The university’s motivation to cut men’s varsity sports to comply with Title IX is understandable, but it should look into other ways of encouraging gender diversity in athletics without having to cut programs.MSU Athletics Director Clarence Underwood announced in April 2000 that the men’s gymnastics team would be cut as a varsity sport because of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
The graduate teaching assistants will soon be voting on unionization and naturally there are the pros and cons for unionization.
Relationships fail. They fall apart about as swiftly as your most recent attempt to attend all your classes, eat your veggies and lay off the Coors Light.
I’ll have to agree with Lance Brinks (“Diversity not a hockey issue,” SN 4/5). The idea that hockey is somehow racist is absurd.
This is in response to “Alcohol can cause many nasty side effects” (SN 4/2) by Craig Gunn.
There was once a great discussion. It was in the newsrooms and around the dinner table. In the classroom and at the bar.
As a student here at MSU I frequently walk to class, work and around Grand River Avenue - just like a majority of the other students here on campus. More than once I have witnessed a few close calls between people who are walking and people who are driving.
Thank you so very much for informing me I am a bigot because I enjoy hockey. I never realized that black people are not welcome in the sport.
As a student activist at Yale University, I was tremendously disturbed to read Jeremy W. Steele’s article about police infiltration of the MSU affiliate of United Students Against Sweatshops (“Activist group exposes undercover officer,” SN 4/3). While police infiltration of student and other dissident groups has a long history in the United States, that infiltration has often ended in tragedy.
At the end of this column is a short byline explaining that, if you want to write to me, you can do so at kundiris@msu.edu. I’ve been writing this for a year, and in the process I’ve received close to 200 letters.
In regards to the admissions process at the University of Michigan’s law school, in high school, I had a 3.6 GPA and a 28 on my ACT.
I must first say that Craig Gunn’s opinion (“Alcohol can cause many nasty side effects,” SN 4/2) was probably the funniest thing I have read in The State News since I came to East Lansing in 1998.
I don’t follow hockey and am a basketball fan. However, as an alumnus, I am proud of Ryan Miller and coach Ron Mason for what they’ve done for the university.
The undercover investigation of a student activist group by university police was unethical and hurt student-police relations. MSU police Officer Jamie Gonzales posed as elementary education junior Samantha Volare and participated in meetings and activities with Students for Economic Justice, an officially registered campus group.
I would like to speak to an issue of vital significance coming before the graduate students at MSU.
A proposed state House bill to require students to be vaccinated for meningitis is an important safety measure and it should be passed. State Rep.
This past weekend, after what many believe was the worst loss of the season for the MSU men’s basketball team, the reaction and behavior of the students truly did exhibit the motto, “Spartans act with class.” This year, being the two-year anniversary of the March 27-28, 1999, riot, many speculated a loss might cause problems in the streets of East Lansing following the game.
I don’t think anyone will argue with me when I say alcohol is a key part of college culture. It seems sometimes the entirety of college students’ social world is built on a foundation of alcohol.I’m not going to condemn that; for the most part, I don’t have a problem with it.
Last Wednesday, the Michigan House of Representatives passed a higher education budget that would take a large step in the direction of closing the funding gap between MSU and the state’s other research institutions.