Before I get started, I would like to acknowledge that the Business College has probably heard this all before, and it's the same old story to them.
What happens inside a girl's bathroom, anyway? Besides the obvious, I mean. I ask this question not to shock you, dear readers.
More than 200 years ago, a group of fresh-minded revolutionaries decided they didn't quite like the way they were being governed.
If Chad Halsey wants to talk about partisan voting problems "Ohio election needs to be investigated" (SN 1/10), he need not point fingers without taking a deep look into his own party as well.
The three letters to the editor on 1/10 regarding the rapist article "Listed students: Stigmas result from public sex offense registry," (SN 12/9) all have valid points, but I think they missed the purpose of the article.
Have you seen that new film, "MSU Football Players Gone Wild?" Although it doesn't exist, given the pace at which players are getting into trouble with the law, it won't be long before Hollywood considers making it. Two freshmen wide receivers, Miles Williams, 18, and Hugh D'Imperio, 19, have been charged with unarmed robbery and assault with intent to rob while unarmed.
In response to "New university president offers thoughts, insights on coming years," (SN 1/10), President Simon's "thoughts" are devoid of meaning and are contradictory. First, President Simon addresses broad issues and facts we have read about in the daily newspaper for years.
We at The State News want to start off the semester by welcoming former Provost Lou Anna Simon to her new role as president of MSU.
I really enjoyed your tremendously biased piece on sex offenders ("Listed students: Stigmas result from public sex offense registry" SN 12/9/04). I think you are right, sex offenders should not have to make it known that they have raped, molested, exposed themselves or threatened children/women to the public they will be living with.
Accusations by Republican lawmakers that their colleagues who objected to certification of Ohio's electoral votes are "sore losers" are off-base and disingenuous.
In response to "Listed students: Stigmas result from public sex offense registry," (SN 12/9/04), there are so many things that need to be said in regard to this article. You set the article up to pity sex offenders, to try and help them move on with their life and forget about the people they have hurt.
Dear Friends and Colleagues: It's a new year, a new semester and the beginning of a new period in the history of Michigan State University.
Your article on sex offenders at MSU ("Listed students: Stigmas result from public sex offense registry" SN 12/9/04) was incredibly one-sided.
More than 150,000 bodies, about a third of them children. About five million people without homes. The numbers from the tsunami disaster in South Asia and Southeast Africa are staggering. But to the average American they are just numbers.
I wish you could see what I see every day. I wish you could see that there's a whole wing of the Student Services building where the lights burn late and the police scanner is always on.
WinnersDetroit Pistons Although they can't claim 2004 in its entirety as a banner year for the Bad Boys - see the Losers section - a championship trophy put serious shine on the city of Detroit as the consummate team.
The driving idea behind a bill that would reform U.S. intelligence is to tighten communication and bring all the United States' spy organizations under one roof.
This is the 58th time I've written a column for The State News. Sometimes, I wonder if that's a record, but then my friends usually take away the spray paint I've been huffing and I stop caring. This is going to be the last column I ever write for The State News.
I was very upset upon reading the article, "RHA to dump recycling," on the front page of Friday's edition of The State News.
Wednesday's feature piece on coffee ("Perfecting the drip" SN 12/8) was long on style and a bit too short on the costs.