to Esther Gim's article "Union and its players at fault for not accepting cap earlier" (SN 2/22). At the end of her article, Gim states that the National Football League thrives without a salary cap and someday the National Hockey League might also.