No one would leave a chocolate bar sitting in their car on a hot day, yet nearly every summer there are reports of children who die because they’re left alone in a vehicle. A Detroit mother is on trial for involuntary manslaughter after her children died in her car.
Every week it’s another company, another financial problem, another screw up from the folks up top.
Just recently, I stepped outside for a cigarette break. As I lit up, a woman walking into the building decided to make a comment. “Trying to help the deficit?
Kudos to researchers in the MSU-WATER program, or Watershed Action Through Education and Research. The four-year, $1.4 million program designed to develop a watershed management program for the Red Cedar River, is an important effort to undertake, and it is only fitting that it originated at MSU. With the Red Cedar River as one of the foremost landmarks of MSU’s campus, it is important for the university to lead the charge to clean up the historic body of water whose banks it calls home.
Student leaders from across Michigan are preparing to join a battle against a November ballot initiative.
I’ve written several columns categorizing the different types of drunken, stumbling students who litter the MSU campus at night and sometimes during the day - but I’ve always done so with a cynical and angry pen.
Sometimes I lay in the bed at night and constantly chant to myself, “I really need to change my life.” Over and over the statement dances around my head.
Women often are flushed with indignation about public bathrooms. There just aren’t enough places to answer nature’s call. For years, men have enjoyed the in-and-out nature of their bathrooms and biology, but women, generally, need more time and space.
Few people today probably think the 1897 Michigan law against cursing in front of women and children was worth being enforced.
As I am not a woman, I cannot be totally sure of the impact an abortion can have on someone. Whether it is emotional, mental or physical, I’m sure there must be some level of effect on the woman having the procedure. And as if this and the procedure itself aren’t traumatizing enough, she also must go up against the pro-life activists. These activists block entrances, hound and shout at patrons - basically doing everything in their power short of physically assaulting women to get them to change their minds.
I’m sure everyone is sick of reading columns on the Pledge of Allegiance by now, so today I’m going to talk about something else that has ties to religion - ethics. I know that sounds like a boring subject, but given recent headlines showcasing shady accounting practices, and now a lawsuit, against Vice President Dick Cheney and the oil company he ran for five years, I think it’s worth some discussion. President George W.
Kristofer Karol, in his column “Being patriotic means more than buying a flag; public displays infuriating,” (SN 7/11), raises an excellent point about “false” patriots.
Mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes haven’t solved the drug problem we face. It’s time Michigan began to use a more balanced system to reform drug users. Many times, incarceration has been the only option for these drug-related crimes, and treatment is not given enough consideration, possibly sending people to prison when rehabilitation would be much better suited to their case.
Does anyone else find the East Lansing Responsible Hospitality Council’s latest proposal to curb binge-drinking in the downtown area a bit fishy?
It was with sadness that I read about the closing of the Butterfly House. These kinds of choices by MSU administration will come back to bite them in the rear end when future MSU alumni have fewer and fewer special extracurricular moments to look back on, as they hold pen and checkbook in hand, trying to justify their contribution to the annual fund-raising campaign.
It is undeniable: MSU’s campus is beautiful. On any given summer day, students can wander through numerous gardens, listen to the bells toll from Beaumont Tower or sit under the shade of a mighty tree. All of these aesthetic extras are important to our campus.
I do agree there is a real passiveness among our young people when it comes to voting. In spite of this, I must disagree with Kristofer Karol’s column “Being patriotic means more than buying a flag; public displays infuriating” (SN 7/11), that this is because of pure laziness.
I don’t get stomachaches much anymore, except from the occasional “scrumptious” dorm meal, but the pain in my abdomen grew larger than a water-laden shrinky-dink when I was at Lansing’s 2002 Fourth of July parade. Now, I’m not a commie, but seeing all of the proud citizens waving their little flags and watching the parade with admiration made me sick to my stomach.
Blah blah blah, the Pledge of Allegiance and so forth. I’m sure every other columnist over the last couple of weeks has more than addressed every possible viewpoint that you’d care to read, so I’m going to bring up something just as insightful.
One drowning and another near drowning in the span of three days is more than enough turn the heads of area residents and park commissioners - and rightfully it has. An 11-year-old boy drowned Saturday at the Grand River’s Bunker Road Landing, and Mohammad Sohaib Fida, 13, nearly drowned July 4 at Lake Lansing Park South.