The average MSU student, upon seeing a white, rectangular envelope pinched against his or her car's windshield, feels a variety of emotions: pain, anger, distress, homicidal rage.
I agree with University Housing and Food Services Coordinator Bruce Haskell when he said, "What may be stereotypical to one person may be a wonderful representation of their culture to another" ("MLK dinner spurs controversy in Owen Hall" SN 2/6). I'm a white boy from the South, and I wish someone would have told me Owen Hall was serving catfish and okra.
Jim Lala's opposition to affirmative action in his column "Diversity doesn't promote better education, system flawed" (SN 2/3), exemplifies the exact prejudices of which the affirmative action programs actively struggle to fight against. Academic institutions have been criticized for their policies and for participation in affirmative action.
We sorority women have a bone to pick with you, Lindsey Anderson, "So what if I wanna complain?
Stop looking at porn. Well, maybe not entirely, but cut back. In this age of information-sharing and unrivaled technological advance, interpersonal communication is taking a hit.
Anyone but Bush. In the name of all things sacred, noble, just and good, anyone, anyone but Bush. It's not yet March, and the mantra of the left is emanating from Maine to Monterey like a low-decibel hum.
Racial, ethnic and gender stereotypes are everywhere - some are perpetuated through ignorance, while others are blatant attacks. The recent Martin Luther King Jr.
The United States is a nation founded on a political system that asks us to question our leaders. In order to prevent any one person from having too much power, we have a system of checks and balances and limits on terms in office.
If someone's race is (insert race), give them X number of bonus points. If someone's sex is (insert sex), give them X number of bonus points.
In response to Jim Lala's column ("Diversity doesn't promote better education, system flawed"), I agree that in many cases people are responsible for their own success and failures.
It's not all about vaginas. Well, some of it's about vaginas, but that's not the whole point.
Equal rights, not special rights. It's a common mantra when it comes to civil rights in America.
This is a response to Lydia Brodeur's letter, "Race too large a part of admissions". The response is simply this: No, your Guatemalan brother doesn't have a better chance at being accepted to college than does your white brother.
Have you asked yourself why, among all the Democratic presidential candidates, Howard Dean is the only one that the conservative advocacy group "Club for Growth Political Action Committee" has singled out to run attack ads against? And why has the right-wing media spent more than twice as much time bashing Dean than they have his rivals? Why did Karl Rove tell the media that Dean would be the easiest to beat?
Tom Izzo has an edge over most MSU professors - students believe in what he says, does and thinks. Perhaps more than he'd like to admit, the word of Izzo is the gospel in East Lansing, passed down to him from the heavens by Basketball Jesus to his perch atop Breslin Center.
Some kudos to Marc Levitt ("Bice falls flat in his latest argument") for good points supporting the view that science and religion are "not as far apart as so many like to claim." After all, both put forth theories about the universe and our role in it, right?
The editorial "Clear-path cause" (SN 1/26) and subsequent letters and articles have questioned the value and procedures of the snow removal process on the MSU campus.
I have noticed a trend lately, both in the e-mail responses I receive and in the "Your Voice" section of this paper.
I'm writing in regards to Jim Lala's article, "Diversity doesn't promote better education, system flawed" (SN 2/3). Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but if they are going to be published, they should be well-thought out.
As if Americans didn't need more proof that the world is a drastically different place than it was before Sept.