As if the budget crisis did not hurt public schools enough, a new bill proposed by a Michigan legislator is aimed at getting rid of yet another source of much needed cash - pop vending machines. The bill, introduced by Sen.
I have started to wonder why it seems the university likes to screw science majors when it comes to scheduling and classes.
I really hope you just published Brian Beute's opinion article ("Truth is absolute, every action is either right or wrong") as a way to illustrate to the entire campus that he is an ignorant, closed-minded moron.
Fingerprints and photos are taken upon entering any local or state jail facility, but now, thanks to the U.S.
This letter is in response to MSU's decision to add yet another "Faculty/Staff Only" parking structure on north campus.
The infantile nonlogic of letters, such as Steve Duane's, ("Creationism a belief, can't be disproved" SN 12/4) is unimaginably taxing on my confidence in this university's student body.
Adding slot machines to area horse race tracks could mean more money for agriculture and higher education, and more money in a time of low funds is always good. Legislation was recently proposed to create racinos, which add video, telephone and Internet wagering to Michigan horse racetracks and also could provide higher education some much-needed extra cash. In declaring his immediate support of pro-racino state legislation as a means of possibly generating university revenue, MSU President M.
When I picked up the Dec. 3 issue of the newspaper. I was pleased to see the article featuring the MSU basketball players from Flint ("Hard life to hardwood" SN 12/3). However, as a Flint native, I was disappointed as I read through the first few paragraphs of the story.
I really wanted to dislike the best documentary made in the past few years. After reading last year's reviews hailing Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine" as a brilliant and transcendent look at how America has become a culture of fear, gun nuts and conservatism, it made my mental list of DVDs to rent, and then of DVDs to own. Then, after Moore's scathingly anti-Bush acceptance speech at the 2003 Academy Awards for "Bowling for Columbine," I wanted to watch his documentary even more so I could dispel it as self-serving, politically motivated propaganda to make Moore's stubbly, bespectacled face the beacon of all things liberal and good. Over the long winter break, I finally got around to seeing it.
Having been a Case Hall resident my freshman year and a night receptionist for three years, I have had ample time to watch the degradation of "the midnight scream" ("Harassment stems from finals-week screaming" SN 12/05/03). I say degradation because, when I was a freshman, there was no violent pounding on windows, just stressed-out people riding bikes through the courtyard naked and frustrated people screaming out their anxieties.
Let's assume you and your posse of moral relativists and freethinkers are correct, Mr. Bice ("Americans fail to think critically, fooled easily" SN 12/04). All God-fearing people must be fools.
I cannot believe John Bice would assume all people of religious faith to be ignorant ("Americans fail to think critically, fooled easily" SN 12/4). Certainly a rational man like Bice would see just how irrational an idea such as that is.
John Bice in his recent column ("Americans fail to think critically, fooled easily" SN 12/04/03) has truly encouraged us to think critically.
I applaud MSU for adding gender identity to the harassment clause of their anti-discrimination policy, but chide the administration for not including gender identity in the discrimination clause.
Last semester I paid $3,414 to MSU - and all I got was this lousy $40 parking ticket. Reason being? Our own wonderful Department of Police and Public Safety Parking Services, of course.
I have a modest proposal for dealing with MSU's anticipated funding cuts that should excite the lovely folks at the Department of Police and Public Safety.
In their heyday, the Los Angeles - now Oakland - Raiders had the notoriety as the dirtiest football team in the league.
Steve Duane asserted in his letter to the editor ("Creationism a belief, can't be disproved" SN 12/4) that creationist views are not debated in scientific settings due to "philosophically challenged scientists." More astonishing than this broadside against scientists is the fact that his sentence immediately preceding this one accurately proclaimed why creationism is not taught or debated in the scientific realm.
When America woke up on Dec. 14, a shaggy face crawled from a hole in the ground dominating the airwaves and our attention. Fugitive Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was now neutralized and the ideological culmination of the second Gulf War seemed apparent. When he was captured, he wanted to bargain.
Though few gray threads weave through his hair, my father, a model product of the 1950s' school of thought, sat me down on the eve of my departure to this university four years ago. "Kevin, you're going to experience and witness new things in college," he said from beneath his serious brow.