The Supreme Court decision to reject the case of Rodney LeVake, a Minnesota biology teacher, is the latest defeat for parents who want their public school children to receive a competent science education.
Andrew Goetz’s column (“ ‘Election reform’ bill...” SN 1/14) draws deserved attention to the problems Senate Bill 173 will inevitably create, but he fails to highlight the most disturbing facet of the Republican-led elimination of straight party voting.
T.J. Duckett’s decision just continues a disappointing trend in MSU athletics. Zach Randolph, Jason Richardson and Plaxico Burress all bailed out after seasons of personal success.
Perhaps it’s unsettling that a week before we celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr. a recent Detroit News/WDIV survey indicates 55 percent of whites and 52 percent of blacks in the Detroit area think segregation is sometimes, usually or always a very good idea. The survey results remind us the civil rights leader’s dream has yet to come true.
While budget woes can lead to heated debates over government spending, East Lansing city officials are doing a commendable job in trimming the city’s planned expenditures for the next fiscal year. The city council will vote Tuesday on $695,875 in proposed cuts to the East Lansing budget, which could eliminate police overtime, delay city sidewalk plans and stop the airing of planning commission meetings on cable television.
What’s with student athletes thinking they can just leave mid-education? People pay to go here and, most times, athletes don’t.
Children’s sports should never become a matter of life or death. The case of Thomas Junta, the Massachusetts hockey dad who beat another father to death at their sons’ practice, illustrates that point. Junta, 44, was found guilty Friday of involuntary manslaughter for the death of 40-year-old Michael Costin, who died as a result of a ruptured artery in his neck.
Have you ever seen that episode of “The Simpsons” in which Homer Simpson and a group of townspeople, after searching for buried treasure, are sitting at the bottom of a large hole in the ground, pondering how they will escape?
I read Sean McGowan’s letter (“Duckett is another Spartan sell out,” SN 1/11) and was very disappointed.
After a roller coaster of emotions through the past football season, I thought I could finally relax and regroup for next season.
How can MSU be so forgiving to T.J. Duckett when he’s looking out for his own interests? In an interview conducted with the College Football News in August 2001 Duckett said, “College is for four years.
I would like to remind the writers at The State News that writing unresearched and unsupported columns can be dangerous and misleading.
This letter is in response to The State News editorial “Bad Break” (SN, 1/9). The article explains the Catholic Diocese of Lansing is shutting down a play due to homosexual content and the involvement of the Michigan Triangle Foundation, a gay activist group, in the play.
I would just like to say that T.J. Duckett is a sellout. With Duckett we were about to build the most potent offense in college football today.
While it is extremely difficult to say goodbye to T.J. Duckett, an associate of mine helped me cope with the pain through some easy rationalization. The underlying reason we all came to college was to get a job, whether it be in agriculture, education, engineering ... or the NFL.
So much for a return to life as normal. It seems the terrorists that struck New York and Washington, D.C., on Sept.
Staying in Seattle with friends during the semester break, I had the opportunity to watch the movie “Get Real.” This British film is an exquisite portrayal of the struggles of Steven Carter, a closeted gay teen in his senior year of high school.
The Residence Halls Association should be commended for welcoming more voting representation for lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender students into its representation. RHA already hosts a representative from the Alliance of Lesbian-Bi-Gay-Transgendered Straight Ally Students.
Contrary to the editorial (“Bad Break,” SN 1/9), the church’s job and responsibility in society is not to condone society’s moral missteps under a blanket canopy of “love and tolerance,” but rather to provide a beacon of light to illuminate man’s shortcomings.
The state Legislature did a good thing in changing the funding priority for family planning agencies (“Planned Parenthood faces funding cutbacks,” SN 1/8). The goal for the bill mentioned in Tuesday‘s article is to divert funds from abortion-related organizations to those that promote family health.