I am increasingly concerned, along with many students and parents, about the proposed ballot initiative being conducted by the Michigan Health & Hospital Association and the Citizens for a Healthy Michigan.
I read with interest recent letters to the editor regarding the MSU parking authorities’ removal and confiscation of the writers’ bicycles and the proceeding imposition of costly fees and inconvenient processes to retrieve them from impound. The most obvious thought that comes to mind, as an alumnus, is all the fuss that’s been generated over the last several years concerning the shortage of parking for privately owned automobiles, usually driven with only one occupant per car. It seems that, in a rational world, MSU would encourage, not discourage, the use of alternate - and parking-efficient - forms of transportation, such as bicycling.
What is the purpose of registering a bike for riding on campus? The registration fee is merely another method by which to extort money from students.
A joint House and Senate committee began hearings Tuesday to determine why clues to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were overlooked.
It may leave us scratching our heads in wonder, but some people choose to take drastic steps to alter their bodies.
It was a shock for many students - perhaps more than 1,000 - to walk outside during the last few weeks planning to ride their bicycles to work, class or home. But there was nothing where they last left their rides. Since mid-May, the MSU Department of Police and Public Safety has impounded - although some might say stolen - about 1,250 unregistered bikes found throughout campus.
A federal judge was right to declare Michigan’s sex offender registry unconstitutional. From its beginning in 1994 and its launch to the Internet in 1999, the registry has failed to make a distinction between sex crime offenders of who pose a continuing danger and those who no longer threaten society. U.S.
Leave it to a Republican to tell you how much better we’ve faired with a Republican-controlled state, such as in Jason C.
With the threat of state food banks losing more than 10 million pounds of food next year because of budget cuts, individual donations from are needed more than ever. The Michigan Department of Agriculture will cut more than 15 percent of funding to the Food Bank Council of Michigan.
MSU students recently received an e-mail from MSU’s Vice President for Student Affairs and Services, Lee June, entitled “Personal Safety Reminder.” The e-mail was in reaction to the attempted rape of a womyn in her home that was in the news a few weeks ago. Statements contained in the letter, such as “don’t walk alone at night,” are infuriating.
When author David Horowitz visited campus during the spring semester, progressive groups decried him as a racist who would poison the well of free thought across campus. To satisfy my curiosity, I attended the Horowitz lecture.
This is in response to Jason C. Miller’s column, “Republican education policy has brought about good things for ‘U’ (SN 6/3).” I disagree that the Republicans in Michigan’s state government are creating wonderful policies and bills that make school cheaper for students.
It may seem jarring to learn that Michigan is in the top 15 states with the highest tax revenues per person and per worker.
The FBI is treading a thin line with the regulations announced last week designed to combat terrorism.
You know, the MSU Department of Police and Public Safety has always made me feel very safe on campus, what with handing out parking tickets, minor in possession of alcohol tickets, parking tickets, and, um, well, MIPs.
A Democrat may tell you that Republicans and the their party don’t care about or do anything for higher education. Like many Democratic claims, the facts speak otherwise. Under Republican leadership, higher education funding has grown to its highest level ever in Michigan.
I am one of many students who does not have an easy time paying the monthly expenses that come along with going to MSU.
Last Tuesday morning, I rode to my 9:10 a.m. class on my bike, as I do every morning. When I left class at noon, I came outside to find my bike gone.
In a 6-1 vote Tuesday evening, the East Lansing school board decided Spartan Village Elementary School will remain open next year - but it will not be the same school the community has come to identify with. Major changes include reducing the school from a kindergarten through fourth grade program to K-2 curriculum only. Closing the school was one of 72 ideas suggested at earlier budget discussions to help the city make up for a $3.5 million deficit.
Central Michigan may well need an improved infrastructure to deliver gasoline products to the region.