To suggest race played a role in Bobby Williams’ firing is completely unsubstantiated. But that is exactly what MSU Trustee Joel Ferguson did on Monday.
I have spent my entire college career educating people about multicultural organizations. Carrie Hoover’s “Separation doesn’t promote unity” (SN 10/25) and Nathan Top’s “Columnist brave to make honest points” (SN 10/28) prove I still have work to do.
Because of my involvement on campus, I have come to truly detest icebreakers, particularly interactive ones that make me get off my seat and move around. Despite that, I had quite the self-revealing experience during one of the countless meetings that I have gone to.
While lately it seems people only talk about MSU’s losses on the football field, students have the chance to collectively garner a win against the Nittany Lions. The ninth annual MSU-Penn State Blood Challenge began Monday and will run until Nov.
What has happened to MSU’s football team is embarrassing for the athletics department, the administration and the thousands of students of the university.
Athletics Director Ron Mason didn’t only dismiss MSU’s football coach when he fired Bobby Williams on Monday; he fired a quarter of the black head coaches in Division I-A college football. That’s because Williams was only one of four blacks among the 117 head coaches in the top tier of the game. So no one should be surprised to see questions about race arising out of the ashes of MSU’s nearly dismantled football program. MSU Trustee Joel Ferguson, who is black, was quick to come to Williams’ defense Monday, claiming the university is doing a disservice to its diversity efforts by not giving the coach the same opportunities his predecessors had to improve the football program. “Since I have been an adult, MSU has had a reputation for fairness to minorities,” Ferguson said.
This is in response to the many letters to the editor about racism. If you call someone a bigot because they disagree with you, does that make you a bigot?
Jamie Spencer was in-line skating at a Bay City park when police made her take a Breathalyzer test in August 2001.
We’re so quick to judge. It’s easy to examine the few facts we’re given and jump to conclusions. I’m not making excuses for MSU junior quarterback Jeff Smoker, but I am speaking from the perspective of someone who grew up with a family member who suffered from substance abuse.
By: CRAIG GUNN It is Election Day 2002. The pundits and naysayers, prognosticators and politicians, soothsayers and flat-out liars have all concentrated their last-minute attacks on their opponents.
Thank you to the members of Lambda Chi Alpha, who again this year, gathered hundreds of pounds of nonperishable food items for the St.
The Green and White is looking a little black and blue these days. But the good news is Athletics Director Ron Mason started the healing process Monday after firing Bobby Williams from his head coaching job. When asked if he had lost control of his 3-6 team, Williams told Mason, “I don’t know.” It seems Williams had. Three of four team captains have run into serious trouble this season - junior quarterback Jeff Smoker is suspended indefinably as he battles a substance abuse problem; senior tailback Dawan Moss was cut after being charged Sunday with drunken driving and eluding police; and junior center Brian Ottney was benched for foul trouble. Only senior safety Thomas Wright remains a steady figure on the field - knock on wood. But we wish the problems ended with the team’s leadership. Junior defensive end Greg Taplin was suspended from Saturday’s game against the University of Michigan for breaking unspecified team training rules and sophomores linebacker James Cooper and running back Jason Bradley quit the team voluntarily. And the rap sheet gets even longer when you factor in incidents the occurred before this season: • Sophomore defensive end Clifford Dukes found himself in court facing charges that he assaulted someone at an October 2001 fraternity party.
Recently, the city and university community have dealt with a rising tide of noise complaints in the neighborhoods during August and September.
In response to the article “Smoker family says QB has ‘problem’” (SN 11/04), I have a few problems with the way The State News handled this.
I am appalled at the negative tone the opponents to Proposal 4 have been taking. Proposal 4 is backed by groups like the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association and the American Heart Association.
Governor Jennifer Granholm will help change Michigan’s future for the better. Secretary of state Melvin “Butch” Hollowell understands voter education. Attorney general Gary Peters will continue the tradition of consumer’s office. U.S.
The numbers suggest that most of you reading this will not get out and vote. Whether you feel the candidates don’t represent you, your vote doesn’t count or you just don’t care about the election, your vote still matters. The mass of men and women over the course of history has not had the important privilege that we students enjoy. Even today, too many people in the world do not have the simple right to have a say in who their leaders are. Though this right is simple, the process of gaining it has been anything but.
I feel compelled to respond to The State News’ “No” endorsement of Proposal 1 (“Stay Straight” 10/25). While the Editorial Board raised some interesting points, it glossed over key issues that deserve more attention.
The State News is not “right” or “wrong” when it chooses to endorse a political candidate. This fact seems to have been forgotten when two James Madison College students and a Lyman Briggs School student wrote letters to the editor that were published Friday (“SN ought to have picked Posthumus,” “Paper proves bias in support for Granholm” and “SN right to support Bernero, Whitmer” SN 11/1). How, might I ask, can a newspaper be right or wrong when publishing support for anyone on the Opinion page? What these above students, as well as others, fail to see is that an opinion simply cannot be right or wrong. One can certainly disagree with an opinion, but people should not criticize an opinion, they will get nowhere. The State News was also called biased for supporting Attorney General Jennifer Granholm for governor.
Hungry - why wait? Grab a trustee. It’s Crunch time because the MSU Board of Trustees race is coming Tuesday, and each lucky voter gets a chance to elect two delicious candidates to the post of Candy Land official. On the Republican side, we have the familiar and comfortable Nugent center of a 3 Musketeers bar.