As the weather continues to get colder, sneezes and coughs are becoming the norm around campus. We all know colds and flu start infecting the area this time of the year, so here's a new idea: Take initiative and get a vaccination before you're stuck in bed with a fever and congested sinuses. The 2002 National College Health Assessment reported that 78 percent of MSU students got a cold or the flu last year.
This semester, I started doing something I haven't done on a consistent basis during my college career - I started attending my classes, and I don't really know why. Maybe I was nervous about graduating and wanted to make sure I heard every word uttered from my professor's mouth.
I'm writing this as an open letter about the shortcomings of the MSU Department of Police and Public Safety and our security teams.
In response to Jeff Faler's letter regarding the dangers of marijuana use while driving ("Smoking pot does harm to other people" SN 11/05) I feel it is my duty to call him out on his ignorance. While it might be true that smoking marijuana impairs judgment, it is certainly not true that it is similar in any way to driving drunk.
If you're a student and you're expecting to land your dream job as soon as you graduate, you just might be barking up the wrong tree.
President Bush isn't the only one who's afraid to speak. That $87.5 billion package was passed with a "voice" vote.
It looks like an early Christmas for the people of Iraq. The U.S. Senate approved a $87.5 billion "gift" for Iraq.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., cast a heroic vote last Thursday in favor of the McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act.
I think everyone should know that the university has no policy requiring professors to answer e-mails.
Donating blood doesn't take a lot of time out of your life, but it might add a significant amount of time to someone else's life. The 10th annual blood drive competition between MSU and Pennsylvania State University is now in full swing.
Before voting machines for 2004 are finalized, you have a choice. Presently, machines that have been manufactured and distributed by Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia do not have a paper printout as a backup for you to verify your vote, nor for a recount. Rep.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm cutting the budget for higher education and boosting funding on lower grade school education is not good policy.
You've had exams in your morning classes that count as a quarter of your final grade. You went to work and nothing seems to go right.
Though the electricity was fully restored more than two months ago, the light is just beginning to be shed on the problems that led up to the massive Blackout of 2003.
I am responding to the article "RUBI celebrates Halloween candy fiends". It never ceases to amaze me that if you tell people or print information that suggests that it is actually "OK" to eat without feeling guilty, people automatically assume you are telling or giving them permission to overeat - to stuff themselves continuously.
I'm deeply troubled by what seems to be a growing abuse of the word "opinion." Take it from me, the opinion writer at The State News.
There were ups and downs, tears and smiles, victory and disappointment. But it wasn't the latest installment of "Days of Our Lives" - it was Election Day.
Although it's alarming that the number of international students attending U.S. colleges is decreasing, it's encouraging that MSU enrollment numbers counter that trend.
I was astonished at the utterly classless move made by University of Michigan running back Chris Perry at the end of the game Saturday.
I don't know what Lee Neugent is talking about in his letter to the editor complaining about John L.