This is in response the Dave Thompson's column "Religious faith explains nature of human beings, relationships" (SN 3/18). Religious faith does not explain the nature of human beings.
To live and die in Iraq. For exactly a year now, it has either been the shining example of America's relentless pursuit of terrorists or the most popular reason to hate President Bush and his administration. Congratulations? One year ago today, Bush stood before Americans and said a war against Saddam Hussein and his Republican Guard was warranted.
I am writing this letter in response to John Bice's column "Marriage a religious institution, civil unions should be for all" (SN 3/15). Bice, I have no quarrel with you expressing your opinion of any topic.
No one is optimistically expecting enraged students wreaking havoc and igniting immense fires on Grand River Avenue during this year's March Madness.
About a week ago, I was making some phone calls to various businesses, banks and my dentist's office.
The article "Same-sex marriage fliers vandalized" (SN 3/5) describes PRISM's reaction to having parts of its bulletin board ripped down.
In response to the editorial ("Save a seat" SN 3/16), I think The State News is giving too much credit to East Lansing.
Ben Pavlich's letter "Bush presidency defined by Sept.
A new Multicultural Center would be a welcome addition to MSU - everybody agrees. Students could use the space for conferences and events, while the university as a whole could continue to market MSU as an accepting, multicultural environment. While the idea is great in theory, the MSU Board of Trustees needs a cohesive and, most importantly, feasible plan from the students to get the building construction under way. The struggle for a new center has been going on for years with no results, and right now is a bleak time for students to try and propose a new building on campus.
Each year, hundreds of students walk underneath the brown, brick overhang of the MSU-DCL College of Law building to study for careers in the legal profession. Every year, those same students apply for jobs and are asked where they attended law school. And every year, when the law students answer that question, some employers invariably say, "Where?" A proposal introduced by MSU Provost Lou Anna Simon and passed by Academic Governance on Tuesday could solve that, changing the name of the law school to the Michigan State University College of Law.
President Bush recently began his re-election campaign, as we all know. In a few of his ads, there is imagery of Ground Zero and of a firefighter's funeral.
We often hear mantras about religion that illegitimize and condemn it for its part in the world's injustice.
College isn't for everybody. Some people make meaningful careers as construction workers, paraprofessionals and mothers and fathers.
My thanks to The State News ("Living & learning" SN 3/2) for both recalling Justin Morrill College and noting its significance to the current discussions of Provost Lou Anna Simon's call for a new residential program in the "liberal arts and sciences." I heartily recommend that those interested in the new proposals acquaint themselves with the lost college's concept, curricular scope and history.
Every time I get a newspaper, I just know that I am going to be able to read how President George W.
On what basis does Neal Conatser claim that polygamy is a choice but that homosexuality is an inherent trait ("Laws should omit sexual references" SN 3/16)? What about someone who is bisexual?
While watching an episode of "The Simpsons," Marge Simpson, speaking in a futuristic vision from 2010, comments, "You know, Fox turned into a hard-core sex channel so gradually, I didn't even notice!" In a related story, last Thursday, the U.S.
Because the MSU men's basketball team finished the Big Ten season with a 12-4 record and was the third of three conference teams selected to represent the Big Ten in the NCAA Tournament, Tom Izzo will have to switch to Kroger-brand canned peaches. In certain respects, collegiate basketball is more of a business than a sport.
The reorganization of several of MSU's colleges is seen by many to be merely an administrative matter, affecting office personnel primarily, and as we are all quite well aware of, a number of teaching assistantships available to graduate students.
I am responding to the article about organ donation and Peter Welsch ("Give and take" SN 3/15). Going through life, we college students believe we are invincible and nothing can touch us.